Dec. 9, 2024
Ep 191: Love Beyond Tradition ~ a Holiday Awakening
What if the so-called "season of goodwill" could be transformed into a profound journey of love that touches every aspect of our lives? Reimagining the holiday season as not just a time of obligatory kindness, but as an opportunity to experience an extraordinary depth of love. This episode explores how we can navigate the challenges this time of year presents—difficult family dynamics, solitude, and unforeseen tragedies—by embracing self-love, love for others, and universal love. Drawing inspiration from figures like Jesus, known for embodying love, offering a fresh perspective on how to make this holiday season truly meaningful.
Join us as we explore the transformative power of love in its many forms. Discover how practicing self-love can lead to a celebration of our unique spirits and lives. Learn the art of extending genuine, selfless love to others, and the beauty of receiving love with an open heart. As we discuss the omnipresent nature of universal love, we encourage you to open yourself to connections that transcend boundaries. Let this period be a time for enriching your life and those around you in ways previously unimagined.
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Truth and Transcendence brought to you by being Space with Katherine Llewellyn.
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Truth and Transcendence, episode 191.
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The season of goodwill.
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Over here in the UK that's what we call the Christmas period and there's this idea that it's a time when everybody has goodwill and where we suspend anger and revenge and vitriol and all of those things and just try to be more caring and compassionate with one another.
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And it struck me that, unfortunately for many of us, this particular period, or the holiday period as it can be called, can become a time of difficult logistics, awkward family situations, awkward family situations trying to survive family members that we don't get on with for some people, dealing with awful solitude, heartbreak Apparently, there are a lot of heart attacks during this period.
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There are.
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There's also tragedies, people driving uh drunk and having accidents, and all sorts of things that happen during this period of time that are not lovely, they're not fun.
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Um, so what's going on with all of that?
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And I thought, well, okay, so for some of us, we're trying to deal with all those things that may be happening or happening to our friends or our relatives and at the same time, we're doing our best to follow this season of goodwill theme and I thought, why don't we just go the whole hog, say to ourselves that we're going to make this period about love, about a deep, deep, deep love experience?
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I haven't really studied the Christian doctrines, or any of the other doctrines for that matter, but they do say that Jesus came here because of love.
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That is what is said, and from what I've read or heard about Jesus assuming he existed which I happen to think he probably did that sounds about right, and we have had a number of individuals arrive in humanity with an enormous love, bringing love, encouraging love.
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And if this isn't season of goodwill, what about choosing to make it about a deep, deep, deep love experience, beyond anything we'd experienced before?
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What about if we did that?
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So what do I mean by that?
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I'm talking about love in three different aspects one being self-love, one being love for others and the other being universal love.
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So universal love is something which I consider to be present all of the time and everywhere, and in all of us and between all of us.
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And who knows how far it travels across the universe?
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Is it everywhere?
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Let's just say it is.
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Now.
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The experience of being connected with universal love is something utterly extraordinary and miraculous.
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My guess is that anyone listening to this or watching this has experienced that and has the capacity to experience it more and would like to experience it more.
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And love for ourselves.
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To me, this is not about being selfish.
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This is about valuing the pure, beautiful spirit that we are, valuing the gift of life that we have, valuing the gifts that we bring, valuing the beating heart that loves and that receives love and is loved and is loving and and really opening to that and loving everything about that.
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Loving the aspects of us that we don't like very much, loving the aspects that we don't know much about, full-throatedly, full-heartedly, wholeheartedly loving ourselves and loving others.
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That's the one that is most easily and readily talked about and recognized, because it's the one that's easiest to connect with virtue and being a good person, being a nice person.
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So I'm talking about going way beyond trying to be a nice person, trying to be a good person, trying to be a liked person or someone who pleases others.
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I'm talking about the deep, deep love of other humans that goes way beyond all of that and that needs nothing in return, that is selfless but is full of love, as that love is given, because that love given selflessly is one of the most nourishing things that we can do.
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I don't know if you noticed that when we are able to let go of our attachments and need and me, me, me and ego and all of those things and just love purely, that's its own reward.
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That's ultimately fulfilling and beautiful in itself.
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So how about we say that this next few week period is all about a deep, deep, deep love experience in terms of universal love, self-love and the love of other people, and, of course, that includes receiving love from others when it is given.
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It includes not rejecting it, not pushing it away, which, again, is something many of us have been guilty of of pushing it away, denying the love from others.
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So how do we open to this experience of love and how do we foster it?
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How do we nourish it?
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Well, the answer is going to be different for every single person watching this and listening to this, every single person.
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A moment ago, one of my cats came and sat on my lap and she's now sitting here purring, and one claw on each of her two front paws is currently embedded in my forearm, which is slightly painful.
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Now I know that's an expression of love on her part, and part of my expression of love is to be there with it and it's absolutely fine, and I'm stroking her head and she's rolling her head so that it actually gets stroked exactly the way she wants it.
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Now that helps me to open to all kinds of love actually.
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So cats are an example of just a little ball of love who sometimes just doesn't care about you whatsoever, but is an example of something in life that can help us to open to and foster and nourish this.
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Another example I've discovered recently is Gaia TV.
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What's that got to do with love?
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But actually a lot of the stuff they put out is very, very good for supporting us to open to receiving universal spirit, universal love, and a lot of the courses and the talks and so on they put out also help with self-love and some of them help with love between other people.
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Some podcasts are very, very good for this.
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Some friendships are very good for this.
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Some particular activities such as dance, prayer, meditation, yoga, walking outside.
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We all have many things that we can do which help us to open to that deep, deep love experience in all of those three aspects universal love, self-love and love for to and with and from others.
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So how do we set ourselves up for this holiday period to create space to open to and foster and nourish our deep, deep love experience and to create opportunities for that and opportunities to share it with other people and support other people.
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Those of us who have people coming to our homes, how do we create our homes in such a way that we are welcoming people into a space of love, deep, deep love.
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Not just a nice time, not just a friendly time, not just a polite, decent, virtuous time, but a deep, deep love experience?
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Can we create the environment such that, when people arrive, they walk in and they pause and they gasp because they seal the love and they know no words are needed, no words will describe it.
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How do we prepare ourselves?
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What do we do to prepare ourselves so that, when we invite those people in and we open our arms and we hold them and we say their name and we look them in the eye, that we are exuding and embodying that deep love?
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How do we help ourselves to do that?
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And how does all of this then help us to experience this particular holiday period as the most special, loving, deep, truthful, whole, pure spiritual experience ever so far.
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And who knows what will happen next year and the year after and the year after.
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So what will you do this coming week to help yourself to do this?
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So thank you for listening, thank you for watching.
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May you have a week full of love and I look forward to being in touch again next week telling a friend.
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If you'd like to know more about my work, you can find out about Transformation Coaching, pellewa and the Freedom of Spirit workshop on beingspaceworld.
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Have a wonderful week and I'll see you next time.
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