Photo by Andrea Hansen

My anger, my resentments, my judgements… I can put those upon you and make the mistake of blaming you for them showing up. In fact, I can hold you accountable for their very existence. My fear becomes real through you, my partner in life’s journey and my stories yours to act out. I can give you the scripts and the punchlines and you will play your part…an agreement of the mirror.

and so, if I accept this to be true it must be true as well….what I see in you, what I love about you….those are parts of me too. Joy love, peace, truth, beauty, freedom….are all concepts you mirror as well. These words, these desires are the passions and pleasures I seek, a union of my own soul and spirit and this mirror…this mirror provides me a way to see into me…all of me.

Soul Mate?

Soul Mirror?

IN TO ME SEE.

Intimacy.

No wonder its so hard to always show up, to be vulnerable, to look into the mirror. Its not just the dark that is so scary. Its the overwhelming possibility of light. Potential love yet explored.

It occurs to me how important it is that we use the consciousness given us. That we do, as I’ve always said…USE OUR POWER FOR GOOD. Imagine, if tomorrow morning the world woke up and we all chose love instead of fear, chose change instead of apathy, chose freedom as our way of life. I don’t mean the illusion of freedom, I mean truly choosing to be FREE. Imagine what that would be like.

Enjoy this short video, hopefully it can help inspire you to choose a little more love today.

LOVE, Charlotte

Sometimes this secret time shared just between the two

Captures the imagination of the soul

A total pleasure that grows each time

with wonderment and pure ecstasy

Being in the moment of lost time – uniting -

Deeper into the depths of the body

Somehow the tenderness of the giving

is felt lovingly without spoken word

Endless desire increases with the giving back

Taking deeper the throbbing and pulsing

Until all senses so heightened

Quiver blissfully

8/25/08

Christine

Charlotte and I love to dance together. We met on the dance floor as a matter of fact. I was DJ’ing and she was the one who was always out there, just gettin’ it on the dance floor. Eventually I met her out there and we’ve been dancing ever since.

These days we have a great group going we formed, called Drum & Dance in Gwinnett. It is a community of drummers and dancers, and once in a while Charlotte and I will get out there and do our letting go. It is, after all, what dance is all about. Letting go. Falling into the move in the groove.

Sounds like that could come in handy in relationship, don’t ya think?

Rhythm in Relationship.

Love…nanz

Weddings are a favorite DJ gig for us. We are suckers for love and enjoy the opportunity to share with others. The trip to Mexico Beach, Florida to provide the tunes for this event gave us a chance to shoot lots of photos, play music, dance and enjoy time in the sun and surf.

Many blessings and best wishes for the life that unfolds before you Angela and Dave.

Enjoy the journey with us check out the slideshow…

Romantic Love everyone knows about. It is that wonderful falling in Love feeling – where nothing else matters. Giddy, floating on air, life has never been better feeling. You only live until the next moment you can be with your Lover. Mmmmm. I can’t wait to Be in Love again.

But wait – what is Universal Love? Love your neighbor? Do unto others Love? Yes – kind of – but it is only the tip of the iceberg. What if we truly acted like we are living, breathing bodies of Love 24/7? You Are Love! See what happens. You have seen the bumper stickers and the tee shirt slogans…”What would (somebody) do?” Well how about “What would Love do?” Be Love as you walk around – try it for an hour at first…whereever you go and whom ever you meet…Be Love – What would Love do? Whether it is at a bank or a gas station or in the park…or in a traffic jam…Be Love. Expect nothing …absolutely nothing back. You will be amazed. The Love that can shine back will Light your Love flame! It will ignite your heart. I am not talking about Romantic passionate Love…yet I am. Bottom line there really is little difference in Universal Love and Romantic Love…at the core. Love is this delightful energy that can only grow.

Sometimes in an effort to Love, people do good for someone then expect something back in return – if they don’t get a “return”, this act of good gets disgruntled. This is true in Romantic Love also. When one really Loves…nothing is expected in return. When there is a return…a smile, a laugh, a thank you, a glimmer…LOVE… it is like payday at the slot machine…bells go off…lights twirl…your LOVE is magnified. Ok now let’s do the math. How many times would we get to Love another and get Love magnified back until the whole world was In Love?! You Love one…then they Love one..then they Love another…LOVE² _, LOVE³⁶⁵_, LOVE^LOVE ! Won’t that be grand?

The world IN LOVE.

What if Universal Love gave you the very same giddy, floating on air, life has never been better feeling as the famed Falling in Love feeling? How cool would that be? We would not have to wait until the next lover in our life presented themselves to us – because everyone would be our Lover. It is addictive.

What if we treated everyone like they were Lovers??? How wonderful each day would be! Try this – you may find that it makes your Romantic Love relationship all the better.

YOU ARE LOVE…Be LOVE 24/7…We are LOVE Beings. Enjoy and delight in the giddiness of LOVE!

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No one wants to admit to the feelings. It’s embarrassing and it feels childish. But it’s there. It is a survival instinct of our animal nature. It triggers our very basic fears of not enough. Fear of not having enough, being enough, not enough things, not enough love, not enough…

I have lived long enough to let go of my adolescent ways of manipulating for love. That doesn’t mean I don’t ever feel jealous. I do. I hate it. It’s painful. So painful that I refuse to feed the beast anymore. I’ve had to learn new tools. Forced if you will by the nature of jealousy itself.

First I found out what doesn’t work. To try to shut the “monster” up. I know the more I struggle with it the worse I feel. It’s like a shameful secret I don’t want to talk about. And yet, giving jealousy permission to be expressed leads to the feelings of safety I seek. I’ve learned to move through pain to love and find freedom through its expression. Yes, there’s magic in the telling, a true gift from a beautiful teacher. I’ve been shown that there is something to be gained from letting it out. And interestingly enough that something can be more love.

I think of the ways that it has come out throughout my lifetime and of the feelings it took to try to repress it. What misery and suffering accompanied it. Loss of control, fear, shame…all feelings that seem to be needed to try to shove jealous feelings down far enough so that I couldn’t feel the stabbing pain of those snarling teeth. From this place its expression did not work out well at all. In fact just the opposite. I acted out of fear and manipulated for the love that I wanted in hopes that I could control and feel safe. Which didn’t make me feel safe at all. Just more afraid. Those were the very expressions that taught me to try to keep the beast within quiet and forbid it being revealed.

Now, having moved beyond the ways of my child and practicing adult life I’ve come to offer a different expeirance. It’s about being afraid but willing, willing to share with intamicy my feelings. To be willing to speak what is true. To expose the fear for what it is, insecurities yet to be set free. Within this gesture I can move more quickly through the threat of becoming entangled in jealousy’s claws. There is a safety created in this act of intimacy that takes the threat away. To speak my vulnerability and fear of loss brings such freedom. Not granted or gifted from another but simply found within the space of my own heart.

Jealousy unexpressed becomes the lion of rage and the evil green eyed monster. Through expression some understandings can emerge. The greater the love we feel the greater the fear of loss and I’ve been told the only solution to that is to love more. Jealousy buried is fertile ground for rage to be born. In silence it becomes a killer. Expression is freedom.

The peace of my soul and the harmony of my inner world depend upon me taking the risk, loving deeper, trusting more and being free.

Charlotte

I want to remember that love is not something that I exchange like merchandise, it is something that I am. When I remember the love that I am it flows out into the world and MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

I want to remember that my love moves the darkest parts of me aside. With love I have the courage to excavate these treacherous places. The addict, the martyr, the wounded child are set free when I access the love that I am. Instant freedom as long as love is present.

I release now and for always the beliefs that hold me back and close my heart. Those limiting beliefs that unfold love as a story. A story told by a child with arms reaching out searching for love. A story told by an adolescent with her rigid definitions and limited interpretations. A story told by a young woman trained by her culture defining her experience as risk and loss. This version of love need not be passed on any further.

I seek now new ways. I turn to the love that I know, the love I can define. I turn to my defining moments of love.

So many places in my life that the experience of love awaits me. I am blessed and offer my gratitude for all these moments that offer me new definitions.

Charlotte Scott