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Getting Our Power Back
You are in grave danger!
At any moment—you may be loving, laughing, alive—
you may accidentally find God!
Rabindranth Tagore
During many years of observing others and myself searching
for fulfillment, I’ve noticed an essential ingredient is often missing. I
call this ingredient sovereignty—self-sufficiency, self-generation or
total independence from outside sources. Without this quality in its authentic
form, no one I know has been able to achieve the happiness, health and peace
they are seeking.
Throughout the years of assisting others and myself to feel
truly joyous and free, I’ve watched people try to ignore, deny, invalidate
or rationalize away the importance of sovereignty. I’ve witnessed friends
and other people attempt to fake it, substitute for it, and try to steal and
borrow it from others. All these efforts have been in vain. Their time, energy
and intention would have been put to better use by focusing on allowing this
quality to become a solid personal reality.
In my experience, a true, conscious state of sovereignty is
absolutely critical for genuine, lasting satisfaction during the Earth
experience. If you’re not entirely clear as to the nature of this state,
it’s not surprising. In deliberate accordance with our personal and
collective design, there is a subtle, pervasive individual and cultural
prohibition against tasting too deeply the nectar of sovereignty.
Throughout history, this cover-up has been very successful
and almost completely impenetrable. There is a good reason for this. When you
authentically recognize the fundamental truth of your own sovereignty, the gig
is up! The ego’s charade of imminent destruction is exposed as a lie and, in
fact, as an impossibility. This revelation is a death knoll for the
aspect of you that tries to destroy your joy by threatening you with
disapproval, disagreement, disease and destruction. This part of you that
doesn’t want to "give up the ghost" (illusion) is variously
referred to as the ego, mind, intellect, conditioning, programming,
personality, identity or persona. This aspect of yourself bought into the
tribal collective agreement, mainstream mass consciousness, that you are
ultimately vulnerable to body and soul annihilation if you don’t tow the
party line, as dictated by . . . who else? . . . the ego.
In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. One of
my spiritual mentors, Lester, was fond of musing:
"The thing people fear the most is non-survival. And
non-survival is the only thing that can’t ever happen to us."
You are an eternal being, whether you like it or
not—whether you are aware of it or not! Sovereignty is the personal
recognition of your everlasting, eternal permanency!
Sovereignty isn’t a concept, idea, principle,
possibility, option or creation. It doesn’t need to be affirmed, declared,
visualized, asserted, defended or manifested. The immutability of your
sovereignty doesn’t depend on whether you believe in it or not. It is a fact
of your existence, an inescapable, immutable reality. Your awareness,
appreciation and enjoyment of sovereignty may come and go to one degree or
another, but eternalness never waivers as your fundamental, inalienable true
nature.
Sovereignty is knowing you are the ultimate source of every
experience you have in your life. You know for certain you are a sovereign
being when you generate your own energy, love, power, health, wisdom, clarity,
security, peace and fulfillment on a daily basis.
Lester often reminded me, "You only know that which
you can do!" In order to operate on a practical basis as the creator you
are, it’s crucial to tap directly into the universal life force in a real,
tangible, lasting way. You need to connect fully with the fire within, with
the essence that nurtures the fullness of your being.
One very effective and immediate way to access your true
nature and power is to shift your identification away from thinking
(believing) that you are only your human personality, that you are only
a body, and that you are separate from other people and other forms of
life. As your creative attention shifts from who you think you are to
who you truly are, you experience the total security and
certainty of your basic essence. Our true essence is an
eternal energy field of consciousness. This energy field of consciousness is
connected with all life and gives us the freedom to create whatever we choose.
It’s helpful to be aware that this shift of attention
cannot be just a mental exercise. A wholesale re-identification of your
entire being with the everyday reality of self-generation is required.
This re-identification has to be fully integrated on the emotional, spiritual,
biological and molecular levels. And it’s crucial for you to create direct,
firsthand, tangible, demonstrable and repeatable evidence that you can,
in fact, manifest and attract all the love, safety, energy, well-being, joy,
peace and abundance you desire in your life.
The benefit of giving yourself this factual personal
validation is that this firsthand evidence takes sovereignty from the realm of
the conceptual to the reality of the practical. When you can prove
your sovereignty to yourself repeatedly, at will, on your own terms, in your
own way and in your world, then self-generation becomes real for you.
One very useful resource you can use to validate
sovereignty for yourself is tapping into the accurate, comprehensive recall of
your inner coach—intuition. Your intuition is the aspect of your
consciousness that can remind you accurately, without ego filters and bias, of
everything that has ever happened to you in your lifetime. Using intuitive,
meditative, shamanic soul journeying you can guide yourself to reconnect with
peak moments in your life when you personally experienced the vibration,
energy and reality of sovereignty. These are moments when you knew with
certainty your true nature of power, passion and creativity.
In this way you can re-light your pilot light and stoke
your inner fire to burn more brightly. As you come alive again within, you
naturally remember how to continuously fuel your own courage, safety, power,
prosperity, compassion and happiness. As you begin to vibrate at the frequency
of sovereignty in your everyday life, you attract and experience more of the
direct personal evidence that makes the state of sovereignty even more
authentic and lasting for you. Like vibration attracts—and creates—like
vibration.
The more experientially convincing it becomes to you
that you are in charge of your own energy and survival, the more you will
keep your creative attention focused on the realness of
your own sovereignty. As more attention is focused on your true personal
power, less attention is available to slip back into energizing old patterns
of dependence and helplessness. Old fears of victimhood, insecurity and
abandonment diminish and eventually dissolve from lack of sustaining
attention. Threats of your personality’s limited perspective become less and
less convincing. It becomes less crucial to control other people or the
environment to make sure you get enough love, energy or safety. It becomes
less necessary to resist or defend against others trying to control you or
steal your energy. It becomes less imperative for you to withhold, hide, alter
or disguise your true feelings, desires and excitement for fear of upsetting
or threatening somebody else’s world.
As you reclaim your natural power, you become
self-sustaining. The whole process of truly owning your sovereignty snowballs
in the direction of freedom and abundance. The more time you spend in the
vibration of sovereignty, the easier it becomes to keep all your attention
there. Soon, you find yourself living every day in an ocean of infinite
supply. You possess all the clarity, wisdom, power and joy you previously
searched for and found so fleeting. All your awareness is nurtured daily by
this direct experience of being completely connected, loved, energized and
supported on the Earth in a very practical way.
From this authentic inner security emanates the courage and
strength to be who you really are. This honest expression keeps your creative
attention flowing to what is naturally right for you and truly gives you
happiness. You have all your personal power available to fully energize your
soul’s innermost impulse to express and create. Your attention flows
unhindered—without distraction, detour or derailment—into funding your
heart’s deepest desires and fulfilling your fondest dreams. You have
returned to your natural state of sovereignty.
Sharing who you really are—and all your natural spiritual
abilities—with the world is the ultimate act of love. Being self-generating,
you are able to allow all other inhabitants of Earth to do whatever they
choose. You can offer others the space to be just as they are. You become
capable of giving the greatest gift we can bestow on another being:
unconditional love, total acceptance.
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