I am afraid to love and I don’t know why, or how to get past this. There are a few people in my life who I love with all that I am, but it has taken me a long time to get there. I completely agree with what has been said about love and how it has the power to change, to heal, to nurture true growth and foster its own contagious expansion. When I express love and receive it- I feel warm and amazing and I can’t imagine living without it- but it is an internal battle to allow that expression to happen. Does anyone have any suggestions or words of wisdom? Has anyone else felt this way before? Perhaps this is why more people don’t allow themselves to love more openly… not because they don’t have it within them, but because they are afraid.