Love Like Your Life Depends On It

By Sally Eichhorst

Deep within ourselves, we all have the capacity for great love, compassion, kindness, gratitude and all the emotions associated with love. This is our power – our weapon against everything – to love abundantly – and it is this love that will change the world if only more will recognise its power.
Through the power of love, we can change the world one day and week at a time, one small gesture, deed and action at a time. Love is the answer to destroying all the elements of hatred and it is the state of mind we should all be aiming for to achieve contentment and balance in life.

This book will help you to:
Work on eradicating the 7 elements of hatred from your life through love
Discover the power of love through a 7-week programme

Love like your life depends on it because through love, we can change the way we deal with people – those close to us and those we don’t know. We can change the way we cope with situations and experiences – the good and the bad. We can change the way we view the world at large and all living things that inhabit it. The choices and decisions we make, the kind and helpful gestures we offer – they can all lead to life-altering changes within ourselves and those around us.

Author of several bestselling self-help motivational books, Sally Eichhorst co-authored her first bestseller, Unleash Your Full Potential, in 1998. Her dynamic motivational style has enabled her to work as a facilitator, motivational presenter and lecturer in the marketing and advertising fields at University level. Her passion for helping authors realise their dreams of publication inspired Sally and her partner to set up their own publishing company and now, well over a decade after its inception, Reach Publishers has helped hundreds of authors worldwide publish their books. Her business partner and co-author of several books has since become her life partner and this talented writing team are now married with a beautiful son.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reach Publishers
• Release date: Jun 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9780620587112

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Copyright © 2016 Sally Eichhorst

First published in 2013 by Reach Publishers

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Edited by Robyn Pitot de la Beaujardiere for Reach Publishers

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By Warren Veenman & Sally Eichhorst

Unleash Your Full Potential

Where Has My Ceiling Gone?

Dare to Succeed

If I Can You Can

A Pocket Full of Inspiration

A Burst of Inspiration

I Can’t...

Be Inspired

By Sally Eichhorst

Get Your Act Together

A Shift Within

Get Connected

This book is dedicated to my son, Colby Dale Veenman who has taught me the meaning of unconditional love.

Content

Introduction

Part 1 - 7 Elements Of Hate To Eradicate Through Love

Chapter 1 - HATE defined

Chapter 2 - 1st Element: Sweeten the bitterness

Chapter 3 - 2nd Element: Face fear

Chapter 4 - 3rd Element: Forgive and let go of vengeance

Chapter 5 - 4th Element: Replace anger and violence with tolerance and control

Chapter 6 - 5th Element: Be content and inspired not jealous

Chapter 7 - 6th Element: Hold onto hope not grudges

Chapter 8 - 7th Element: Stop criticising and gossiping

Part 2 - 7 - Week Programme To Discover The Power Of Love

Chapter 9 - LOVE defined

Chapter 10 - Week 1 - Love who you are

Chapter 11 - Week 2 - Love who you’re with

Chapter 12 - Week 3 - Love those with whom you share the world

Chapter 13 - Week 4 - Love the world around you

Chapter 14 - Week 5 - Love what you do

Chapter 15 - Week 6 - Love the wonder of possibilities and opportunities

Chapter 16 - Week 7 - Love life

Conclusion

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When I loved myself for being myself

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When I loved my dogs, delightedly watching them at play with a silly grin on my face

When I loved my friends as we chatted about fond memories which I re-lived in their warm presence

When I loved my father for the unconditional love I could see pouring from his soul to refill my cup in need of replenishment

When I loved the world for its beauty and abundance, delighting in a sunrise, a crisp morning with fresh flowers or a glorious day on the beach

When I loved humanity for the good I could still see as strangers reached out to help others in need

When I loved life for choosing me to receive the gift of life

When I loved, I realised that life is all about love

Life is love

The meaning of life is love

And without love, life is nothing!

Sally Eichhorst

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem.

Love and peace are eternal."

John Lennon

Introduction

"Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference in our own lives and those of others."

Sharon Salzberg

LOVE IS THE ANSWER

I truly do believe that love is the answer to all questions.

To the questions Who am I? and Why am I here? my response is, You are love and you are here to love and be loved. Born out of an act of love (whether or not the act was between loved ones, it was designed as an act of love), born pure and innocent with a clean slate as a product of love, you are love. You have the capacity to love abundantly and it is this love that will change the world if only more will recognise its power.

To the question of famine, love is the answer. If more of us had love and compassion for those who have less and gave even a fraction of what we have so others may have, or even volunteered to help in some small way, famine would be tackled head-on until it would become a thing of the past.

To the question of war, if we understood that war only brings hate, death, vengeance and misery – all the opposites of love – perhaps we would not be so quick to turn to violence. Perhaps we would look more deeply, discuss more freely and negotiate more honestly and openly if we shared a common love and respect for life.

To the question of corruption and crimes against humanity, love is the answer. The power of love for one another, family, friends, community and nations can unite people like no other. We have seen it again and again as people unite in their love and care for one another, rising up together against dictators who rule and maintain power through fear and corruption.

ARE YOU A DETACHED SPECTATOR?

Our culture and lifestyle today are intricate and beautifully coloured on the surface, but it seriously seems to lack deeper meaning. I mean honestly, when did we start caring more about celebrities than our own family, friends and neighbours? I was shocked when I heard a man say that he cried on hearing about the death of Princess Diana, but he didn’t even cry at his own daughter’s funeral. What?! Who will win the song or dance contest on television? Is that famous acting couple going to get a divorce? Does that singer have a drug problem? Is that hunky actor secretly gay? The media stage events to such an extent that fantasy, fiction and reality get all mixed up. Eventually we start to get confused and can’t distinguish between what is false and what is real, so everything becomes false with a sense of detachment from reality. This sense of detachment allows us to become desensitised to what we see in the media and extends to what is happening around us – the homeless and hungry street children, the old crippled beggar in the street, the neighbour who is ill, lonely or depressed and so on. Because we have this sense of detachment we don’t feel the need to get involved – like it’s not real and therefore out of our control; what could we possibly do to help and what difference would it make? We feel powerless to make a difference and this sense of powerlessness – of believing that an ordinary person does not matter and cannot possibly make a difference – has provided us with a convenient excuse for inaction.

"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."

Martin Luther King, Jr

REGAIN YOUR POWER

In our real world made up of the real people around us – our family, friends and neighbours – and the real situations and challenges we face daily, we must battle to regain power. We can and will regain power and it doesn’t have to be a large scale turnaround with massive and immediate results. I believe our power will slowly be regained through small gestures, small decisions and small changes. We cannot rely on some outside force to save us because no one can save us from ourselves. We must look deep within ourselves – our hearts (where love lives) – to find the strength that will keep us free from this powerlessness. We can