Love as Choice

Part of a chapter of a forthcoming book: Love, Lust & Enlightenment: A beginners guide to waking up in this lifetime in the arms of your lover

Love as Choice

Put your attention, please, in your right hand. Sense the flesh, the bones, all the fingertips.

Enjoy this miracle, your right hand.

Now, please, shift your attention to the other miracle on the other side: your left hand. Sense its fingertips and bones and blood and sinews and flesh.

Ah, enjoy that miracle too.

Now shift your attention, please, back to the right hand. And now, please, to the left hand.

And here’s one of life’s central questions: Who is doing that?

Who is shifting the attention from one hand to the other?

Who is awaring the hands one at a time and then shifting the attention from one to the other?

Is it your name doing that? Your age? Your job? Your childhood history? Your school career? Your place of birth or residence? Is it you gender moving the attention and being aware of what each hand is like in the moment?

No, no, and lots of no.

So: Who is awaring the hands when your attention is there.

You are.

You are.

Not your thinking, not your feelings, not even your brain.

You.

You are moving your attention.

This is the central human freedom. You can be concentrating on the deep indignity of your partner burning your eggs, and shift your attention to the awaring of your breath, and their breath, and your connection to gravity, and that they are alive and your are alive, and where does the indignity go?

Gone.

Out of our heads and into our experience, and we can always get back to love.

ALWAYS.

We are the one who can chose to move our attention.

And much as has been written about affirmations, I think they suck, because they are fighting fire with fire, more thinking trying to fight thinking

When in trouble, stop thinking. Come to the present. Get in your experience.

Shift your attention around.