Welcome back, everyone. I will continue as I have over the last two weeks by just having a conversation with you. This week’s newsletter will be all about how love transformed me. I can tell you firsthand that love can be pretty cruel, but on the other hand, it can also be the most beautiful experience.
This week, I will be sharing with you some of these experiences and how I was transformed from bitter and angry to someone of heart, kindness, and a newfound purpose to serve others in what I hope will be a profoundly life-changing way.
If you would like to read more about this part of my journey toward becoming positively improved, please stick around as I am ready to dive in.
The Talk
As I stated above, before I began my journey toward becoming positively improved, I had a lot of disappointments and letdowns in life. From my perspective, life had just been cruel to me, and I became extremely bitter and angry at the world and utterly distrustful of myself.
Then, one day, I talked to a close friend, and she said, “Sweetheart, love conquers all; trust in your higher power, and all will be well.” And just like that, it was like a light bulb went on in my head. What an excellent thought, I said to myself. Love conquers all. Over the next few months, it was almost like the universe was trying to beat these words into my head. I would see or hear these words all over the place.
Each time I heard or saw them, they stuck in my head a little more until, one day, I heard myself saying them to someone I was talking to. It was at this point the real magic started to happen. Now, as I have already said, it took a few months before I got to the point where these words really sunk in what I would come to understand about all those months that it took for me to get to this point; my guides were also working to soften my heart and to start healing some of my wounds.
So, by the time the words really stuck, I had honestly started to believe that love does conquer all. Here is the beautiful thing about belief: when you believe entirely that something is true, it starts to be your truth. Although it would take over a year to see this belief’s tremendous benefits, I finally did it, and the results changed me.
Within two years of my friend saying these wonderful words,” Love conquers all,” I went from messy and angry to kind, understanding, and empathetic. I started to see from other people’s perspective. I had started to create better and stronger relationships with others, and I had begun to cut away all that no longer served me.
How did I do this? I did a lot of writing. Reflecting and letting go. The more I reflected, the more my perspective changed, and the more I began to change and even better I began to heal. This is also something you can do with some effort and time.
Now, let’s look at some of the pros and cons of love so that you can see how the good outweighs the bad every time it comes to love.
Pros
- It tends to give us a reason to live
- It helps to heal quicker
- It enables you to feel more relaxed
- It improves overall health and immunity
- It can leave you feeling invincible
- It improves and strengthens relationships
- It promotes higher self-worth and self-esteem
- It lowers all negative emotions
- It encourages overall healthier habits
- It helps you conquer any challenging situation.
- It lifts you up and inspires you to be your best
Cons
- It can be addictive
- You tend to be open to more reckless behavior
- You can lose your ability to judge accurately
- It can increase stress.
- Can change sleep patterns
- It can decrease or increase appetite
- You can see your shadow side emerge when love turns toxic
In conclusion
The lists above are just short lists that give you the overall idea of the effect love has on a person. I can tell you that I have seen both sides of love. I can tell you that love has both challenged me and inspired me. I have watched firsthand how love can destroy a person at their very core and create a rebirth of a person and the life in which they lead.
Love has destroyed me and all I once thought I was, and then it brought me back to life and reshaped and molded me and my life into what it is today. Love has given me the power to rise up and overcome all that once oppressed me and caged me from the freedom and peace I have today.
If you have had bad experiences with love, know that it is not all bad, and if you are being destroyed by love, it is because you are now meant to move beyond what once was to something new. Be open to embracing the experiences for all that is, and know that every end is a new beginning; for every start, there will sometimes be an end. It is simply part of the process of evolution and growth.
I hope you got something out of this week’s newsletter and that if you know someone who could use this information or insight, you will share it with them. If you want to share any thoughts or personal experiences on love, please share them in the comment section below.
As always I thank you for joining me as I shared another one of my stories of how I began and progressed along this journey of mine toward becoming positively improved. Until next week, namaste.
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