Love and Empowerment

Loving and Empowering Me

Let me start with myself. I will do my best to love myself and to empower myself to be the best I can be today and every day of my life. By making this commitment to yourself, to your own personal growth, it becomes easier to love and empower those around you.

Loving and Empowering All

Now let us move to others.

But do you really want to give this gift to all other people? Can you really love and empower everyone around you? What if you really don’t like someone?

When you feel a dislike towards a person, remind yourself that it is usually the personality that you don’t like—the mask or dark clouds blocking their deeper essence. You can recognize that beneath the mask, beneath those dark clouds in everyone is a shining divine essence. While acknowledging those parts you don’t like, do your best to find love and support for the shining being hidden beneath all the clouds, beneath the mask or personality that you don’t like. You can choose to love and empower the divine spark within all.

I will love and empower all to be the best we can be.

Negative Judgment

A common distraction from the intention to love and empower is negative judgment. No matter how negative a person’s actions or behavior might be, judging someone to be bad as a person does not empower or inspire anyone to be a better person.

When you find yourself feeling negative judgment, first acknowledge the part of you that wants to judge—the part that wants to be right and better than others. Remind yourself that we all have our faults and weaknesses. Do your best to understand and learn from your judgment.

Then let it go. Open to finding first acceptance, and then understanding and love both for your own divine essence and for that of the person you judged. Choose to let your last thought always be that of love. In doing this, you can powerfully transform judgment into love and empowerment.

Preventing Harm While Recognizing Divine Essence

What if you see someone doing something that is clearly wrong, or is causing harm? In this case, you can be firm and take whatever action you feel is best to stop harm. Enforcing a serious consequence with someone who has acted out of extreme self-interest may be the most loving, empowering action you can take.

Yet even as you take firm action, try to understand what has brought the person to do this. Be open to seeing their inner clouds. Then choose to look beyond those clouds, beyond the inner turmoil that causes people to do harm. In this way, you can act from a place of love and support for their deeper essence, even while firmly stopping them from doing wrong or causing harm. Through choosing to see beneath all of the pain, suffering, and hatred, and to recognize and connect with the divine essence within even those who would do us harm, not only do we heal the world, we heal ourselves.

Imagine…

Imagine for a moment a world where all people truly did their best to love and empower each other. Imagine if a significant number of the people on this planet truly did their best to live by these simple keys or similar ideals. You can choose to become one of those people right now. You can choose to make your life and our world a better place.

It is fully possible. There are people of all races, religions, and beliefs around the globe already committed to living by these or similar ideals. Let us then choose with an open mind and an open heart to add to their numbers. Let us choose every day of our lives to do our best to love and empower ourselves and all we meet to be the very best we can be.


Shared with Love and Light, Rosalie xo