Loveworks!
The Rodan Foundation’s Publication for The Love Awakening
July 2025
The Love Awakening (TLA) is the service arm of The Rodan Foundation. The TLA offers self-empowerment tools and courses designed to help you awaken and reclaim your personal power through positive living. We live the power of love through volunteer efforts supporting the people and the environment in our local and extended communities.
Our mission is to assist humanity in awakening to the power of love. Our intention is to help others awaken to who they truly are and use that awakening for the greater good. Our vision is the collective awakening of humanity, bringing forth harmony and unity for all. Join us as we learn and grow in the ways of living love and loving life!
Beneath Living in the Love Vibration.
Well into midlife, I've finally discovered that the law of attraction means living in the love vibration. Not only is this the law of attraction, but it is also the law of life. If we want good to manifest for us, we must commit ourselves to feeling good, being good, and doing good. Good is God expressing through us.
When we live in the love vibration, our energy resonates at a high frequency and we express the God-qualities of compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, respect, generosity, joy, peace—all that inspires, empowers, and enhances life. The love vibration lifts us to a higher state of consciousness and frees us of the thoughts, feelings, and actions that minimize and victimize us.
Keeping Our Ego in Check - Gone are any neurotic fears, guilt, judgment, greed, envy, arrogance, and the ego's stubborn need to be right. “Vexations of the spirit” lose their power over us. Free from the baggage of negativity and limited thinking, we begin to feel lighter and shine brighter. We become the magnet attracting our good.
Living in the love vibration may be a simple concept to understand, but it can be our most difficult challenge. Living in the love vibration means keeping our ego/personality in check as we relate to people and circumstances from “the high watch,” our soul-self.
Our ego easily indulges in the dramas of life. We invest emotional and physical energy in advancing the ego through superiority, security, and status. Our soul-self is the wise, detached participant-observer. It experiences life but is not consumed by it. It recognizes life as the unfolding of a divine plan, the evolving of Spirit within form. The soul-self trusts that “all things work together for good.”
Embracing Wholeness - When we live in the love vibration, we know that all aspects of life are connected and that we each have the potential—indeed, the responsibility—to become whole. To clarify: Connection means that every presence on this planet (human, animal, plant, mineral) is a unique expression of God and that we are all interdependent. There is no separation ... we are all cells of the living God, and what affects one, affects us all.
Wholeness, on the other hand, means being complete as an individual and in harmony and balance at all levels of our being—body, mind, and spirit. To be whole means to gather up and heal our fragmented pieces—the parts of ourselves that are disconnected from Spirit. Our brokenness is often due to feelings of unworthiness and pain from the past. Living in the love vibration keeps us focused in the present moment, connected and at one with ourselves and all there is. Some people are born with a high love vibration, and others are fortunate to grow up in it. Most of us, however, have considerable overcoming to do in order to fully experience it. This overcoming is the process of personal transformation or the process of becoming connected and whole.
Embracing Love - Living in the love vibration is our birthright and directs the unfolding of our life's passion. It sets the intention for every day, the agenda for every interaction, the prescription for every ill, and the expectation for every circumstance.
In this state of being, we are heart-centered in thought, word, and deed. We project the high frequency of love and light, and it returns to us. This is the law of attraction. Because the love vibration requires our ego personality to surrender to the soul-self, we get out of our own way. Our path is cleared. We encounter people and situations that inspire us and guide us toward the fulfillment of our potential and passion. We are in the flow of life. Our role shifts from reactor to cocreator. We are empowered.
You know when you're living in the love vibration because you can feel it. It feels like a natural high. It is a feeling of connection, of wholeness, of lightness and expansion. Meditation, miracles of nature, emotional ecstasy, and places of awesome beauty can give us similar feelings of bliss.
Living in the love vibration is our birthright and directs the unfolding of our life's passion. It sets the intention for every day, the agenda for every interaction, the prescription for every ill, and the expectation for every circumstance.
Committing to the Love Vibration - To continually live in the love vibration takes considerable commitment and vigilance. It is all too easy to regress into fear, judgment, or self-righteousness. No matter how spiritual we think we are, we are still having the human experience of trials and tribulations, progress and relapse.
And it's all right. We don't have to deny or condemn our human vulnerabilities. The goal is to be positive and let the intelligence of our heart guide us.
Prayer, meditation, inspirational readings, and service to others are all excellent ways to attract connection, wholeness, and love. Other strategies include:
* Seeking the good in everyone and everything.
*Bringing trust to adversity.
*Being grateful for all that we have.
*Taking the high road in any conflicted situation or relationship.
*Creating a sacred space of peace and beauty in which to renew.
*Caring for living things.
Love is the elixir for joy and the antidote to pain. Love fuels the fire of our passion. Love lifts us from our limitations to our potential. Love transcends time and space. Love transmutes differences and prejudices. Love heals. Love is the vibration of Spirit, the song of the Universe. Love is the alpha and the omega.
Learning to live in the love vibration is why we are here. It is our individual and collective purpose. It is the secret of life that is hiding in plain view. When we live in the love vibration, we graduate this life with honors.
By Shirley Marshall, Ph.D. unity.org
The "I Love Me" MeditationTM
The "I Love Me" Meditation is a simple and profound heart-centered practice of generating your personal frequency of love. It will teach you how to activate your natural capacity to generate and experience love through conscious awareness and conscious choice. This practice helps us to awaken. It encourages personal empower-ment, greater self-esteem and self-discovery as we learn practical means of replacing fear and negative frequency with the most powerful force in the universe: Love!
The “I Love Me” meditation series and the “Embrace of Acceptance” series are available on the free Insight Timer App. To listen, download the app or visit https://insig.ht/jErOcnXnjub
Upcoming July Activities and Volunteer Events
JULY SING & SHARE
Sunday, July 13th: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Atri Park 2883 S. Norfolk, near Hillsdale Blvd. San Mateo
Join with us as we delight and inspire the elders of our community with lively company, silly joke time, and a fun, oldies-but-goodies sing-along with musical accompaniment. Don't sing well? Don't worry! All you need is a heart full of goodness and a smile. Please come live your love with us! Adults and children of all ages are welcome.
The Embrace of LoveTM
The Embrace of LoveTM is a guided meditation series which uses profound philosophy and gentle guidance to deepen your healing relationship with yourself as you are connected with the empowering presence of acceptance. Listen to a free recording on The Love Awakening's website and discover more about our organization and activities: theloveawakening.org
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THE POWER OF LOVE
AI Overview: In spiritual contexts, the "power of love" refers to a profound and transformative force that can connect individuals to a higher reality, fostering unity and healing. It's often viewed as a fundamental principle of the universe, capable of bridging divides and creating a sense of interconnectedness. Love is seen as a way to experience the divine, cultivate spiritual growth, and find meaning in life.
Here's a more detailed look at the concept:
1. Love as a Spiritual Principle: Oneness and Interconnectedness: Love is often associated with the idea that everything is interconnected, and that we are all part of a larger whole. This perspective suggests that love helps us recognize this interconnectedness and experience a sense of unity.
Divine Connection: Many spiritual traditions view love as a pathway to connect with the divine or a higher power. This connection can involve a sense of being loved and cared for, as well as a feeling of belonging and purpose.
Transformative Power: Love is often seen as a catalyst for personal growth and transformation. It can inspire courage, willingness, and the ability to face challenges.
2. Love and Spiritual Practices: Meditation and Mindfulness: Cultivating a practice of love and compassion can be a powerful tool for spiritual growth. Practices like loving-kindness meditation (metta) can help individuals develop feelings of empathy, compassion, and love for themselves and others.
Service and Compassion: Acting with love and compassion, whether through volunteering, acts of kindness, or supporting others in need, can be a way to express love and connect with the divine.
Forgiveness: Love is often associated with the ability to forgive, both oneself and others. Forgiveness can be a powerful step towards healing and reconciliation.
Love is the saving grace of all of humanity.