Iammeaningpodcast1

The podcast aims to explore the concept of love and its impact on our lives. The host shares their 15 years of research on love, emphasizing its importance in relationships and decision-making. They discuss the four pillars of self-love: responsibility, care, respect, and self-knowledge. The host intends to dive deeper into these pillars and connect them with various philosophies. They believe that by loving ourselves, we can reduce pain in the world. The host acknowledges that their opinions are subjective and encourages listeners to honor their own truth and experiences. They urge listeners to start knowing themselves by acknowledging their ego and embracing both their light and darkness. The host emphasizes the need to integrate all aspects of ourselves and not solely focus on being a "good" person. They challenge the common belief that love is primarily about partnerships and emphasize the importance of self-love and self-care. The host invites listeners to reflect on their self-di Welcome to my first podcast of I Am Meaning Love. In this episode, I want to give an introduction of the objective of this podcast, which is help you questioning the meaning of love that you have in life. Since this is a concept that really shapes everything in our lives, I think it's very important to start questioning what we know and what we don't know about the concept of love. This is something that I have been researching for the last 15 years of my life, if not more. The reason why I started researching love is because I realized the pain the world is going through and how we project that pain to others and how we start making decisions in the relationships that we have, not only as a parent, as a daughter, as a friend, as a partner, as a colleague, and also in our business makings, in our business relationships. Therefore, love, I realized, is the fundamental concept that we should be investigating and researching more because it's, in my belief, the basis of everything around us, the basis of every relationship. And since every relationship shapes the decisions that we make in our daily lives, I think we should invest a little bit more time, not only for our mental health, but for the mental health of others because we affect them, our energy affects them, and the way that we project our wounds, our emotional wounds, or the misconception that we have about love can have repercussions, not only for us, but like I said, for others, for the people that are around us, for anything around us, our garden, our house, our pets, our car. Sometimes we project our anger to the things that all of a sudden don't work for us, maybe the car, the stove, the fridge, and we just send all that negative energy towards it. What I'm saying is that it is time. It is time for us to start loving, starting with ourselves. But how do we do that? It's very easy when people say, oh, you're loving yourself, you need to love yourself more. But what is it? And do they really understand what they're saying? Or it's just a cliché that we say in order for us to feel that we're motivating the other. Loving ourselves, according to Fromm, a German philosopher and psychologist, or psychiatrist, I might be wrong, I'm sorry, he might be a psychiatrist, but he published a book in which he utilizes four pillars of starting to love ourselves. One of them is being responsible. The other one is caring for ourselves. The other one is respecting ourselves. And the last one is knowing ourselves. So the objective of this podcast is not only diving into those four pillars, but then also connecting those four pillars into all the philosophies that I have read. One of them is Alan Watts, as well as Osho, and hopefully compiling all the research that I have done for the last couple of years, into maybe a path, maybe a map that we can follow to really accomplish this objective, which is loving ourselves. I'm not sure it's something that we can complete in a year, two years, even 10 years. I think this is a work in progress. But the importance of this podcast is that as long as we keep working in loving ourselves, I think we can definitely diminish the pain that we add into this world. And that, my friends, that is a noble objective, which I believe is worth following. A disclaimer that I want to say is that I honor the truth. I honor you. Therefore, you should honor your truth, honor your experience. Whatever I say, it is just an opinion that I wanted to share with you, something that I have been learning. And maybe it might help you. Whatever truth that you can get from here, remember, your truth is as valid as any other truth. Together, we can probably complete the whole truth, the universal truth. But for now, I'm just sharing with all my love, the knowledge that I have accomplished, and hopefully that will help you find your path, find your truth, find your own own love that you so much desire, and that is within you. Thank you. And hopefully I will see you in the next episode of I Am Meaning Love, where we're going to start diving deeper into the four pillars that I have mentioned. In the meantime, I want you to start knowing yourself. What does that mean? It means start connecting with your own self. On any walk that you go, when you go to the grocery, while you're driving, start knowing yourself. Start with your darkness, what we call our darkness, which is our ego, which I believe is beautiful. And it is very much needed in order for us to find the light, in order for us to learn our ego is our teacher. There's nothing wrong. I have a huge ego. And I embrace it in order for me to learn. Sometimes it goes overboard. And yes, sometimes I do become an arrogant human being. I have been horrible to others. I don't mean to it, which I know you don't either when you're on the road and all of a sudden someone triggers your ego or your wound, however we want to call it, however you want to call that side that projects hate, projects pain, and does not project love. My opinion is that we should accept it, love it, know it, and balance it. In order for us to keep learning and loving ourselves, we really need to know it. What is your ego showing you? What is your darkness? What are your demons? Do not hide them. Do not be ashamed of them. Just know them. Talk to them. Sit with them. And as you probably want to write them down so you don't forget or as you start thinking about it, it's okay. We all have them. We all have these demons, which might be as similar as many others. We might have even the same ones just with different experiences. They're a little bit different. Mine, my demon might be in shape of a leaf. Your demon might be in different shape, but they might project the same sentiment, the same feeling, the same pain that we need to overgrow or overcome. But I don't like that word, overcoming. I think it's more than overcoming, it's integrating. I think we need to integrate it into our learning. As much as a plan, we must integrate everything around us, which means light in the dark. We just need to understand that we are dual beings. It is important for us to not fall into the trap of believing completely that we are good human beings, because then we stop learning from our darkness. We stop really utilizing our ego, our moments of bad behavior per se as the teachers that they're supposed to be. Rather than accepting, oh yes, I am a wonderful, I am a kind human being, it's better to accept that you are a human being, period, learning like the rest of us, working on hopefully being a better human being, and really providing yourself, for yourself, a platform of becoming a more loving soul. And in order for you to do that, in order for us to do that, it is important then to fall into the fundaments of love. What is love for you? And please don't start describing love as a partnership, because I have questioned people, and they all start telling me about, well, love is what they do for others, and as a partner, or what they want others to do for them as a partner. And this is something that worries me, because I think we have deleted in ourselves the importance of loving ourselves, the importance of the basis of ourselves, and maybe because in the 20th century, we started talking about narcissism, mistakenly putting self-love as a narcissistic feature, which is not necessarily true. I think there is, again, a balance. There's a balance about loving yourself, respecting yourself, putting your boundaries, knowing yourself, caring for yourself, being responsible for yourself, in order for you to really then take these virtues and apply them to others. You cannot pour from an empty cup. And if your cup is empty, because for the last couple of years, humanity has completely removed the interest of loving ourselves, and has provided a platform of just looking love from the outside, what the outside can provide for you, then your cup has been empty. And this is the objective of this podcast, really searching how your cup is. And it must not be completely empty, because I believe we do have the divinity in ourselves in which is telling us, hey, there's something that you need to start connecting to yourself. I believe it's happening all over the world. And there's a reason why you're listening to this podcast. I think you're looking, you're looking. And as much as I am, we're all looking to really fulfill the voice that has been following us in our life. And I believe is because we need to really start investing more about the concept of love. So my challenge for you today is that I want you to start knowing yourself. And by the next podcast, maybe we can talk about what have you found out about you? That is maybe scary, but it's true. And it's your truth. What have you found out about you? And even through that scary moment, scary shade that you have, it has really taken you to understand your light as much as your dark. Thank you for connecting with me. And I really do hope you join me for the next podcast, in which we're going to talk about knowing. Like always, I honor you. I see you. I love you.