Fundamentally speaking, there are only two emotions: love and its counterpart, often referred to as 'fear' by many. Both emotions naturally occur continuously. At times, you may experience love, for instance, when someone selflessly helps you from the goodness of their heart. Or, when observing your partner or child from a distance, you might be overwhelmed by a profound sense of love.

And sometimes, fear takes the lead; your heart may pound with anxiety, for example, just before a presentation or when a loved one undergoes a major surgery. In the latter example, it's possible for both love and fear to coexist simultaneously.

While, like every human being, you are conditioned by your upbringing to experience one of these fundamental emotions in specific events or situations, it is possible to choose love consciously. Even in situations that typically evoke fear. You can do this by fully acknowledging the emotion you feel in the moment and then deliberately choosing love. The fear doesn't immediately dissipate, but something shifts, sometimes very subtly. And then choose love again. Step by step, the foundation from which you perceive shifts. It's not a magic pill that instantly frees you from all fear; it takes practice to consistently choose love.

This choice directly aligns with the quote from Martin Seligman that I mentioned at the beginning of this blog series on August 20: 'Habits of thinking need not be forever. Individuals choose the way they think.’ The seven perspectives haven't told you what you 'should' think; my intention was to provide you with guides on how to look and think. Perhaps you've noticed that by looking and thinking differently, you experience more stability within yourself (rather than looking for that outside of yourself).

This final perspective, 'everything is love,' puts the finishing touch on the work; to live from love and continuously experience love requires being love. To be love, it's necessary to choose love and act with love repeatedly. Again and again.

You let your heart be the starting point from which you live, perceive, choose, and act. You grant yourself permission to be whole, viewing others in their greatness, strength, or potential, allowing others to be fully themselves. Then, you are Love, and you let everything be love. There's a good chance that, at some point, the realization suddenly dawns on you that love is all-encompassing.

With this, your happiness and well-being, what Seligman calls 'the good life,' are elevated to a (much) higher level. A simple exercise to make all of this practical is to ask yourself one thing in every situation in your life:

• What would Love do? Pose this question to your heart and let the answer naturally come to you. And act accordingly. Observe the impact on yourself and your surroundings.

What would happen if every person took this question as a starting point? Perhaps we would create a world that works!

I wish you a lot of joy in your discoveries!

Note: This is the last blog post in a series of 7 about perspectives that help elevate your happiness and well-being, allowing you to live 'the good life' (Seligman). The seven perspectives are:

1. Everything is information
2. Everything is energy in motion
3. All change begins with awareness
4. You always have a choice in how you respond to something
5. Everything is relative
6. Every situation holds an invitation for learning and growth
7. Everything is Love