LOVE AND FOOTBALL
I often talk to my daughter about how you can tell when someone does something with LOVE. Whether it be preparing your food, growing your food, painting something, reading something, or even a simple action such as pouring a glass of water or walking across a room. And she is really good at calling me out when I am doing something and I am not coming from this place, whether I am angry, tired, stressed, or thinking about something besides what I am doing. She can instantly feel when my energy shifts. It is a great reminder for me.
And this LOVE can flow through people in different ways. It is especially fun to watch this LOVE flow through someone who has a unique gift in this world. One day my daughter and I were at the park and we were watching a group of guys who appeared to be high level athletes, play football. They didn’t have pads on and it was a beautiful spring day and they were just running some plays. I don’t even care about football but it was cool to be so close up and my daughter thought it was really interesting. So we watched and they were showing off a bit for us. One of the guys caught a ball and started running (and despite having played sports most of my life) I have never seen a person move like this before. With speed and grace and a flow that appeared other worldy. And he felt it also, because as the play was done, he kept running, almost like he couldn’t stop the flow of LOVE. It brought a tear to my eye when I saw it and still does when I think about it. That was LOVE. And my daughter noticed it also and communicated that to me. I would argue that anyone who is extremely talented at something is innervated by LOVE when they are doing what they are doing. And if they lose that connection to LOVE, you may feel it, or their career may falter or any number of scenarios may play out.
And why do you lose this connection to LOVE? You don’t lose it. It would be impossible to lose LOVE. It is always there. It is like the sun, it is always shining, but we put up an umbrella. And the umbrella will distort our vision in whichever area of our life we are using it. Whether it be a relationship, a job, our self image, our view of the world or any number of places. The umbrellas are put up for a variety of reasons, but the chief one is fear (also, guilt and shame). We get scared and we erect an umbrella and this protects us to a degree but it also prevents LOVE from flowing into what we do. It also prevents a variety of other blocked emotions from flowing through our systems. And what is crazy is that when the umbrellas come down, whether by sheer courage or by force, the LOVE starts flowing. But this doesn’t mean things are going to immediately get “better”. Because what you have been hiding from will now be illuminated by something that it can’t run from, and you can’t run from. This is why when we start doing deep healing work, you will experience periods of turbulence.
Lastly, This LOVE is kind of crazy because it may be present in one area of a person's life but not in another and you may encounter people doing amazing things but you will often over or under appreciate what they are doing based on your level of conditioning or personality. And this is why it is important to FEEL when something someone is saying or doing is coming from LOVE or coming from another place. If it is coming from LOVE it may help you on your path, if not, it may be another trip down the rabbit hole.