Love: Just Do It

Technology just taught me something about love yesterday in the lab at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Dr. Dean Radin and his assistant, Leena Michel, are setting up a study on the effects of intention on light.  It is already known that the observer effect changes how light operates as either a wave or a particle.  Dean wants to measure the brain activity of the observer to see how it is different when it is influencing or not influencing the light in a little black box.  This is all done in an electro-magnetically sealed room called a Faraday cage.

Leena set me up with a headset that had contacts on it to measure my brain activity.  Some upbeat, devotional music was played into the headphones and I was told alternately to either send intention to the light in the box or to relax and not send.  The more I was able to affect the light, the louder the music would get.

I closed my eyes and began the session in the relaxed state thinking about the beach where I spent the weekend.   I was then told to send intention to the light and the music dropped so low that I could barely hear it.  I tried another mental image on the next round and the same thing happened…quiet music.  I then started thinking of my daughter and when I went back into the intentional state I noticed the music got a little louder.   I then started thinking of the thing I love most, watching my daughter dance (she’s been studying for 9 years), and what do you know but the music got even louder still.  I drifted to seeing her at her recital this past June, dancing a really beautiful and motivational performance the class had worked really hard on.  I burst at the seams with immense love and pride for her at the recital as I watched her experiencing her bliss of dancing.  It was like bliss²….my bliss was seeing her in her bliss and it was a vibrantly happy, almost heart-wrenching and powerful love feeling that radiated out of me.   I could feel my heart get bigger with the bigness of the emotion I felt.   In the lab, I wasn’t thinking about being at the recital, I was actually re-living the feelings I had at the recital and the music got louder and louder!  My love was affecting the light!

I started thinking about how cool that was that I was able to affect the light in that way, and you know what happened?  The music dropped way down again.  “What the heck?” I thought.  “I’m thinking about how much I love my daughter and her dancing, why is the music getting softer?”

But then it dawned on me, “Maybe it’s because now I am THINKING ABOUT loving her, not FEELING the FEELING of loving of her like I was before.”  So then I stopped thinking and just let myself be in the love again, and you know what happened then?  The music got louder again!

I’ve been told before that I think too much.  I never really understood what the heck that meant.  I need to think to do functional things like do my taxes and write this blog entry.  I am an intelligent, well-educated person and I like using my mind to go into crazy cosmic thoughts and mind-bending revelations.  But to experience first-hand how thinking blocked the mind-blowing power of love helped me to finally understand that when it comes to love, I need to stop thinking and just start doing… I am a conduit for love and it is ok for me to FEEL it.

I felt so much love and so much freedom to love while sitting there in the Faraday cage, with the brainwave sensor on my headset and the devotional music playing, that two soft, gentle tears spilled slowly over the crest of my eyelashes and rolled tenderly down my face.  I was astounded at the implications of what I was experiencing.

I read something once by Jean Houston where she talked about how the secret of the true reality of the universe is in the light.  Waves, particles, holograms, electro-magnetism… I don’t know how those work, I’m not a scientist.  But I do know that when I was radiating love, I affected the light.

I’m pretty sure that it’s not going to be our thoughts that save us.  It is going to be the love we feel that evolves our humanity.  Maybe that’s why we incarnate and why other dimensions depend on us here in the 3^rd dimension.  It is we who are tasked with bringing the love into manifest form and affecting the light.

Shine your love.  Shine the light.  Change the world.

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Lisa is the Bookings and Contracts Manager at the EarthRise Retreat Center at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org), which conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness.