Being consciously unloving.

[Louisabell]

Acting is one thing, beingness is another. We may act for sometime until we can learn "to be" more loving. !st to ourselves and then to All others.
After all, we are here to learn both loving and unloving ways of being and then the balance between the two, well, if that is our path.
I find it is more balanced to accept the other as it is instead of what I feel or think the entity should be.

This comment reminded me of the below quote, mainly the bolded part below:

10.14 Questioner: For general development [of the] reader of this book, could you state some of the practices or exercises to perform to produce an acceleration toward the Law of One?

Ra: I am Ra.
Exercise One. This is the most nearly centered and usable within your illusion complex. The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously seek that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking powers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third. As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.

Exercise Two. The universe is one being. When a mind/body/spirit complex views another mind/body/spirit complex, see the Creator. This is an helpful exercise.

Exercise Three. Gaze within a mirror. See the Creator.

Exercise Four. Gaze at the creation which lies about the mind/body/spirit complex of each entity. See the Creator.

The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.

What I read the above as saying is that, even just the conscious desire or attempt to be loving, even if you're not totally feeling it, can help people along the path to being more authentically loving, which I think is pretty difficult to do all the time in this stressful world. Maybe the most loving thing one can do is to take a break and re-center one's self before re-engaging with the difficult catalyst. Having said that, I believe when one acts on emotions in sincerity, then they're not completely acting consciously as emotions are subconscious and can alter one's perception of events pretty dramatically. I believe that is why premeditated crimes are judged more harshly compared to crimes done in the heat of the moment.