What Would Love Do‪?‬ Yummii Nguyen

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Receivership.

Welcome to Season 2 of What Would Love Do.

I thought I'd start the season off with this quick audio I recorded while waiting in the car while Brooklyn was napping :)

Why choose to live from Love over Fear?

"Between stimulus and response - there is space.

In that space is our power.

To choose our response.

In our response, lies our growth and our freedom."

Viktor Frankl

When we choose Love, we choose growth, we choose freedom, and we choose to honour the light that's within us. 

If we truly believe we are spiritual beings, having a human experience - we wouldn't choose Fear. Love is the access to connect to our spirit - and allow spirit to guide us.

Our true-self is joy. Our true-self is light. When we live from this place - how can life not be magnificent?!

It doesn't mean that there won't be challenges or pain - it just means that we choose to see that life is working for us. Each challenge and pain is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the powerful energy of Love.

When we experience suffering - we have a choice.

To expand, or contract. 

When we meet Fear, with Fear - the Fear expands.

When we meet Fear, with Love, the Fear dissolves.

Truth is this - people who are hurting, hurt other people. And yes, people can do bad things, and mean things - and we have a choice on how to see it.

Blame, judgement, condemnation keeps us trapped. That's fear meeting fear. What if we choose compassion? Empathy?... What if we could see this circumstance as a reminder to take charge of our mind and take responsibility for the wounds that live within us?

Fear is seeking Love.

Let go of blame. There is no liberation to be found. Freedom is not found in Fear… Only Love Liberates.

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Books mentioned:

- Jordan B Peterson's:  "12 Rules of Life"

 The quality of your life is based on the quality of your questions.

We don't know what we don't know. There are beliefs that live within the shadows of our minds - these beliefs create an invisible cage in which we live in. They can disrupt our relationships, they can hijack our experience of life, and they hold us back from being the master of our fate, and the captain of our soul.

How do we shine a light on these beliefs? How can we bring these beliefs out from the dark shadows? The key is asking powerful questions in the moments that we are tested. 

Our capacity to be accepting, forgiving, and learn from our mistakes impacts our courage - our courage to love, our courage to take risks, our courage to expand, our courage to live authentically.
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Sometimes we make choices that are less than ideal. We falter. We dig a deep hole for ourselves... we hurt others. Yes, these situations suck. However, these situations are a reflection of the choices we have made in a moment in time - and they do not define our character. The failures, the mistakes do not define us.
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Yes, you may have to have some tough conversations to ask for forgiveness.. and yes the people you hurt may not forgive you until they're ready - and it starts with you forgiving yourself. It starts with you letting go of your own condemnation and judgement. .
When we know better, we can do better. And to know better means that we will make mistakes along the way!
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The fear of making mistakes is debilitating. It kills us slowly. It holds is back. It seduces us into second guessing ourselves and not being ourselves up. It suppresses our deepest desires for fear of disappointment. .
If you suffer from the habit of indecision, wanting to control everything, perfectionism, a lack of clarity - The fear of making mistakes is running the show.

When we are at our worst - that is when we need to feel loved the most. If our partner or child is at their worst - it is in these moments that they need to feel loved the most.

Do we show up with love or is our love conditional?