Love can't really exist without empowerment. You can be fond of, you can be scared of losing,

but to actually love in a way that is beyond you, that is a deep welcoming. The only way you can

deeply welcome is to feel deeply empowered to not be worried of the results.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves

and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease. I'm Brett Kistler,

here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

We are taught how to defend ourselves from a very young age, but few of us are taught the pragmatic power of love.

We build a series of walls we can put up whenever someone makes us uncomfortable.

What if those very walls create a drag on life that slows down our dreams?

And what if love is an easy-to-use tool that turns all that friction into forward momentum? Today's topic is love over defense. So, Joe, we've all heard, all you need is love. Love will tear us apart. Love is the answer. We can hit with these phrases all the time, but it's hard to tell what anybody really means by love. So what do you mean by love?

Whoa, that's a good question. That's a big one.

Before I say what I mean by love, let me say what is often considered when people are

thinking about the definition of love.

So one of the things that I see is that people think about it, they dissected kind of the way the Greeks did, which was like there's like the love of friendship, like the love you'd have with a friend, the love you'd have this romantic, the love that you'd have with God, the love that would be very much dissected by who you

are loving and how they had different visceral experiences in the body.

For me, I think about love slightly differently.

I think about love is in there's a love that feels a lot like peace and there's a love that feels a lot like peace, and there's a love that feels a lot like enjoyment, and there's a love that feels a lot like care, and there's a love that feels a lot like deep, a deep welcoming.

And so when I'm speaking about love, I would say that it's close to the, this closest to like a deep

welcoming. They're all components of love, right? It's not like, it's not like one of these is a better

love than the other or one of these is a separate love than the other. But that deep welcoming

seems to be like the biggest leverage point.

It's what seems to activate everything else the most.

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