SPREAD THE LOVE

When I began to write this morning, facing me on the screen sat the caption’Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? There is much in this as we begin the discussion on spreading the love. In the advent period we think of hope, love, joy,and peace interconnected and yet needing to be individually understood and experienced in order to connect to the other.

So is your life today what you pictured a year ago? Have you learn’t to love yourself , even as you become more frustrated, at times as you try to connect with a balanced and reflective way of living? Maybe you have ups and downs become’fed up’ and want to ‘throw in the towel’ because life can be a bit like a boxing ring, winning, and losing, working hard to prepare for the fight and being disappointed when you loose, and maybe ,at times, not wanting to continue with the demanding training to keep fit especially when you have had a serious beating in the last few fights.

The current and ongoing experiences in our chaotic world have infiltrated our very souls, and disturbed our essence making life really difficult, and the awful thing is the same carry on keeps repeating we are caught in some evil and deadly soap opera, and just as the good person, or persons win the ‘spoiler’ is introduced, wouldn’t it be good if you had a magic wand to tap three times and everything would return to normal not real I’m afraid!

So where does the love come in? Well we can’t spread the love until we have it ourselves, and whether you believe in the Christmas story or not you may have grown up liking the activities and atmosphere of Christmas so it is possible you can draw on something of the experiences of happier times. It’s back to loving one’s self this is the beginning, so today work on your self esteem, fight for your rights against the saboteur remind yourself who you are, and what gifts and abilities you have, and then, as you walk in the recovery mode you may be able to share the love with others.

Learning to love yourself , and practise this daily is not to become arrogant or self seeking but is the beginning of balanced living and good soul, and mental health, mental health is not just a black and white affair but is connected into all of us and our circumstances of living.

As Christmas arrives chocolate gets more and more promotion, or it seems like that, it’s as though giving and spreading chocolate around spreads love and sweetness. The cook will learn how to chocolate work for cake decoration by spreading out the hot chocolate and designing it into shapes Love is so oo much more than this inane idea it is from the healthy self and emanates to all around as needed. WOW! you don’t need any money to spread it. Walk in recovery live the reflective and meditative life and it will come automatically.

LET LOVE SING THIS CHRISTMAS IT’S AROUND SPREAD IT BREATHE IT SMELL IT TASTE IT IT’S IN THE AIR GO FOR IT HAPPY CHRISTMAS!