Liberating Love

A Joyous Romp Out of Suffering

Liberating Love: A Joyous Romp Out of Suffering.

Sounds good, huh?

Liberating. Feels freer already.

Love. Who doesn’t love love?

Joy. Yes! More of that please.

Romp Out of Suffering. Oh yes! That sounds very good. Less suffering! I’ll definitely have more of less suffering, please.

Imagine: A joyous romp out of suffering.

Imagine - what if your very essence is loving? The core of your core - the bundle of joy you were born as - what if love is what you are?

What if there are two very simple keys to liberating the love you are?

What if there are two simple keys that can reliably awaken you out of your suffering into a joyous romping life, a love liberated life of loving what is?

Wouldn’t that be grand?

Here’s an invitation.

As a practice - for the rest of your life if you like - notice the difference between what hurts and what doesn’t hurt.

Just that.

Nothing more.

Just notice.

There's a joyous sense of awakening that comes with the simple act of noticing.

Notice what lifts you and what depresses you.

Notice.

What opens you and what contracts you? What generates a more spacious open sense of you and what generates a more defended, contained sense of you?

Nothing serious here.

Just the delightful joy of noticing what’s what.

No need to change anything.

Just notice.

After some practice, you may recognize that the interpretations your mind offers you about external circumstances are more impactful and less enjoyable to your felt sense of experience than the actual circumstances themselves.

When seen fully, this capacity of mind to interpret, to place its own spin on experience, is quite impressive - wondrously amazing actually.

A joyous romp, indeed.

Which leads to the second invitation.

Make it a habit, a practice, to notice -

notice the difference between what is happening in the immediacy of the moment, i.e., what is actually happening right here right now in physical reality contrasted with what is happening in the theater of your mind.

There is the real world of stuff and there is the imagined world of images in your mind’s eye.

Notice the difference.

This simple practice can be quite an awakening romp.

What fun it is to notice - to be aware - to watch the play of mind.

The greatest show on Earth.

Voices of others telling you about the images they have experienced as real, is not the same as the real world you are in when you hear their words that describe their remembered or anticipated world. The same holds true as you recount troubled situations from your past or imagined future dilemmas.

You’ll notice that there is what is actually happening right now, and there is a story about the remembered past or anticipated future.

Notice the difference.

You may notice that now is reliably kinder than your mind’s motion picture of what is not happening now. And often, if not always, the story presented of what is happening is much more harrowing than the reality of what is actually happening.

That’s it.

Two simple practices.

1- Notice the difference between what hurts and what doesn’t hurt.

2- Notice the difference between what is real and what is imagined.

Have fun with it.

See if Love gets Liberated.

The above ideas, offered here as practices, are often mentioned by Byron Katie.

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I’m a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. There’s been over twenty years of intense dabbling with The Work of Byron Katie. The seven years prior to that included a deep immersion into Harry Palmer’s Avatar® materials. Some years prior to and mixed in with the above were youthful adventures of travel, sailing, street performing, massage and Ortho-Bionomy practice.

I like sharing thoughts, practices and exercises that support me to ease out of suffering and ease into being at home with experiences as they arise. Loving what is. Liberating Love.

This is my first substack post! All comments are welcome.

Should you happen to explore either of these practices, even for a few minutes, I’d love to hear how it goes for you.