Intimacy can provide unmatched satisfaction and fulfillment in connection with others.

Then why fear it?

What is the cost of opening?  Is the risk real or imagined?

What is this fear of Love at close range, actually?

’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

How delicious to relax into intimacy. When faith, trust and loving relationship converge, there is an opening to profoundly expand connection with your s/Self and another.

Beautiful and profound words…and true!

So then why do you suppose those occasions exist when people would rather have their fingernails plucked than open their hearts?  What is the harm, actually, in allowing oneself to feel needed, or riskier yet, to feel in need?

This is a dilemma faced by more people than you may think.  In fact, even those with sophisticated psychological and spiritual insight are not immune to the challenge of letting go to intimacy.

As a child of abuse, intimacy was the most trying challenge of my life.  However, by way of bridging these gaps inside myself, I have gained a detailed understanding of how to navigate this territory in order to share it in a clear and understandable way to others.

Intimacy, at its core, is sharing of one’s self with another.  The more loving, open and aware, the deeper and more satisfying the intimacy.  That awareness, of course, must always start with yourself.  Herein lies both the problem and the solution.

The foundation of intimacy rests on your Love, respect and acceptance for yourself.  This is not new information.  What remains less understood, is how to bring loving awareness into the most protected, non-conscious dimensions of one’s being where the least Love resides.  The depth of loving contact and safety you desire from intimacy with another must begin with knowing how to meet the depth and breadth of your self, unconditionally in Love.

Intimacy is a moment-to-moment embrace of a multidimensional unfolding of conscious awareness in relationship to the sensory exchange with your immediate and at-large environment, whether alone or in union with another.  Intimacy is based on your capacity to remain present with, and integrate, feelings which include emotion.

As you meet and integrate hidden aspects of your self that have been held out of Love,  you truly begin to let go, open and relax into your own skin at increasingly deeper levels.  Relax into your skin, relax into intimacy.

I can’t imagine anything worth risking more than my heart.  In truth, it’s no risk at all.

“Some people confuse acceptance with resignation.

Acceptance leaves your will intact, resignation leaves it behind.

Resignation happens when you can’t find your choice in a matter—or believe no choice exists.

Acceptance happens when you willingly choose to embrace a situation, knowing in your heart it is soul-directed for your highest good.”          ~ Jitendra

I am often asked to explain the difference between acceptance and resignation.  I know a lot of people who sincerely and reverently describe how they’re surrendered in their life.  They tell me how they’ve accepted God’s Will or some circumstance in their life that feels out of their control.  They explain how they’ve moved their ego out of the way and accepted what is.  The problem is, they’ve actually abdicated their will and suffer from what I call a spiritual depression.  This is where a person has toned down their level of aliveness and enthusiasm to an unpassionate (in contrast to healthy dispassion) expression that mimics non-attachment.

I’m thinking of an old friend in particular who was a great spiritual teacher in his own right, as well as an author.  I still remember hearing him say that he was not in relationship because God had chosen to leave him single.  The problem wasn’t whether he was single or not, it was that he was depressed and unhappy and felt powerless to change his circumstance.  So he told himself and friends that he was in acceptance of his dilemma.  But he left an all important step out of the acceptance process, and that was time to empathically connect with himself.

If you are feeling at all victimized, frustrated or helpless then you are closer to resignation than acceptance.  Acceptance asks that you both feel your emotions completely while holding the higher purpose of your circumstance in view.

The Universe is guided by a higher intelligence, a higher power.

Because we cannot fathom a reason why, an event is not without meaning.

This is especially true of our human events.  Even the most random seeming acts are organized at a higher level though we may refute, refuse or simply fail to acknowledge or understand their purpose.

There’s no such thing as a negative emotion.

Only outside of Love and understanding does emotion appear negative, for every emotion has a positive purpose to be fulfilled.

The world of emotions presents the greatest challenge to our human existence.  Emotion connects us, bonds us and drives us apart.  Emotions compel us to both care and to harm.   They at once represent the highest and lowest expressions on the scale of our evolutional development.

Without Love, emotions can certainly have a drastic and cataclysmic impact on our lives.  So much so, that we have collectively and categorically determined that certain emotions themselves are negative.  Anger, sadness, shame…how could these emotions not be negative?  After all, prolonged exposure with these emotions can, in fact, destroy one’s health.  I, personally, was impacted severely by uncontrolled anger as a child through emotional, mental and physical abuse.  How could I say these emotions are not negative?

In order to resurrect myself from those childhood traumas I had to overcome fear and judgment of anger and shame.  Diving deeply, undefended, protected only by Love, thirsty in my awareness, I discovered a beauty and power latent within the tremors of emotional upheaval.  I discovered the gift each emotion offers when fully presenced with warm, embodied Love.  Ultimately it’s freedom in ecstasy!

There are no negative emotions.  Only a treasure trove of energy, creativity, empowerment and freedom.  And peace.  Always a deep restful relief and release of pressure into a boundless connection within and without.

The journey is in the dance, the learning, the mastery of engaging one’s heart and one’s Love in the face of a storm.  The mastery lies in embodying compassion for your own human experience.  I call this journey Core Mastery.  Compassion for all others spontaneously follows. ~ ALOHA

Integrity is derived from the Latin word integer, meaning whole or complete. You are in integrity when you come from a place within yourself that reflects the whole of you, in alignment.
That was easy to say wasn’t it?
The challenge comes because there are so many dimensions of your self that are outside your conscious awareness.
You can’t align what you can’t perceive.
One moment you’re in complete integrity with an agreement you’ve made. The next minute you’re waking up to the realization that you’ve just made that promise from the unconscious depths of an old wound…
and following through is not an option.
How would you reconcile your integrity?

Situations like the one above are not unusual. In fact, they are fairly common on the obstacle course of life.  Most people would like to think that they could always be conscious and aware enough to choose wisely.  But life is designed to reveal the unknown, which is what happens every time we come to an uncomfortable edge of conflict within…which way do you go?  Which choice reflects the true integrity of a situation?  Is there such a thing?

It’s the more complex situations that seem to create double binds. Your choices can become challenging when you wake up mid-stream in a commitment and realize you cannot be true to your values if you continue on.  What happens when  you find yourself in a revelation of internal disparity and now need to make a course correction?  What is the path of integrity?  Do you keep you word or be true to your values?  Would your answer always be the same?  I am choosing to illuminate this question because I find people are really hard on themselves when they feel double bound, not knowing how to emerge without guilt or resentment, depending on the road taken.

I am re-posting a wonderful Facebook thread I started with this same question, “What is integrity, actually?” There were a variety of thoughtful and provocative responses.

Rahmatallah Azh Integrity means telling yourself the truth and honesty means telling others the truth as you know it.   And about the truth, I think one should constantly be searching for it and keep updating their belief system according to the last and best thing they have found along the way. This is not a perfect world.  Sheer integrity cannot be implemented in all of our day to day life situations.  Life is all about compromises, if you wanna get this you’ll have to lose that and it’s impossible to keep all the people around pleased. We would have to be more understanding of each other not to have different kinds of clashes we see everyday.  The point is, we need to learn not to judge each other.  Even when somebody is lying, there’s a reason behind it and if we truly know the reason, we never think any less of the person losing their integrity!

Wes Burton Sometimes one is out of integrity in one way to stay in integrity with a higher priority. For instance, if yous wife get a flat tire on the side of the freeway, you go and fix it then you are late to work. Integrity is also a choice and a habit.

Stéphanie Roh Integrity, to me, is lining up what I do with what I say I am.  It is following my heart. It is speaking the truth (even though, often, it is not received… oh well! — as goes my best saying: “the truth will set you free, but first it will most likely piss you off!) It is impossible that keeping our word puts us out of alignment with our truth —- UNLESS…our words are not the truth………. This week was profound to me: I set some time to write my book on Wed, Thursday and today… and yet, didn’t write once. Am I out of integrity? I don’t feel like it. The intention was there… yet there is an overwhelmingly beautiful energy leading me to invite people into another layer of FUN and LIFE that I’m playing into.    So what?     Am I going to beat myself up? … or am I going to SURRENDER to the moment where God takes me? All in all… it is god’s will. No “my” decision. Sure, “I” wanted to write my boook… yet, the bottom line is about serving others. Will ‘my book’ accomplish that more than my personal reaching out to people’s heart? aaaaaah…. the questions that can open to so much ’stuff’. I am at peace. JOYFUL, in fact. I see God smiling at me… and I smile back. I smile at you… Do you worry?  Stop.  Follow your heart.

Marc West I ended up realizing that integrity can have different meanings depending on the context by shifting our epistomology by either a level of awareness, through values, our beliefs, objective/subjective it actually seems to morph the meaning totally.  For example Integrity could mean to play fair with respect and honesty to one person, and to another it could mean to align to our truths, to another it could be somatic, to another it could mean rules, ethics etc…. I think ultimately without being a truth, that integrity is a result… like happiness… it is the result of living and breathing unconditional love for self and others.

Abhi-Irena KosherGoddess Integrity for me, is when THINK~FEEL~DO is the same… moment..to moment..to moment…in the moment.

Susan Hodges Great thread. For me, integrity and humility go hand in hand, and sometimes compassion needs to be wielded more fiercely than passively, both with ourselves and with others. I think we also need to be careful here. If our integrity is not leading us out of our community, as might happen when we radically shift our values and consciousness, then I believe it’s still wise to not be entirely self-referencing.  In other words, if enough people in our community are noting a ‘lack-of-integrity’ trend in our actions, and especially if this trend has been a recurring theme in our lives, I think we should be humble enough to really do the shadow work around that feedback.  Yes, ultimately mercy triumphs over judgment, and, I believe, the process of acting out our integrity once we understand it should, ideally, not leave a path of destruction in our wake. A paradox is that even if we leave a wake of destruction, felt at large as if we were setting a forest ablaze, new growth becomes possible, potentially for the greater good, and we may never have the opportunity to confirm the outcome.  I bet Hitler thought he was acting in integrity; the same is true for Ghandi. Both revolutionized the world. The Mystery is mysterious.

Rahmatallah Azh Well I must say that integrity is all about doing the right thing or saying the right thing as we know it. But the point is there is no right and wrong. Right and wrong are relative concepts according to our minds and belief systems. Our belief systems are direct consequences of our education, religion, environment, upbringing, family, and so many other factors. There could not be found a standard version of belief system nowhere in the world. After all the word “standard” again shows a relative concept. Everything should be considered and judged in their own context. Killing a human being is generally considered wrong but when we are fighting a war, it is considered as the most sacred thing ever. Human beings are rational creatures. Even somebody jumping off a bridge does it for the betterment of their own life. They consider their current situation so frustrating that they think they would be far better off jumping off the bridge. So anybody else compared to Hitler might have done the same thing or even something that today might be considered way too worse than what Hitler did at the time…

Jitendra Thank you, everyone for your heartfelt contributions! This topic never ceases to bring forth a lot of passionate discussion. Most of us hold integrity as an ideal value as it should be. At the same time, as long as we humans have unconscious territory (bodies) to recover with conscience (loving awareness), circumstances will always emerge where the ideal and the action or thought have yet to align. Coming from a place of alignment and coherence between our values, words and deeds is crucial to our happiness and peace of being. What is often overlooked is that our attitude with ourselves along the way is equally, if not more, important. Can you stay in love rather than punishing yourself or others with guilt, shame or blame as you make your course corrections and hone your discernment?

Integrity, on the surface, has to do with aligning ones values, words and actions. As Marc West noted in his comment, how we perceive and experience integrity may shift depending on the context or level of consciousness with which we view a particular situation or experience.

Most importantly, stay in Love Mode as you journey toward realizing and expressing the wholeness that you are.

In years past, acceleration would have meant exerting more energy and pressure to break through. Oh, the changes wisdom brings! Replace exertion with keen awareness of subtle movement and replace pressure with fineness of focus and breadth of understanding. All the while, transmuting youthful impatience into compassionate and knowing inner smiles. ~ Jitendra

Is it actually possible to accelerate inner growth?

I remember days—no, entire years—hunting, turning over rock after rock, looking for a special clue that could take me to the next highest level of my inner journey.  There were times I felt so frustrated, feeling as though I was running in place or worse, sliding backwards. I would have given anything to find the booster switch to get myself out of those seeming endless ruts.

Growing up, I was constantly pushed to just work harder. And I put that same belief to work in my spiritual practice, only I never needed anyone to stand over me.  I supplied all the pressure myself.  More intensity promised higher ground. Meditate more, chant more, read more, do more service…no, do MORE service.  It’s sad to see others locked in this same vicious cycle.  It’s important to be able to accept yourself wherever you are in your journey, at the same time, when there is action you can take to create change, by all means take it!  But what action and HOW?

It took me years before I began to understand how being hard on myself was not going to give me the experience I wanted.  In fact, working harder often reinforced my frustration rather than helping to sooth it.  Wisdom dawned slowly on my addiction to pressure. Look around you.  Look in the mirror.  How many people do you see, pressuring themselves to be a better person, to be more spiritual, to be happy, to be more abundant…and so on.

The silent trap is addiction to pressure itself.

The Secret to Accelerating Your Inner Growth…

Accelerate by relieving pressure in your body and your mind. One feeds the other.  Anxious thoughts create fear and pressure in your body and habitual fear patterns in your body create anxious thoughts.  Some body/mind fears are obvious and some never show themselves.

Pressure creates resistance and resistance sloooooowwwwwwssssssssss you down. Resistance restricts your connection to your Self on all levels. Resistance restricts the flow of vital life force energy.

Fear ==> Pressure ==> Resistance.

What is your greatest resource for dissolving fear at all levels in your body and mind?  You know my response…YOUR HEART, of course.

Accelerate your inner growth by activating and igniting your physical heart. Your heart can dissolve fear at a cellular level and shift your beliefs into alignment with your empowered authentic Self.  Shifting from Fear Mode to Love Mode in your body is like a turbo booster for accelerating your inner growth. Shifting from Fear Mode to Love Mode in your body spontaneously dissolves impressions in your mind of separation within your self.  Shifting to Love Mode in your body changes your entire body…and your reality.

Live smarter, not harder. Embody your Love, accelerate change in your life. I dedicate my life to sharing the long lesson I have learned, I now call Core Mastery. It is one of the most direct and effective pathways to strengthening and empowering your connection with your heart, body, mind and spirit all at once.  There is a course of action to match every level of desire.  Follow the FREE Monday tele-class, listen to audio CD’s, come to a weekend Initiation, enroll in the full Core Awakening Journey mystery school, receive coaching or apply for intensive mentoring.

The ALOHA practice and Monday tele-classes are available free of charge.  A financial investment, as appropriate, is requested for trainings, coaching and mentoring.

Walking On Eggshells?

You’ve heard me say over and again, “Every relationship is founded on one…the one with your self.”

What makes the relationship dance so fascinating, and challenging, is the process of understanding and clarifying the relationship with your self in the midst of your relationship with another.

Two fundamental archetypal urges drive the human experience in seeming opposition at once:

1. The urge to merge (realize inherent oneness)
2. The urge to individuate (express the unique creative tone of one’s soul design)

It is in relationship that these apparently conflicting urges each seek to realize fulfillment together, at once.  It is the confluence of these two urges that brings us both joy and conflict.  On one hand, there are times you can’t seem to get enough of your partner, you couldn’t possibly be too close.  On the other hand, you may find yourself groping in the dark to get away, trying to get a grip on yourself asking, “Who am I without you?”, feeling as though you don’t know what being an individual feels like anymore.

The alternate title to this post could be “The Art of Being Yourself”. The humor in this is unavoidable.  After all, who ELSE would you be than your self?  Well, since you provoked me to ask that very excellent question, let’s dive in here.  As you may already be aware, you learned at a very early age, which behaviors attract what you considered to be the most favorable attention.   In fact, it is very likely you also learned which behaviors would avoid unfavorable attention.

These learned (and imprinted)  behaviors are part of your Instinctual Survival Zone, your hardwired repertoire of survival strategies. These are behaviors that occur with the least amount of conscious awareness, if any–before your Core Awakening Journey, that is. Therefore, it can be quite challenging to feel safe while authentically responding to your intimate partner, boss or even a friend.  The underlying concern will always have something to do with trusting that you will be accepted and loved, or liked and wanted–that you are of value.

So you tiptoe around as if walking on eggshells, trying not to make a disturbance that would cause an upset; trying to manage the other person’s feelings toward you with placating behaviors.  Remarkably, upsets will ultimately happen because your expectation and fear has to attract those experiences and, in the meantime, resentment and distance builds.

Ultimately you may have come to learn that a relationship founded on adaptation rather than authenticity will either be short-lived or doomed to chronic dissatisfaction.  Oops.

Maybe you’re not the eggshell walker. Maybe you’re the one someone feels unsafe or intimidated to be themselves around.  Same dynamic, opposite end of the stick.  You may feel you have to assert who you are in order to hold yourself intact.  It may feel threatening when someone is treading on edges that make you feel uncomfortable or challenge your trust, so you consciously, or unconsciously, dominate the space in order to maintain a sense of control and to feel safe.

As enlightened as we may be and as much as we may love the one we’re with, these dynamics ultimately come into play in one form or another.  They’re not wrong and neither are you.  It’s all part of the evolutionary spiral of growing to know ourselves from wider and broader perspectives…in Love.

Heart Rising on Gaia

I am passionate within the Heart of Christ.  I am saddened by the fears that, IN THE PAST, have polarized us.  I am no more a Christian than was Yeshua. I am a universal human presence of Divine Love.  Somewhere deep in the fabric of our inextricable oneness we, IN THE PAST,  turned on ourselves.  We became fearful and enraged by the presence of our own shadow, mistaking it to be something other than our very own essence.

We have, IN THE PAST, participated in, and allowed, the crucifixion of our human dignity.

We have held ourselves and fellow humans with less honor and dignity than is inherently deserved.  We have, IN THE PAST, disparaged and dismissed the efficacy of our own human experience, choosing rather to judge and hold ourselves separate from the Love that we are.  We, IN THE PAST, have done this as much, if not more so, in the name of God.  It has been, IN THE PAST, this introversion of self-accusation that we have then delivered with righteousness and/or pity as projection onto others.  We haven’t been nice—respectful, honoring or kind.  Not considerate nor appreciative.  We have been challenged remaining inquisitive and wondrous of the unending uniqueness of perspective on offer from each and every individuated expression of the Divine known as humanity.  Yes, some of our reflections are overtly violent and uncaring. They hurt and they harm.  The saving grace is that Love ultimately conquers/heals all: fear, resentment, hostility, abandonment, betrayal…

The direction of our collective intention is to progress toward the desire, the will and the skill to choose Love above all else.

Today is a new day.  Today dawns with the light, warmth and omnipresent Love that relentlessly demonstrates resurrection, eternally rising and piercing darkness to birth new light and life.

The beauty of time is that it provides opportunity to initiate anew. The arrow of time allows for fresh starts and the space for current hurt to fade into perspective and morph into wisdom.  The beauty of  life through  human eyes on earth, mother Gaia, is that we have the opportunity to experience the persistent demonstration of the light and warmth of our sun dawning each day.  Unconditionally, no matter what.  One could argue whether this is cold universal mechanics or a gift of Divine Intelligence, but the Sun will still shine its light and give its warmth without prejudice.

In Love, we restore light to darkened [fear-based] perspectives.  In Love we illuminate the true meaning of the circumstances of our lives.  In Love we awaken to forgiveness and resurrect ourselves out of guilt and despair, separation and aloneness, releasing any illusion that any life is not worth cherishing beyond comprehension.  You foster and feed your own self-worth and that of others with every kindness offered.  We are raising from fallow fields, rich harvests of brilliant contributions from souls too precious to assess.

It is through remembrance of the inherent goodness of human experience that value, balance, respect and organic virtue can replace archaic habits of worshiping guilt, blame and shame.  A happy, kind and fulfilled human experience, founded on the muscular choosing of Love over and again, this is the resurrection and restoration of human dignity and the future we collectively dream and manifest into being.

Love is a choice, the highest expression of our freedom of will.

Forgiveness Mandala" 2005 - Vikki Reed http://www.chakramandalas.net/

Forgiveness is not so much something that you do, though it takes conscious intent and effort. Forgiveness is an awakening into understanding the soul value of your experience. This can be terribly difficult when the experience was abuse. I know. It can be increasingly difficult if you were a child or physically disadvantaged in the circumstance. I know this too. But when you lead this enquirey with your heart rather than your mind, you can emerge into an empowered spaciousness and unimaginable relief, compassion and dignity. Feel this.

I will return to this topic as time permits.

Back here for a few minutes. I will return to Sustainable Forgiveness, I promise, there is so much more to share about it. Today, I’m simply loading an image that warms my heart. You know how certain pieces just do something, activate something within? Well Vikki Reed’s forgiveness mandala has that affect for me and I’d like to share it with all of you.  Again, I’ll be back later with more to share.

Even though Pia and I are still celebrating Valentine’s Day each day…I HIGHLY recommend it…it’s time to head this blog anew.

We were having an absolutely delightful conversation with new friends, Stephanie Roh and Doug Lagore, today on the topic of living love in real time.  They also are devoted to bringing Love forth for everyday practical use (check out their beautiful work).  As funny as it may sound sometimes, after all who wouldn’t want Love to infuse their every move, it is also one of the most challenging undertakings on the face of this planet.  This is a paradox I have been unraveling for decades.  What is the paradox you ask?  It’s that Love is both cherished and terrifying, liberating and confining, ecstatic and excruciating.  I can clarify a great deal of the mix-up straight off by saying that all the positives I named refer to the actual experience of Love and the negatives are trances of fear masquerading as Love.  The problem is your body generally runs first and asks questions much later, seeing as how it generally feels far safer behind its instinctual survival strategies [Instinctual Survival Zone™]. The body often has Love and fear switched in terms of priority.  Your mind says it wants Love, but often your body wants out.  You think you want closeness but your body screams “Nooooooo……..”— quietly and cleverly plotting an escape.  Well it has to be clever to make you think it’s the other person’s fault that you need to back away and take space.  In fact, it may be so clever that you only pick people that you SHOULD back away from.   Sorry to be so dreary here.   It’s just that the more aware you are of the patterns in play, the better armed you are to stay their sway…and rather enjoy it.  If we’re going to turn our evolutionary blueprint on its ear we might as well learn to have a good time of it.  It’s taken me most of my 50+ years to learn a smile, but it was worth the wait.  Just don’t wait if you can help it.

I think of this territory as the new r-evolutionary frontier. Our physiology is quite literally in an evolutionary growth spurt, seeking to evolve from reliance on fear for survival, to trusting love.  This means that rather than contracting and recoiling or loading for a strike, you will open and ground through your heart to connect with the One flow of life force, trusting in the Divine Intelligence of Love to meet the moment as needed.  We are graduating from reaction to reason. Not reason as a sterile mental assessment but reason in the Biblical sense, the intervention and infusion of Love into thought and action—as the NEW instinct!  Now doesn’t that sound refreshing and liberating…not to mention a bit Pollyanna.  Now, if this were a simple matter, we would long ago have had a revolution of Love on this planet.

Ahhh…but here’s the rub.  Bodies are imprinted, conditioned and therefore coded to rely on fear habits for survival [ I.S.Z.].  Our collective quest in this millennium is to introduce Love into ancient, fossilized pathways that instinctively conduct consciousness outside of loving awareness in order to preserve our biology. However, we can no longer tolerate dismissing, disregarding or minimizing our relationship to our embodied presence. This means giving up the belief that living in a body is somehow inferior to life beyond it.  This means recoding the hardwired resistance to honoring our walk on this planet, collectively over-turning “original sin”.  It matters little what your faith is or whether you claim none at all, “original sin” is embedded in the DNA of the bones of humanity. You can spot its symptoms in displays of guilt, blame and shame.  This resistance to loving our embodied self has landed us at the brink of irreversible planetary demise in a climate of really poor behaviors between humans at large. Personally, I don’t  see us actually going over the edge. Too much faith in the power of Love for that.  And, that faith rests on a trust that we’ll all keep putting one foot in front of the other and show up the way we each intended.

I do promote a one size fits all solution though actually getting the solution to fit well takes quite a bit of tailoring.  The solution is value.  Your core value.  Your worth after being stripped of every external embellishment and accoutrement.  Without your shoes or hair, silk or polyester, simonized 10-layer clear coat shine or sun-peeled vinyl roof, you are who you are and always have been.  You are indisputably Divine.  Your true value can never be enhanced nor reduced.  To embody your value is to embody unconditional Love.  For that experience of Love unconditioned—of Self unconditioned—leaves you unadorned in the most glorious and incontrovertible realization of your true magnificence.  Imagine the reflections…

Valentine’s Day is one of those days that seems to bring out the best in people. Have you noticed how extra consideration and kindness seem to make their way into thoughts and actions on this special day?  Everywhere you go, big red hearts point the way to what matters most.

Why not keep the Love going all year round?

What do you suppose your life would look like–feel like?  What would it take to inspire you to raise your awareness and desire to keep the spirit of Valentine’s Day alive on a daily basis?

My Love and blessings to all

~ Jitendra