Love Should Feel Good

Love Should Feel Good Real love feels good and uplifting, not jealous or anxious, and does not compromise who you are as a person. Often in our lives, we fall prey to the idea of a thing rather than actually experiencing the thing itself. We see this at play in our love lives and in the love lives of our friends, our family, and even fictional characters. The conceptualizing, depiction, and pursuit of true love are multimillion-dollar industries in the modern world. However, very little of what is offered actually leads us to an authentic experience of love. Moreover, as we grasp for what we think we want and fail to find it, we may suffer and bring suffering to others. When this is the case, when we suffer more than we feel healed, we can be fairly certain that what we have found is not love but something else. When we feel anxious, excited, nervous, and thrilled, we are probably experiencing romance, not love. Romance can be a lot of fun as long as we do not try to make too much of it. If we try to make more of it than it is, the romance then becomes painful. Romance may lead to love, but it may also fade without blossoming into anything more than a flirtation. If we cling to it and try to make it more, we might find ourselves pining for a fantasy, or worse, stuck in a relationship that was never meant to last. Real love is identifiable by the way it makes us feel. Love should feel good. There is a peaceful quality to an authentic experience of love that penetrates to our core, touching a part of ourselves that has always been there. True love activates this inner being, filling us with warmth and light. An authentic experience of love does not ask us to look a certain way, drive a certain car, or have a certain job. It takes us as we are, no changes required. When people truly love us, their love for us awakens our love for ourselves. They remind us that what we seek outside of ourselves is a mirror image of the lover within. In this way, true love never makes us feel needy or lacking or anxious. Instead, true love empowers us with its implicit message that we are, always have been, and always will be, made of love. [PRINT]( [SAVE]( [DISCUSS]( --------------------------------------------------------------- DailyOM Course Spotlight [Re-Parent Your Inner Child]( by Lisa J. Smith Do you sometimes feel that you make the same poor choices again and again? Have you ever felt like you have no control over your life? It could be because your inner child is in the driver's seat, which similar to any actual child, should not be driving a car, let alone your life. In this course, you will learn how your inner child may be sabotaging you and develop skills that will bridge your adult with your inner child. In building this connection, you will start to become more balanced and bring out the best in both. By the end of this course, you will start to live a life filled with joy, laughter, fun, success, and healthy relationships. [Learn More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. [Tone and Tighten Your Tummy]( 2. [Re-Parent Your Inner Child]( 3. [Shedding Your Menopausal Middle in 10 Days]( 4. [4 Minutes for Back Pain]( 5. [A Year of Writing to Uncover the Authentic Self]( 6. [Heal Your Soul by Letting Go of Emotional Addiction]( 7. [Strengthening Your Pelvic Floor]( 8. [The 2 Week Fascia Miracle]( 9. [Dealing With Emotionally Unavailable Partners]( 10. [21 Tapping Meditations for Emotional Eating and Beyond]( New Courses • [7 Day Sculpt Yoga Challenge]( • [7 Day Beginner Yoga Challenge]( • [Finding Peace in a Noisy Mind]( • [Heal Your Soul by Letting Go of Emotional Addiction]( > [More Courses]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home]( | [Inspiration]( | [Courses]( | [Horoscopes]( [Email Settings]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Help/FAQ]( © 2022 DailyOM - All Rights Reserved No portion of this site can be reprinted without express permission. Subscribed as {NAME}[at]gmail.com (1276706) [1]