How to Tap Into the Power of Love

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
––Rumi

So, you’ve read my previous post, understood the phenomenal power of love and want to know how you can tap into this superpower.

The truth is, you always knew, But I’m more than happy to provide a reminder.

The key to tapping into the power of love is to live from the heart.

Love is Our Default State

Just like happiness, love is our default state and is always there, ready to bubble up inside us.

We just have to remove (or reduce) the things that take us away from love.

And there is just one culprit that is responsible for all the unloving thoughts, feelings and states we feel: it’s our ego mind.

The Ego: The Troublemaker

As I mentioned in another post (Ego Vs Soul), the ego is mostly fear-based. And the ego also loves attention.

It wants to feel important. And so, if allowed, it will completely hijack and dominate our life experience.

The ego is the culprit that is responsible for the endless stream of fear-based chatter that many of us mistake for ourselves.

All the judgment, criticism, comparisons and self-loathing come from this one source.

So there is no way we should be letting this troublemaker run our lives!

But many of us do, (myself included).

Living From the Heart and Soul

Living from the heart and soul is the key to tapping into the power of love.

This requires two things:

Being aware of the ego’s chattering and learning to minimise it; and
Cultivating a stronger connection with the heart and the soul.

The soul is who we really are. It is wise beyond anything the ego could ever dream of, and it speaks to us through our hearts, in the language of love and intuition.

How to Minimise the Ego

Do the things that cultivate a stronger connection with the heart and the soul. See below.

How to Cultivate a Stronger Connection with the Heart and the Soul

This is the ‘meat and potatoes’ of this post. It’s also the fun part!

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of things, in no particular order:

Meditate
Practice self-love
Practice gratitude
Practice appreciation
Practice forgiveness
Do something creative
Exercise
Listen to uplifting music
Sing
Dance
Play
Spend time with children and go into their world
Play an instrument
Make art
Make love
Hug someone
Spend time in nature
Spend time with your family and friends
Spend time with your pet
Spend time daydreaming

I’ll be writing posts about many of the above, so if you wanted any detailed instructions, just hang tight.

Love = Happiness?

You probably noticed that the above things are also the very things that promote happiness and wellbeing.

And that’s no coincidence!

That’s just how our universe works.

And so, we do well when we align ourselves with the way things work and go with the flow, rather than struggling upstream against it.

Over the years, I have slipped up and done less and less of these things. And my life experience changed to reflect this.

I won’t go into detail but let’s just say that it sucked to be me between 2019 and 2025!

But I’ve learned my lesson, and I’m back with a vengeance, to live, practice and write about the things I now know are hugely important.

But moving on… I have a surprise for you.

I saved the very best for last!

The Very Best Way to Tap into the Power of Love

And drumroll, please…

The very best way to tap into the power of love is to give love.

Giving love is the best way to feel more of it and bring it more into our lives.

We need to love. And we need to give love.

As humans, we come programmed to love and care.

Leon–A Love Story About a Hitman and His Plant

Ever watch the movie, Leon? It’s a story about a hit man.

Leon is a solitary character–no real friends or family. Just the guy that acts as the go-between and handles the business side of things for him.

But even Leon had to love something.

And so he fawned and fussed over a plant.

Even on his busy hitman schedule, Leon took a great deal of time and care to clean its leaves. And he always made sure the plant got enough water and sunlight.

My apologies to young Mr. C. Darwin, but I strongly believe that this capacity for love, and our need for love, is actually what allows us to be successful as a species.

How to Give Love

Care. Care. Care!

Care about your dreams and desires. Care about your happiness and wellbeing. Care about your hobbies and passions. Care about wanting to serve others. Care about making things better in some way.

And give.

Give. Give. Give!

Give thanks. Give kindness. Give help and support. Give care. Give forgiveness. Give patience. Give attention. Give thought to the things that really matter in life.

Give, but not from a place of sacrifice or resentment.

As spiritual teacher Abraham says,

‘You can’t serve from an empty vessel.’

So self-care comes first. And you must give to yourself before you can give of yourself (that’s an original by the way).

But giving works!

Lynne Mc Taggart, author of the Intention Experiment and many other great books, ran intention groups.

She called these the ‘Power of Eight‘ groups, as there were eight participants in each group.

The aim of these groups was to send healing intention to people who were unwell.

But what shocked Lynne and her participants was that, even though they were focussed on giving, they all ended up getting some sort of unexpected benefit back in return.

A lady with chronic pain had her pain disappear.

Another lady, who had retinal damage, had her vision restored to 20/20!

Lynne calls it the ‘mirror effect’ because what we give out is being reflected back into our life.

And that, my friends, is the power of giving!

I will close this post with a quote from Dr. Wayne Dyer:

The more we demand from the universe, the more is demanded of us. The more we give away, the more is given to us.

Dr. Dyer clarified by pointing out that the Universe listens to what we say and the Law of Attraction responds in kind.

So when we say ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme’, the Universe also says, ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme,’ back to us.

But when we say ‘How may I serve?’ the Universe says ‘How may I serve?’ to us instead!