What Is Love, Really?
- Galactic Regina
- Aug 6
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 11
Self-Love Practices: A Reflection on the Most Powerful Word We Use
The heart is the center of every human body. Love is the emotion that flows from it.
The most natural expression of who we truly are.
We all want to feel loved. We all want to give love.
But what is love, really?
Sometimes we use Words Without Thinking of it's real meaning behind
There are moments we use words without stopping, without taking even one breath to consider what they truly mean beyond the letters or the sound.
I have been reflecting on this for quite a while. So many of the words we use daily carry no conscious thought behind them. We use them carelessly, almost automatically.
And yet our words matter more than we realize.
Every word we speak is either a spell we cast or a heaven we create for ourselves and for others.
Because everything we send outward eventually returns to us, every word we say is ultimately said to ourselves. Our words are the consequence of our thoughts. And here is where the real work begins: recognizing that we are not our thoughts.
Rather than identifying with them, we are invited to observe them. To watch, without becoming.
So What Does Love Mean to You?
If you use the word love, what does it truly mean to you, beyond conditioning?
Not the version you were taught. Not the version the world reflected back at you.
But yours. The real one.
Take a moment right now. Place both hands on your heart.
Close your eyes if you feel called to.
Ask yourself, gently and honestly:
What does the word LOVE mean to me?
What Love Means to Me?
For me, love means connection with myself and with my inner light.
It means balance. It means harmony.
In that state of being, I feel ready to create, to share, to connect with others and to bring my gifts fully into the world.
Love is everything to me. It is what flows through every living and non-living being.
Love is Light itself.
Cultivating Love, is Like taking care of a Garden
When we connect with our inner love and tend to it daily, like a beautiful garden, it grows. It flourishes. And it creates an unstoppable ripple effect that touches everyone and everything around us.
Imagine a world where we move beyond fear and conditioning. Where each of us chooses, one breath at a time, to come back to the heart.
What a world that would be.
It starts with you. It starts today.
You are the creator of your life. Trust that you can take one step closer to yourself, because you can. And the world needs you to.
We can only love others as deeply as we love ourselves.
Simple Practices to Cultivate More Love Daily
You do not need to change everything at once. Choose one. Begin there.
✦ Morning or evening meditation
✦ A warm bath by candlelight
✦ Walking barefoot, connecting with nature
✦ Journaling your feelings and reflections
✦ A gratitude practice (written or whispered)
✦ Spa time (honoring your body as sacred)
✦ Movement that makes you feel alive
✦ Phone-free mornings or evenings
✦ Speaking to yourself the way you would speak to someone you deeply love
✦ Saying no to one thing this week that drains you
✦ Giving gratitude to your body, your temple
I wrote this from my heart, for yours. So that we may connect on a deeper level, across distance, across difference - through the one language we all share.
With much Love & Light,
Regina 🌟
Next: ♡ Listen to the Heart-Opening Meditation
To support you in connecting more deeply with your heart, I created a special meditation. Recorded on the beach, infused with love and light, and offered to you freely.
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