The Guest Blog: Assuming Love

I have begun in my daily living to incorporate a practice to help me feel a continued sense of connection to others, and through this practice better learn how to maintain a freedom to stay present with my offering of love. It surprised me how many times I would create distance between myself and another person by judging whether or not they were treating me the way “they ought”. This was how I determined their worthiness to receive my full love and attention. The less we know of someone, the more assumptions we make of them. The more we think we know about someone, the more we feel they have to live up to those thoughts. We have more expectations of them because we are filling in the blanks of the moment, and when we learn differently, we feel betraye