When you feel loved,life is wonderful!Yours are happy,alive and free,You feel better about yourself and everything around you,The same thing happens when you give love to someone else,Watch what happens when you compliment someone or say how much you appreciate some one,Notice how happy he becomes,Watch as the person fills with love and returns love to you.
If you want to create a life of love,you have to open your heart and give love,As you do this, you automatically receive love in return,Life becomes more enjoyable and you become more effective.
Unfortunately,opening your heart and expressing love can be very scary,We are afraid that if we open our hearts and express our love,we'll get hurt.
We've been hurt before and it's no fun,To make sure we don't get hurt again,we put up our walls of protection,We hold ourselves back and we push people away,We create distance and destroy love.
Without ever noticing,we push away the love that we want so much.
To see how our walls of protection push away love,notice how you feel when you are around someone whose walls are thick,Notice how uncomfortable you feel,Notice how your walls go up.
Now notice how you feel when you are around someone who is open,with little or no walls of protection,Notice how loved and accepted you feel,and this type of person pulls love out of you ,Notice how loving you become.
We put up walls to protect our selves from the hurt,but the hurt we are avoiding isn't outside ourselves,it's inside,So instead of keeping the hurt out,our walls of protection keep the hurt in,Instead of protecting us ,our walls destroy love,create opposition and produce more hurt.
Your most powerful protection come when you open your heart and are willing to express your love,Love melts opposition,creates harmony and heals hurt.
Look in the face of some one who is open,loving and unprotecting,What do you see?This type of person is alive,This person has happiness,freedom,inner peace and a joy of living.
Now look in the face of someone who is very protective and unwilling to be hurt,hat do you see?This type of person is rigid and dead,There is a thick crust of hardness,anger and resentment,and beyond that,a tremendous amount of fear and suppressed.
Which face would you rather have?Which life would you rather live?