You hear me over and over on this podcast state that my journey to unconditional love has required me to let go of seeking love outside of me and to find the love that exists inside. The love that is everlasting and always present in each and every human if we can but let go of the judgements and egoic mind that block our awareness. 

While it has been crucial for me to go inward for love, what does this mean in context of community? Especially if you find yourself going through any type of challenge in which you feel isolated and alone? I’m looking forward to going deeper into the need we all have  for belonging and community. 

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode:
Faith Expansion Support Group with Valerie Hamaker
Faith Deconstruction and Reconstruction Group with Celeste Davis
Embracing the World---Amma, the Hugging Saint

In this episode I'm going to continue Part 2 of my Love story. And I have to say that in over ten years of podcasting, this episode is hands down the most vulnerable episode I've ever done. That being said, I want to preface by letting you know my two personal guidelines for vulnerability..

1. First, I never publicly share my stories when I am in the messy middle. I always always wait until I am in a neutral place and have progressed through any experience far enough to be able to have some healthy detachment. 
2. Second, I only share with purpose. And always my purpose is to teach a principle. The principle I'm teaching in this story is unconditional love---which you will probably quickly notice, you don't hear about unconditional love in this story until the end. What you will hear instead is a lot about rejection and judgement. But life often teaches us most profoundly through contrast. For me, I could not know what true love was, until I learned what love is not.

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Today I wanted to share with you part one of my love story. This is a little different than the love story genre we usually hear about. This is not a romantic love story, rather it is my own personal journey from living in the reality of conditional love and judgement to living in the reality of unconditional love and acceptance. We will all have our own love story journey. This is mine.

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I talk a lot about unconditional love on this podcast, because I believe that is what real love is. A question that often arises when you begin to explore unconditional love after living with conditions for so long, is, if love has no conditions, then how do you not just become a doormat? How does the world not just go crazy? These questions are really the result of being taught fear instead of love, and I think this is a really important distinction to get clear on so we can create a more peaceful world to live in.  

As a thank you to my listeners, I have created a free "I love and accept you" meditation for you to practice unconditional love for yourself. Meditation is my favorite tool for unlearning our judgements and returning to unconditional love. Simply download the Co Create app from your App Store and you'll find it waiting for you in the Free Meditations on the app. You can find a link to Apple or Google app stores in the shownotes of this episodes.  Remember, You are love. Namaste. 

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In this episode we're going to talk about how judgement is the #1 block to experiencing unconditional love. And I will tell you right now, if you can let go of judgement, you will enter the world of unconditional love. It's that simple. And... at the same time, not so simple... because our judgements can be so deeply held. Let's learn more about how to see and remove the barrier of judgement so you can create a better reality. 

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In this episode we're going to talk about #1 tool for accessing love. Notice that I say access, because the truth is, you are love. And you always have love inside of you. We just block our access to the love within with all our judgements of ourself. In this episode I want to share with you my fastest and most effective tool for returning back to the natural state of love that you are. 

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The Co Create App gives you access to over 100+ Guided Meditations, new Yoga Classes, Inspirational Audio Courses, and community Challenges to support you in living into your true identity as the creator of your life. In the free section you'll also find my signature "I love and accept you" meditation which I would love for you to try. To learn more visit brookesnow.com/app. 

In this episode we're shining a light on how we withhold love from ourselves or others based upon the conditions we may unknowingly be putting upon ourselves or others. Living with conditional love has its consequences. Most prominently being the ever present feeling of not being enough or having to fix or change who you are in order to be loved or accepted. It's a constant state of lack and poverty, and one of the greatest epidemics of our time. The great tragedy of this, is it doesn't have to be this way, because the love we seek is actually already within. 

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In this episode we're going to talk about what the difference is between duality and non duality. I like to think of duality as similar to polarity. It's living in a black and white experience of life. Non duality is learning to close the gap between polarities to achieve wholeness.  If we desire to live with One Heart, this is an important concept to understand.

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The Co Create App gives you access to over 100+ Guided Meditations, new Yoga Classes, Inspirational Audio Courses, and community Challenges to support you in living into your true identity as the creator of your life. In the free section you'll also find my signature "I love and accept you" meditation which I would love for you to try. To learn more visit brookesnow.com/app. 

We're divided inside. We have a true self, and we have an ego.

Another way to say the same thing, is that we have a divine self and we have a human self. We're both fully divine and fully human. We have been taught to judge our humanness as shameful. Or maybe we've even been taught that divinity is something we earn or become if we prove ourselves worthy enough?

Could it be, that true wholeness is learning how to unite our two selves into one? If I reject my humanness, I reject half of who I am. This is not wholeness. Its halfness. Wholeness is learning how to unite the divide, not eliminate the half we judge as bad. My intention with this One Heart podcast, is to offer insight, stories, and experiences for how we can be whole. Both fully divine AND fully human. 

Love brings wholeness. 

Judgement brings separateness.

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I have spent years of my life studying self improvement. I have had an insatiable hunger, that if I could just fix myself and improve myself, then it would magically solve all my problems and I'd find success, whatever success was. 

I have since discovered that what I was really chasing was love. I believed that if I could just be better than I was, or just be someone else, then I would find the love I was looking for. God would love me more, I would love me more, and other people in my life would love me more.  And so I pursued the path of self improvement.

Ironically, I am discovering that if you focus on self love and acceptance, you actually DO IMPROVE. Like dramatically! I've been putting the cart before the horse for years. But the reason to love and accept yourself more fully, is not about what you can achieve because of it, the reason to love and accept yourself more fully, is for what it does for your entire experience of life in the present moment. It is for what it does for your personal happiness, and for your relationships. For what it does for the paradigm in which you see the world. For what it does for your heart. 

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