Another way to access prana in our daily lives is to maintain our focus on the energy of love. God is love. We are made in the image and likeness of God, from the substance that is God. We are literally made of love. What better way to feed, renew and restore our physical bodies than to fill ourselves up with the stuff out of which we are made.

In David Hawkins’s book Power vs. Force (2001) he describes a system of kinesiology he uses to calibrate levels of consciousness. In his scale, at a vibratory level of 400, a person is operating at the point of “reason” and at the level of 500 a person’s point of reference is “unconditional love.” While I was attending a workshop with him in Sedona, he calibrated the vibratory level of the group that was in attendance. Measuring the vibration at a level somewhere around 480, he then had the entire group go outside to experience a powerful electrical storm that was lighting up the surrounding mountains. After a half an hour of absorbing the power and the wonder of nature, he then recalibrated the group and found us to be at a level of 483! This was a substantial gain in a short period of time effected simply by the practice of focusing on an environment that stimulated a powerful spiritual feeling. That experience brought the group closer to a point in consciousness where our primary reference is unconditional love.

When a person stops eating, the center of the energetic body moves from the solar plexus, where digestion takes place, and goes to the heart, the true “digestion” center for a spirit-focused being. Love is the Western name for prana or life force. Being made of love, our bodies are literally love machines.

Since I have been learning to live on light I have found it very helpful to fill my environment with objects that stimulate a feeling of love when I rest my gaze upon them. I have many pictures of loved ones, spiritual masters, natural environment scenes and beautiful art surrounding me in my home and office. When my eyes rest upon these pictures I am filled up. I hunger for fresh flowers and beautifully scented candles and aromatherapy. Having music playing in the background as I work fills me with a sense of love that leads to peace and harmony.

Remember now those first three months after falling in love with the other, the one who we allow ourselves to believe will be the answer to all that we have been missing in our lives. Do you remember how you didn’t need to eat or sleep? Do you remember how your senses felt heightened? We all know by now that it is not the other person that is causing these feelings in us. Truthfully we do not yet really know the other person. What is causing this sense of completeness and fullness, such that we need and want nothing else but the other, is our own belief in who this person is and what he or she will do for us. It is our belief in love and the potential of love that so absorbs us and fills us. We look for love to complete us, balance us, resolve us and restore the years the locusts have eaten. The mistake we often make is to believe that this kind of love will happen only when we are finally accepted by the other for who we honestly are. The truth is that this experience of being completed by love is only possible when we are finally able to love and accept ourselves.

Try this for yourself. The next time you feel mildly hungry (don’t wait until you feel ready to rip off the refrigerator door), give your level of hunger a rating, from one to ten with one being the absence of any hunger and ten being ravenous. Go outside and breathe, think of someone you love, look at a picture of a master, look at and smell beautiful flowers, listen to beautiful music or any combination of these activities. As you are practicing these experiences, have the intention that you are being fed by the energy of love. After a half an hour, check in again and give your hunger a number rating between one and ten. Notice the difference and then journal your findings and your feelings.

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