On Sovereignty
My boys are exercising their sovereignty in this photo. My four-year-old is feisty. He doesn't do anything unless he wants to. I have to choose my battles. But, I am also trying to raise them with a sense of their own sovereignty. Which is why, when he ran out of the picture, I didn't push him to retake it. In fact, the caption on Facebook was "He is done with family photos." Because he was.
Self sovereignty refers to the concept of individual autonomy and the moral right of a person to have control over their own body, life, and decisions. It is our ability to think our own thoughts, feel our own feelings, act of our own accord, and make decisions that are in alignment with our values. It is our ability to trust ourselves, our own reasoning, intuition, wisdom, and experience. It is to remain resistant to gaslighting, blame shifting, and projection. It is to claim our crown. To claim our crown, we must know who we are and for what we stand.
Our sovereignty is tested when those around us, especially our friends and loved ones, do not share our point of view, beliefs, and values. It is tested when we are financially, emotionally, or psychologically dependent on others. Ideally, in relationship with others, we are able to maintain our sovereignty. Ideally, as autonomous humans, we are able to maintain our sovereignty in a society.
And herein lies the rub: The degree to which we are sovereign within ourselves mirrors the extent to which we are sovereign as a people. The microcosm of our individual sovereignty is reflected in the macrocosm of our society.
The greatest threat to our sovereignty is our fear. When we are in a state of fear, we are susceptible to external influence. We may ascribe to particular principles, doctrines, and dogma. In this way, we allow our brains, our bodies, our hearts, and even our souls to be compromised by outside thoughts, beliefs, and influences. Over the last year, I have been working on my sovereignty. I have been working on bringing my higher self awareness, my soul level awareness, into my everyday existence. At first, I had to work hard at it, connecting with my higher self every morning, using symbols to connect, clearing my energy a few times a day. A year in, I no longer need to do that. I can now feel when someone is lying to me, I can recognize a projection and reject it, standing firm in who I am. I do not accept blame unless something truly is my fault, and then I take accountability and make a repair. When I ask for accountability, I do not accept gaslighting. And now, as a result, I can feel deception not only for me personally, but in the reality that we all occupy. It is as if I’m looking through the world through new lenses. As though I am looking back through Alice's looking glass. I understand the matrix we live in now. And, like Alice and Neo, following the white rabbit, reading the signs and synchronicities, has proven to be the antidote to fear. Indeed, it has given me faith. True faith. That although the reality we live in is crafted by outside influences, we too have the power to influence it.
The other day, I asked another coach to ask Chat GPT (plus) what it would take for humans to achieve world peace. It broke the answer down into three categories: consciousness, systems, and barriers. It referred to these as “the three dimensions that shape all collective futures.” It said that in order to achieve peace on Earth, humans would need to have a shift in consciousness. “Before peace becomes global, it must become psychological. It continued: “No political treaty or economic reform will hold if the human nervous system remains governed by fear, scarcity, and separation. The first necessary transformation is inner mastery at scale-individuals learning to regulate emotion, dissolve inherited trauma, and recognize unity consciousness (“the other” is not separate from me).
To paraphrase in my words, because the macrocosm reflects the microcosm, the shift would need to come from each individual’s personal evolution in consciousness. It then continued onto systems, stating that “once consciousness evolves, systems must follow,” lamenting that Humanity’s current systems: economic, political, educational, and media, are built on competition, extraction, and control.” To reach peace, it said, these systems need to be structured around “cooperation, regeneration, and truth.” It noted key systems that needed to transform, including “education, economics, media and information, and governance.” It then listed barriers we would need to overcome which it deemed “The Resistance of the Old Paradigm,” stating “Every evolution faces resistance. The forces that profit from fear, division, and ignorance will fight to preserve their control.”
And there it is: sovereignty. It is a necessary step to breaking out of the matrix. To create collective peace. Last summer, I went to meditate by the river. In my meditation, I arrived at the steps of Mont. St.Michel in France. I saw my sister standing at the top, so I climbed to meet her. When I got there, she placed a key around my neck. I saw the words “David’s Key” in my mind’s eye. Our father’s name was David. When I got home, I went on Instagram and saw a woman talking about “David’s key.” In the story of David and Goliath, David slew Goliath with a slingshot to the forehead. He chose faith over fear to defeat a seemingly impossible opponent. For humanity to bring down these systems that oppress us will take each of us unlocking our own healing. It will take each of us releasing our fear by moving into faith and finding peace within ourselves. And it will take each of us seeking our own sovereignty. For when we each claim our own crown, we can no longer be subjugated.Then, and only then, will we be free.
