The Role of Love in the Home & Garden
by Donna Thomson
This article is more of a message and advice from spirit, who give direction that will be positive for yourself and everyone, in time. The planet and many people are evolving into higher consciousness and becoming awakened to their own inner power and knowledge. This is a gradual process and spirit encourages us all to recognise the power of love. As you will see in this article, the impact of love (or lack of it) has a far-reaching affect for you and your surroundings.
Where's the love?
In the past, people were thankful for the food they ate and its source. Farmers were proud of their produce and livestock, focusing on quality rather than quantity. Homes weren't built in such a rush and furniture was hand-made by people who loved what they do. Today, due to the increased population, mass production and the stress felt by most people in their work, the things you find around you and the food you serve at your table have no love attached. We live in a world of energy and when everything is made with an aura of negativity, you suffer as the consumer at the end of this negative chain. Look at the food you eat, the furniture, furnishings, your belongings and even your house. How much of that was made with love?
For the love of food
There are so few nutrients in our food today because no-one has cared about the food as it grew and was produced. If this sounds too esoteric to you, think about the differences people have found in experiments that show plants responding positively when talking to or played classical music (read an interesting experiment here). As love becomes the force behind growth and production again, it will magnify its positive qualities to more greatly and purely sustain humans. Food will become more nutritious and less quantities of food will be more sustaining than ever. The benefits of this are far-reaching seeing as the world currently mass-produces food and it is still never enough.
If you have been feeling the push to connect with nature, to transform your home, or the need to get back to home-cooking, it's likely that you're craving to connect with love again because there is little around you.
The nature of love
Look around you and you will see many people who desire to increase their consciousness. People seek to learn about themselves because they feel disconnected. People seek to connect with nature because they know on some level that nature holds the answers. People seek to raise their vibration and reach higher levels of awareness and connection with All. The single thing you need to do is love, for once you do so, all answers become clear and nature opens up to you on all levels.
Maybe you've tried different religions or practices but still seek the 'something missing'. If so, you have not harnessed the power of love. Love will start from within oneself and when it is true and unbridled it can be sent to all life on the planet. In fact, once you harness love it will be natural to send love to all because you will be aware of your connection with everyone and everything. You will be able to determine what is good for you and what is bad for you. Love is consciousness. Once you love, you become conscious and can make better decisions that will affect you positively - bringing more love into your home by consciously furnishing your home and consciously creating meals with love. You may seek to grow your own food and in this way you will be able to ensure that your food is filled with love from its conception. You can love your surroundings, plants, gardens, pets and so on. They will then be able to give back to you tenfold.
It is that simple - LOVE.
For many however, this is not simple at all. Many people are disconnected from love, having had very little in their life, with those around them being unable to express love. For some reason, such expressions of love are seen as unusual and 'hippy' or 'new age'. This is how disconnected man is with himself today - he fears love.
Connecting with love
The tools you find on this site, for instance, have the underlying thread of helping you connect with and learn to express or radiate love. Through meditation, you tap into higher consciousness which is always in a state of love. You can draw on this love and bring it down into your conscious life. Learning about energy, chakras and auras teaches you how to first remove negative built-up energy so you can bring in positive energy and love - so you can be in a state of love - the pure state. The energy of things like crystals, flower remedies and essential oils, as well as other vibrational tools such as colour and sound assist you to achieve a harmonious state so you can be in your love state.
The role of thought
Thought is the major barrier to all happiness. Only by changing your thought patterns and harnessing the power of positive intention, can you bypass all obstacles. Thought is the cause of fear, judgement, unhappiness and imbalance. Anything negative is a symptom of thought, whether it originates from you or someone else.
So harness your thoughts and learn to use tools that will assist you on all levels to clear out the negative so that you can learn to deeply connect with love in a cycle of freely giving and receiving. Then you can apply this and create a new life surrounded with love, and integrate love with everything you interact with - your gardens, plants, people, home, tasks and food.
Practical applications
While this article has a deeply spiritual overtone, its message is designed to be very practical...
Your task is to send love not only to your garden plants, but all plants in your vicinity. You are their caretaker and they will appreciate the love you send them.
To remedy the lack of love in the home and belongings, bring plants into your home and love them. They will magnify this and balance the energy in your home.
Try growing your own food and love it from seed to table.
Take care in food preparation and enjoy your meals - don't rush. Be thankful and the natural world will thank you back.
Respect the natural world by causing it no harm. Research methods of gardening and farming that don't require the use of pesticides and fertilisers. Love replaces the need for artificial growth-enhancers.
Follow the work of those going before you, who are paving the way with sustainable methods of living and food production.
Think 'natural' and think 'love'.