4/10/2019

Do you really know what love is?


Like the song says: I want to know what love is, I want you to show me!

OK, let me Fess-up I thought I did until I did some research.  
Then the knowledge of sudden shifts in emotions confuses me.
I heard they are common. But if we don’t understand why they happen we may think we are
going crazy, or we may mistakenly conclude that our love for someone has died.
Fortunately, there is an explanation.
Love brings up our unresolved feelings. One day we are feeling like we are on top of the world,
and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love.
The painful memories of being rejected, for example,
begins to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner’s professing
“undying love” for us.
Whenever we are loving ourselves more or being loved by others,
repressed feelings tend to come up and temporarily overshadow our loving awareness.
They come up to be healed and released.
We may suddenly become irritable, defensive, critical, resentful, demanding, even nub, or angry.
Feelings that we could not express in our past suddenly flood our consciousness
when we are safe to feel.
Love thaws out our repressed feelings, like frozen fish that we forgot about in the freezer,
and gradually these unresolved feelings begin to surface into our current relationship. “It’s not you,
it’s me!”  
It is as though your unresolved feelings waited until you are feeling the love you have for someone.
And you start questioning if they really love you.
And are they feeling the same type of unresolved feeling also?
These feeling suddenly come up to be healed. We are all walking around with a bundle of unresolved feelings, the wounds from our past, that lie dormant within us until the time comes when we feel loved.
Then, when we feel safe to be our selves, our hurt feelings come up.  
If we can successfully deal with those emotions, then we feel much better and enliven more of our creative, loving potential. Unless however, we get into a fight and
blame our lover instead of healing our past, we just get upset and then suppress the emotions again.
A cycle that may never really end unless we get some help understanding how suppressed emotions
do not just go away, they come back and raise their ugly heads and say: “Hey, Boo, Remember Me?”
This is me!


  

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