Loving Sounds

      A loving sound is any sound, song or mantra that makes you feel love or think of love when the sound is created.

      To lovingly smile moment by moment, you must willfully concentrate on doing so. If you choose to lovingly smile to engage love into your life, the added love will engage the challenge phenomenon, which will present you with challenges to move through. Understanding how the loving smile works gives you the ability to move by choice through each challenge in a loving manner. There are going to be many times in your life when your reversed way of thinking, your reversed belief, habit, addiction, or obsession that is causing the challenge you are moving through, will be stronger than your ability to willfully keep your heart open. Another way to say that would be there are going to be many times in your life when the reversals that are causing the challenge you are moving through, will be stronger than your ability to keep your heart open. In times like these, you are going to be able to use loving sounds to help you stay in a loving state. Using loving sounds gives you the ability to keep your mind focused on love even when the feelings you are experiencing are not loving.

      Remember when Jake discovered that he had a habit of getting angry whenever he drove. Every time he entered his car he would start to feel angry. In the beginning his habit was so strong that he was not willfully strong enough to be able to lovingly smile when he entered his car. The habit was so strong that even though he was trying to lovingly smile, he could only feel anger. This is a perfect time for Jake to use a loving sound to help him keep his thoughts, actions or reactions focused on love. As soon as Jake enters his car, if he would start lovingly humming, singing a loving song, or repeating a loving mantra, the act of creating the loving sound would make it possible for him to move through the feeling of anger, without focusing on the anger. Using a loving sound would enable him to keep his mind focused on love even though he was feeling anger, until the anger feeling subsided. This example shows you that you can use a loving sound to help you move through any unloving emotion.

Loving Sounds

      Loving sounds can be humming, whistling, tapping out a beat, drumming, playing an instrument, actively listening to music, the sound of nature, children playing, and people laughing. To some people the sound of the hustle and bustle of the city makes them feel love. For some people it's the sound of a fast car, the roar of a huge crowd, the crashing of waves on a beach, the sound of a storm raging around them, listening to the whispering of their lover's sweet nothings, or the sound of tranquility that can be experienced under the sea, on the top of a mountain, in the midst of a dark pine forest, or sitting in the desert.

      If you are a person who is moved by sounds, you can create the sounds or use the memory of the sounds to make yourself feel love any time you want. If you create a habit of creating loving sounds or remembering loving sounds throughout your day, the habit can become a very powerful tool to use when you find yourself moving through a challenge. If you find yourself experiencing reversed emotions you can create loving sounds within your mind or actually make the sound to help keep yourself focused on love.

Loving Songs

      Any song that makes you feel love can be used as a tool to keep yourself focused on thinking, acting, and reacting in love. When you know that you are going to experience some kind of reversal for an extended amount of time, loving songs are especially useful. For Jake, once he realized that he had a habit of driving in a state of anger, he could form a new habit of singing loving songs while driving to keep his mind focused on love. As you develop your awareness of how and when your reversals are going to create a challenge throughout your day, you can choose specific loving songs to help keep yourself focused on love.

Loving Mantras

      A mantra is a sound or word that is chanted aloud or in your mind with the intention of engaging a characteristic of love or God, into your presence.

      Here are some examples of mantras:

Om Nahma Shivaya, (This is the great Mahamantra, the great original mantra. It means: Om and salutations. May the elements of this creation abide in full manifestation.), Om Mani Padme Hum (This is the best known and most recited mantra in the world. It means: The jewel of consciousness is in the heart's lotus), Hari Krishna, Amma, Shalom, Allah, any name of God, Jesus, Buddha, I love you God, I love You, Love, Peace, I am Happy, I am Love, I am Strong, I am Compassion.

      You can use any word or combination of words that makes you feel love or keep you connected to your understanding of life, to create a mantra. You can chant a mantra over and over, aloud or in your mind to willfully fill your mind with a quality of love or life or God. Using a mantra gives you the ability to keep your mind focused on love, regardless of what you are feeling and experiencing.

      The use of mantras are very powerful when you find yourself in the middle of experiencing an unloving emotion and you want to keep yourself thinking, acting, and reacting in a loving way. Here are some examples:

      Our friend Jake is driving down the road thinking about all of the things he is going to do when he gets home. Suddenly, he has to step on his brakes to keep from hitting a car that squeezes between him and the car in front of him. Jake's first reaction is to yell at the man. Jake feels anger welling up inside of himself, but he catches himself and instead of yelling at the man, he starts chanting out loud, "I love that guy, I love that guy, I love that guy!" until the feelings of anger subside and he really starts to feel love for the guy. Anytime you feel any unloving feeling moving through you, you can start chanting a mantra to fill your mind with loving energy until your heart feels the love.

      No matter how strong the reversal you may experience is, if you continue to use a mantra, in time, the unloving feeling will go away. Each time you chant a mantra to keep your mind filled with love throughout an unloving experience, you are healing the reversal that created the experience. You become stronger, and the reversal becomes weaker. You become more intelligent and wiser. Eventually, you will become stronger than the reversal and the reversal will be completely healed.

      Now, in using a loving mantra, the intention is important. If I were to simply repeat "I love you God", over and over without any feeling or intention behind the chant, I would not gain much advantage from my efforts. I could repeat that mantra over and over all day long and think unloving thoughts at the same time, which would not be in any way productive. However, if I have the intent to experience the love I have for God and chant "I love you God" over and over, totally dedicated to feeling the love for God, I will be able to successfully move through an unloving experience in a loving way.

      Try this: Repeat any mantra over and over for the next thirty seconds without any heart or intention and note how you sound and how it makes you feel. After you have finished, take a moment to see how the action has changed your state of mind. Then repeat the same mantra over and over for the next thirty seconds and feeling the intention of the mantra with all your heart. Now take a moment to see how the action has changed your state of mind. Here is an example; if I were to say the mantra "I am so loving" over and over feeling how loving I can be. I might even picture myself hugging my friends, family, or pets. At the end of the thirty seconds, I will have created quite a nice feeling within myself. Using any mantra backed with the intention of creating the feeling of the mantra is a powerful tool for moving through unloving experiences in a loving manner.

      For people who find it difficult to open their hearts to feel love, loving sounds can be an invaluable tool. Here's why: When a person has the ability to open his heart and feel love, he can use the feeling and memory of the feeling to guide him in making decisions to move in love. It gives him the ability to use his heart for loving guidance. For a person that finds it difficult to open his heart to feel love, he must rely solely on his intellect and logic to guide him to think, act and react in love. Generally speaking, a person that finds it difficult to open his heart to feel love, will find himself habitually thinking unloving thoughts, which makes it difficult to act and react lovingly. Using a loving mantra is a way to change the habit of thinking unloving thoughts. In doing so he will find that his intentions and actions of thinking, acting, and reacting in love will help him to heal the reversals that have kept him from opening his heart. If he is persistent he will eventually be able to open his heart and feel love.

      So once again, when you start to experience any reversed emotions of anger, hurt, frustration, hate, jealousy, greed, betrayal, loneliness, sadness, depression, or fear, you can use a loving sound to keep yourself focused on loving thoughts, actions, and reactions. As you start to become aware of and heal the different kinds of reversals that challenge you daily, you will be able to spend more time in love.

      Every time you move yourself in love, you become more of who you really are.

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