10 Ways to expand love consciousness

Many people contemplate the meaning of love. They may refer to what they have read in storybooks, heard in media or learned second-hand, though other people's life experiences.  They may also begin to link personal shifts in feelings to ongoing whispers about the possible impact of 2012. 

A complimentary view is to recognize your understanding of love is constantly expanding based on what you choose to feel. Your beliefs, perception and identification with different energy vibrations, all influence completeness or emptiness. Consider these 10 ways to expand love consciousness; 

1) Decide you do not mind what happens. Choose to be grateful for every situation you encounter. Learn to see blessings and advantages, regardless of where you perceive to be. You sense with fear or love.  You grow due to all of it.

2) Sense love constantly sends you messages.  Know that whatever energy you feel coming at you from outside yourself, love is always bringing you the best possible scenario. You just may not choose to recognize how good you have it now.

3) Choose to transcend limitation. Mindsets can only be overcome internally. You permit ego to keep you feeling trapped or experience what it means to dissolve negative assumptions.  This evokes an incredible lightness of being.

4) Know the ego does not control you. Each instance you choose not to judge, not to rationalize, not to go on the defensive and not to blame, you are consciously permitting love to prevail. You acknowledge no reaction is a powerful statement that tells ego who is in charge of your life.

5) Restore heart energy. Each occasion you choose not to retaliate, not to seek revenge, not to generate negativity, you are shifting to experience the feeling of compassion.  The result is you feel more alive even if the sensation defies words.

6) Detach from misplaced identity. As you stop efforts to reinforce what defines you in form, you distance self from identifying with physical things. You learn that by having less, you sense more. In another way, you undergo immeasurable expansion that is nurturing a much higher awareness.

7) Recognize the relevance of boundaries. The choice to permit energy to flow freely is not the same as accepting mistreatment and believing you are a victim. You never be a victim of your own choices. Fear compels you put on the breaks but so does love in certain situations for health and well-being.

8) Align with the power of the universe. Whenever you are tempted to view a feeling as a weakness, that is only temporary as you have yet to sense the reality of the strength of feeling as you do. How is each emotion good for you?

9) Learn the power of stillness. As you gain insight into what it means to quiet the mind through disciplined meditation and not think at all, you experience the awe of nothingness.

10) Appreciate formless experience. To begin to expand inner sight and senses, you awaken to the presence of different languages and frequencies of love.  You also validate multiple dimensions and realities. Love embraces you like wings of angels.  Sense its omnipresence echoes through everything.