A Summer Of Love

The first three steps of the Blessing Dance are:

1. Bowing to each other.
2. Hands over each others’ hearts, lock eyes and breathe in unison 10X.
3. Chant “you are my beloved. I open my heart to you.”

The fourth step is another five breaths together, hands still over each others’ hearts.

I was looking at some material on the subject of relationships, and one thing that caught my eye was the concept of three levels of relationship:

1. Each person looking out for themselves.
2. Transactional: I do for you if you do for me.
3. Pure giving. You simply give love, without keeping track.

Needless to say, if you just “give” to the wrong person, a “taker” you can run into a deficit. That requires trust in your ability to choose well, and see clearly.

“Don’t trust people, Steve. Instead, rely upon them to do what they see as being in their own best interests. Its up to you to determine what that is.”

So…in able to give completely, you need to be sure you can live with the results of that. The worse case scenario is that you give to a taker. In that case, you need to be sure you KNOW you can survive this. In fact, you need to have clarity that the experience will make you a better person, NO MATTER HOW THE OTHER PERSON/PEOPLE REACT.

That clarity is about you, and your survival, and your confidence that you can walk the world with…