Love Exercise - Try to empty your Cup

Does your cup runneth over with Love, or is it half empty?  Well, if it's half empty, there's a simple solution you can implement that is guaranteed to make your cup full-full!

Professionals, and even us average citizens, believe that there must be several different kinds of love.  Most of us are familiar with love in the form of paternal, reciprocal and sexual expressions.  Although there may be more technical or otherwise historically correct terms for these types of love, these labels are quite sufficient for this discussion. Paternal love, obviously, is reflected in the unconditional love most parents have for their children.  Reciprocal love is generally the type of love you may feel for your parents or friends, - they give, you receive - you try to give something back.  Sexual love, or passion and desire; comes from emotional and physical feelings one develops when thinking of certain human beings.

But in actuality, love is just love, pure and unconditional.  It is only the opposite reaction of love that confuses us.  True love is an equalizer when we become capable of applying it to everyone and everything.  When you give pure and unconditional love to every human being you come in contact with, your cup will always be full.  Withhold love, and your cup starts to empty because the negativity acts as a hole or leak.   Love becomes a negative weight, or hole, when love is absent.  Love is a positive force, the absence of it (love) is a negative force. 

The secret is knowledge.  Knowing that the secret to having love in your heart is simply a matter of giving it away, can change your life!  Withholding love from others causes a negative reaction in your life.  The other party suffers as well, but not nearly to the extent that you suffer.  Like you, they are in control of their own life and can make the same choice as to whether to give or withhold their love.  Oftentimes, the other party isn't even aware of what's going on, so in those instances, you're the only one suffering.      

So, try this Love Exercise:  Try to empty your cup (of Love) by giving it away to everyone you meet and know for seven days straight.  We're talking about universal, pure and unconditional love.  Expect nothing from the other party in return, but expect your heart to be filled with feelings of peace, joy, happiness, success, and love.  This is much easier than it sounds, it only requires a simple choice to be made - to love or not to love.

Keep a journal, or some sort of mental record (journal is better, you might forget), of how well you did with this exercise.  We can be positive and shoot for 100% success, but realistically what you're looking for is any success, because this will allow you to see the cause and effect of your actions.  Analyze the results.  When you were able to give unconditional, pure love - what effect did this have on you?  When you withheld your love, did you blame the other person for your shortcomings?  Oops.  Do you see how the choice is yours? 

This is a perfecting exercise, practice it often.