To understand one’s self as LOVE, we need to look at the deepest root of love and understand the part it plays in one’s life experience. The deepest root of love is unconditional love. Most of us can say we have heard of the term “unconditional love” before, and would probably say it means “to love someone or something without conditions,” or “to love someone no matter what.” Someone might think it means something else entirely. As individuals, we each might think we know what unconditional love is, but in fact there is much more to it.

I remember having some great philosophical conversations with my father beginning when I was as young as seven. I would ask “Why?” about almost every topic: from “Why is the sky blue?” to “Why are we humans the way we are?”  We would discuss my questions over and over until each one of us ended up at an understanding that was not of our conditional existence. If the topic was about nature or our universe, I found that each answer I came to led to yet another question that would keep me asking until the answers led me all the way back to before there was a conditional universe. If the topic was about something material, something created by humans, I came to see that still, the idea itself was initiated from a place inside a human, or humans, that was not of conditions. I started to recognize something powerful. I began to see an unconditional existence, or a place not of conditions, in every experience, even seemingly “negative” ones. I began to accept that everything came from this place. I now refer to this “place” as Unconditional Love.

Over millennia, many spiritual masters and teachers have described this “place” or “enlightened” feeling in many ways such as “being in the present moment,” or “feeling connected” or “at one with our Source.” It is very humbling and near impossible to describe something so powerful. In fact, people do not often understand written descriptions of this feeling until they have experienced it themselves. Whatever names this feeling has been given, or how it has been described, emphasizes the immense power and great love that comes from living moment to moment.

An awakening came for me when I realized I could help people understand this connection, this present moment as Unconditional Love. For me, calling it that made sense. The word “unconditional” means complete or total. “Love” can be described as acceptance. “Unconditional Love” equals complete or total acceptance as an experience of being in the moment. While allowing myself the space in which to understand how I could see Unconditional Love in everything, I realized that it wasn’t what I was seeing that allowed me to experience Unconditional Love, it was how I was experiencing what I was seeing as a physical sensation. I experienced this sensation while talking with people, visiting a bustling city, reading a book, spending time in nature, or viewing things around me. It had nothing to do with the way that I was analyzing the experience. It was simply the rawness and purity of the sensation. It was that “aha!” moment that inspired me to want to share Unconditional Love in this way, as a physical sensation, with others.

When I first made the connection and equated Unconditional Love with a physical sensation, it made perfect sense to me because I greatly enjoyed sports and martial arts growing up. I could relate to having a physical sensation and focus to work with because of the years I spent training my body. This made it much easier for me to work toward accepting my experiences.

Working with Unconditional Love physically through any particular moment, even when I feel fear, has shown me how to accept the moment and turn the physical sensation of it into love, making it possible to see that moment as Unconditional Love. This keeps me aligned with my spirit’s journey. As long as I physically accept experiences, staying in line with this Unconditional Love, my spirit, or Unconditional Self, continually reveals what is next on my journey.

This book is designed to help readers along their spiritual journey. Through description, stories and practical integrative exercises, my goal is to inspire people to access and recognize within themselves the physical sensation of “Unconditional Love,” and utilize it to its fullest power so they can live a life of more excitement, inspiration, passion, freedom and joy.