1. What does the word Love mean to you?

Love is so many things…Love is a:
Presence – you can feel if someone love’s you, just by being near to them.
Principal – Love is a way of life and behavior, thoughts and feeling. This is an unselfish principal that considers the welfare of others.
Power – Love is a life force – perhaps the only one that can transform our enemies into allies!
Intelligence – Wisdom and intelligence is used in the dispensing of love.
Substance – All energy can be manifested at a different octave into the physical world. And things bloom when in resonance with love.
Frequency – Love always feels the same, because it is the same vibration or frequency. It is a creative tone in our musical universe!
Light – just as an octave of love can manifest in the physical realm, so there is an octave of love in the spectrum of light.
Activity – Love is not passive. It seeks, it reaches out, it understands why people fail, it sings us back into harmony after we fail, it includes and it serves.
Unity – love understands that we impact each other. If another is hurt, we all affected. Each among us that expands our limitless capacity to love – blesses all the rest of us.

2. Have you ever felt like love was missing from your life? (How do you handle these periods of time?)

Dealing with these times is part of being a human. Giving what you need is a sublime way of healing yourself from the wounds of lack of love. I carry rose quartz, near my heart, to literally ease the physical pain from heartache. The spirit that embodies this quartz helps me release and express pain. Most importantly, I sing my pain out of my being in my music and art.

3. What is the biggest way you see that love (or the lack thereof) has impacted our world today?

Love changes everything. It is a powerful force on people, animals, our environment and civilizations. Love changes how you live and how you die, can make a summer fly or a night seem like a lifetime, words mean more, and pain is deeper. Love will never let you be the same.

4. What is the last extraordinary book you read and what impact did it have on you?

Sacred Sounds by Ted Andrew. I am fascinated with the use of sound and music to change everything!

5. From your perspective, what is the most practical way to bringing more love into the world?

To each personally use more love in our lives. We all can love. The trick is to love all people at all times…just keep increasing our love.
 
Music is an energy that can carry love, or any emotion for that matter. Music that soothes and blesses people can be played on magnetic lines in the earth to raise the earth’s overall frequencies. I believe that the rap music, popular with many young people, greatly aided in eliminating our culture’s habit of discrimination against black people. When we love another’s music – it is hard to hate them. Perhaps we could exchange music with culture from all over the world – to facilitate peace. How can we kill a group of people, when we love to sing their songs?

6. Is there a connection between love and inspiration? Who in your lifetime has inspired you the most?

Being inspired is being in-spirited. Highly evolved spirits cannot channel through us without our energy being high. Love raises our energy – better than anything. People who inspire me operate at a higher frequency, when they show a greater force of love, and I often copy a behavior, perspective or attitude.

7. How do you incorporate love into your business or professional life?

By being generous, helping others to gain, enabling others to give, sharing opportunities, encouraging people, being honest, honoring values. Why get through the day when you can give through the day?

Your Vision: What intrigues you the most about where the world is headed today?

The world is in position to learn about impact of music and its influence on cultures, civilizations, our health, our intelligence, our feeling and our relationships with the Divine. We can raise our consciousness to use frequencies and musical elements to affect our individual vibratory matrices of who we are and to collectively raise cultures and large masses of people.

A four-time author and widely recognized expert in the emerging field of Sound Healing, Jill lectures about the Healing Power of Music, unveiling ancient cultural secrets and scientific findings. Jill produces Sound Healing musical CD’s. More information: www.jillswingsoflight.com. Complementary soundhealing newsletter/ free mp3s: www.jillshealingmusic.com

1. What does the word Love mean to you?

Perfect love is all that exists and this means that all is well, regardless of appearances.

2. Have you ever felt like love was missing from your life? (How do you handle these periods of time?)

There were many times that I felt like love was missing from my life. I came from a rather traumatic childhood followed by decades of self destructive behavior until I was finally able to connect with our source of perfect love, wisdom, and compassion. Now I know that connecting with our source of perfect love is the solution to all problems.

3. What is the biggest way you see that love (or the lack thereof) has impacted our world today?

I see that all lack, violence, and the destruction of our world arise from and are symbolic of our imagined separation from our source of perfect love, and that imagined separation is our only real problem. Therefore, connection with source is the answer to all problems.

4. What is the last extraordinary book you read and what impact did it have on you?

“The Disappearance of the Universe” by Gary Renard. This book showed me how to move from the intellectual understanding of the truth to a consistent experience of truth, for which I’d been searching my entire life.

5. From your perspective, what is the most practical way to bringing more love into the world?

By connecting to our source of perfect love and resting there for brief moments repeated many times until automatic. In this way we will stabilize our well-being and live our lives from a place of wisdom. Then to teach this to as many others as possible, regardless of anyone’s ability to pay.

6. Is there a connection between love and inspiration? Who in your lifetime has inspired you the most?

I’ve experienced my clearest and deepest inspirations when I feel connected to our source of perfect love. There are many people who have inspired me. They are all around me every day. If you want me to give you some names, I’d say Christopher Reeves inspires me and everyone who has overcome some major adversity to go onto live lives that benefit others. Mother Teresa is also a huge inspiration to me because she lived her life only to be of service to others and I believe that this came from her connection to our source of love and so it was her joy and freedom to serve, not a sacrifice.

7. How do you incorporate love into your business or professional life?

I see no separation between my business life and personal life. To me it is all personal and is all equally important. I connect with our source of love in all matters so that I’m able to act from a place of wisdom. I see everyone I meet as a member of our human family and always wish to act in ways that are of benefit to all.

Your Vision: What intrigues you the most about where the world is headed today?

What intrigues me the most about this current time period is that we have the technology to communicate world-wide with more people in more places than ever before, and that we can do this instantly. So when a good idea’s time has come it can be communicated and will spread like wildfire to all those who wish to take advantage and use it for the benefit of all. My vision is of a world where the rape of a child is no more within my lifetime. This is close to my heart because I was raped as a child and having come through it to a place of forgiveness, I feel inspired to work toward the eradication of this epidemic in our world through love and wisdom.

Linda Jean McNabb, public speaker and author of “One Again: A True Story of a Different Kind of Forgiveness.” Please visit her website to learn more about her story from trauma to forgiveness at www.lindamcnabb.com.

1. What does the word Love mean to you?

When I think of the word LOVE I get a physical feeling of joyfulness. I also start to picture my loved ones. I use the word often and love the sense of powerfulness and peacefulness that it has about it. For me, it conjures up an overarching priority that both informs and explains everything I am.

2. Have you ever felt like love was missing from your life? (How do you handle these periods of time?)

Of course, I think we all have from time to time. Years ago I used to dwell on it. However, I’ve learned through experience that there is always some form of love in our lives no matter what. When we focus on that love, we attract more love and more feelings of love so we stop feeling like love is missing from our lives. Even if we focus on how much our pet loves us or how much we love flowers, more love grows from that and it’s those feelings that get us to the feelings of love we crave.

3. What is the biggest way you see that love (or the lack thereof) has impacted our world today?

I think a fear of the lack of love makes people focus more on getting love rather than giving love. We have started to talk about love as if it is a commodity rather than a heart-based connection. Our focus on “getting” love distracts us from actually feeling loved and loving.

4. What is the last extraordinary book you read and what impact did it have on you?

Most recently the book that has touched me deeply is “How to See Yourself As You Really Are” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. As someone who struggled for years with a deep sense of self-loathing before learning that in order to give and accept love in the world we must first give and accept love within ourselves, I find the author’s ability to love despite anything profoundly humbling and empowering.

5. From your perspective, what is the most practical way to bringing more love into the world?

We spread love in the world effortlessly by simply expressing the love we feel.

6. Is there a connection between love and inspiration? Who in your lifetime has inspired you the most?

Absolutely. Love is creative and passionate (even when it’s not romantic love). My mother was the single biggest and most powerful influence in my life. She vibrated with love and compassion in a way that made her seem both gentle and extraordinarily powerful. She was so certain in her love that she made those around her feel her joyfulness.

7. How do you incorporate love into your business or professional life?

I incorporate love into my business on a few fronts. First, I spend time within myself thinking about the love I feel for my business, my clients, my profession, etc. Second, I deliberately use positive loving language in all aspects of my work as well as consciously choose to work with like-minded clients and partners. I also include self-love processes in all of my programs and services as I truly believe that healthy self-love is at the heart of business success.

Your Vision: What intrigues you the most about where the world is headed today?

I am most intrigued by the move toward a more spiritual and heart based way of living and doing business. We are beginning to recognize on a whole new level the human potential for good and compassion and to see these as strengths in the world.

Ruth Hegarty helps women entrepreneurs create confident and effortless success personally and professionally. A certified Law of Attraction Coach, Ruth teaches women to unleash their powerful creator so they can work less, earn more and have lots more fun. It’s what she calls Effortless Success. Learn more and download your free copy of the Effortless Success Tool Kit at http://www.CoachRuth.com.

1. What does the word Love mean to you?

Love is who we are. Love is the very fabric of the universe. It is an all-pervasive energy that flows through and connects everything, which is why I define love as oneness. When we align ourselves with this Infinite Being or Divine Consciousness, it is felt as love and oneness. Primary expressions of love include compassion, empathy, gratitude, joy, peace, and harmony with all of creation.

2. Have you ever felt like love was missing from your life? (How do you handle these periods of time?)

I often feel like love is missing from my life. Stress is a natural response to living in the physical and having to adapt to change. I define stress as anything in opposition to love or oneness. While love and oneness are our core nature, living in a world of duality means that invariably we will be exposed to fear and other “negative” emotions and feelings. When I find myself feeling fearful, angry, frustrated, or depressed, I sit down as soon as possible to get in touch with these feelings. I treat myself like I would a best friend – no judgment, criticism or trying to change how I’m feeling. I tell myself that I accept and love myself just the way I am. I let that part of me know that it is completely safe and loved. I call in spiritual assistance as necessary. Another approach is to remind myself that negative feelings don’t exist in the spiritual dimension, our true home. So, sometimes I welcome them, and say, for example “So that’s what depression feels like. Thank you for helping me to understand love more fully.” I remind myself who I really am: God or Divine Consciousness manifesting in form. This can all take real discipline for me.

3. What is the biggest way you see that love (or the lack thereof) has impacted our world today?

Love (or the lack of it) impacts everything always. When we live in harmony with love, everything goes better. It allows for a greater flow of the life force or quantum energy that supports all of life. I see a great deal of fear, greed, and confusion in the world today. And we are seeing the consequences of this great misalignment of not living together in harmony with respect for all of life. However, I also see a much greater swelling of Christ consciousness that will necessarily bring life into greater balance. It has long intrigued me that business is prone to follow a model of “Invest the least amount possible for the greatest gain.” It is so blatantly opposed to a model of love, which is, “Give the greatest amount possible, without any thought of return.” Something’s got to give. I recommend you invest in love.

4. What is the last extraordinary book you read and what impact did it have on you?

Ask and It is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks is one of the most inspirational books I have ever read. It is simply the Bible of how to use your thoughts and feelings to make all of your dreams come true. Ester and Jerry (and Abraham) speak eloquently, clearly, and forcefully about the law of attraction, and that there is nothing you cannot have or do.

5. From your perspective, what is the most practical way to bringing more love into the world?

The most practical way to bring more love into the world is to do what brings you the greatest joy and meaning in your life. Joy is a vibration that touches the soul, and is necessary to hold the vibration of love. I believe life is truly meant to be joyful. Joy connects us with the spirit realm, and is a resonant energy that creates and attracts more love in the world. We know through quantum physics that consciousness literally creates. Energy follows your thoughts and feelings. Follow your bliss. Through the knowledge and experience of joy is the attachment to love and the vibrations of the universal consciousness. When we experience joy we’re resonating with Divine Consciousness, which allows for a greater flow of the Life Force energy, which is an energy of love.

Of course, meditation is another practical way to access Divine Consciousness. When we’re in a deep meditative state, that experience of love and oneness is a frequency or vibration that is sent out into the world. It functions to realign any existing dissonance, and creates a natural state of harmony, order, and love.

6. Is there a connection between love and inspiration? Who in your lifetime has inspired you the most?

Love and inspiration are intimately connected. Our fundamental nature is love. And thoughts and feelings literally create form. As you experience love, you naturally are more open to inspirational ideas from your soul, spirit guides, and Divine Consciousness.

I have been inspired most in my life by my friend and mentor, Ken McCaulley. He was a genuine seeker of truth. I was fortunate to work and study with him for many years before his death in 1999. Now he continues to inspire me daily as my spirit guide.

7. How do you incorporate love into your business or professional life?

My great friend, Ken McCaulley, had been psychic all of his life. Soon after we met and began working together, he began to channel a remarkable spiritual wisdom that I conversed with daily for seven years, beginning in 1977. I had not really given much thought to a spiritual side of life prior to this. However, I soon realized that life is all about living love in every aspect of our life.

Since I define love as oneness and aligning oneself with qualities that are characteristic of love, I try to be aware of when I’m out of alignment – feeling stressed, frustrated, impatient, etc. I’m self-employed with a home office, so I incorporate this attentiveness throughout my day since I’m involved with writing, speaking interviews, and marketing all day long. I know that my emotional state dramatically affects all aspects of my work and relationships. Sometimes I have to work hard at not being critical and judgmental, and to trust and allow my life plan/soul script to unfold. It definitely helps if I take breaks through the day to recharge and refocus. Almost all of my business and professional life is now devoted to teaching and writing about love and how to apply it in our daily lives.

Your Vision: What intrigues you the most about where the world is headed today?

What intrigues me most about where the world is headed today is knowing that there is great spiritual assistance at this time to help us return to a greater spiritual consciousness, and less greed and materiality in the world. Civilization will become more harmonious. People will realize more clearly and fully their connection to Spirit, and what it means to love oneself. This won’t happen in my lifetime, but I can’t wait until there is no longer a stock market, and people and humanity will be valued over profits. Arbitrary borders between countries will disappear. All people and cultures will be respected for their unique qualities and contributions. I honestly have a vision of justice and freedom for all. And, of course, because consciousness creates, I encourage everyone to hold this vision.

Dr. Dean Shrock is the author of the book Why Love Heals. To learn more about Why Love Heals, visit http://whyloveheals.com/