The Power of Love
I recently had a profound remembering of something so basic that it is often taken for granted. As I sit here in the wee hours of the night I am once again brought to a place of deep reverence for the ever unchanging power of love. If I could elaborate even more on this, I would like to share just a few thoughts on not only it’s obvious place of supreme states, but it’s inherent power to heal.
I have recently been subject to a uniquely challenging time as my sweet senior dachshund, Willy, sustained a cervical neck injury. It was so severe that he became paralyzed requiring round the clock care the first few weeks. I am beyond grateful that although it will be difficult journey already fraught with many ups and downs, , he did not sever his nerves completely and recovery is possible and IS as I write this, moving in the right direction.
As part of Mom trying her best to seek out the best care, in adjunct to his plethora of treatments such as acupuncture and laser, I sought out a pioneer in holistic vetinary care. We had a profound zoom call discussing his case and boy will I never forget it. During our discussion, she kept coming back to the topic of love. As someone who loves their animal more then anything in the world, I took her comments to be obvious until she really dialed in a new perspective I either took for granted or didn’t fully appreciate and understand –the concept of love being medicinal.
Being in the healing arts for many years as well as on a spiritual path I believed I had a mature and evolved grasp around the topic of love. I sincerely was humbled to have this incredible reminder and new perspective she presented. She reminded me of the tremendously great work done by Masauro Emoto whom I had known about. His research subjected water to different emotional energies such as love and hate. This was done either with the spoken word, words written on petri dishes and also done with different types of music.
It became crystal clear ( pun intended ) in the frozen water crystals just how much influence these emotions have. The water molecules spoken loving words blossomed into the most magnificent symmetrical array of astounding beauty while the molecules exposed to derogatory emotions lacked anything but a chaotic mess of ugliness. At the time these experiments were a true revelation, though one might argue plants had already given us this lesson as it was widely known saying loving words to them made them grow.
This wonderful vet during our discussion emphasized that this love is indeed medicinal and has the power to redirect cells, to enhance all aspects of healing and could literally alter every healing mecanism in my beloved pets body. At the same time loves presence being felt by him could erase any stress that his injury may be causing. She encouraged me to be deliberate in my expression of love to him as opposed to simply expressing out of daily habitual practice. She spoke of the importance of being fully present in the moment especially in my offerings of love as this would ignite it’s power with a living radiance I could not see but would be felt on every level of my sweet precious boy. She spoke of love’s power to harmonize, to recalibrate, to regenerate and to restore natural order.
Knowing what love has done to water crystals, to plants and naturally seeing how love effects babies ( their entire development can be stunted without it ) I truly began to see this healing elixer many of us including myself have taken for granted as the greatest super power we have been given in this world.
I am so grateful for this simple yet very profound reminder because what love can do is nothing short of miraculous. I would venture to say most of us do our best to be loving. Injecting into our loving actions just a touch more intention, sense of being present and awareness of the awesomeness of it’s power I know it will not fail to heal, soothe, restore, repair, mend and even generate peace which will ripple far and wide and forever because that’s what love is. Love is forever. As for my sweet boy, I know love is his greatest medicine that will get him to his finish line of walking again and what a beautiful testament of love’s power that will be!
