Love and “Mind Reading.”

It is possible that the single most important thing we can do to be awake, aware, adult human beings is to love ourselves, and then expand that definition of “self” to include at least one other person.

You may not WANT children, but finding and bonding to a human being who would be safe to raise children with, with whom you could spend at least 20 years of your life working, playing, loving, laughing and learning is such a basic goal that I am willing to consider it a nearly universal drive.

And on this subject, my dear friend Dan Moran said something I loved: “When you decide to have kids, find the most competent, healthiest, smartest person you know who’ll have you.”

Let’s say that’s what we’re all trying to do. The implications are many, but there are two central ones:

1. If you want a healthy person, BE a healthy person. That’s it. That’s the bomb people don’t want to hear, or believe. Be the healthiest, happiest, most loving, energetic person you can make of yourself. This will begin to attract healthier, happier, more loving and energetic potential partners. Yes, you will also attract those at lower levels of health, happiness, and energy. So…
2. You must learn to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy people. There is a limit to how much our intuition can determine, but what I called “The Mind Reading” process can really really help weed out the disasters.

THE MIND READING PROCESS

1. “Every tree grows as tall as…