The Lover Deep Dive with Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

S10 E35 The Lover Deep Dive |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” ― Joseph Campbell

We can transform ourselves, to the degree that we cultivate a loving acceptance of ourselves. This means forgiving ourselves simply as a matter of habit. It also means forgiving others, since what we are very often most critical of in them is a shadow projection from within ourselves. All judgment is self judgment.

What we adore outside ourselves usually carries with it the positive shadow projection of the deep wisdom of our own Souls.

There are five levels of the Lover:

Shadow - Jealousy, envy, obsessive fixation on a love object or relationship, sexual addiction, promiscutiy, obsession with sex or pornography, or (conversely) puritanism.

Call - Infatuation, seduction, yearning, falling in love (with a person, an idea, a cause, a work)

Spiral One - Following your bliss, what you love

Spiral Two - Bonding with and making commitments to whom and what you love

Spiral Three - Radical self-acceptance giving birth to the Self and connecting the personal with the transpersonal, the individual with the collective

There are three steps to this Daydream:

Using relaxed, deep breathing to enter a meditative state, allow yourself to focus on your heart, imagining a small gold, glowing light in the center of your chest in the heart area. Imagine the gold, glowing light slowly becoming larger until it is as large as your heart, then your lungs, then the whole chest area, and finally, gradually as large as your whole body. From there imagine that light filling the room and then your community, the country, the world and finally the solar system.

Then become aware of more intense, many-colored threads of light connecting you in particular to everything you love, care about or feel strongly about. These threads may link you to stars, to the night sky, to a certain landscape, to certain animals, to places and things, and of course to people in your past or present. Take your time tracing these threads until you feel yourself at the center of a web of loving connection.

When you are ready, return your consciousness from the threads to the golden light, and allow that light to shrink from the solar system to the world, from the world to your nation, from your nation to your community, from your community to the room in which you find yourself, and finally to your body, then your chest area, your lungs, and your heart.