What Blocks the Flow of Love?

So, what self-limiting beliefs and fears block us from experiencing the Love that is constantly around us? People often hold themselves back from feeling Love because they are afraid that it makes them vulnerable. Maybe you have felt love for someone and it hasn't worked out. Maybe you loved someone and they were incapable of giving love back to you. Maybe you experienced a betrayal, or your expectations weren't met in some way. You opened your heart and let out some love. When you didn't get what you wanted in return, you felt hurt. To avoid feeling hurt again, you closed your heart. Love is more than just a feeling or emotion. It is a force of nature, a law of physics, a universal principle that is far greater than our capacity to perceive. We perceive little facets of it in our love for each other. It is an energy that is bigger than romantic love, bigger than brotherly love, bigger even than the love of a parent for a child. Love contains all of the qualities of romantic, brotherly, and parental love, but it is even more than this. Our human expressions of love give us only a glimpse at what Love is. If you choose to, you can open yourself up to greater and greater degrees of Love and allow yourself to manifest this very high vibration in the world. Unlike romantic love, that can be given on one day and taken away on the next, the Universal Love Principle is not given or taken away. It simply Is, always. We don't have to create it, or manifest it. We simply have to allow it in. How do you do that? All you have to do is remove the blocks and it comes rushing in. There is one basic thing that human beings use to keep love out. That one thing is Fear. Fear of getting hurt, fear of what it may mean to be loving, fear of allowing that much power into our lives, fear of changes that will occur for us if we allow that much Love. Change is scary - even if it is change for the better. Consider these ideas as they may help you to overcome some of your fears: Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to do what they tell you to do. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be their friend (although you might decide you want to). Just because you love someone doesn't mean you owe them anything.Just because you love someone doesn't mean they owe you anything. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to agree with them. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you approve of all of their actions.Love with a capital "L" is not dependant on who you are, or who other people are, or who deserves what, or what is fair. Love just Is. Love is Unconditional.