The Frequency of Love

The freqency of love is very close to the frequency of joy. And so I bring up love and appreciation because it is through our feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation that we attract experiences that resonate to that frequency. Love and appreciation, gratitude and enthusiasm are feelings that animate our thoughts about what is and what will be. Through our love, gratitude and appreciation for our experiences, we tune to the frequency of love and open to the frequency of joy that is so close to that.

When we love anything, or anyone, we are filled with love and we open to the love of God. It is that simple. When we feel love, we come closer to God. When we express appreciation, we court joy, peace and happiness. To love is to be happy, but only when we truly love.

Love is not want. Love is not need. Love is not desire. Love is not possession. Just because we love something, that doesn’t mean that it is, or ever will be, ours to control. Love is a thorough appreciation of what the beloved is. Love is enjoyment of the beloved, whether the beloved be a person, a place, or a thing.

In moments of blissful joy and peace, I am able to love the world without desiring any thing, any person, or any place. I experience moments of total peace with the world and with my place in it. Doesn’t this sound like heaven?

I know that we can all experience such moments, and in fact we can court them. We can learn to appreciate what we have, and in this way we move ourselves more and more surely toward the frequency of joy. Often, it is the beauty of the world, inherent in some small thing, and our appreciation of that beauty, that bring us to such joyful peace.

We find heaven in these moments of appreciation and enjoyment, and inevitably, as moments inevitably pass, we must leave the heaven that we have found. We cannot hold on to it, for it is of the moment and we must move on into the next moment and then the next. We learn to trust that each moment will be perfect in and of itself. We have to thoroughly enjoy this present moment, appreciate it for all that it is, and then turn trustingly to the next moment.

The difficulty of doing this, with grace, ease and trust, has been a constant theme of my life and perhaps of yours as well. We learn to love it all, with all our hearts, and at the same time, to be attached to none of it. We find heaven; we leave it; then we find it again somewhere else. To consistently do this with grace and serenity is to truly love the world.

In time, we can learn not to covet, and not to want, but simply to be with the person, place or thing that we so enjoy. Try to replace wanting something with immersion into the feeling of love for that thing. There is a big difference between wanting and loving, and that difference is absolutely essential as we tune to the frequency of joy. We need to experience that difference and fill our consciousness with the experience of that difference in order to free ourselves from the pain of wanting, and replace it with the joy of loving, for there is no wanting in the frequency of joy – none.

When we tune to the frequency of wanting some person, place or thing, we send the message out to the universe that we lack that. The universe then proceeds very agreeably to make that true for us. That is how the universe works. It makes true for us what we feel, what we are being in the moment. When we love some person, place or thing, we send the message out to the universe that we deeply enjoy and appreciate that. The universe then proceeds to reflect that back to us.

It begins with an honest appreciation for the thing that we are tending towards. It begins with simply spending time with that, whether in our imagination, or in our experience. We learn to give it value in the moment, instead of projecting all of our assumed need into the future.

Try it. Try spending time with what you love without allowing any need to get in the way of your love. Remember that we cannot truly love if we are in fear for some reason. Our egos, so concerned with our relative selves in a relative world, may instill fear in us as they send us messages of lack and loss. It is up to us to withhold our energy from these fearful thoughts and return ourselves to the frequency of love and appreciation in the now.

It is not now, nor ever has been, our fault if we long for what we do not experience in this moment. We are choice makers, constantly and restlessly moving on to the next choice, the next moment. We do find heaven, but we inevitably leave it, whether because it changes, or because we do.

Sometimes this is terribly frustrating. Sometimes, it feels like walking on a cliff edge, because wanting makes us vulnerable to losing that which we have chosen, and that feels like losing too much. It seems to be too much for us to bear. Yet the resolution to this problem is really very simple. The answer is to offer our love, again and again, and to derive our joy from the offering.

Remember, it is not the feeling of love that hurts us; it is the feeling of wanting. Every time we choose love, we let go of wanting and replace it with appreciation for what surrounds us. As we tune our frequency to joy by filling our consciousness with appreciation for the world around us, and for all the possibilities that exist in any day, we become radiant.

We become what we love. If it is beauty that we are entranced by, we surround ourselves with beauty. If it is the happy sound of a child, we are infused with happiness. If it is the good will that we see in the eyes of a friend, we become informed by good will and our joy is then to share it. When we love something in the world, we love God in the world, and we invite that sacred presence to come a little closer to our essential core.

At such moments, we need nothing, lack for nothing, and sink luxuriously and joyfully into the present moment. We are complete. We are at peace with all that is.

Loving the world means holding on to nothing, and embracing everything. Nothing lasts. Whether it is the loving embrace of a friend, the peaceful view of a woodland path, a home, a career, or a vow of unchanging devotion; its passing is foreseen. That leaves us with nothing, if we need to have in order to enjoy.

If I am filled with love these days, it is because I choose to tune to the frequency of love, the frequency of appreciation and gratitude. Try it. Choose love, and become filled with love. If that is what we choose to do, that is what we become. As we practice seeing the beauty and the good in people, places and things, it becomes easier and easier to be filled with love, gratitude and appreciation.

It is also true that when we love, we make a gift to God. No matter what it is that we love, we bring love into the world when we fill ourselves with it. And since God is all there is, we bring our love to God.

It is love that pulls us into the world. It is love that motivates us to do things in the world. Our appreciation for all sorts of experiences is what gets us up and moving in the morning and what fills our days with more or less joy. Love, appreciation and gratitude are our signposts to the frequency of joy.