Love Begins Within: The Energy That Changes Everything
- Trish Heitz
- Feb 9
- 3 min read
Love Begins Within: The Energy That Changes Everything
February is the month where love is everywhere...store windows, commercials, and reminders urging us to give love, buy love, find love, or prove love.
And yet, every year around this time, I notice something quieter happening beneath the surface.
Many people don’t feel more loved in February. They feel more aware of what they believe they’re missing.
A partner. Connection. Belonging. Ease.
So this year, instead of talking about love as something we search for, I want to talk about love as something we live from.
Because love, in its truest form, is not a transaction. It’s an energy.
Love as an Energy, Not an Exchange
When we live in the energy of love, it shows up naturally, as kindness without effort, gratitude without comparison, generosity without depletion.
It’s the kind of love that doesn’t feel like you’re giving something away. It feels like you’re sharing what you already have the privilege to live.
Love, when it’s real, doesn’t drain us. It expands us.
And this is where self-love is often misunderstood.
Self-Love Is Not Self-Focus
Self-love isn’t indulgence. It isn’t isolation. It isn’t affirmations spoken into a mirror while life feels unchanged.
Self-love is safety.
It’s the internal environment where your nervous system is not bracing, defending, or proving but resting. Where your inner dialogue is not harsh or dismissive, but supportive and truthful. Where your worth is no longer conditional.
When we cultivate this kind of relationship with ourselves, something powerful happens:
Love no longer needs permission to flow outward.
How Love Expands Naturally
When love becomes your inner baseline, it doesn’t stay contained.
It moves into how you speak to strangers. How you respond instead of react. How patient you are with uncertainty. How present you are with the people in front of you.
You stop trying to get love from the world and begin projecting it into the world.
And that projection changes everything.
Not because you’re forcing positivity, but because you’re no longer operating from lack.
Why This Matters Right Now
We are living in a time of collective exhaustion.
People are overwhelmed, overstimulated, divided, and quietly longing for something softer, truer, and steadier.
What the world needs right now is not louder opinions or more urgency. It needs people anchored in love...people who can bring calm into chaos, presence into noise, and compassion into moments that usually invite judgment.
This kind of love doesn’t come from striving. It comes from alignment.
From learning how to live in a state that feels safe, grounded, and open, within yourself first.
A Gentle February Love Practice
Instead of offering a daily love challenge this year, I want to offer something simpler—and more sustainable.
An invitation.
For the rest of February, I invite you to choose one small way each day to practice love...starting with yourself.
Not perfectly. Not performatively. Not publicly.
Just intentionally.
Here are a few gentle ways to practice love without adding pressure:
Speak to yourself the way you would to someone you deeply care about
Pause and breathe before responding, especially when stress shows up
Acknowledge something you handled well instead of what you didn’t
Choose rest without guilt
Offer kindness without needing recognition
There is no checklist. No catching up if you miss a day. No right way to do this.
Love isn’t built through effort. It’s built through awareness.
And when love becomes something you practice internally, you may be surprised how naturally it begins to show up everywhere else.
A Closing Reflection
This Valentine’s season, instead of asking Who loves me? Try asking:
How do I treat myself when no one is watching?
What would it feel like to live from love instead of pressure?
What kind of energy do I want to bring into every room I enter?
Because when love becomes your way of being, not something you chase, you don’t just improve your own life.
You quietly improve the lives you touch.
And that, more than anything, is what love was always meant to do.
If this reflection resonates, you’re not alone.
Learning how to create a sense of internal safety, so calm, clarity, and love become your natural state, is the foundation of the work I share.
You’re always welcome to explore more here, and to join a growing community of people choosing peace, presence, and a different way of living.
Start with a Discovery Session and see what we learn....
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