How do you let your heart love when it's been dormant for so long?

Question

How do you let your heart love when it's been dormant for so long?

Answer 1

With hope my friend.

Answer 2

Visit a nursing home.

Answer 3

I learned how to love from God. I didn't have it before. I don't know where you are at spiritually, but that's how I did it. Maybe you can do it the same way. Trust God to show you, and make peace with Him through Jesus Christ, His Son.

Answer 4

Just when you think life is boring and you have seen and done it all, there comes a point, a light a person who changes your point of view, always.

Answer 5

Take the focus off yourself and try to help others. That should help to bring it back.  

Answer 6

Spiritually speaking?

Get a puppy. That'll jumpstart the process.

Answer 7

uhhhhhhhh!? why do you ask in this section?

look just take it one day at the time, if your heart has been dormant you'll experience so many kinds of emotions ...even bad ones you never thought tha'd come back, but you'll be fine!

Answer 8

Have you developed some sort of long distance diagnosis machine that you can see that?

My heart is not dormant, I simply choose to love different things than you do, real, tangible things.

Answer 9

Release the fear that has been tethering your heart from moving forward. I could be wrong, but I think fear manifested in some way or another is the greatest block in our path. Realize and examine whatever it is that kept your heart dormant for so long and then mentally pack it up and put it in a box you throw out. Every day is a new opportunity, a new chance at love and life. Your heart doesn't need a magic potion or a pill to work. The ability to love is hardwired into us. Yours is just a little rusty, but it still works.

Maybe this will help jump start your heart:

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KEEP THE FAITH

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

~ Washington Irving.

Answer 10

Keep an open mind.

Or in your case, an open heart.

A lot of people care for you and a lot more can love you.

Don't be blind to these feelings because you feel like you're not capable of loving anymore.

Learn to love by learning that you're loved.

Answer 11

The best way to learn how to love is by loving.  In other words, it helps to go through the motions of love even if we feel like we don't mean it at first.  Eventually, our hearts catch up.  

Find people who love you deeply who are willing to feed into your life--it's hard to love if you feel unloved. If you don't have anyone like this, pray for someone, try to seek someone out (I know that this can be a very tricky thing to do--to find someone like this!).

I spent a week this past summer with some extremely loving people.  I had forgotten love could feel that good, and it made me want to love that much better.  Do you know of anyone really loving who you could spend some time with?

Try to observe people who you know are especially loving.  If you don't think you know anyone like this, try to keep an open mind, and just keep searching.  It's worth it.  I've learned so much about love by watching other people love.

Ask God to help you see people through the eyes of love, speak with loving words, feel with a loving heart.  As humans we so often tend to think of love as being like warm fuzzies we get about our grannies or...or something.  And good feelings are a part of love.  But love is often about a lot of hard work.  It's about choosing patience and kind words when what you really want to do is punch a wall.  It's about doing another load of dishes even though you know you're not going to get a "thank you."

You will fail many times. But just keep picking yourself up, asking God for forgiveness, and at times seeking the forgiveness of those around you.

Give thanks for those you are trying to learn how to love. When people hurt you, try to see from their perspectives--sometimes they have junk in their lives we might not even know about...and sometimes we come off in ways we don't realize.

Have grace for yourself.  Have grace for those around you.  Be willing to laugh at yourself and at others, too...but maybe not to their faces ;)