You can't remind yourself too often that awakening to your real self reverses everything you've learned about the limitations of physical experience.
As you respond to the guidance of the inner champion,
Accepting the love that's been kept safe for you and maintain this state of receptivity,
You'll open yourself to the power of love that is your birthright.
This power is an essential and completely natural aspect of your innocence.
You'll become more accepting of your power as the inner champion uses the magnificent energy of forgiveness to undo everything you believe you did in the dream of separation,
To deserve the punishments you've heaped upon yourself for your perceived deficits,
Making you unworthy of your power.
As you respond to your profound connection to the reality of love and try to escape from the tyranny of your long-held belief in powerlessness,
The voice of your negative ego will insist that this is dangerous territory,
That you'll misuse the limitless power of love,
And that victimization is the price you must pay for your sinful nature.
Most of us have very negative associations with the experience of power.
In the dream we made,
We believed we were separate from our own source and from everything and everyone around us in an alien and terrifying world.
The dominion that we knew in our oneness with love was lost to us.
In order to survive in this imaginary dimension,
We believed we needed to dominate others or be at their mercy.
The power of love is our natural state of being.
It's always available to us in the present moment.
In this sense,
The true present is forgiveness because it is your natural state of mind when it's cleansed of all the distortions of the past.
We interfere with this perfectly natural state when we deny our deserving and chain ourselves to past ideas about who we truly are.
What we term miracles are simply the natural manifestations of love through us when our desire becomes strong enough to temporarily override our usual sense of feeling we do not deserve to be happy.
Again,
As you willingly turn within to the presence of the inner self,
It will respond with all of the joyous power of its role as your champion in this process.
I suggested yesterday that with your first conscious intent to accept your partnership with the inner self,
That you ask for it to show you a blessing that will strengthen your confidence in the reality of its presence.
With this willingness,
You are engaging the limitless power of love and you will begin to see the evidence of its intervention in your life.
As you align yourself with it in this way,
You're choosing to place yourself under the guidance of the only teacher who can restore the complete recognition of your true self.
Your only other choice is to let yourself be led by your ego,
The embodiment of the distorted self images you've believed throughout your physical history in the dream.
It's not who you are and it cannot show you your true self.
It's only interested in maintaining its existence by keeping you imprisoned by the false concept you have accepted as a substitute for your true self.
Since you have become so accustomed to accepting the chaos and limitation in your life and given the challenges we face in this extraordinary moment in time,
It will be challenging for you to maintain your alliance with the inner champion and you'll find yourself at first vacillating between your alliance with the true self and the familiar tyranny of your ego who will try to convince you that you could only be safe by learning from it how to navigate in the world that's real of endless separation and opposition.
Knowing that these are your only choices,
You can learn to detach your identification with the ego and maintain your allegiance to your inner champion.
To do this,
Set your intention at the beginning of each day that above all else you want to return to your true self and you're willing to let the inner champion guide your decisions throughout the day.
Your days will start to show the evidence of your birthright to peace and happiness and if you feel overwhelmed or discouraged at any time,
Know that you've let your ego take charge again and go within and reassert your desire to let your inner self show you the compelling demonstration of love in your life.
Here's a meditation.
Find a comfortable position,
Close your eyes and take a few gentle breaths to let yourself relax.
See a familiar but darkened image standing before you,
A vision of your ego,
The embodiment of all the distorted beliefs you have accepted about who you are.
Hear its voice insisting it is madness to believe you're powerful and have the right to happiness.
Then just as you consider giving in once again to the familiarity of the past,
Feel a powerful surge of joyous energy drawing you away from this image and turning around,
See the vision of your inner self opening its arms for you.
Let yourself sink gratefully into its warm embrace and hear its soft voice tell you it will gladly guide you this day and always.
Feel the strength and comfort of this,
Your magnificent champion.
Then open your eyes and carry this assurance with you into your day.
