text: True Power - Jennifer Hadley
  Beauty is Love and Love is the only Power
  Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today-Standing in Power http://d8pooxg9335wa.cloudfront.net/Prayer_for_standing_in_power_5.mp3
  We've all had SO MANY conversations about giving our power away that we may even believe we're aware of when we give our power away and when we don't.
  As we've all realized, just because we believe something intellectually, doesn't mean we really understand and know it. Having information doesn't awaken our awareness. Accepting the learning into our heart BY MEANS OF OPENING TO LOVE is what awakens our awareness. We learn this over and over, and over and over again.
  For myself, I used to be very arrogant about what I knew.
  I believed that having an intellectual awareness of something meant that I knew it.
  I had to be humbled 50 million times before I finally became AWARE that the ego was driving my intellect and the ego doesn't know anything worth knowing – only the heart does.
  If you're feeling angry because of something that someone else did, then you're giving your power to them.
  If you feel angry because of some circumstance or situation, then you're giving your power away to an "outside" source.
  The same is true if you feel you're experiencing hurt, fear or sadness, because of some situation or event, or person in the world.
  Only when we're willing to realize that giving our power away is giving that thing, person or event AUTHORITY over our mind, do we start waking up.
  Likewise, if someone or something has the power to make you happy, you've given them authority, too.
  There is one TRUE power, and one authority, and that is Love.
  When we align with LOVE, as the one and only power and authority in our life, everything starts to heal.
  Love is the author of Love and nothing else.
  Love only knows itself as Love and only expresses itself as Love.
  Love can NEVER cause fear, doubt, worry, anger, resentment, regret, sadness, blame, hurt, or confusion.
  Only choosing thoughts of lack, limitation, judgment, and separation (they're all the same thing), can lead you to feel fear, doubt, worry, anger, resentment, regret, sadness, blame, hurt, or confusion. Why? Because when you choose to energize those thoughts of separation with the power of your belief, you're giving your authority to the root cause of all suffering – and what could be more terrifying, confusing and debilitating than that?
  This awakening awareness is what all of my classes are about – cultivating, it nurturing it, celebrating it!
  If you find yourself thinking that others have you made you feel anything, then be SO GRATEFUL – KISS yourself! – for your awakening awareness and the blooming realization that you're thinking crazy, self-destructive, pain-inducing thoughts, and you're now aware that you have the ability to change your mind – you have the ability to make Love your authority. Hallelujah!
  If you hear yourself telling ANYONE that someone or something MADE you feel anything, be SO GRATEFUL – do the victory dance! – because you're now aware that you have the ability to change your mind – you have the ability to make Love your authority. Amazing grace is here!
  When you make Love your authority, Love leads and you, naturally and gracefully, embody Love and now the healing is non-stop. Go for it!