Sovereignty of Self

Acrylic and Ink on Canvas

As a culture, we consume and distract ourselves constantly, with productivity and doing, checking our calendars and to do lists, to picking up our phone to check our messages and socials. In this way of being, there is no room to breathe. We take ourselves so far away from our core beingness and what comes naturally to us. These actions keep us in the mind and forgetting our bodies, our humanity.

By removing everything that does not serve us. We strip ourselves bare to meet our essential truths. From that truth is where we step forward in integrity and sovereignty of self.

One of the greater gifts I gave to myself was turning down the noise and saying no to most everything that did not allow me to be in my full self presence. These months of stepping back, of wintering, have been profound in my behind the scenes life. Though difficult to turn inward and face all that is our individual humanity, it is one of the greatest acts of self love and the gold that comes from it is a mystery until we step back and look.

STEP BACK, DEAR ONE

Strip yourself bare.

Leaving only you.

The material of mind.

Historic reels to cycle through.

Cloaked in the fabric of your stories.

Wishing the fibers

Contain the threads.

To follow back, to a soul.

Undead.

Step back, dear one.

Take time with the raw.

To listen closely.

Your truth calls.

Breathe into this space

Of your own pure force.

Finding here, your own guide.

To correct your life’s course.

Walk slowly, my dear.

Too fast and you won’t notice.

The sprouting growth

Of one seed emergence.

The seeds we plant.

Will grow.

Sewing only the one

Fitting our individual flow.

Step back from it all.

Artificial. Masked. Overly curated.

A form, un-indoctrinated.

We are nature.

Living in cycles.

Evolving here and now.

Take heed. Take Action.

Onward and inward we go.

.by Rae