Member-only story

Day 10: Ninety Day Love Feast

Steven Barnes
3 min readJul 10, 2023

--

DAY 10: 90-DAY LOVE FEAST

The “Love Feast” is simply a commitment to putting Tananarive’s needs first until September 1. Five times a day, reminding myself how much I adore her, and doing all I can to make her feel more loved, more precious, more supported than ever before. I found it in “Strategic Intervention Technology”, part of the Robbins-Madanes coaching stuff. And after we complete it, we’ll see about integrating it into the overall SOULMATE PROCESS. Still in process!

###

How much of a difference can love make in your life? Core Transformation suggests that all human behavior is related to a desire to return to the safety, security and love of the womb, or our connection to the Divine. Choose either, or both, it’s the same thing.

While fear and pain are more IMMEDIATE and URGENT motivators, they such long-term. Running from what you fear, driving yourself with anger, burns you out and leaves you hollow. It also leads to the “rebound” effect you see in dieting: you awaken to the fact that your habits are toxic, and swear you’ll change. And with great effort you force yourself to diet (pain) and exercise (more pain) and it works…until you reach or near your goal, at which time motivation decreases and you backslide. Until the next time you decide you HAVE to change…at which time it actually is harder for both physiological and psychological reasons.

Descending spiral of self-confidence and motivation, and can actually diminish self-love.

--

--

Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes

Written by Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.

No responses yet