When I asked people to join me in a Love Challenge I didn’t realize the magnitude of what I was asking.

Letters and e-mails poured in, people wanted to do it, but didn’t know how or were concerned that their busy life style will not allow them to LOVE.

I understand that in today’s fast paced world it is hard to make more commitments.  This is why I spent the last 10 days formulating 10 special potions that will easily help you to start your journey of LOVE, without compromising your career, your personal relationships or your jogging schedule.  Using even 1 of the potions for the prescribed time will show results.  But using 3 or more will transform your life to a work of LOVE.

10 Love Potions by Doctor Love

1. Take a walk on your Street, notice every plant and thank them for giving oxygen and cleaning the air.  Repeat this daily for at least a week.  For best results continue the treatment for 3 weeks.

2. Draw your fear.  Sometimes the more you try to enter into love, the more you face fear.  Every time when fear comes to you, take a pen and paper and make a drawing of it.  Decorate it, animate it, give it speech bubbles, be creative, be silly.  The drawing does not have to be beautiful, it just has to show your fear.  (This is a 2 in 1 treatment because it also heals your fear of drawing)  Repeat this treatment as needed. Collect the drawings.  I would love to have one of your drawings (please send to maiavideo (at) yahoo (dot) com, along with your name)

3. Write a thank you note to a kind stranger once a day (you can choose to give it to them or not).  Repeat this daily for at least a week. For best results continue the treatment for 3 weeks.

4. Pick a person you have (or have had) a difficult relationship with and write a list of all the benefits the relationship/the person has brought to your life.  Advanced lever: Write a Thank you note to the person (you do not have to show them the note)  Repeat the treatment as needed.

5. Take a pencil, eraser and a piece of paper.  Write down on top. “If I had the time and money I will”:      Then write a list of all the amazing things you want to do, to have, or to be.  After the list is done.  Take the eraser, and erase “If I had the time and money”.  Post the list by your bed.  Read out the list once a day for at least 2 weeks. For best results continue the treatment for 1 month (feel free to make adjustments to the list).

6. Call one person each day to tell them you love them.  Repeat daily for at least 10 days. Continue the treatment as needed.

7. Choose a political leader who you strongly disagree with.   Sit comfortably, send them love for 5-10 minutes.  Repeat daily for 10 days.  This treatment works on very deep level so the results are hard to be measured or observed.  For best result continue the treatment in perpetuity and apply it to as many political leaders as possible.

8.  Take a pen and paper.  On one side of the paper write down:  When I fall in love I feel:  write a list of how you feel when you fall in love.   On the other side of the paper write down:  When I feel great I feel: write a list of how you feel on your best days, or at the best times of your life.  Circle the things that repeat in both lists and write them down on a new piece of paper.  Put this list by your bed.  Each day go through the list and remember each feeling.  Repeat for 10 days.  For best results continue the treatment for 4 weeks.

9. Remember a song that you loved when you were a young teenager (or event younger/older).  Play the song once a day very loud (in a time suitable for your neighbors), dance to it as energetically as you can, sing along.  Repeat for 10 days.  For best results continue the treatment for 4 weeks.  You can also rotate songs.

10. Have a dinner party.  Create a meal only with food grown by people you have met face to face. Invite your friends to share your feast. You can also invite the farmers but keep in mind, with lots of people doing the LOVE Challenge and the time demands of farming, they might be unable to visit each person. (This could be the perfect event to celebrate the completion of your Love Challenge.)

Bonus: Ask one person a day, What is Love?  Record each answer by asking people to write it down, audio recording it, or videotaping it.  Repeat daily for at least 10 days.  Send me a list of the answers with the corresponding names @ maiavideo (at) yahoo (dot) com

P.S. This was in part inspired by Learning to Love you More (a web based community art project where people are asked to do inspiring assignments)

I find the work very powerful and inspiring, so when I was getting feedback about people joining the love challenge I kept having Lerning to Love You More come into my ear.

You can help spread the LOVE Challenge by

- participating

- sending some of your lists and drawings to me

- translating it into your language (right now French and Bulgarian are a priority, if you can help that would be appreciated)

- covering it in any media, public site, event, social network

- sending the LOVE Potions to your friends, inviting others to join the LOVE Challenge

- donating to the Green Dream Project

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