Come and get your love!

THE LOVE EXPERIENCE is about falling completely and totally in love with yourself. Recognizing you're enough. Realizing you're worthy. Seeing yourself as capable of self-direction and managing your own life. Believing in your own goodness, really believing in it. These awarenesses make healing of every kind possible, and they open the door to happiness beyond your wildest expectations. The overriding mission of THE LOVE EXPERIENCE is to provide the profound, life-changing opportunity to see yourself in this uplifted way, but fair warning.  Once your mind is opened with these radiant ideas, it can never be closed. Your new awareness is irrevocable. 

Here's the deal. The absence of self-love isn’t a character flaw. It isn’t a personality dysfunction. It isn’t a genetic defect, and it isn’t mommy or daddy’s fault, either. Rather, the absence of self-love has to do with a serious misperception about what it means to be a loving being and a lack of the most basic skills for dealing with disappointments and frustrations. It takes zero awareness and no skill to be loving under perfect, amiable conditions when things go your way and when the people in your world do what you want them to do.
 

Awareness and skill only come into play when things don’t go your way, and this my friend, is where you meet yourself. What do you do when people disappoint? When they lie? Disrespect? Talk trash? Betray? Undermine? Or demonstrate any other challenging behaviors? Who are you and how do you behave under storm conditions? This is the exact place where awareness is learned and the exact point in time when the willingness to develop new skills is acquired. Welcome it and welcome the people who make you crazy. They’re your inspiration to get up and out of a habitual, automated response rut. 

One more thing. Being love under fire doesn’t mean being a woosie or letting people walk all over you. It doesn’t mean you never get your own sweet way. It doesn’t mean you have to leave your problems unsolved or put up with intolerable, unfair conditions. Being love under fire means taking the time to know what you want and learning how to get it without going to the darkside. We’re all deeply, intimately familiar with the ease of going to the darkside to force others to do our bidding and to be more pleasing. Hissy fits, guilt trips, meanness and other darkside tricks usually work and they work fast. Obviously, this is why it’s so very hard to consider putting them down.  

That said, your escape from the darkside is your doorway to a sane, calm, less worrisome life. Turmoil and tension are monumental distractions that lead to constant underlying low-grade anxiety, bad feelings and a predisposition to every disease you don't want.  Trips to the darkside prevent you from healing, and they prevent you from loving yourself. Of course, you can continue to live on the darkside and pretend it doesn’t matter. Do it as long as you want. The only problem is that it’s a sure path to self-medicating, numbing-out, confusion and bad feelings. There’s a better way. I promise. 

So this is where we meet, in the heart of your darkness and mine, with compassion to self, acceptance of self, and with the full understanding that self is doing the best it can, under what may be incredibly difficult circumstances. You have a tiny willingness, my friend, and you have a tiny openness. It’s enough to take you home to your own big beautiful heart.  
 

THE LOVE EXPERIENCE has four powerful goals: 

GOAL #1: Awareness that love is always and only harmless

The cornerstone of THE LOVE EXPERIENCE is the thoughtful re-consideration of what it means to be a wholly loving being.  

GOAL #2. Awareness that love is the answer to every problem and love opens the door for beneficial outcomes and miracles.That said, how exactly does this miracle stuff work? How do you get a miracle for yourself or give one? Do you have to hug more? Be more supportive? Say endearing things? Pray more? Donate more? Somehow make up for every mistake?  

GOAL #3. Awareness of and direct practice with 7 powerful tools for overriding hateful thoughts that come to all Earthlings. We can't prevent hateful thoughts from coming to us, but we can choose to consciously override them.  

GOAL #4. Direct open, reciprocal sharing of the love that is your truth with others in attendance.

THE LOVE EXPERIENCE is radical, revolutionary counter cultural training.  

It's your first step out of the matrix. 

Counter cultural means it's opposite to conditioning and indoctrination received from family, religious, business and educational sources. Likewise, harmlessness is radically different than the constant messaging from books, movies and social media. Even more, few highly educated and respected professionals fully understand what it means to live in a harmless way. The lack of worldly understanding makes the path of harmlessness radically different, and this is often perceived as difficult.  

Another challenge is the fact that the practice of harmlessness is subtle. Subtle means it isn’t noticed, valued or appreciated by others. No one sees the conscious, deliberate work you’re doing. No one gives you "points" for being wise or good. Few realize that love is harmless and even fewer recognize love when they see it. It’s not your job to teach or correct others, but it’s essential to understand you’ll be operating at a different vibe on a higher level than other folks, So, as you can see, the choice to be a wholly harmless loving being is often a solo, self-directed path, and this can be perceived as difficult, too.  

None of this has to matter. You can be in this world without being of it. You can love yourself without explanation to others, without approval of others, without the support of others.  

ARE YOU READY…..

...To awaken your passion to be a more loving being? To be guided by love; to live in love; to solve problems in love? Then consider THE LOVE EXPERIENCE.

...To feel really good about yourself, and I mean really good? Without being haunted or daunted by past mistakes and lack of past awareness? Then consider THE LOVE EXPERIENCE.

...To spend a day devoted to you; your enrichment; your happiness; your honor to self and your gratitude to self? Then consider THE LOVE EXPERIENCE.

The love you rediscover in your own heart will set your heart on fire.  

WHAT TO EXPECT AND NOT EXPECT

THE LOVE EXPERIENCE is a combination of lecture, lively interactive group discussion and individual exercises. While some personal sharing is encouraged, this is not a support group forum where emphasis is placed on analyzing, understanding or commiserating about the past. Our focus is on how to handle the present moment when disappointment is experienced or when someone crosses you. 

THIS IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND, REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE. If it calls to you, please come.
Karen Bentley

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