Lesson of the episode: Learn to love and be compassionate with yourself.
Monika and Jan Zands invite you to explore LOVE. Many times we focus on our surroundings, relationships, and things. If we cannot change the external things, we can change how we relate to these external factors, we can always change our mindset.
How to live in a context of love? We are made out of a number of things that create the container that we are, and this way we receive what comes from outside. The context of love is itself the definition of context.
What are we? How am I? What if I am not what I always thought I was? So who could I be? The best way to achieve your most joyful life has to do with a loving context.
Everyday the possibility of things going wrong is very likely but you have to learn how to navigate them. Not trying to change but being loving and compassionate relating to ourselves and to others, the human judgment tends to perceive things going wrong when they actually happen the way they “should.”
Exercise with Monika and Jan:
FIRST: Close your eyes and think about something you are upset about that has happened to you this week.
SECOND: Listen to the opinions of the voice in your head about what happened.
THIRD:Think about the person that is maternal, kind and loving to you, now let that voice speak about the upset.
FOURTH: Now think about a pet, your loyal companion, unconditional love, and think what would that puppy intervene about what upset you?
This last voice is your authentic self. When we are babies we are just happy, everything is just love and acceptance. The voice in your head is only comparing you to something else, if you are not comparing you will be good enough.
Your senses lead you to perceive the world around you in a specific way, try to listen from your heart, not protecting yourself, but just feeling from your heart. There is a discovery by listening to your heart. The goal is not to learn, but just being present, receiving what is intended for you.
Your Homework, better said “Heartwork,” is to listen to your context of love. First receive the message then: Step 1: Assume everyone is doing the best that they can. Step 2: What are they trying to say? What is the message? How can I hear that from a place of love? What is underneath it. Step 3: If it is not clear then clarify, try to get the message clear.
Share love, spread love, be love!
In This Episode You Will Learn: The importance of love yourself, love others and love the path.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
How do we access loving? What are we?
What if I am not what I always thought I was, so what could I be?
Key Insights and Ahas:
Why not win in your own fantasy?