Sovereignty & Freedom [Self-guided]
Jeannie talks about the support available to develop a clarity-filled, grounded way of navigating life's challenges and to unplug from the opinions of those around us and root deeply in our own sovereign clarity.
Root deeply in your own sovereign clarity
Unplug from the opinion of others
Jeannie invites participants to soften and rest into the ground of being, to give themselves to the moment. She talks about including the body in consciousness as the beginning of what she calls "sovereignty" - a place to rest outside of the influences of the everyday mind and the thoughts of others in simple embodied being, to rest in the simultaneous consciousness of the field of awareness and the flow of felt experience. She talks about the particular "being in space" and how presence doesn't have a problem with the creature of the body, and that the embodiment of freedom comes from bringing spaciousness to the creature of the body that carries conditioning. She talks about the body as the sacred vehicle through which our holy essence can be expressed, and the importance of welcoming and bringing warmth to that structure. She invites participants to envision their body as a temple, supported by earth and inspired by heaven. She says conditioning robs us of a conscious sense of our own sturdy embodied presence, and talks about how we meet and dissolve that conditioning and restore peace to our temple.
Exchanges
Exchange 1: Participant feels grounded in ease and freedom in most areas but there are a few that cause her to feel caught in concern about what others think. Jeannie talks about what to do when caught in such a way in relation to another.
Exchange 2: Participant talks about feeling exhausted after being together with someone she loves. Jeannie talks about relationship as the proving ground and sovereignty and helps her to find ways to support her own embodiment while relating to her love.
Exchange 3: Participant is having trouble with feedback from her partner's ex. Jeannie supports her to find her own ground and ease in the situation.
Exchange 4: Participant isn't sure what to do with the self-righteousness and judgment that rise in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and those who would harm people of color, including her husband who is a black man. Jeannie talks about the anatomy of hate, and the things to meet below the self-righteousness and judgment that fuel it.
Exchange 5: Participant had a question about how to allow herself to act from naturalness and though Jeannie didn't respond to that question explicitly, the participant felt her question was answered in the space Jeannie held for her.