Love. Self. Love

Lately I've been deeply deeply considering what love is, and how to do it well.

Funny, even just looking at my choice of words is curious to me. Perhaps trying to "do it well" is impossible... because to love we don't have to do much... is it inherent in our beingness?

Either way, I feel like I have a lot to learn about love... so I'll take that desire and run with it. It can't hurt to learn how to love better, can it?

Sometimes I feel like I don't know how to love - like I'm bad at it... that I like to receive it in certain ways... I like to be on the "taking" end of love... but giving it!!! Ahh! That's scary and hard.

And what's the deal with looking for it all the time, falling for it all the time, orienting so much energy towards it all the time.

I think these questions are really relevant to Ayurveda... in fact I might start translating "Ayurveda" as "the Science of Self Love." I do tend to come up with many translations for the word... since it's in Sanksrit and I think it's important for Practitioners and Teachers to give a meaning of Sanksrit words in our own Native Languages... letting those translations come from our lived experiences in the cultures in which we inhabit.

Ayur means life
Veda means wisdom

Life is this amalgamation of events and movements that can only happen within some grace and vastness and mystery that I will choose to call Love. When we are "in love" we often have the strongest sense of being alive.

Ayurveda is therefore love wisdom.

And that's cool to me, because I always think about Ayurveda as learning to love our selves for our own uniqueness... or constitutional make-up, Learning to love and accept ourselves as we are

And then there is this strong emotional resonance that I have between the word love and a sense of "being taken care of." So that Ayurveda might be wisdom of learning to be taken care of/take care of ourselves... feels right.