The Tantric Path of Radical Self Love
The radical path of Love requires that we make love our resting state. We choose to love ourselves, in our mess and our glory. We choose to love humanity in all of its good and evil. We choose to love reality, the parts we resist just as much as what we desire. This is a devotional choice. A choice we make in every moment we remember.
When we choose to live a tantric lifestyle, we embrace ALL that life has to offer in every single present moment. In fact, that is where the electricity is. That is where life gets juicy and feels alive. Love acts as a transformational alchemist. Love can be a welcoming yes! And it can be a fierce truth or even a No!
Love is a super smart choice when it comes to healing and integration. Through expanded states of consciousness, such as sacred sex, prayer, mystical experiences, plant medicine journeys and near-death experiences, we have the invitation to heal our pain and meet and integrate all aspects of ourselves.
Self Love is Deep Love
Deep love is when we learn to love all aspects of ourselves, including thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and sensations. This can be the deepest work we will ever do.
When we lean into love’s edge we build new neural pathways in our brains. Science has proven that our brains have a plastic quality. We can shape and reshape our brains. Humans create new neural pathways when we teach ourselves new ways to think and behave.
So, it’s true, you can teach an old dog new tricks!
But how?
The foundation of the left-handed path or non-dual path of Tantra is that EVERYTHING has consciousness. Everything is holy and everything is sacred. EVERYTHING. Your integration, healing, or spiritual path will not work if you are not coming from a place of Love.
When we can embody the State of Love we step into a devotional, grateful and loving state. From this state, we can meet ALL aspects of ourselves from a place of awe and curiosity.
To Be Alive is to Be Holy!
This is a very different way of looking at the human experience than we have been taught in the western world. Our culture teaches that we have original sin, that being born into a human body makes us separate and lower than God/Goddess. But what Tantra says, is that at the very core of who you are is holy. You are God/Goddess in human form.
When we stop trying to fix ourselves and start choosing love, we give a big hell Yes! to the Universe. From this foundation, our lives begin to take on a flavor of grace, the taste of truth, and a lasting effect of the miraculous.
Love Attracts Love
When we live in a state of grace is when we can attract the life experiences we long for. That is when we are ready to be the partner, the boss, the friend that we know we are capable of.
Love is the foundation that allows for the freedom of your truest expression. If you long to feel good in your body and have the capacity to handle whatever life throws your way, try looking at your life from a place of unconditional love and total acceptance and see what magic unfolds.
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