Some thirty five years ago an M.D. named Gerald Jampolsky wrote a wonderful, little gem of a book entitled, Love is Letting Go of Fear. People loved it, and it went everywhere, and so it deserved to. Jampolsky’s major premise was that there are only two emotions, love and fear. The first is our natural inheritance and the other the mind manufacturers. Think of it! This means that it is natural for us to come from love for ourselves and others. It is unnatural for us to move from fear. We have to invent it ourselves, and so we do.
...A brand, new first response...
Thirty five years later, where are we in the scheme of things? Are we cultivating our inborn capacity to love and to choose it as our mode of action every time we go out the front door? Or, more likely, are we so confused and conflicted by the complications of the world that our default response to most everything is some form of fear? I think it is more often the latter. We have become so conditioned by negative, subjective responses that we don’t even recognize a loving response. We can, of course, but we would have to go back into a willingness to trust the gift of love and pull it up as a brand, new first response.
We are purveyors of Love...
Yes, we can, and we can scan ourselves mentally and emotionally to rediscover the strengths that are ours and the responsibilities that are ours as spiritual beings living a human life (Thank you, Wayne Dyer!) We have no business sinking into media marketing or giving away our power to external manipulations. We are more than this. We are purveyors of Love, and we can teach and learn from one another. We more than the tribes into which we were born. We are God’s own… every single one of us… worthy of the best.
"Teach only love...
Let’s give Jampolsky the last word on the relationship between love and fear. He said, “Teach only love for that is what you are.”
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