Tickles and Sparkles #17

March 9, 2008

Written by Julie Humphrey

Greetings from Julie at Tickles and Sparkles

I wish you a great week filled with Love, Joy and Happiness

What is Love

Is Love an emotion? Is it a feeling? Is it an awareness of something greater than we could ever possibly imagine? In fact it is all of the above and much more.

I know that I have written quite a bit about love in the past, but this week I would like to examine what love is and how it is possible to know love in your life and within your very existence.

There have been many poets who have written of love and the presents of love within your being. They have written many a love poem that speaks to our hearts and souls. Love can make us cry and laugh with such joyful emotion Love is so powerful in so many ways it seems hard to figure out, what love truly is at times.

This is why I feel the need to examine it further and take a look at what love is and how we can attain a higher level of understanding of love. I know I am not the first person to write about love but I am asking for Divine guidance as I write this for you. I ask that I also will be able to understand love in more depth than before.

As I write these words I pray that they will somehow convey the message to those of you my friends who choose to read this newsletter.

I guess the closest thing I can think of that portrays the true nature of love is the feeling that you get when you hold your newborn child in your arms for the first time. It has to be the most powerful feeling in the world so pure, so intense, so amazing.

This is how God feels about you. This love is unconditional it is going to be there no matter what. Those of you who have children know exactly what I am talking of.

What about the feeling you get when you meet that special person. Where there is a connection that is so powerful so strong and you just know in your heart that this person is for you. Is this Love? Of course it is and maybe more than you might imagine it is. Love is more than just a feeling it is a connection that comes from the soul. Have you ever just looked in another persons eyes and seen the love that they are exuding from within. In your heart you just know this person is good. You feel so much love emanating from them that is so strong and real that you could touch it.

Our souls are here on this earth as humans for a Divine purpose. This purpose is to experience love in its purest form.

Why is it then that we are not all loving and happy people? What has happened to us, what blocks us back from experiencing those wonderful blissful feelings constantly in our everyday world of existence, Humanity! That is what it is. We are all human and we all have free will to choose what we desire in love and how we will choose to give out love to others.

So many people I converse with tell me of the conditions that they have put out there in seeking a relationship. Some even tell me that they choose not to be in a relationship unless it exactly as they want it to be. This is because they had a bad experience and do not want to risk going into another relationship that might not work out for them.

Wow! I am amazed at how long people can hold on to the past and the relationships they have had that did not work out for one reason or another. Now these people are limiting themselves by putting up barriers to love. What are the barriers? They are kind of like little boxes that they fill up with hurts and sorrow, anger and fear. Imagine standing in the center of a room filled with boxes of all the hurts of your life and they are now surrounding you so that you can not see beyond them. Now imagine that there are even more boxes in front of you and closing in all around you with conditions that you have filled them with.

I know of so many wonderful people who truly deserve to be in wonderful relationships but are stuck behind so many boxes that they will never see love if it opens the door and walks in the room.

They are suffering inside and outside because of a relationship that was bad and was ended years ago.

In fact the ending of the relationship was really allowing them to move forward and to have new and wonderful experiences.

Instead they choose to live in the past and relive the past each day. Yes there are relationships that did not work out, marriages that ended and friendships that do not last. But there are reasons that they come to an end and that is to allow you to experience love again in your life. I have been told that people let go when they are ready to let go. I guess this does not settle to well with me because I see people wasting their lives becoming boxed in because they are still holding onto a feeling, a thought, or a fear of being in a wonderful fully loving relationship. God wants you to experience love and wants you to know that it is not a feeling and not a condition of this human experience. Love is! Love encompasses all of our souls and love knows no limits. We are conditioned to hold our hearts hostage in fear of being rejected never allowing ourselves this wonderful opportunity to experience, the giving of love without any mandatory response from the other person whom we give it to. We are always waiting for the love we give out to be returned. Expecting love to be given back in the way we want it to be given. When it is not given back we fill another box and build another wall. Some people are so afraid to give out love that they give up on thinking that they are even worthy of being loved.

If you have ever put conditions on what you think love should be I ask you at this time to reexamine what you think love is.

Stop building boxes and filling them with junk from the past for it is just that the PAST! Ask your Angels and God to lead you to love to inspire you to give out love to all people without conditions and fears. Ask for guidance in knowing love and how to present love to those around you easily. If you will truly open your heart to knowing love it will come to you. It will open the door to new emotions and a new awareness of how it should be experienced.

Think of the love that you feel when you hold your new born child

Think of giving out that love to all people no matter whom they are or where they come from. What they do or how rich or poor they are. God is giving you this love right now. It is up to you to choose if you are willing to share it. I will guarantee that if you choose to share it and believe that you are worthy of being loved in return it will come back to you under grace and in perfect ways.

Visualization Exercise

Disappearing Boxes

Sit in a comfortable chair make sure you have a quiet space to do this exercise.

Take three deep breaths in through the nose and out through your mouth.

Relax your self continually breathing in deeply releasing all tensions. Close your eyes and just relax as you visualize yourself standing in the middle a room filled with boxes. These boxes are stacked to the ceiling and some even have labels on them like old loves, anger, hurting, resentments, lost friendships and so on. Now imagine that a beautiful white light suddenly surrounds you. You feel its warmth and it gives you a feeling of comfort as it swirls around you, becoming a beautiful light blue violet light which stretches up to the ceiling. It is now piercing the ceiling and a whole appears giving way to the suns rays of light that are now streaming into the room. You feel calm as you start to see the boxes floating up through the whole in the ceiling floating into the universe disappearing one by one through the whole. As you look around the room it seems to be growing bigger and bigger as the boxes float weightlessly up through the whole and disappear. Soon you are standing in an empty room and there is a feeling of peacefulness that is flowing within you. You are standing there in the middle of the empty room and you see that there is a door ahead of you so you begin walking to the door and as your hand touches the handle you let go of all the thoughts of the boxes and as you walk through the door you feel instantly lighter and thoughts of joy and happiness flow through your mind.

You have now entered a space of pure love you will feel love flow through every cell in your body as you continue to relax and open your eyes feeling better, better and better.

Remember you can come to the room at any time and do this exercise, to let go of all that may be blocking your path to love.

I know this is kind of a long newsletter this time but I guess there must be a reason for it. I thank you for taking the time to read it and I would love to hear your comments on how you feel about what love is.

I love you.

Tickles and Sparkles from Julie

Spring Forward with a Norwegian Card Reading from Julie

Make Your Appointment for an Enlightening Look into Your Fantastic Future Today.

Call Julie at 662-342-6367

Or Email julie@ticklesandsparkles.com

Check out the Changes we have made at

WWW.Ticklesandsparkles.com

There are some new links and all of the past Staying on Track by Staying Positive newsletters are there for your viewing

Please feel free to forward this newsletter to all whom you think might enjoy it.

There is no impossible, only illusions that we can see through if we look!

Have a wonderful week and believe in your good.

Tickles and Sparkles from Julie.