Love is....Living from the Heart

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Love is......the reason we’re here on earth.
Love is……difficult to define, although everyone thinks they know what it is.

Throughout our lives we need to receive Love, and we need to give love.
We first learn about what Love is from our parents' or caretakers. Hopefully we come to understand as adults that Love starts with ourselves before we can reach out to another.
As we develop as individuals we learn more about Love from everyone around us. Seeing and experiencing Love in the behaviour of family members and others. With the proper foundation of being loved as a baby and child, we grow to adulthood able to give Love and also to feel worthy of receiving it. Loving ourselves is a prerequisite for being able to Love others. If this does no happen the path to Love can be a treacherous one causing havoc in our relationships with ourselves and others. Many of us grow up Love impoverished.

Love is….giving, which occasionally can be used to control others we are in relationship with, which far from Love, unmotivated by Love, but by Fear, the opposite of Love, the realm of problems in relationships.

Living from the Heart  next workshop will be held on

10th - 11th July 2010

Deepening Relationships and Advancing Communication Skills

It will explore effective ways to become aware of these negative patterns replacing more Loving ways of being in relationships. Developing the capacity to recognise and accept differences from and similarities to other people. Helping us to understand others and ourselves, Embracing difference leads us to a better understanding of relationships with partners, family, and friends resulting in more open and accepting relationships.

Love is….a healing balm, because love makes you whole. Love is…..a place where you feel welcomed in the world. Love is…. a part of existence; it is inclusive. Love is…. an invitation, where you are no longer an outsider, but needed. Love is… feeling needed, by yourself and others, to be needed, is the greatest need. Nothing else can fulfil that great need.


(C) Aisha Ali and Living from the Heart