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Techniques for Putting Unlimited Love into Practice

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My January column featured information on $1.7 million in science research grants from the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love for 21 projects on the effects and nature of altruism. Scholarship on unlimited love, altruism, and unconditional love is sorely needed, of course. The work I'm doing on my Ph.D., for example, is focused on these qualities. As a scholar, however, I've had to face the fact that studying unlimited love is not the same thing as practicing it in daily life. This became particularly evident during the holidays when my ego started flaring up over misperceptions involving communications breakdowns with certain friends and relatives. Two cases involved phone calls that were not returned and another involved an unacknowledged present. Even my analytical mind realized that there were probably logical explanations for the perceived slights. My ego, however, was prepared to create dramatic rejection-style scenarios, all designed to generate a combination of hurt and self-righteousness.

Fortunately, the study of unlimited love has led me to realize the importance of employing the power of love to heal my life. How do you use love, however, when you're not feeling particularly loving? The usual methods weren't working as fast as I desired, so I decided to find a way to supercharge my efforts. I discovered two techniques that really helped me. In this column I'll share them with you.

Great Experiment III

As a member of the list that receives emails from James Twyman's Beloved Community, I received information about a "Spoonbenders Course" that was going to be launched in early January. The course is part of Great Experiment III, in which 100,000 people or more will be trained to apply spoonbending energy and technology to bending the world toward peace. Since love is a potent part of that energy, I decided to take the course. The techniques are simple, but extremely powerful. Within the first week (lesson one), I found that both healings and other beautiful manifestations were exponentially increasing within my life. For example, using the energy boost obtained via the exercises, I began extending unconditional love (without any expectation of particular "I want exactly this to happen" outcome) to those three ego-fraught situations I mentioned. Within five minutes of the first extension, I received a phone call from one of the persons involved and that situation was healed. Phone calls and healings for the other two situations were obtained within hours of two other extensions of unlimited love.

Other blessings also seemed to accelerate in their manifestation. I released a worry about financing my Ph.D. courses in love. Within 24 hours I received two extra freelance job offers and another offer involving possible grant money for my education. In addition, I was told that my Ph.D. work is integral to the next step planned by the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. Will I actually bend spoons? That would be a nice verification of the techniques contained in the course. But as far as I'm concerned, I'm already seeing the evidence of the techniques effectiveness via an increase in strength of the vibration of love within my life. And that in turn gives me great hope that this spoonbenders group can, indeed, have a great and positive effect on world peace.

If you're interested in finding out more about the course, go to www.emissaryoflight.com and click on the link at the top of the page. Once enrolled, the lessons as well as a message board and chat room are available on line. But be forewarned. Make sure your intentions are pure. The first lesson contains this warning and explanation:

"It is important for you to decide why you are taking this course. Is it because you want to perform miracles? Do you want to feel more powerful than you have ever allowed yourself to be in the past? If these ideas approach the reasons you are reading this right now, then it would be best for you to stop. Turn off your computer and find something else to occupy your time. You will not achieve these things if they are the goal you seek. However, if you are reading this because you have decided that you are on this planet to be an "Instrument of Peace," and to heal the world by healing your own mind, then please continue. If you open your heart and mind to these four simple lessons and dedicate yourself to this mission, then you will achieve it. Guaranteed!

"And here is the paradox: If you do seek these higher ideals, to love and to realize that you are already whole and enlightened, then the miracles will surely follow, and you will realize yourself to be more powerful than you have ever allowed yourself to be in the past. They are not the goals, but they are the products of a higher goal. You are here to learn how to apply the force we call LOVE. It is as easy as learning a certain technology that has been known by the mystics of many spiritual traditions for thousands of years. Now it is your turn to learn it, then apply it to your life."

Animals, people, and unconditional love

I got to thinking about another technique that might help me extend unconditional love to other people and situations. Sometimes that's so hard to do because our judgment of how those people or situations "should" be keeps getting in the way. It occurred to me that I had little trouble extending the quality of unconditional love to my cats and to animals in general. Even though I may try to change certain behaviors (i.e., scratching the couch), I do so without judging my cats as "bad," "out to spoil my life," etc. The cats, after all, are just being cats. I accept their cathood and lovingly try to find a scratching post-type alternative. I wondered: What if took the quality of that love feeling I have for cats and other animals and extended it to people and situations? I tried it and it works! I start out by dwelling on the love feelings that I have for a particular pet or a particular group of animals and then take the quality of those feelings and extend it to the people and situations in my life -- especially those I'm having ego problems with. What a difference! It's much easier to extend a feeling you're already experiencing than trying to create it from scratch and with ego interference. Before you try this, however, it is important to examine your own love feelings toward animals. If your love feelings for animals involve judgments about how they should act or react, then this method won't work.

After seeing the effectiveness of this technique, I decided to check out the Internet to see if I could find any further information about it. I found over 40,000 listings when I plugged the key words "animals and unconditional love" into Google. Many of the sites do a great job stressing the lessons we can learn from the unconditional love expressed by animals toward humans. Typical is a review of Unconditional Love, one of the books in the Guideposts" series Listening to the Animals by Phyllis Laura Hobe (http://ltta.tripod.com/unconditionallove.html). "Anyone who has ever loved animals knows that the way they love us is special," states Hobe. "They don't tell us what to be or how to be. They don't ask us to be more than what we are " Animals simply love us the way we are. That doesn't mean that they excuse our faults, but they do look beyond them to the person God created." None of the sites that I visited focused on the potent power of utilizing the love people often have for animals as a method of extending love to other areas of our lives.

During my pilgrimage to animal/unconditional love-oriented sites, I came across one in particular that my readers may wish to check out. The site, Angel Animals (www.angelanimals.net), is part of the Angel Animals Network and is designed to increase love and respect for all life one story at a time. Created by Allen and Linda Anderson, authors of Angel Animals, the site contains hundreds of uplifting stories, columns from respected animal and spiritual authors, message boards, and chat rooms. The Andersons' state, "animals are providing spiritual qualities such as unconditional love, joy, healing, forgiveness, patience, courage, and gratitude -- virtues that are often lacking in our modern high-tech yet low-touch lives." When you visit the site be sure to sign up for the free Angel Animals Day Brightener Newsletter.

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Mary Montgomery-Clifford is a certified web author and developer. Her company, Montgomery Media Enterprises ("Freelancing with Finesse!"), specializes in public relations, events, promotions, writing project and web authoring, development and publicity. Ms. Montgomery-Clifford has a Master's Degree in religious studies from Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) in June 2002 and is working on a Ph.D. with a focus on the new scholarship of Unlimited Love and the Other Regarding Virtues in the Fall of 2002. She is also in the process of completing the Morris Pratt Institute Course on Modern Spiritualism. Contact her via e-mail at Monty764@aol.com, by phone at 773-235-8821 or at her web site at www.montymedia.com.

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