Loveworks!
The Rodan Foundation’s Publication for The Love Awakening
October 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!
HOW TO PRACTICE THE POWER OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE EVERY DAY
Love stirs something in us. Love opens us up and fuels our creative spirit. Love generates synchronicity.
There is no greater feeling than being loved for who you are.
When we are in the flow of unconditional love, it is powerful and limitless. We are empowered to step into our greatness as well as to help others do the same. In this love, we see the highest and best around us. We see the Divine in all expressions.
Real Love Has No Conditions, No Requirements - “The nature of love is to always call forth that which is unconditional,” Unity minister Rev. Jacquelyn Hawkins says. “When conditions are placed on love, it is not love, it is a transaction.” People who love us unconditionally exemplify the divine nature of God in themselves. Unconditional love expresses itself through many channels: family, friends, self-acceptance, divine love—the trust and affection of a partner. Unconditional love that comes from the Divine isn’t earned; it is in our spiritual DNA. When we live in this love, everyone around us benefits. By seeking and working to practice unconditional love, we change lives.
Practicing Unconditional Love in a Community - Every moment we spend time with others, we have the chance to practice unconditional love. We can acknowledge love’s ever-presence in the warmth and light of our friends, family, and strangers. Even in hard times or when other people challenge us, seeing through the lens of love helps to acknowledge each person’s perfect imperfection. As Rev. Eric Butterworth said, you can become the “center of love” for your community. In the presence of others, work to be guided by the still, small voice within, to fully embrace events, people, places, and things around you. Love is the underlying principle that moves, binds, heals, and harmonizes.
Practicing Unconditional Self-Love First - Loving others is impossible until we love ourselves. Too often, however, we consider ourselves unworthy of love. When we feel empty of love, we look for someone to love us and "fill the void." It is only when we release the love we have accepted for ourselves that we experience love. True self-love is not ego-centered. It is anchored in the greatest of humility because self-love reflects the divine nature in each of us. Without a love of ourselves, there is no baseline to measure other love. Without a love of ourselves, we feel unworthy of any other love. After all, we reason, if I can't love myself, how can I expect anyone else to love me? Only when you can love yourself can you remove the obstacles to the expansion of yourself.
Recognize God’s Unconditional Loving Presence - The power of unconditional love is God power. There is no other power. Through prayer and meditation, we can recognize the source of divine love in ourselves. That unconditional love of the Divine Spirit expressing through each of us blesses every facet of our lives.
Elisabeth Howard, 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 October Activities and Volunteer Events
OCTOBER SING & SHARE
Sunday, October 12th: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Mills Estate Villa 1733 California Drive, Burlingame 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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DIVINE GUIDANCE
In our early years together, we did our best to love each other, to unearth and change the separative beliefs and patterns that obstructed our love, and to unselfishly serve the world. The farther we went down that road, the more we came up against our personal limitations in taking each other sensitively and fully into account, and in discerning what would be most right and most helpful in each of the situations and decisions that confronted us.
Feeling like we’d reached the limits of our personal efforts, we asked for Divine assistance. It became clear we needed brighter thoughts, greater love, deeper understanding, and more expansiveness than our limited human perspective permits. Feeling like we’d reached the limits of our personal efforts, we asked for Divine assistance. “My love is not enough. I need Your help. Love through me,” we prayed, not really knowing what to expect. The Divine responded, and when we followed its lead, the advice worked wonders.
Then began a process of increasing our attunement, learning to recognize our Divine guidance, adjusting our lifelong habits of self-directed thinking and doing, and embracing our new partnership. Our growing experience with the Divine has convinced us that a person needn’t be a great mystic or saint to walk closely with God, hand in hand, and experience God’s personal love, constant presence, and guidance in their own daily lives . . . it is the birthright of every human being. lovetrust.net/guidance