Sit somewhere quiet.
Let your eyes remain gently open.
Resting softly on the floor a little ahead of you.
Before you is a simple chair.
Empty.
Waiting.
Morning light rests across it.
Nothing else asks for your attention.
Now imagine yourself walking toward the chair.
No hurry.
No destination beyond this one simple act.
You arrive,
You sit.
Something remarkable has just happened.
A seat has been taken.
But by whom?
Pool just sat down.
Leave the question open.
Don't answer too quickly.
Simply notice.
There's a body sitting in the chair.
There is breathing.
There's sounds in the room.
Thoughts may already be moving.
But who is aware of all of this?
Bring your attention gently behind the eyes to yourself.
The one who is seeing.
The one who is listening.
The one who is thinking.
I the soul.
For so long I have mistaken myself for everything I experience.
My work,
My relationships,
My successes,
My disappointments,
Even this body.
But none of these are the one who is aware.
I am the one living through them.
I am a living soul,
A tiny point of conscious light.
The one who chooses.
The one who remembers.
The one who understands.
This is more than a chair.
This is my seat of self-respect.
My seat of self-sovereignty.
The place from which I direct my life.
This has always been my rightful seat.
The seat of one who is autonomous,
Noble.
Free to choose.
No circumstance can take it away from me.
No opinion can remove me from it.
No passing emotion has the authority to unseat me.
I remain seated in the awareness of who I am.
As I become settled here,
Something beautiful happens.
The mind begins to follow.
It no longer runs ahead.
It no longer pulls me from one thought to another.
I do not chase my thoughts.
I simply remain seated.
I am a living soul,
A tiny point of conscious light.
This is my self-respect.
My seat of self-sovereignty.
I do not chase my thoughts.
Quietly,
Steadily.
Just by being aware that I'm a living soul.
And this body is not me.
Steadies me.
It helps me rule my mind with joy.
This is self-sovereignty.
Not controlling life for other people.
Simply governing myself.
By remaining seated.
On the seat of being a living soul.
Aware of myself as a self-sovereign soul.
Thought by thought.
Choice by choice.
I govern myself.
From this seed,
There is stillness.
There is clarity,
There is dignity.
I lead my mind with gentleness and strength.
I stay seated.
Simply aware.
I am a living soul and this is my body.
And my original nature is self-sovereignty.
As you continue into your day.
Let your inner conversations be filled with benevolence and encouragement for who you are.
Carry yourself.
As this beautiful self-sovereign soul.
Wherever you go.
Take your seat of being a living soul.
In this body.
Everything else can follow.
