What is self-acknowledgment? Self-acknowledgment is the act of realizing and owning your personal gifts and talents. Why is this important? When we are born, we are all given our unique personality traits and gifts that we are meant to share with the world. By acknowledging yourself for these gifts, you are honoring your soul's work here on earth. If you look up the meaning of self in the dictionary, one of the interpretations is "the essential person distinct from all other persons in identity." One of the meanings for the word acknowledgment is "to admit as true." The art of self-acknowledgment is literally: Admitting that you are a person who is truly unique from all others! ©2006 Jana Hollingsworth

One of our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. By understanding our own self-acknowledgment we will find that it is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Self- acknowledgment allows you to recognize that you are special. Consequently you playing small does not serve this huge world we live in. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And, as we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give others people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our self-acknowledgment automatically liberates others.