Love Muscle Exercise

Exercising your love “muscle” is blissful. No, not that one you may be thinking about!

In one of the books I read, there was a suggestion to practice sending love from your heart out to any person, place, situation, or thing. I tried it and was amazed by how wonderful it felt. I do it before falling asleep, and before getting out of bed, but it’s also easy to do at every traffic light, every time you’re standing in line waiting, while folding the laundry, etc. I start by feeling the energy in my heart and imagine it flowing out to family members, friends, neighborhood, city, state, country, continent, then I bless all the people, animals, plants on each continent and in the oceans, lakes and rivers. Then I sometimes even send my love out to the planets in our solar system, our sun (I’ve always loved the sun even before I knew there were whole cultures based on worshipping it!), and our galaxy. There is truly no limit to how far your love can ripple. Sometimes it would literally take me over an hour to cover all that love-pumping, though now my muscle is so “toned” it doesn’t take nearly as long.  After several weeks, it started coming to me to send love to all the plumbers, and artists, and iron workers, and yes, even to all the politicians and government workers; or to everyone dealing with a disability, cancer, tough situation, big school tests, etc. Day after day, new professions or categories would occur to me as soon as I woke up, and I would focus on sending out love to new groups of people each day. It honestly feels so good to do it, that it keeps me doing it. My day isn’t complete if I don’t do a love-muscle exercise. And how could sending out all that positive energy be wrong in any way?

I will admit, that sometimes I get caught in a spiral of thought about any given “recipient”, by judging, or deciding in my own brilliant mind what might be best for them, but then I just bring it back to simply sending out the love, so that their soul can decide how best to use that energy, whether it be a blip of joy, a wave of comfort, an idea or inspiration or whatever is best for that person, place or thing. It’s not part of the exercise to decide HOW the love energy is to be used, only to send it and let Spirit decide how to bless the world with the new waves of swirling energy I send. And the bonus is that I am blessed with bliss whenever I do it.  You oughtta try it!