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Today is a special day for me because it is my birthday, but for everyone else on the planet, February 1st marks the beginning of something else that is equally as wonderful: Love Month.

It might be awards season for Hollywood and heart health awareness month for the American Heart Association, but as is evident by the red and pink displays all over the supermarkets and other stores, February is the month we celebrate love in the form of Valentine’s Day.

So, what exactly are we celebrating here? A relationship? Yes. Traditionally, it is a romantic relationship, a lover’s Hallmark holiday full of greeting cards and gifts, dinner reservations and surprises. In the past decades, it has come to include friendship, with presents being offered to multiple people on multiple levels. Maybe we could extend love month to include all of our relationships, celebrate each person we love in different ways, kind of like what vegan-raw singer Jason Mraz suggested last night at the Grammys: “Your mom, your dad, or your cousin, whoever you’re watching the show with, create them as the best in that category and give them an award. Present them an award tonight…tonight is a night of acknowledgment.” Well, today starts the month of acknowledgment for those we love. Let’s let them know just how much we appreciate them for all that they are to us – all of them, parents, siblings, other relatives, friends, and, of course, romantically significant others.

This includes the most significant person of all: ourselves. Let’s show ourselves the love, too.

What is love? Let me leave you with something entirely different to ponder, something that doesn’t include planning, spending, or anything but your own will…a new definition of love, as per a wise friend.

Love is: Order. When things in your life are in order (internally and externally), this brings about Balance. Being in balance will allow you to have Good Sense. Order, balance and good sense all together will result in Health. When you have health, you can then acquire Knowledge. Knowledge experienced will bring about Understanding.  With all of that, you can then have Harmony.

The compendium of all of these things….is Love.

I know it’s not a massage or a treat, but we’re talking about your growth, you doing the things that will put your life on the great path that it deserves to be in. This is love – for yourself. And that is the greatest gift of all.

Happy Love Month from your HLife family.