Love teachings from The Love Foundation

I Love...

I love... Use these words and view your life from a different perspective for a day. Think about love and what it really means to you. Allow yourself to open up and feel love. Accept the aspects of life that challenge you. Decide to let love be your response to everyone and everything. See all life interconnected, joyful and safe. Enjoy life no matter how difficult it may have been or how challenging you may perceive it to be. Just let love be your focus for the day and see what happens.

Some Ideas For Yourself...

Consider what it means to fully accept yourself and forgive your past choices.
Offer forgiveness either in your mind or shared verbally to another who you feel has impacted you in a negative way
Meditate on Love as a force in your life
Express your compassion and forgiveness to yourself and the world around you
Think and feel thoughts of love to friends, family and neighbors
Breathe
Send kind words to others via e-mail, faxes, mail or call them personally to express your gratitude of having them in your life
Make amends with someone you have discarded from your life
Forgive a person, place or illness that has challenged you
Hug someone and let yourself be hugged
Watch a sunrise or sunset, even better if you can do both in the same day
Smile
Embrace a stranger and meet the friend they become
Watch children play
Write a poem
Take a walk
Feel grateful for everything currently in your life
Dance as if no one is watching
Sing out loud
Accept another person's view as their right to think that way
Spend the day thinking positive thoughts
Say a kind word to a stranger
Love the amazing animal kingdom
Forgive your childhood traumas
Send loving thoughts to the plants and flowers of this earth
Let go of fear and doubt
Trust yourself
Release the judgments you hold about life
Accept for a day that everything that comes your way as being right and perfect for the moment and is teaching you something
Visualize the world as a loving place

Invite family, friends, neighbors to…

Have a picnic, breakfast, brunch/lunch, dinner in your local park, garden, home etc… to celebrate and/or meditate on “love”
Organize a community Global Love Day celebration in your local area or join up with others who have already organized an event (example: parades or concerts)
Organize other types of Global Love Day special events like block parties, candlelight celebrations, art galleries, musical or theater events based on love, gratitude, and forgiveness
Share a meal with someone less fortunate and/or volunteer to assist an organization in need
Promote acts of kindness during Global Love Day
Reach out to those less fortunate, volunteer to teach someone to read or read to someone who cannot see or just read to someone who might be ailing and needs to hear a soothing voice.
Add a few dollars to a homeless person’s cup instead of a few cents or bring them food to eat.
Volunteer for the day to assist with or serve at your local soup kitchen for the homeless

and remember: Love is divine and all we need is love

XAVI
The Love Foundation
Costa Rica Country Coordinator