What does love feel like?

[Plays With Life]

When you feel love, what does it feel like? Feel free to get poetic.

[blossom]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

When you feel love, what does it feel like? Feel free to get poetic.

I find it really hard to describe love in words. It's like an all over warmth and calmness and expansion. I'll add more to it when I can think of more words to describe it...Things just feel brighter...colours are more pronounced, life has a dreamy quality to it, and I feel connected to the universe and all that.

[MayanJaguar]

In a literal, feeling sense, when i focus on it it feels like a flow of energy in my chest. A bit like butterflies in the stomach, but in the chest and throat area too. I think it probably has something to do with the chakras.

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by MayanJaguar

In a literal, feeling sense, when i focus on it it feels like a flow of energy in my chest. A bit like butterflies in the stomach, but in the chest and throat area too. I think it probably has something to do with the chakras.

Thanks for sharing!

Hey! Are you Mayan? Hablas el quiche?

[MayanJaguar]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

Thanks for sharing!

Hey! Are you Mayan? Hablas el quiche?

No, but my Mayan symbol is the Jaguar. You can find yours here

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by MayanJaguar

No, but my Mayan symbol is the Jaguar. You can find yours here

Oh, I see!

[roxyruby]

Love feels like an extreme, warm, positive happiness. You will have a smile on your face. Your body and chest expands outwards. Your lungs may fill with oxygen. At the same time I may feel a pleasurable, playful, cheeky, happy squeezing feeling in my throat, chest, and stomach as I smile with so much joy. I may then breathe a big sigh. It feels extremely happy and pleasureable.

I just described how I felt while thinking of my BF

Ofcourse, it helps to think about what you love the mostest in the whole wide world!

[Twinma]

The feeling of being IN love rather than, say, loving your child is an unmistakable thing. Of course there are phases of this love. In the beginning, you feel almost physical pain to be away from the person. Over time, this fades but if the love is to last it turns into a deep caring for the other person's well being.

It is so cliche, but you definitely know it when you feel it.

I am 12.5 years into a marriage and I am very much in love with my husband and it is very different now then it was then. For the better. I am lucky.

[roxyruby]

Originally Posted by Twinma

The feeling of being IN love rather than, say, loving your child is an unmistakable thing. Of course there are phases of this love. In the beginning, you feel almost physical pain to be away from the person. Over time, this fades but if the love is to last it turns into a deep caring for the other person's well being.

It is so cliche, but you definitely know it when you feel it.

I am 12.5 years into a marriage and I am very much in love with my husband and it is very different now then it was then. For the better. I am lucky.

I'm so happy for you! That's wonderful!!!

[Magicinthenight]

Originally Posted by Twinma

The feeling of being IN love rather than, say, loving your child is an unmistakable thing. Of course there are phases of this love. In the beginning, you feel almost physical pain to be away from the person. Over time, this fades but if the love is to last it turns into a deep caring for the other person's well being.

It is so cliche, but you definitely know it when you feel it.

I am 12.5 years into a marriage and I am very much in love with my husband and it is very different now then it was then. For the better. I am lucky.

Loved reading that.

[roxyruby]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

When you feel love, what does it feel like? Feel free to get poetic.

OH feel free to get poetic?


Oh love, feels like a giant ocean,

A roaring hurricane,

Love is just like cherry pie

And walking down happy Lane

Love is a River. Love is a bird.

Free and flowing and lov - a - ly,

Love is much more than a word.

Love is feeling so happy and ador-a-ing of thee.

[carenkh]

Any time I wish, I can be in love - that is, IN the space of love, almost as if it was a physical place. Increased awareness that all is one, increased acceptance, joy, and compassion. I feel lighter and more at peace, yet energized.

[MayanJaguar]

I want to thank you for this post, because it made me focus on love this morning, resulting in a wonderful start to the day

p.s. the feeling of love I described can be for anything, a partner, a child, a sibling, or just love for loves sake. The feeling for me is always the same. Smile...smile....smile

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by MayanJaguar

I want to thank you for this post, because it made me focus on love this morning, resulting in a wonderful start to the day

p.s. the feeling of love I described can be for anything, a partner, a child, a sibling, or just love for loves sake. The feeling for me is always the same. Smile...smile....smile

Hey, that's awesome. And a great idea. Maybe I'll start my day tomorrow by reading this thread.

[Cloverhart]

Originally Posted by MayanJaguar

In a literal, feeling sense, when i focus on it it feels like a flow of energy in my chest. A bit like butterflies in the stomach, but in the chest and throat area too. I think it probably has something to do with the chakras.

I agree, this is almost dead on for me, and when I'm really feeling it, similar to bliss or true alignment with my higher self, I usually tear up.

[The Cloud]

It's not a feeling, it's a personal response to something that makes you want to get down and kneel before it, except one cannot kneel before one's self. It's an exaltation of life and you're ability to live it, a sacred thing that cannot be questioned and cannot be lost or given up. A thing that makes you realize that nothing in life is comparable to the capacity to feel this. It's not happiness in the traditional sense, it is very much more than that. It's what makes happiness worth having.

[MayanJaguar]

For me that's pretty much the root of it, a feeling. A feeling that you respond to. For me it's not intellectual, it's the feeling that helps me make everything good. Love.

[The Cloud]

Originally Posted by MayanJaguar

For me that's pretty much the root of it, a feeling. A feeling that you respond to. For me it's not intellectual, it's the feeling that helps me make everything good. Love.

I guess I consider the response more important than the feeling, if we're talking about the same thing at all. It doesn't make everything good, it makes it unnecessary for everything to be good.

[JSB]

A stomach filled with with scurrying and scattering. A heart filled with sunlight. A head filled with iridescent soap bubbles. A warm flow of light electric rain on my skin.

(Stupid and smiling! )

[roxyruby]

A puppy dog, eyes sparkling, tail wagging, running to greet you! That is love.

A little child, unexpectedly going up to you, arms reaching out, for a hug! That is love.

The one that is and will always be there for you! That is love.

The way you treat yourself to the things in life that make you happy! That is love.

[MayanJaguar]

Originally Posted by The Cloud

I guess I consider the response more important than the feeling, if we're talking about the same thing at all. It doesn't make everything good, it makes it unnecessary for everything to be good.

I think maybe we're just looking at the same thing from different angles, and there's nothing wrong with that.

For me everything is about 'feeling', but for you different. There are no right or wrongs as far as I am concerned, but for me there is most definitely a 'good'... and it's a feeling.

Nothing else is real for me if you like, apart from how I feel in the moment.

[rei]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

When you feel love, what does it feel like? Feel free to get poetic.

it depends on the source and object of love. well, the source is always me so it depends on the object. the love i feel for Marley, my dog-son, is different from the love i feel for my parents, which is different from the love i feel for friends, which is yet again different from romantic love.

i'm guessing the idea is to discuss romantic love... happy to oblige
i would describe it in a similar way to what several other posters have said, it is a lightness, a warmth, an expansion in your chest. i think the lower-chakra feelings are less likely about love if the heart center isn't engaged as well. so, i think belly butterflies are less about love unless you feel that warm expansion higher up as well.

the feeling of love is like a warm blanket that surrounds you, and i imagine it is similar to how a fetus feels in the womb. it feels like your rate of vibration has increased, you feel like you can tell the object of love anything - you WANT to tell them everything and hear every little detail about them. you can't help but feel safe around them, safe to be silly or make mistakes, safe to open up.

there is a type of love, i guess it's become less common(?)... it involves all the things i said above, but along with that there is this very deep sense of recognition and appreciation, which happens instantly when your eyes first meet (yes, just like in the movies). it feels like you already know the person, like you have come across the body holding the other half of your energy. it is a sense of being one soul split into two bodies, an overwhelming sense of wholeness and completion washes over you. things flow naturally and effortlessly, and you have some way of knowing beyond any doubt that this other person is feeling exactly as you are, the same level of recognition and love... which would make sense, if they are the rest of you. it would mean you're on exactly the same wavelength, and any growth you continue to do in your life will match any growth they do on their own path.

for the longest time, i began to wonder if this second experience of romantic love was just a fantasy or a popular notion taken from movies and fairy tales. that has changed... i couldn't feel more grateful or blessed than i do right now.

[Cochonette]

In Buddhism, we say there are two sides of love:
1) Loving Kindness, the desire for another to be filled with joy and happiness.
2) Compassion, the desire for another to be free from pain and suffering.

We can also love ourselves if we can find the right amount of detachment. That's the thing, love requires detachment. My most profound experiences of love have invariably involved letting go after a period of attachment. It was the profound realization of my own humility, that someone could not be mine after all, because I valued that person's subjectivity more, because I understood that they are on their own journey to be free from suffering and filled with joy.

Compassion and loving kindness are desire to relieve tension, but where the self disappears.

But... they don't always feel good. Often compassion is ignited by the witnessing of overwhelming suffering... it makes you cry, it makes you want to act.

And the way that I discovered unconditional love did not feel "good" because it was in a tense liminal space between immense suffering and joy. Afterward I felt great joy, but only when I changed settings.

[st33med]

Oh I'll be poetic:

What is love?
Baby don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
No more



Love feels like a big warm fuzzy balloon expanding in my heart <3

[supertom]

To me it feels like unconditional forgiveness, non-judgement and oneness. It doesn't feel positive or pleasurable, it feels like freedom from those.

[spirit4711]

Just notice how topic starter didn´t answer his own question yet...

Ow fugg it... For me, it feels like I have no ego. A total acceptance of, and focus on the person I´m with. Peace, joy, connection, warmth, whatever, but the sense of 'no ego' is what summarizes it best for me.

[ssandra]

Originally Posted by st33med

oh i'll be poetic:

what is love?
Baby don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
No more

LOL

edit: why when I type LOL in capital letters, it shows in small letters?? Not good, not nice!!!

Edit 2: unless I type something else as well, then it does appear in capital letters. I am going crazy!!!

[ssandra]

Romantic love:

Being happy when he is near, missing something when he is not.
Him being happy makes you feel happy. Him being sad breaks your heart.
Defending him if somebody else points out his flaws.. even if you had a fight with him about those same flaws the day before.
Always being there for him, putting him first in your life.
Putting him first with the firm knowledge that he puts you first.

Universal love:

Like a big yellow sun that shines from the inside out, to cover the entire world and beyond.

[Weena]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

When you feel love, what does it feel like? Feel free to get poetic.

It feels like incredible peace, it feels like you're connected to Heaven, it feels like your heart chakra is opening wide.

Depending on who you love it can vary... loving your children is very unconditional, very very high emotionally. When my son was born I wanted to cry with happiness all the time, it was very intense.

With my husband it's feeling an immense peace in my heart, mind and body whenever I'm near him.

did you answer your own question?

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by Weena

did you answer your own question?

No I didn't.