Celebrating Big Love: A Heart-Centered Reflection for Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Or, as I like to think of it, Happy Big Love Day.
Beyond the roses and greeting cards, Valentine’s Day is really about something much deeper - our longing for connection.
Whether you celebrate it, tolerate it, or prefer to ignore it, this day brings our attention to one of the most foundational energies in all of life:
Love.
Not just romantic love.
Not just partnership love.
But the connective force that holds everything together.
And in a time when many of us feel overstimulated, overwhelmed, or simply heart tired, reconnecting to that deeper current of love may be exactly what our nervous systems need.
What Is Big Love?
I’ve told this sory before but, years ago, I had the privilege of sitting in a conference room with the renowned physicist Hans-Peter Dürr.
To explain his view of the universe, he passed around a ball of yarn. Each person held a small strand as it unwound around the room until we were all connected.
“This,” he said, “is the universe.”
Then he asked us to look closely - not just at the thread, but at the tiny fuzz along the thread.
“What holds this ball of yarn together?” he asked.
The fuzz.
The small, almost invisible fibers.
“And what holds the universe together?”
Love.
Love is the fuzz.
Love and Holistic Healing on the Philly Main Line
At Village Wellness, we see every day how connection supports healing. Through Acupuncture, we work with the nervous system, circulation, and the deeper energetic patterns that influence emotional and physical health. In Community Acupuncture, healing unfolds in a shared, supportive environment where connection itself becomes part of the medicine. In Reiki and energy healing sessions, clients often describe feeling held or supported in ways that go beyond words. And in Integrative Massage therapy, the body softens when it feels safe.
All of this points to something simple:
Healing begins with safety.
Safety grows through connection.
Connection is another word for love.
When the Heart Is Tired
Many people I’ve been seeing lately are not just physically tired.
They are nervous system tired.
Decision tired.
Input tired.
In Five Element acupuncture, the Heart represents consciousness, clarity, and our capacity to connect.
When we are disconnected from that deeper field of love, we can feel anxious, restless, or emotionally depleted.
Valentine’s Day can be an invitation - not to perform love - but to return to it.
A Simple Valentine’s Day Practice
Try this:
Place one hand on your chest
One hand on your belly
Take five slow breaths
Let your shoulders drop
Nothing to fix.
Nothing to solve.
Just notice.
That quiet sense of being supported by your own breath is Big Love.
It is not something you manufacture.
It is something you tune into.
Big Love Beyond Romance
Valentine’s Day often focuses on romantic relationships. But Big Love includes:
The way a child says hello just because
The way a practitioner listens without rushing
The way your body continues to heal
The way community gathers for meditation, workshops, and seasonal events
If you’re looking for ways to deepen that connection, you can explore our upcoming wellness events and workshops
or learn more about our mission on the About Village Wellness page
Because at its core, Village Wellness is about connection - to self, to others, and to something larger than all of us.
Celebrating Love on the Main Line
Whether you’re in Berwyn, Phoenixville, Wayne, Devon, or anywhere along the Main Line, may this day remind you:
Love is not fragile.
It survives heartbreak.
It survives disagreement.
It survives seasons of uncertainty.
It is the ground we stand on.
And the more we slow down, the more we can feel it.
Lots of BIG LOVE,
Lance