Finding Love With Your Divine Gift of Imagination

What is the one thing that every single person in this whole wide world needs and wants? Of course we all know it's love. On-line dating services are benefitting from the lonely hearts and even helping some. Nightclubs are jam-packed with people hoping to meet someone special. How do I know this? From painful, personal experience.

Decades ago, after stuffing myself with cookies, I used to watch television and go to bed alone, again. Then I would often cry myself to sleep for the want of someone to hold me and make me feel loved, secure, and cared-for.

When I woke up hoping there would magically be someone there to kiss me good morning, I was sadly disappointed.

Going to nightclubs, dance clubs, and dating clubs did not seem to bring me the right partner. I attracted men who were exciting, but certainly not thoughtful or caring. I tried meeting potential romances through the personal ads in the local, trendy newspaper, and found more disappointment. What was I doing wrong?

Even though love would seem to be the greatest, most easily available treasure of all, why was it so elusive? I knew I was not the only person in the world confused by love. Many people give and give as much as they can, expecting love in return, and are heartbroken when it does not come. I was no exception.

After many heartaches and heartbreaks, I knew I had to make a dramatic shift in the way I was looking at life. Instead of expecting love to come to me, I had to open up to the love that was already there! I had to wake up to a new way of looking at life, to find a way to be filled with love all by myself.

In this process I realized my search for love was really my search for divine love - the higher, unconditional love of God within us and all around us every moment, every day, in every experience. Had I found a way to tap divine love first, I would not have needed to search at all. Perhaps I can save you some wear and tear on your journey to love.

As much as I wanted someone to love me, I had to face an important fact - the only way for others to love me was for me to love myself. To do this, I had to accept the greatest, most unconditional love of all - the higher love of God, or whatever higher power you believe in.

After a good, long while of practicing this, I finally began to believe that love is within me and surrounds me always and that I truly am loved. I found much more happiness by myself, even though I still wanted a husband. Then I did find the right match for me at that time, and I was thrilled to see that not only did I feel love from my husband, but I felt loved even when he was gone or in his "cave," not seeming to care about me at all.

You can have this experience, too, just by imagining it! Think of a pet you have loved, or something you love doing. Fill your heart with that love and let it float into your whole body. Let go of the images and focus on that feeling of love. Now imagine a warm blanket of love surrounding you, too. Know that this is God's love for you and it will continue to be there whenever you want it, just keep imagining!

Debbie Johnson is the Best-Selling Author of the original Think Yourself Thin, and new ebook and kindle; Think Yourself Loved. http://djsuccesstraining.com/thinkyourselfloved.html. She is also an international speaker and small business, personal and career consultant (see http://djsuccesstraining.com ).