Does all this talk about unconditional love and living with an inner state of love sound like it’s for someone else, but not you?  Is it hard to imagine living your life with an open heart because there are so many other things to worry about?

Between economic concerns, caring for aging parents, raising toddlers or teenagers, and losing that last 10 pounds, life can feel overwhelming. It can also feel like an uphill battle or constant challenge that you are taking on all by yourself.

When you’re scared and anxious about things in your life, or feeling alone, it’s hard to welcome love in, isn’t it?  That’s often when love, in the form of romantic love, may seem like the answer to your problems. With a partner you might not feel so financially burdened  or struggle to raise your children by yourself.  But love for or from someone else is not the type of love I’m referring to – that’s Love for Good Reason.

What I wish for you and want to help you find is Love for No Reason. The good news is that it’s  possible to live a life of unconditional love even when life’s challenges seem ever-present.  This deep anchoring in well-being beyond worry is what we feel when the the body’s stress response is switched off and the “love response” is switched on..

What does it feel like when you hear (and say) the following words?

I am supported.  I trust I’ll be taken care of, even if I don’t always know how or by whom.

What I learned from the Love Luminaries I interviewed was they all project an inner confidence of “being held” by life.  Their ability to love unconditionally comes from feeling supported unconditionally.  To live with a wide-open heart ourselves, we need to sense the three distinct circles of support in our lives – physical, emotional, and spiritual.

The first circle (physical) – relates to the feeling that you can sustain your basic needs and that you’re safe, no matter what’s going on outside.

The second circle (emotional) – involves the people (and sometimes pets) whose presence helps you feel safe and comforted.  Being aware that there are people you can count on for help and encouragement makes it easier to live with an open heart.  When you consciously register the trust you have for the people in your life, it activates the brain centers and hormones associated with trusting.

The third circle (spiritual) – having a fundamental trust in a friendly universe – one that is always supporting you.  When we feel the universe is friendly, we develop the most profound and reassuring kind of support there is: unconditional trust.

Getting grounded and feeling your support are the keys that activate the body’s love response.  You support the opening of your heart by slowing down and connecting to the calm core of security within in.  Try these exercises to increase the flow of love through you.

1. When you’re facing a challenge, sense the support of a friendly universe by looking for the ways that the situation is ultimately serving you.  Ask yourself, Is this for my enjoyment, growth or both?
2. Using the Circles of Support Process, take stock of the support – physical, emotional and spiritual – that is all around you.  Consciously registering feelings of safety and support creates neural pathways that allow you to relax.

Remember that Einstein said the most important decision you can make is whether to believe you live in a friendly universe – one that’s always supporting you.  What decision will you make today – start with just one day and then move on to one week, one month, etc.  What you’ll find is the universe will send you more of the same – more of what you’re focusing on.  We always find evidence to support our beliefs.  What beliefs will you hold with you today?

Woo-hoo!! We did it.  Thanks to your wonderful support, Love for No Reason debuted at…(drum–roll please)… #3 on the New York Times Bestseller List! Fabulous, fantastic, and phenomenal.  It will appear in the print version of the NY Times on January 30, but you can see the list now by clicking here: http://amzn.to/marcishimoff

Whether you bought a book, sent an email, posted on Facebook, or simply wished us well, I am grateful beyond words for your generous support and encouragement.

Now I want to give you a taste of what I call Love for No Reason.  Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on more than 50 radio interviews, and each time I’m asked what I mean by that phrase.

Maybe you’re wondering the same thing.

Well, this is one of those times when an explanation can only take you so far.  To really understand requires experience.  For example, how do you really know chocolate ice cream?  You have to taste it.

Here’s a simple process to give you a taste of the difference between Love for Good Reason and Love for No Reason.

This exercise only takes a few minutes, so sit comfortably, relax, and follow these steps:

1.   Close your eyes and think of someone or something you love.  It can be a person, a pet, a place, or an experience.

2.   What do you love about him, her or it?  Appreciate all the wonderful qualities you love about that person or thing.  Let yourself savor the object of your love.

3.   Ask yourself an unusual question, one that most people never consider:  Where does this love come from?  What’s causing me to have this wonderful experience?  The vast majority of people will answer that the love they feel is directly caused by the object of love they’re thinking about.  This is the experience of Love for Good Reason.

4.   Now try something different.  Switch your focus from the beloved to the experience of love itself. Put your attention on your heart and feel your appreciation independent of your thoughts about the object of your love.  Instead of thinking of the qualities of the person or thing, let yourself really feel the love you have inside for whatever it is that you chose.

5.   Be with that inner experience of love.  You may feel warmth in the center of your chest and/or find yourself smiling.

The difference between these two experiences of love is that the second one is generated from your heart and doesn’t depend on the object of your love.  This is Love for No Reason.

We’ve been conditioned to think that “it takes two to tango,” that we love something, we don’t just love.  We consider love as something that happens between two people.

Embracing the idea of love as an independent state and learning how to experience it on a continuing basis is the key to living a life of unconditional love.

When you fill your own love tank, instead of looking for love outside yourself, you bring that love to everything in your life. Which I guarantee is even better than chocolate ice cream!

With love for no reason and every reason,

Marci

I was completely heartened last week to see the overwhelming response to Love for No Reason as it shot to the top of the Amazon and Barnes and Noble bestseller lists.

I was so humbled by everyone’s efforts to get the word out— more than 500 sent out emails to their lists, FB, tweeted and shared the word —I’m sure there were many more that I don’t even know about.  I am so grateful to you—I hope you can feel that.

What was most amazing was that more than 10 million emails went out to all parts of the world, and it felt like a wave of love was spreading all around us.  Thank you for joining in the love wave.  I knew when I started to research the concept of unconditional love that it would change things in a big way – not just for me but for as many people as I could reach.  My heart is so wide open right now that I feel like it will explode and I have you to thank for that.  Now it’s my turn to return the favor…

Here is a simple experiment for you.  Take a moment right now, and put your hand over your heart.  Notice if you experience any shift, even small, in how you feel.  Do you know that the simple act of putting your hand on your heart begins the release of more oxytocin, a feel-good chemical that’s dubbed “the love hormone.”   Do this four or five times a day and you’ll be on your way to increasing your love set-point.

Love is actually a skill we can learn, just like we can learn to play the piano. There are specific things that you can do to experience a greater state of love.  That should come as very good news, since love is what we all want more than anything.  It’s what gives our life juice and meaning.

In these days when there is so much pain and anger, love is the best antidote.

I think the response we received about Love for No Reason speaks to how much we are all needing to experience more love right now, as things in our lives and our world are a little crazy.

Here’s a powerful excerpt from Obama’s speech last week in Tucson about the critical need for love right now.  Love is the antidote for the fear, anger and divisiveness in our world:

“We may ask ourselves if we’ve shown enough kindness and generosity and compassion to the people in our lives. Perhaps we question whether we’re doing right by our children, or our community, whether our priorities are in order. We recognize our own mortality, and we are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame — but rather, how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.”

Most people spend more time every day focusing on how they look rather than how they love.  How about you?  Just try this with me.  Let’s spend 5 minutes today focusing on how to experience more love.  Maybe if you do it, and I do it, and we all do it, our lives will feel better and the world’s love set point will be raised.

Please share this message and Love for No Reason with anyone you feel deserves to live a life of unconditional love.

With love for no reason and every reason,

Marci



Wow – I am so touched by how many people are eager to experience more love and a more open-hearted life.

People who are reading my new book, Love for No Reason, are emailing me and calling me in tears saying they feel their hearts opening to a love they always wanted to experience but never knew was possible (let alone knew how to attain).

Before I did the research and started to write the book, I was like most people – my love (for myself and others) came from circumstances, people, and things.  When I looked for love and acceptance externally, I never felt the joy of unconditional love.  Now I know what I was missing. What a difference a couple of years can make!

The great news is you don’t have to spend years getting to an inner state of love – what I call Love for No Reason.  You only have to practice the seven steps I demonstrate in the book.  In it, you’ll also read the amazing and encouraging stories of people who have successfully dissolved their blocks to unconditional love.   I can’t wait for you to read about Sally, one of the 150 Love Luminaries I interviewed.  Sally was able to use self-forgiveness to heal what her doctors called “liver failure for no medical reason.”  Her story and many others will truly inspire you.

Here are just a few of the wonderful reactions that have been coming in…

Figuring Out Love…

This book was extremely helpful for me. Like many people, I’ve been looking for love outside myself all my life, and now I’m excited to think I can generate that love inside myself. I found the 7-step program for creating an internal experience of love to be really effective. This is what the world needs now! Everyone should read this book and we won’t have war anymore!  – R.S.

You’ll Love Love for No Reason…

Exquisite book with exquisite principles and real-life practices to experience love. Marci taps into our deepest wants, desires and reason for being here. This book on love is transformational and will have you looking at love from a fresh perspective and experience it in a new way. – S.D.

A Love Game Changer…

Most books on love are just about romantic love. This is a different kind of book about a different kind of love, one that’s much more valuable. It’s about living from a state of love. It’s refreshing to think of love as being something we have some control over. This is a really important, life-changing book, and I’m so glad I’m starting my new year off with it. Thanks AGAIN, Marci Shimoff, for showing us the way. My New Year’s Eve resolution this year is to be more outwardly loving, as well as forgiving, and this book is helping me to pave that path. – S.R.

My wish is that you experience what it is like to live a life of unconditional love.  It is a transformational experience, and I feel blessed to provide you with the tools to get you there.

Don’t put off living with Love for No Reason – order the book today

With love for no reason and every reason,

Marci

P.S.  Register your purchase on this order page and you’ll receive free gifts valued at $688. It’s like a full audio course for the price of a book.

PLUS – Order three or more books today, and receive four hours of LIVE group coaching with me. In two separate tele-coaching sessions, I’ll personally answer every question and give you insights that are not in the book!

What an amazing day yesterday was launching Love for No Reason: 7 Steps for Creating a Life of Unconditional Love It soared to #2 on the Amazon bestseller list and #3 on BN.com. And with your help, we can certainly go to #1.

I am so inspired by people’s overwhelming response and feel blessed to share with thousands of people how they can experience more unconditional love for themselves and for others. The song lyric, What the world needs now is love sweet love, has never been truer.

One reason I’m so passionate about spreading the word about Love for No Reason right now is to help it reach the top of the bestseller lists.   While being on these lists is not my ultimate goal for this book, I know from having 5 other NY Times bestsellers that it makes a huge difference!  When a book gets the level of visibility that comes from making that list, more media will promote it.  And in this case, that means more people around the world will have access to the powerful message of love.

My mission is to show people how easily they can live with an inner state of love – the kind of love that’s not dependent on anyone or anything.  Love that will change a person’s life. That will change the world.

If you haven’t ordered your copy of the book yet, please do so right now – your help can be the difference that will move us to #1.  And, if you feel moved to spread love, I ask you to order 3 copies.  If you do, you will receive 4 hours of LIVE coaching with me FREE—I’ll answer every question you have about love and how you can experience the most love and joy in your life.

As a thank you when you get the book, I am also giving you a dozen valuable gifts that support your experience of love for no reason.

I know that you and the people in your life will benefit greatly from the breakthrough program and powerful tools in Love for No Reason.

To order, please go to http://www.thelovebook.com

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I deeply appreciate your support in getting Love for No Reason to #1 and in spreading the message of love around the world.

With love for every reason,

Marci

P.S. – Love for No Reason has come at a critical time. Our present paradigm of love—one based on need and approval—has brought us nothing but personal pain and global conflict. Look what’s gone on just this week in the world. Now is the time to open your heart and become an unshakeable source of love for yourself and everyone around you.

So I urge you to start today … and together we really can heal our world, one heart at a time.

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