Meditation and the Profound Experience of Love: How to Connect to Higher Love
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
When you experience a love so blissful and deeply moving during meditation, you can’t help but wonder, did this come from the divine? If I’m just sitting here by myself, in complete stillness, where did the love I experience come from? Did it come from within, from my loved ones, or did it come from another dimension? And why is this love so much more potent than any other form of love I’ve felt before?
It is arguably true that everything we do, we do for love. Once we feel our livelihood is secured, love is the one thing we reach for. Yet, we chase love, or the feeling of love in all the wrong ways. We have forgotten how to love and be loved, because love has become such a complicated matter. Many end up spending their life chasing the idea of love while putting up barriers to protect themselves from the pain of losing love. This way of pursuing love creates a mentality that love is distant and hard to maintain, when in reality, love is held within and close to home.
As I mentioned in the previous article, the types of higher love we feel are not out of reach. We can connect to them potentially any time we want. Obtaining love was never meant to be a struggle. In fact, it was never meant to be something we need to obtain; it is something that was meant for us to experience as a constant. Our current way of being has added so many layers of obstacles that prevent us from experiencing love. Those obstacles include fear, stress, overthinking, limiting beliefs, toxicity, pain and distractions. All of which disconnect us from the vibration of love.
Feeling safe enough to love
Fear is the biggest blockage to love. When we live in fear, we cannot feel safe enough to love. Fear puts us in survival mode. During survival mode, we see more opponents than allies, and we see the world as a hostile frontier rather than a friendly playground. After a long period living in survival mode, our body and mind become accustomed to defending and reacting. That can still be present even with years of healing. Connecting to higher love requires us to trust and surrender our body, mind and heart — it is a deeply intimate experience. If our body and mind are in defense, we cannot relax and trust enough to allow that level of love to penetrate deeply, because we’ve inadvertently built a barrier against it.
For example, notice the next time someone pays you a genuine compliment, gives you a long loving embrace, or stares into your eyes with adoration. How does your body, mind and heart react? Do you feel uncomfortable, at a loss for words, or even resist them in any way? Most of us at one point or another have felt a strong loving energy coming towards us and resisted allowing ourselves to surrender to it because there was some level of fear.
So what would happens if we just let go and allowed love to take over our body, mind and heart without any resistance? That is simply what we must do to allow divine love to come through, and meditation is a safe space for us to practice. Total surrender is a vulnerable place to be. It is completely against what our primitive mind is hardwired to do. Being open and trusting feels as if that could expose us to danger, if not physical than emotional.
The world is not without danger, but sooner or later, we will realize that surrendering to love does not take away from our discretion for safety. In fact, the practice of surrendering gives us more clarity and experience in recognizing the difference between love and fear. And when we understand that difference with confidence, we will feel safe enough to allow as much love to come in as possible.
Trust without judgment
During a deeply relaxing meditation, you are likely to experience many different sensations. At the first layer, you might notice the nature of your thoughts, some physical sensations, then maybe ideas and visions. Trying to make sense of all of them is an automatic reaction most of us have. What does that mean? Why am I thinking that? What does that say about me? These are some of the questions we might habitually ask when we experience thoughts and sensations during meditation.
To experience a deep feeling of love, however, is to rest your logical mind and trust that the energy you connect with in the process is in alignment with your highest good, or your higher self. You can even affirm by saying out loud at the beginning of your meditation:“I am only here to connect with vibrations that align with my highest good.” Then let go of all judgments and expectations, of yourself and of your experiences. Simply sit comfortably, relax and enjoy. Trust that you will have the right experience at the right time.
Maintaining connection to higher love
The desire to reconnect to divine love can easily become an obsession — it is a love that feels so potent and joyful we naturally want to feel it over and over again. The more I practice and attune to divine love, the more I realize that while reconnecting to it during meditation is a miraculous experience, it is not the only way to maintain that connection.
It is important to experience such love in order to know the existence of such love. But the experience is simply an initiation. It is not meant for us to dwell and obsess over like a drug.
Being able to give and receive love is part of our human experience. It is a gift we all signed up for when we came to this earth, this dimension. Most of our existence is spent expressing ourselves. Any experience we have, we express it through the skills and tools we have toward other beings of the planet. The more love we feel, the more love we express. Experiencing an elevated state of love unlocks a higher level of expression of love, from within us. Through this experience, we can maintain our connection to higher love by spreading it to other beings. We carry that love with us into our family, our community, to nature and disperse it to the very aether it comes from. Even if we can’t see it or feel it, the deep seed from which it grows has already formed during the initiating experience of higher love. Every time we pass it along to another living being, we connect and reconnect to the source of that love.
