Send Love, not hate

At first glance, the immediate response in our HEAD is "Of course Love is better than Hate".

It doesn't even bare discussion when we THINK about this statement in our Heads.

Unfortunately, we do not Act out of our Head - we act out of our HEART.

The immediate and natural reaction of our Heart, when someone wrongs us, is:

Revenge.  Anger.  Justice.  Hate.

It takes a mature and enlightened person a lifetime to over-ride these instincts. That IS what we are trying to do isn't it? To replace our in-bred instincts with higher ones.

"Send Love", rather than send curses, bitterness and bad frequencies.

When I think bad thoughts about
a person,
an animal,
a government,
a nation,
I am sending out vibrations that are harmful to everything in their path. It's like a ripple effect. Not only am I drawing to myself (attracting) the very attitudes I am sending out, but also, I am negatively affecting everyone else on the planet.
(We ARE all connected, more on this another time).

When another motorist wronged me in the road, I used to seethe and fume and swear and wave my fist - you know, the standard natural reactions. I can now see how that is like throwing mud into a sparkling pool - the dirt ripples out from me in ever increasing circles, making everyone else's life around me a misery too.

They will then carry this dirt, my dirt, on them for the rest of the day.  How dreadful is this?
 Very.

Instead, I choose to send out Love, Acceptance and Understanding. They must be having a bad day - I will not add to their distress. I will do the mature thing, and let them roar past in a cloud of dust and smoke, and then they are out of my life with my blessing.

To think like this is taking a Higher Path, a Road Less Travelled.

The dog in the house opposite me used to bark for hours at a time. Like, not just 20mins, but all morning. It was quite distressing. So rather than send out hateful thoughts to him and his human owners, I sent out Love from my home.
Each time I was in my garden, I would greet the dog kindly, and under my breath, whisper nice words back to him. Soon, he not only stopped barking at me, but even began to whimper back to me, as if responding to my kindness.

Success!