Who’s wearing your crown?
Continuing our series of questions about Sovereignty, here’s one from Amna Ahmad, of The Pragmatic Hybrid:
What do you suggest when someone is not at all sure of her grounds to assert her sovereignty? Like when the opposing forces are trying to trump her ace with the threat of hellfire and damnation? Maybe she mostly doesn’t believe in these things, but a tiny little bit of her thinks they might be possible, and so she is cowed?
Amna, to develop sovereignty you have to begin by knowing yourself. This means sorting through and clearing out the assumptions and beliefs you’ve inherited from your culture, your family, your religion, schools, media, society. And also sorting through and uncovering your own biases and unexamined points of view.
These assumptions and beliefs are forms of energy.
Once you’ve cleared them, you’re left with your own inner truth, which is the bedrock on which you can build a sustainable life.
Threats of hellfire and damnation are forms of energy intended to frighten you into obeying someone else’s rules, or buying into someone else’s version of reality. Fundamentalism is always prescriptive. It claims to know The Truth, and attempts to define reality for you. It does not honor your soul’s knowing or respect your sovereign right to choose your own path.
If you grew up in an environment that implanted such belief systems in you, the energy of those beliefs is still inside you. It’s not enough to know, intellectually, that they aren’t true. You have to actually remove that energetic implant, and replace it with your soul’s presence. With what your soul knows to be true.
There are a variety of ways to do this. When I’m working individually with clients, I look clairvoyantly at the beliefs and patterns that are embedded in their energy bodies, and use clairvoyant healing techniques to remove them. Then I help them fill up the spaces we’ve cleared out, with their own soul, and with the qualities that their soul brings.
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This has got me thinking about who might have purloined my crown and some rather unhealthy beliefs that hang around, ready to pop out when I’m most vulnerable, even though I don’t believe in them. The list may be long!
Ah, the list! :-) It may be long, but once you shine a light on it, it becomes so much easier to create a new, more sovereign pattern for your life.
It’s powerful to think about the energy imprints left behind by everything I’ve been indoctrinated to believe. When I slip back into these beliefs (most often: I need improving/I’m not good enough as is), I often take an intellectual approach and can’t understand why that’s ineffective. I’m curious what other kinds of energetic approaches might work instead?
Dawn’s last post … Pain for the World
All effective ways of transforming patterns have certain elements in common:
* Introduce a clearer, stronger energy field into the existing pattern. This will begin to shift it to resonate with the new energy field. You can do this by cultivating those qualities you want in your life, and filling your energy field with them. You can also ask for and receive help from allies in the physical and non-physical realms.
* Become aware of the pattern you want to transform. Identify its elements. Diffuse and de-energize them so that they no longer hold an energetic charge in your life.
* Both these processes occur simultaneously, though there may be times when one or the other is at the forefront of your inner process.
I tried this yesterday while hiking. The mountain proved to be a superb ally for a clear & strong energy field. It helped me have a little space to see my judgments as sweet but rather crotchety attempts to take care of myself. Thank you, thank you for the insight!
Dawn’s last post … Getting Off Trajectory- July Edition
I love how the energetic body is so willing to give up what stops resonating, especially stories from our families and cultures.
My dominant culture has a lot of “think small” going on. Stay small. Don’t attract attention. Don’t think too much of yourself. When that stopped resonating for me, my energetic body literally didn’t recognize that as being applied to me. So thinking small doesn’t happen anymore.