Tag: receiving love

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." ~William Blake

Most of us have never learned how to consciously receive love. Sure, falling in love is easy; our biological imperative to mate kicks in naturally opening our hearts and flooding our nervous system with the euphoric experience of idealized connection. In these early moments of love’s embrace, we receive love viscerally.

An excerpt from "The New Model of Love: Naturally Supercharge Your Relationships"

The old model of love stipulates that you derive joy from being loved. However, you don’t experience the joy of being loved. And having more people love you doesn’t increase the joy you experience. Despite all the flaws of the old model, we have held on tight to that model because we haven’t seen a different model. This different model is the new model of love.