“Love is an illusion, created by the mind, for the body to follow”
There was someone that had responded to one of my Facebook posts that wanted to know what I thought about a certain idea. “Love is an illusion, created by the mind, for the body to follow.” He said that he heard this statement before and it never left him.
People want love, but may be limited in what they feel that they can have or unknowingly limit themselves with past thoughts that they have held onto. In knowing what you want and feeling like you are not getting close to reaching where you want to be, you can feel limited and isolated.
Your past relationships may have failed. You may not have had amazing experiences in the love arena. You may not have great examples of highly functioning relationships around you. The lack of resources for help may be limited. This all amounts to not moving forward and being successful in your own relationship.
Love is not an illusion. It may be intangible. You may not be able to package it and give it to someone or physically see it, but it exists. The feeling of love alone drives people to pursue it. I have explained studies that were done in past blog posts about love. The body does follow whatever the mind dictates is true.
Love may seem like an illusion, but there are many examples of love in daily life. Sometimes we want a feeling to stay with us. Finding what makes us feel elevated and feeling self love first and then finding a match to that vibration is the best way to establish a long lasting love. If we go outside of ourselves first to find what feels good, we may just continue to “chase” a feeling of love and not harmonize with the person because we have not defined an energy within ourselves to connect to a partner’s energy.
Sometimes our mind reverts back to negative past experiences. We may believe that we must be bad people and then predetermine our choices to rig our lives to be unsuccessful. We may think that because we are bad people that we deserve negative patterns or negative people in our lives.
I responded to my Facebook friend stating, “I think everyone has different ideas about love. People sometimes do create illusions, but I do believe in true love. Denial and a lack of authenticity can alter who we are and attract someone not meant for us.” Illusions are ultimately created by us. If we think that love is an illusion, we haven’t experienced it in an authentic way. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t real for everybody, just not in our own experience.
Continuing to cultivate an authentic energy in our own selves will allow more genuine and loving experiences to come forward for us. Understanding our mind and the reasons for holding onto negative thoughts, mindsets and experiences will free us from a lack of success in love or elsewhere.
