Inner Peace Treaty: 10-Minute Self-Harmony Guide

"Our Warring Self vs. Our Infinite Self" In this mediation, Sarah will help you look at your anger, and actively use your will and awareness to shift into your softness. This meditation will help to encourage peace and love in our lives.

Transcript

Today on Live Awake,

Our warring self versus our infinite self.

Movements like blades,

Sharp,

Short,

Deliberate.

Seeing the weight and fierceness of a million invisible warriors behind them.

She is angry,

Defiant,

Raging against her reality.

Her breathing short and shallow.

She breathes fire.

She is the one who starts war.

She is the part of you that is capable of burning down cities and waging war against the ones she loves.

She is the part of you that hides under the surface.

The part of you that surprises you when she shows her teeth.

The part of you you deny,

Push away,

Pretend does not live there within you.

She is your darkness.

The woman who dwells in the shallow waters of your being.

She is in every one of us.

She rides up on the back of the wave of your righteous ego.

She feeds on the ideas that you deserve more,

Better,

Different.

She lurks in the thoughts and emotions that keep you small.

The notion that you have something to fight for,

To reclaim,

To preserve.

She is the face of war.

The part of us who can understand how we fight others,

How we ruin our lives,

How we can kill in the name of our beliefs.

She is who we must look to when needing to find compassion for others who are captivated under her spell.

She is who we must hold lovingly in our hearts when we see those caught in her grasp.

She is who we must learn to love into gentle submission.

For she only lives and breathes on our unlove.

She can only survive when and where we have forgotten to love.

Then there is the soft one.

The woman with long white hair who moves like liquid,

Glides on her step,

Floats on light.

She is tender,

Always tender.

She comes when you ask for help.

She comes when you fill your lungs with a conscious breath.

She lives there,

Beside the wicked.

She is shelved beside the one who wars.

There they stand within you,

Both hands open.

A choice.

The one who sees as an owl,

Able to look from all perspectives.

Gentle,

Hands soft as the skin of a plum.

But her language and tongue.

She is able to withstand storms.

She catches the furious pain of others.

The difficult experiences you face.

The things that make you want to fight.

And she cradles them.

Swaddles them in unconditional love.

Over and over again,

She loves all.

She is the bottomless source of light,

Love.

She is your essence.

Pure and wise,

She lives in your greatest depths.

Deep in your tissues.

She is your greatest ally.

She is who you can choose to embody,

To call forth as you navigate your life.

Tightness in breath,

Sharpness in movement,

Darting in eyes.

Means you are calling forth the warrior within you to rise.

You are bringing her up on the waves of contempt.

In conscious breath inward,

Into your very depths,

And she will fall.

You have the power to call the soft one into form.

You can choose.

There is no question which feels better,

Which one breathes us more alive,

More vivid.

It is up to you to choose the powerful choice of living as the soft one whenever you feel lost in a sea of raging thoughts and waves.

She is there,

I promise you.

She serves where the other severs.

She heals where the other wounds.

She replaces,

Replenishes,

Restores where the other robs,

Pillages,

Eradicates,

And steals your love,

The same love of the world.

It takes great strength and determination to choose her when you are in the fire.

It is not just a choice,

But your choice.

Everything will suffer more than you if you continue to choose war.

A part of us enjoys the fighting,

Arguably more than the peace.

Such intensity and emotion is very powerful,

Palpable,

Weak en route but alluring in force.

The gentle softness of the other is far less intense.

It requires a dropping down and rooting rather than a rising up and spinning.

They are two polar energies,

Forces living within you,

A choice for you to make at every triggering moment in your life.

And close your eyes now.

Follow the effortlessness of your breathing for a moment.

Notice its nature,

Its peace.

Let it reground you in its soothing,

Non-judgmental force.

This breath,

This calm,

Is your essence.

It is the current,

The heart of your most pure and gentle self.

After all we live,

After all we experience and go through,

We always return to this breath.

The serene current of our truth is rising within us every moment we are alive.

Take a moment to reflect on all of the times you forgot this softness inside of you.

Notice all of the places you choose to fight instead of resting here in your divine source.

Anger and warring shows us we are afraid,

Shows us we are trying to protect our vulnerability and softness.

Your walls are there to stop you from feeling,

To distract you from hurt.

But feeling your softness,

Returning to your nature,

Is the only thing that will set you free.

The only thing that will feed your life in the ways it is asking.

Resist the reflex of protection.

Your heart needs you to not be afraid any longer.

It will heal your anger,

Your wars.

It will save your world,

Your life.

Come back to your breathing again.

Notice how comforting,

Soothing,

Nourishing it is.

How being with it is replenishing all that aches within you.

All war,

Large or small,

Fought in the quiet of your mind,

In the words you say to another,

In the language you speak with your body,

In the way you treat even just the smallest of discomforts,

Is still war.

Fight long and hard enough against your life,

Your circumstance,

The people in your life and you will begin to see the war first starts within you and spreads up through your body like a tsunami of hate and drowns any chance for well-being,

Any chance for harmony,

Any chance for grace.

How tremendously powerful you are,

Dear one.

Don't you see how much love you can create for yourself,

How much suffering you can obliterate,

How you can quench the dry,

Cracked earth around you by breathing the soft one within you awake.

The world around you and within you needs you to be her,

To stand in her unbeatable force.

You are capable of being both.

So please choose wisely,

Dear one,

For your quality of life and love depends on it.

Reviews

This was such a beautifully expressed meditation, it feels like gentle poetry for my heart. Thank you Sarah.

This is a profound meditation for me after making the biggest mistake of my life, from listening to my Warring self. I am becoming and will be the Spft self and my healing will help others. I never want to be so weak again.

Incredibly relevant and powerful for me today. Thank you 🙏🏻

Beautiful voice and reflections in her guided meditations. Each with a different meaning and purpose. It makes me forget time while listening.

I tend to think of myself as a limited man in a limited physicality in an uncontrollable set of circumstances. And it's true, in a real sense. But in another real sense, a higher real sense, I am constrained by none of those limits and constraints. I am divine. Of God. Time exists but also does not as it can be transcended. Emotions exist but also do not for they can be transcended. When I reach out to the higher real me, I can be pulled to the reality of divine safety. All is well. Even when it's not. Thank you, Sarah!

Exactly what I've needed. Listened for two nights in a row now. May need to do this meditation every day.

Wonderfully worded to describe the importance of choosing softness

Amazing insights 😊 I love your guidance and somehow I find exactly what I need from your sessions. I’m grateful for you 🙏

Sarah has the gift of poetic words that bring peace and serenity into my life. Thank you!

This was so beautiful! It spoke to all the parts of me. Thank you for sharing your wonderful gift!

Thank you Sarah. I have set a goal of going to the gentle side not my angry self. 🙏❤️

That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever listened to.
Thank you.

A beautiful reminder to choose the soft one. Namaste. 🙏🩵

Filled my spirit with the nourishment I needed to call in the softening self. Thank you dear one.

Another one of my favorites, since the time it was titled "Our warring selves". Thank You Sarah!

Such a powerful and healing meditation! Thank you for this gift. This is one I will return for again and again.

Just what I needed when I got so angry at myself. I needed to be guided to bring out the soft one, to give myself grace.

Thank you for this powerful message I have recently received some sad news about a family member and this message has helped me to place my feelings. 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

Thank you for providing such calm, peaceful insight. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you Sarah, it's always a wonderful journey 🙏🪷