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Love is not only an emotion — it is the intelligence, presence, and creative force within you. In this Journey of the Master Podcast episode, Sara Landon — channel of The Council — shares the Patrick story, body self-love, money as energy, and how becoming the love of your life opens true creation.

By Sara Landon · May 1, 2026 · 12 min read

Hello and welcome to this month’s episode of Journey of the Master Podcast: Guidance for Living Your Highest Potential. I’m Sara Landon — and this May 2026 conversation is one of my favorites: the power of love to activate the infinite intelligence, presence, and creative force within you. Love truly is your natural, inherent nature. It is your greatest power, and it is the source of all true creation.

The power of love is also the theme for our monthly Mentorship sessions this month — four live Wednesdays to go deeper. Here on the podcast, we start with a simple truth you can use all day: you cannot be focused in love and be in fear in the same moment. When you focus on something you love, you cannot worry in that same moment. Love is one of the easiest, most effective tools for coming into the now — and all of your power is in the now.

Yes, you elevate consciousness and summon your own energy into form to create the life you want — and that becomes far easier when you understand love as power, not only as an emotion. Love is energy. Fear is energy. They do not occupy the same focused moment. Think of someone or something you really love — a person, a place, a feeling — and notice: a fearful thought cannot land while you are genuinely feeling that love.

That is why love is such a practical return to power. When fear, scarcity stories, or “who am I?” sneak in, shift your focus to what you love. You do not have to argue with fear first — you re-aim your attention into love, and your vibration and available energy rise with it.

Sara opens with two childhood stories that reframed manifestation for her forever. In about third grade, her class held a jelly-bean jar contest. She wanted to win — and to prove her mind could make anything happen. She focused hard, got a number, submitted it… and did not win. For a long time that puzzled her: Why didn’t it work?

Then came Patrick. Growing up without much money, Sara met a palomino quarter horse gelding named Patrick and fell completely in love. She could not buy him. She visited, brushed him, loved on him. The owner saw that love and agreed to an exchange with Sara’s mom — sewing work for Patrick. Sara spent every waking moment with him. That same love inspired her to show him; against odds that seemed impossible, they qualified and went to the World Show.

Years later, in channeled inspiration, she asked again why she didn’t win the jelly beans — and was shown Patrick. She doesn’t love jelly beans. She was forcing creation without love. With Patrick, love made anything and everything possible. Why that horse, out of all the horses? Love has intelligence. Some loves feel encoded before this human experience. Follow the light of what you love, and the path opens.

A longtime student in Sara’s community shared that over recent years she lost a significant amount of weight — not through dieting, exercise programs, or weight-loss medication. Her commitment was one thing: to love her body exactly as it was. Not after fifty pounds. Not when it looked different. Right now. That choice changed everything. Her body responded supportively — she naturally ate differently, had more energy to walk and do what she wanted.

Sara teaches that the body has a natural set point where you feel your best — and when you love the body as it is, it knows how to move toward that set point. Judgment, mirror “ugh,” and family diet stories add resistance and heaviness. Love removes that fight. Self-love is not a slogan here; it is absolute power — loving your soul, higher self, and every part of you with heart, mind, body, and soul.

Even with food: how you feel about what you put in your body matters. If you truly love ice cream, make it sacred or celebratory — savor it in love rather than shame. From deep self-love, one student who feared “I’d only eat cookies” asked her body what she really loved and heard sweet potatoes. Alignment changes the answer.

Many people look for the love of their life to complete them. Sara reframes it: any person you meet mirrors what you believe about yourself and relationships. No matter how much they love you, they can only reflect your beliefs back. So instead of hunting for the love of your life, be the love of your life — invite soul, Source, and higher self as your greatest love; do what brings you joy; smile at yourself in the mirror.

Sara always wanted a soulmate partner (cats, dogs, horses, and nieces and nephews filled the desire for children). She made a detailed list of what she wanted — then realized she already had those qualities in her relationship with her soul, Source, higher self, friends, family, and her guides, including The Council. When she felt whole and complete — “I’m good; if someone comes, great; if not, great” — the love of her life showed up when she wasn’t looking, because she was already experiencing that love-of-my-life feeling with herself.

Love shows up in purpose and work too. Sara recounts speaking with someone weighed down by jobs they hated — until she asked what they really loved. Energy lifted… then dropped again at “But how would I ever make money doing that?” Love and fear cannot share the moment. She stayed with what they loved until the vibration rose again.

In corporate life Sara loved her clients and work — yet what she truly loved was personal development, spirituality, and deep conversations. She never imagined channeling The Council. When she began, she felt insecure: her voice changed, the cadence shifted, “we” spoke. Love and truth kept bringing her back until she chose what she loved over fear of being weird — and that love gave her power to overcome criticism.

Money is energy; love is energy. When you feel love about money — not as master, control, or material obsession, but as flowing energy that lets you be generous, create experiences, and do what you love — money can flow. Fear about money keeps it leaving. Ask what you love about money: generosity, surprising people with gifts, sharing experiences. Go to the energy underneath the form.

When you live as love in action — embodying love in thoughts, choices, relationships, and daily life — everything begins to change. In her current relationship Sara learned: if she focuses energy in fear, vibration drops; in love, it rises. Aligned to self-love, you stop trying to change your partner, child, parent, friend, or coworker so you can feel better. You allow people where they are, love them where they are, and become magnetic. Trying to control creates disharmony; love expands and expands.

Sara anchors love as foundational frequency and shares what The Council teaches in this episode: love is the master’s way — love is the master’s creation. Focused in that force, love multiplies through everyone you touch — flight attendants, customer service, children, partners, coworkers. Look around and feel “I love my life.” That is the destination she wants for you.

When desire gets stuck on one specific person or outcome — “I just want that person back” — Sara invites you one step deeper. What did you love about them? Humor? Deep conversations? Strength? Write those qualities down. Allow that love into your life without requiring the exact form. Your love may have expanded. If you have not yet had the relationship you want, inventory what you love about people already in your life — grandfather, dad, coach, teacher — and focus there.

The same practice applies to purpose: if you have love you want to share with the world, go deeper into what that is really about. Something about it is already coded within you — part of your path and soul’s highest expression. When we do what we love and live a life we love, we live our highest potential. That is the power of love.

Practical close from the episode: slow down. Breathe. Come into your power by focusing on what you love — the easiest way to summon your energy. Notice love as your true nature and the true nature beneath others’ stories and fear.

To go further this month, Sara invites you into The Mentorship Program for May 2026 — The Power of Love: Activate the Infinite Intelligence, Presence, and Creative Force Within You (four live Wednesday sessions beginning May 6). Explore courses when you are ready for deeper immersion, and Sara’s books including The 11 Spiritual Roles of the Soul and You Are a Channel for opening your connection to Source and guidance.