Pernilla Lillarose, author, teacher, life coach & radio host at
Awakened Radio Network.
Being Loved vs Feeling Loved
by Pernilla Lillarose
Is like night and day.
I think we can all agree that our parents loved us and did everything they could to express that and make us what they considered happy.
It took me years to work through all my childhood stuff and realize that my dad really loved me. He did what a dad was supposed to do in those days: He fed me, clothed me, gave me a roof over my head, education, and tried to guide (push?) me in a direction that he thought would be best for me.
He did well! Not only did I survive, I lived a good life with all my needs met. Well, my physical needs for sure. The emotional needs is another story. I had to put my own 25 cents (or thousands?) into finding acceptance and true peace with my deeper needs beyond pure survival.
Feeling Loved
When I began experiencing what it is like to Feel Loved, my life turned around and keeps turning...
Feeling Loved opens all the previously closed doors to who I am and what is possible.
Feeling Loved is the balm I was looking for in order to heal the hardened places inside that caused me to get involved in unloving relationships, not trusting mySelf and feeling stuck in the general suffering, unhappiness and struggle of the world.
If being loved is enough, most of us would feel free, confident and happy. Yet, most of us don't.
Even though we were deeply loved, as long as we can't FEEL it, something is missing.
Until you can actually Feel Loved, there is a good chance you'll be looking for it outside of yourself – frankly, you can't help it.
There is nothing wrong with trying to find Love outside of yourself. It beautiful to receive Love from the outside, especially if you are able to embody the Feeling of it inside. Then you can enjoy it without feeling dependent on it.