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The Power is Within You

Melissa Kirkpatrick
Our business & life coach shares a simple technique to return to love to improve your life.

The journey of knowing the power is within is from Louise Hay, a motivational author and the founder of Hay House publishing, who authored many books, including “The Power is Within You,” teaching the principle of learning to love yourself unconditionally.

On life’s journey, you encounter situations and circumstances that often do not feel good or are not in alignment with what your soul desires.

It doesn’t mean that you’re not going in the right direction but learning to use the stepping stones and pathways to self-discovery and life’s purpose.

Helping you to understand the power within is learning the wisdom and the strength that you already know to be true.

Blocks and barriers can be moved out of the way when you start aligning with all the goodness that life offers, known as gratitude. 

You will never avoid all problems in your life, but you can change how you react to them.

Here’s what I recommend.
Give yourself an extra few minutes to make a conscious effort daily to find your way back to you. 

As you begin working on returning to loving yourself, allow the acceptance of all parts of you: the imperfections, the knowingness that things don’t work in your favor, and start accepting yourself as the total package.

Look in a mirror, smile, and give yourself a high five for showing up. 

Then look into your eyes (this may be a challenge, but it’s worth making an effort) and say out loud, “I am learning to deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

When you learn how to expand your thinking and your beliefs, you will soon find that whatever you need and whatever your heart desires will be to show up for you.

I know you’ll be surprised at how your life will change.

Relationships will improve, money will show up, negative situations will dissolve, and you might even discover you’re happier than you ever were before.

So I encourage you to start thinking about life as a voyage of self-discovery. 

Trust the power is within you.

Love begins in your heart, and it starts with you.

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