The Ocean Of Loving Acceptance

There is a love so pure and total that is waiting to embrace us all. It wants nothing from us and does not need us to change. It does not see us as unworthy or unready. It sees only its own Self when it looks at us.
It is our own Self already. How do we let it in? Helen talks about her own experiences of heart openings and how loving acceptance and kindness of our own self is the key.

01:51 Helen talks about the infinite ocean of love as an integral part of awakening
Conditional love, Non-dual love. To allow this love in is to be willing to question the ideas that are in the way, everything you need to do to be ready for this love has already happened
32:08 Q1: It can be seen that there is nobody that can do anything about the karmic patterns, but the thoughts and emotions are so strong, when will this stop?
HH: There is no separate being, who do these karmic patterns belong to? there are no patterns left when you see there’s no separate self they belong to
37:41 Q2: There has been so much bliss and euphoria these days that almost frightens me and I think it can’t last HH In me there was a voice that wouldn’t let myself be loved so much, and wouldn’t allow it fully. Then just surrendering into this love, not wanting to guard myself more from it. I wanted to see how much I could love myself just by talking to myself nicer each day, and within 30 days I was just kind of swimming around in bliss.
45:48 Q3: I can feel this love and there’s a strong fear HH The mind is scared to be dissolved. For me, the only thing that died in the process was my ability to believe that this separate sense of this mind and body was all I was. There was a recognition this love had always included my egoic sense of self to be exactly as it was. The mind works in duality, it thinks it has to be one or the other hence this massive fear, if I embrace the real Self I’m gonna lose everything, it cannot see that his ocean of love is incapapable of destroying anything so it’s always trying to resist a bit this awakening
55:15 Q4: The immensity of love has been deeply felt, also so much fear and the knowing that there’s nothing I can do about the fear as a separate self
HH In my awakening when this terror resurged it came down to just let it be, to give it as much right to exist as anything else. To embrace anything that arose (guilt, shame, fear) and also the part of me that wanted to fix it. The only missing step is being kind to our egoic sense of self
1:02:41 Q5: Why does this love have to be invited in? HH We are all so well practiced at keeping it out that we don’t know we are doing that. This love is infinitely powerful but not forceful, it goes I’ll hang out here until you decide you want me to come in because you think you are other than me.
1:08:12 Q6: There is a deeper respect and love for the body. Is that an opening? HH: Absolutely. I hated my own body. My body reflected what I thought of it. When I began to love it, my body began to reflect my love for it.