What’s Your Love Quotient?

by Brad and Jan Lundy

Some may think the best way to connect with your Spirit self is by being alone, escaping from society, or moving anywhere you can to singularly experience the Divine without distraction.  While it is true that you can enhance your Spirit connection through solitude, the simple act of being in intimate partnership will do so as well, perhaps with even more profound and powerful results.

The great wise ones who have gone before us, from Jesus to Buddha, did not isolate themselves to seek God.  Though they spent important time in solitude, they returned to the world of human relationships to show us firsthand how to be Love’s presence to one another.  They knew that when we are with other people, we will also encounter the Divine within ourselves, and the Divine One in every other person.  They encouraged us, by their own examples, to ‘Be Love.’

But how in the world can we ‘Be Love’ to one another if no one has ever really taught us how?  More than likely, we understand this Divine directive intellectually, but to live it in the day-to-day world when so many things can pull us away from the Vibration of Love?  Now that’s another matter altogether!

We can begin to be the Love we naturally are by checking our Love Quotient: the measure of our current ability to give and receive Love.  Check your Love Quotient by making an honest assessment of how openhearted or closed down you are feeling in any given moment.  Are you desiring to embrace and be embraced?  Or are you feeling like a wounded animal who wants nothing more than to slink off to its corner and be alone?

By asking yourself, ‘How much Love am I really feeling right now?’ you have a good, clear indicator of where you are on the vibrational scale.  You can be an ego observer and choose not to be drawn into any negative energy.  This is especially helpful when your partner, friend, or co-worker is feeling prickly or short tempered.  Before you respond to any of their words or actions, you can ask yourself two very important Love Quotient questions:

How would Love respond?

or

What is the loving thing to do in this situation?

Within the time it takes to breathe in a few, quick breaths, you can quickly determine your current Vibration of Love, then choose to respond as Love would - with kind words, caring gestures, and, most important, compassion - the highest form of Love available to all of us.  Assessing our Love Quotient in this way allows us to once more ‘Be the Love’ we are and can be in the world, especially in this moment to our loved one who may be struggling to remember the same.

Being Love to one another is not as difficult as you might think.  It is simply a matter of choice and practice.  Choosing the loving response or the loving gesture again and again can, in time, feel so good to you that it becomes a habit. With even more time and practice, it becomes ‘the norm’ by which you relate to others.  It becomes who you are.

So choose Love, beginning today.  The world awaits and needs your loving response.

Adapted from Perfect Love: How to Find Yours & Make It Last Forever. © Brad and Jan Lundy, Heart to Heart Press, 2006.

Brad and Jan Lundy are the creators of ‘Soul Sailing’ the revolutionary new method to experience Unconditional Love, and the authors of Perfect Love. Visit their Website, www.EnjoyPerfectLove.com, to learn more, purchase books, subscribe to their free e-newsletter, or take a free relationship e-class. (800) 831-3230.