Love Time:
One of The Most Powerful Tools In The World

By Keith Braselton

In the last issue of OPEN EXCHANGE, you found that you have the power to create love anytime you wish by smiling and opening your heart. The next tool you may want to practice and master is to learn how to keep your heart open for longer and longer periods of time. Of course, this means you will be feeling love for longer and longer periods of time. It will make you stronger and wiser, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. And it's a lot of fun!

Learning to live in love for extended periods of time is the basis for developing your inherent strength. The part of your mind that controls your ability to make decisions is your will. You will yourself to think, act or react in love or an unloving way. So if you learn how to engage the love within you for long periods of time, you are strengthening your ability to willfully choose to be in love moment by moment. You can think of strengthening your will in the same way you would strengthen any muscle. The more you use your will and push your will to its limits, the stronger your will grows. One of the tools you can use to accomplish this most effectively is Love Time.

Love Time is spending time in a continuous state of love. Ten to fifteen minutes, once or twice a day is a good amount of time to start off with.

Take the time to organize your life so that you can set aside ten to fifteen minutes a day, and use that time to create loving experience. Set up a schedule so you will know that the times you have set aside are reserved for you to give to yourself. During your Love Time use any means you can of bringing love to expression.

During your Love Time the object is to play with life, to develop passion for being, to have the most fun you can and to feel as much love as you can. The more love you can feel in a concentrated way through a given length of time, the stronger you will become at engaging love.

What do you do during your Love Time? Whatever makes you feel the most love. Be creative! Be passionate! Be WILD! Be soft! Be CRAZY! Be humble! BE TOTALLY HILARIOUS! Be grateful! Be relaxed! Be Silent! Talk with God/your guides/the universe. Share and express your love to the universe, nature, a lover, a friend, a pet, play with them. Tell the world of the love you feel for her in different times and places! Remember all of the things in your life that are special. Think of good friends and good times. Dream of and visualize things you want to experience. Sing songs, do chants, read or write poetry, draw, paint, sculpt, listen to music, play an instrument, compose a song, write in your diary, light candles and incense, soak in a hot bath, give a massage, get a massage, make love to yourself or someone else, clean your house, surround yourself with beautiful pictures, go for a walk or a hike, cut the grass, work in your garden, commune with nature, beat on some drums. Do anything that makes you feel love for yourself. Do something different everyday or if you like what you have done, do it again the next day. Plan your love times or be totally spontaneous.

Take a little time right now to make a list of the things you would love to do for your Love Time. What brings a smile to your face? What touches your heart?

You will find that Love Time is one of the most powerful spiritual tools that you can use to know love, life and yourself. If you will do a Love Time for ten minutes a day for seven days in a row, you will find a significant difference come over your life.

After you do ten minutes a day for a week, move up to twenty minutes a day for a week. And then thirty minutes a day and then ten minutes an hour, and then twenty minutes and hour and eventually you will find yourself living in love all of the time. As you get more and more comfortable doing love time, you will find that you do not have to set time aside to do love time. You will be able to integrate it into your life in many different ways.

Because when we spend time creating loving experiences, we are growing. We are actively training ourselves to be in a loving state more and more. Love IS in all of us, all of the time. We're training ourselves to become able to feel and access it more, which is what we all desire to feel all of the time. We're growing spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. Our spiritual body is actually growing metaphysically bigger. As our spiritual body becomes bigger we are becoming more of who we really are. We are putting ourselves in the position to be able to see and heal all of the unloving ways of thinking, habits, addictions, and obsessions we have within our life. We're expanding our ability to heal past unloving trauma and experience. We're expanding our ability to engage compassion and passion in our life. We are raising our consciousness level and the consciousness level of the planet. AND, we're having fun! What a glorious way to discover more about who we are and how life works. The more fun we have the better our life becomes.

If you become addicted to love, if you become excited and develop the discipline to create a Love Time on a daily basis, you will continue to grow. As you grow, you will become aware of many of the unloving habits you have in your life that keep you from being able to feel love. As you grow in love, these habits will become more and more obvious and sometimes more uncomfortable. You will catch yourself throughout your day, acting and reacting in unloving ways due to these habits. At some point, you will begin to make changes in your life; you will drop the unloving habits or replace them with loving habits. You may reach a time in your growth in which you will feel uncomfortable with your old habits and you might not feel comfortable with your new habits. When you reach this transition, it may be hard for you to feel comfortable about anything. This transition is called the Change Transition.

Generally speaking, when people who are learning to fill their lives with love do not understand the Change Transition is going to happen, they stop adding love into their lives and they go back to their old habits because their old habits are more comfortable. The familiar feels more comfortable even though it may not be the best thing for us. If you understand that the Change Transition is going to happen, then you can become very excited about your growth and you can use your excitement to carry you through the uncomfortable feelings. When you make it through the Change Transition, change will become your new way of life. You will find changing to be very comfortable and a welcome part of your life. Change becomes the sign that you are growing and growth means you are able to experience more and more love.

Now if you start making lots of changes in your life and change becomes a way of life, imagine what is going to happen to your relationships with people. Most of your relationships are going to change. Because you are moving and changing in love, your relationships are going to become healthier. This will become such a blessing in your life. You may find some friends and family dropping away from your life. You may find that some friends and family have so much love for you that they will allow you to go through your changes and still remain close to you. And you may have some friends and family that become so inspired with your changes that they will decide to grow with you.

It is not uncommon for people who are learning to move and change in love to lose most or even all of their friends and family. Some people have been living in such unloving environments that the only people they have around them are people who support their unloving habits. As soon as people like this start growing in love and changing their own unloving habits, their friends and family can become very uncomfortable with them and lose their desire to be with them. This part of the Change Transition can cause people to go back to their old habits. Many people have become so attached to beliefs of how friends and family are supposed to act together regardless of how unhealthy the relationships are, that they will sacrifice their own ability to grow in love in order to maintain the relationships. Or, because of their programming as children, they may find more comfort in living in unloving relationships than they do in loving relationships. Any of these things could happen to you when you enter the Change Transition. Many people will find evidence of these factors within days of making Love Time a daily ritual in their lives.

-         Just knowing that the Change Transition is going to happen is a big plus factor.

-         Be patient with yourself. As you start engaging more love into your life and you are able to see your unloving ways of thinking, habits, addictions, and obsessions, be patient with yourself. You have plenty of time to make changes and you do not have to make a lot of changes all at once.

-         Be patient with others. Have compassion for them. Your friends and family may not be ready for you to start changing. To them, they may see you as not caring about them because you are starting to do things differently. You may have relationships based on supporting each other in unloving habits. Your compassion for your friends and family will help you to arrive at healthy decisions with less tension.

-         If you start making changes and you lose a lot or all of your friends, you will make new friends. As you start to move through the Change Transition and you begin to make change a way of life, you will start attracting likeminded people to you. You can help this along by searching for spiritual groups of likeminded people to associate and play with.

-         In time, when you are able to successfully move through the Change Transition and make loving change a way of life, your life will become so rich with loving experience that you will eventually know heaven on earth.

Moving through the Change Transition can be a most exciting time in your life. Learning to embrace change will tune you into more of your loving nature. Loving change is the very essence of all of the expressions of life. Therefore, learning to create Love Time for extended periods of time will move you to embrace a life of change and to understand your relationship with yourself, your guides/God/All That Is/the Universe. It will bring extraordinary clarity. It is a way to make your life magical.

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