It’s a phrase most of us have heard so many times that it can sound trite, even hollow. Some people hear it and imagine a fiery devotion — the kind of love that helps you battle through challenges to protect the people you care about. Others roll their eyes and dismiss it as sentimental fluff, a relic of the 60s or a slogan for greeting cards.
But here’s where I want to take you somewhere different. What if love isn’t only an emotion? What if love is an energy — the very energy that flows through nature, the essence of creation itself?
When we strip love down to a mere feeling, we weaken it. We attach it to circumstance: “I feel love when…” or “I don’t feel love because…”. But love, in its truest form, isn’t conditional. It is the foundational vibration of life.
Love as energy
Think of emotions as “energy in motion.” They move through us, shifting and changing, sometimes light, sometimes heavy. But love is different. Love isn’t simply one emotion among many — it’s the source energy beneath them all.
This is where the heart chakra comes in. Energetically, the heart chakra vibrates at the frequency of green. Look outside: nature is predominantly green. Forests, fields, meadows, even the moss on a stone — everywhere you turn, you are surrounded by this green vibration. By love.
No wonder you feel better after a walk in the woods. You are literally bathing in unconditional love — the natural energy of the earth.
And yet, we don’t always know how to receive it. Sometimes unconditional love feels foreign, even overwhelming, because we are so used to conditions, expectations, and the constant pressure of “should.
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The transmuting power of love
Dense emotions like anger, grief, resentment, or frustration often get labelled as “bad.” But they’re not bad at all — they are simply heavier, denser forms of energy. They only become problematic when they get stuck, when we suppress them instead of letting them flow.
Here’s the magic: love can transmute these heavy energies. Not by force, not by pushing them away, but by surrounding them, softening them, and reminding them they don’t have to define us.
When you invite love into your own body — through compassion, through awareness, through gentleness — you create an alchemy. Slowly, the tightness loosens, the sadness moves, the anger breathes. Love breaks through and breaks down the stuck places, until you feel lighter, freer, more yourself.
Self-compassion: the doorway to love
So how do you let love do its work? You start with self-compassion.
The next time you feel that sticky, heavy energy in you — tension in your shoulders, a knot in your stomach, tears you can’t quite explain — pause. Don’t rush to fix it, suppress it, or judge it.
Instead:
- Stop.
- Place your hand on your heart.
- Take a slow breath and whisper: “I am safe. I’m here now.”
This simple act signals to your body that it can shift out of survival mode. It drops you from your head into your heart. It opens the doorway to love.
You don’t need to force the heavy energy to leave. You don’t need to figure it all out. Just bring compassion to what you’re feeling, and send that part of you love and light. Over time, you may notice the energy moving, softening, changing shape.
Love, nature, and you
Nature doesn’t strive, yet it flourishes. Trees don’t try to be taller; rivers don’t try to flow faster. They simply express the love-energy that is their essence.
And you are no different. You are not separate from nature — you are of it. The same source energy that creates forests and oceans runs through your veins.
Your true nature — your love — is always seeking to flow. It wants to create, to connect, to bring life into form. The only thing that blocks it is fear. Fear teaches us to contract, to protect, to suppress. And that’s okay — fear is human. But it isn’t the whole story.
When you choose to allow love — through self-compassion, through nature, through stillness — fear loosens its grip. You discover that beneath all the noise, all the “shoulds,” all the striving, there is a spaciousness inside you. And in that space, love flows.
Let love conquer
Love conquering all doesn’t mean life becomes easy, or that challenges vanish. It means that whatever heavy energy you encounter, love is always stronger. It will always find a way to transmute, soften, and heal — if you allow it.
So when you next feel weighed down, use my most favourite reminder that you’re actually ok….:
- Stop.
- Hand on heart.
- “I am safe.”
Feel the green of the trees, the hum of nature, the love that you already are.
Because ultimately, it’s all about, below and above… what is it then? It’s just simple love – read the rest of my poem here.