Love in Action Through Alchemy of Emotions

Greetings, Gaians!

Gertie here, and I was invited by Bart Hoorweg to enter this beautiful organization which reflects perfectly the beautiful heart that this person—and I believe everyone here—possesses.

I come from the other side of the world. I am a born and raised Filipino living in the Philippines.

Yet, even with the 3D geographical distance I have with everyone here in Gaianet, I was still pulled by unknown forces to an organization that chooses to lead by heart.

With this, I allowed myself to lean into the resonance.

Anyway, I feel called to share a reflection I had regarding self-love. 

The lessons I had in this aspect were catalyzed when I connected with more people starting this year, and one person whom I believe to be the biggest reflection of me made me reflect so much about what it means to truly love yourself. 

In that process, I have come to reflect on what the different manifestations of love can look like, and this was something I thought of as I was reviewing all the emotions in the vibrational frequency chart.

What came into my mind as I introspected on this was the thought that the origin and centerpoint of all these emotions is love—and all of them are different expressions of such.

For example, shame tells us what parts of us need unconditional love and acceptance. Guilt is a call to realign to the values that we hold dear. Apathy is love needing outlets for expression. Grief shows where love remains even in the absence of its outlet.

Fear expresses the love that clings onto something perceived to be valuable. Desire is the longing to love and be loved in return. Anger shows what we truly care about and what needs we are upholding that aren’t met.

And I can go on and on about this, but just like the ones in the higher scales which are beautiful, empowering expressions of love—like joy being love intertwined with happiness or peace which is love in its safest expression, the lower scales are showing the other forms of love that we may feel unsafe in feeling.

Because to love is to be vulnerable. To love is to feel, and to choose to act in empowerment in response to what we feel.

And so, as we return to love, we remember that we have always been love incarnate. 

As we remind ourselves to come from love, we let ourselves choose what kind of love we wish to feel—the one rooted in perceived danger (aka fear) or the one grounded in connectedness within and without (aka empowerment).