#115 - Cultivating Unconditional Love
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's Time To Stretch Your Soul
This is a sacred time of year, no matter what your beliefs. Spiritual traditions of every flavor honor this special season. Even if you have no spiritual belief system it's still a time for reflection, generosity and new resolutions. It's a time of year for gratitude, showing others how much you love them, and thinking about who you want to grow into as the next year spins into focus -- for everyone.
It's also the perfect time to cultivate the practice of unconditional love.
In the near future, you will likely have fork-in-the-road moments with friends, family, your kids, siblings, and your partner, in all their disappointing, annoying, frustrating, and hurtful humanity. At these moments you can choose judgment or empathy; contempt or compassion; anger or acceptance; grudge-holding or forgiveness.
Its easy to love when your ego is stroked, when you feel gratified, and when you're awash in pleasurable "loving" feelings. But the heart of every religion teaches us that our purpose here is something else: To love when it’s hard.
It can be challenging to stay compassionate and understanding with people who behave badly. The grand, beautiful paradox of this time of year is that -- with all it's unique stressors -- you will have many opportunities to practice staying soft and loving in the face of challenging relational moments.
Accept the Challenge of Unconditional Love
Choosing love even when it's hard feels selfless, but truthfully, you're the one who wins. Choosing love expands your soul, softens your spirit, and makes you a happier person. In giving love, you receive it -- whether or not anyone else participates.
Learning how to do this will not only help others, make you feel good, improve your relationships, and contribute to world peace... it will help you grow into the self-actualized, "best self" that you were meant to be.
With love to you,
The Season For Unconditional Love: Listen Now
Music Credits: The Kronos Quartet, Black Angels: "Spem in Alium"
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. The The |
| 0:40.3 | The That's an excerpt from a song by the Kronos Quartet. |
| 1:06.4 | I think it's an interesting song from an equally interesting album. |
| 1:10.7 | The album is Black Angels, and the song |
| 1:13.5 | is pronounced, I think, Spem in Alium by the Kronos Quartet. I like that song. It's very sort of |
| 1:22.8 | contemplative and there's a sort of an ancient quality to it, in my mind at least. |
| 1:28.0 | And that's kind of the tone that I'm taking for today's episode of the love, happiness, and success podcast |
| 1:35.6 | because we're going to be tackling a big, profound even idea today. |
| 1:42.3 | And that is the idea of unconditional love, how to embrace it and how to |
| 1:49.6 | grow it in your life. And I thought that it was important right now to discuss that for a number |
| 1:56.8 | of different reasons. But among other things, the fact that we're in the holiday season. |
| 2:01.4 | And if nothing else, this should be a time of unconditional love. |
| 2:05.4 | So that is what we're talking about today on the love, happiness, and success podcast. |
| 2:11.3 | And welcome, if this is your first time listening. |
| 2:14.4 | Hi, I'm Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. |
| 2:16.8 | My background is as a therapist. I'm a marriage counselor. |
| 2:22.2 | I'm trained as a psychologist and I'm also a board certified life coach. And the love, happiness, and success podcast is all about talking about things that can help you be a happier person, have better relationships, |
| 2:35.8 | and basically create a life worth living. So that's what we're doing on the show. And I'm glad |
| 2:41.0 | that you found us. If you like the show, wonderful. Pay it forward by writing a review |
| 2:47.6 | about the fact that you like the show on iTunes. The more you do that, |
| 2:52.5 | the more other people will find the show and hopefully find good advice or new ideas in their |
| 2:57.4 | moment of need. So you can also subscribe on the Love, Happiness and Success podcast. I like to make |
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