It’s that month where visions of cupid, hearts and chocolate fill our minds.  (Yes, chocolate IS a food group!)  What is this holiday about for you?  Does it fill you with warmth or dread?   Does it mean togetherness or loneliness?   And can you answer Tina Turner’s question, “What’s love got to do with it?”  Well I can.  And the answer is, “Everything.”  Both energetically and spiritually speaking, love is all there is.  While we bump around the world awash in physical ”reality,” we are hugely deluded.  We think that by moving things around, and by claiming and naming things, we are really living.  In actuality, we are missing out on the essence of it all if this is all we are about.

I am going to issue an invitation, another take on life, especially as we move into this Valentine’s weekend of 2010.  I invite you to think with your heart, and lose your mind.  I invite you to move with your breath and hear with your feelings.  I invite you to embrace everything and everyone (at least in your thoughts and intentions).  I invite you to stop complaining and to say “yes” to all that comes your way.  Try everything on before you decide about it.  Be more open and expansive about life, especially about your life.  Learn from your pets.  Wag your tail and purr more often.  

Yes, love is truly all there is.  The rest is the painful practice of pinching off love.  I don’t recommend it.  What I do recommend is to celebrate love somehow, somewhere (everywhere), and with someone (everyone) this weekend.  And if it feels good, do it more often.  This is the way we create the world we hope for and dream of. 

Happy Valentine’s Day.  And let me know how this goes for you.  Really.  I’m off to try it myself.  Signing off and sending heart hugs.