The Blog of Love

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Today’s Love Exercise Our love exercise is adapted from an outstanding book I’ve been reading called A Course in Love, by Joan Gattuso:Do this exercise when you encounter someone who is difficult to love.

I, Aaron Mangal, co-creator of the Year of Love & Agent of Evolution would like to thank you for being a part of this! Your role (should you choose to accept it) in our blitzkrieg of love is truly infinite.

Read on to discover our latest exercise: The Love Bubble

This Love Letter will tell you about my Spiritual Awakening of who I am, what I do and what my role is here.

I seek to promote these simple ideas:

• Abundance, peace and bliss are natural and sovereign rights of everyone on the planet.
• Everyone should be free to have what is created through their effort.
• I want to facilitate breaking cycles and patterns that are no longer useful in our existence.

Why would you want to awaken?
Because life becomes fun, interesting, unique, mysterious and fascinating when you awaken to your true power as a creator. Awakening moves you beyond mundane, materialistic, stagnant energies and into total ecstasy, bliss and love.

The awakening I am describing is realizing your infinite potential as a creator. Love, pursuing your bliss & peace are the vehicles that get you there.

My Awakening
It was 2003 and my college career at NC State University in Raleigh was just the beginning. I had just arrived from Silver Spring, MD and I was ready to jump in to the college experience of business management, partying and self discovery.

At NCSU my friend Dave introduced me to a book “The Magic of Thinking Big” by Dr. David Schwartz. This moment was the beginning of my Spiritual Awakening and led to my desire for self mastery, abundance and endless fun in life.

But, one book wasn’t enough! I read numerous self help books and soon began to investigate the connections with Spirituality. Synchronistically, around this time I discovered the fascinating Mind Body Spirit Expo in Raleigh, which happens twice a year.

There I clicked with a brilliant, inspiring lady named Connie Domino. Connie graciously gave me her book Develop Irresistible Attraction. She described using the Law of Attraction by understanding your influences growing up, releasing all negative past emotions and creating a beautiful, clear new reality.

After reading this book I realized that we are 100% responsible for what we create in life.

That’s when I began to synthesize…I read books on Spirituality, Conscious Capitalism, Environmentalism, The Wellness Revolution, Interpersonal Skills, Productivity, Word of Mouth and Internet Marketing, Customer Evangelism, Advertising Copywriting, Public Speaking, Storytelling, Sales, Sociology, Psychology and beyond.

Who am I?
Absorbing all this knowledge just led to more questions. How does all this fit together? (I knew there had to be a way!) That’s when I began to flush out in detail who I am, what I do and what is my role?

To gain full clarity all I did was ask myself the above questions. Wait, scratch that! I still ask myself those questions regularly. I found that I am a…

Communicator, Old soul, Messenger, Agent of Evolution, Bliss-Seeker, Bringer of Light, Customer Evangelist, Ecopreneur, Gemini, Creator, Observer, Networker, and Synthesizer of tools to enhance our being.

After graduation in May 2007, I realized that I need to spread the word through speaking and writing on anything and everything that enhances the world and humanity.

Many of our brothers and sisters globally are bound and sometimes trapped by culture, language, society, family, race, peers, corporations, television, politics, ego, and power. They need our help!

I invite you to join us and SHARE THE LOVE with your friends, family and colleagues.

Spread this ACROSS THE WORLD!

Ultimately I would like to

I have posted some additional thoughts such as

A simple sketch
Then, on the 2nd day of 2008, I woke up with an idea. The idea was to combine the word “love” with the number “2008″. I ran and grabbed a pencil and a piece of scrap paper, and sketched this:

I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the design, but something deep within me told me to keep going. An exciting energy flowed through me as I looked down at the sketch and considered the possibilities.

Then a phrase popped into my head – 2008: The Year of Love.

I didn’t fully realize what I had discovered, but the more I thought about it, the more excited I got.

Several hours on Photoshop and one domain purchase later, I had a beautiful graphic and the yearoflove.org. My wife even helped me design a website for it.

I did all of this without really knowing where the idea was going.

Before I continue it’s time for a Love Exercise:

Love Exercise for the Week:

Go look in the mirror right now. Look yourself in the eye and say I love you 7 times.

How do you feel? It’s tough to feel bad after doing that isn’t it? As Wayne Dyer said in his book The Power of Intention “Say it without embarrassment. Say it proudly, and be that image of love and self-respect.”

Cultivate this love you felt among your close circle of friends, family and coworkers and this will expand into your community and throughout the globe.

Back to the Story

Then Aaron, a friend & fellow change agent came into the picture.

He had read extensively on the power of love, compassion and the mind. We both agreed that incredible power is available to all of us and much of love’s power is unused.

But why? Well, because people just don’t know how to tap into it!

Love is infinitely abundant in the universe and is simple to use. We only need to do one thing to tap in to the infinite power of love: Choose to use it.

Our Mission

Our mission this year is to find out everything we can about love and share it with as many people as possible. We will collect this information by talking to citizens of the world, experts and other love seekers.

We want to meet all of you!

Please answer these questions. You can post your answers by commenting on this blog entry.

1. Why do you get out of bed in the morning?

2. What is most important to you in the world?

3. What do you want to achieve before you leave this world?

4. What do you really LOVE about your life?

5. How have you been using the power of love in your life?

6. What would you like to get out of the Love-Letter?

Also, if you have any friends interested in tapping into the power of love, please share this article with them right now!

With Love,

 Justin

P.S. - Stay tuned next week for Aaron’s story: How Love Made Me An Agent Of Evolution

P.P.S. – Here is a quick affirmation that I’ve been using lately. Say it silently or out loud every morning and night, and you’ll start to feel more love radiating to you and from you:

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