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Inner Sovereignty: Affirmations

by Tess Callahan

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Inspired by Byron Katie, Al-Anon, and 12-Step, these simple affirmations encourage a fresh rewiring of old conditioning. Making the quality of your consciousness your highest priority is the most life-changing action you can take. Moment to moment, are you on autopilot or responding with intention and presence? The more we stop wasting energy trying to control others, the more personal agency is available to us, offering greater clarity and autonomy over our choices and habits. We stand in our own sovereignty--a powerful place to be. Music: Christopher Lloyd Clarke. Audio Engineer: Eric Fischer of Audio-Refined. Photo: Jason Hogan.

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Transcript

Hello friends.

Today I am offering you some words and phrases that I'm inviting into my own body-mind these days.

And full disclosure,

Everything I offer to you in these chats and meditations is exactly what I need myself in any given moment.

What you get is what I'm needing.

I'm talking to myself basically and if by some chance it's useful to both of us,

Well that's a bonus.

Today I am setting an intention to ruthlessly make the quality of my consciousness my highest priority.

So before I answer a text,

Before I take a bite of food,

I ask myself,

What is my state of awareness right now?

Am I on autopilot or am I acting with intention and presence?

As I move through this day I remind myself that I'm powerless over other people's choices,

Their behavior,

Their habits and the quality of their consciousness is really not my business.

I can only attend to my own choices,

My behavior,

My habits and my level of awareness.

I acknowledge that anything I'm assuming about other people,

Especially my loved ones,

Is inherently loaded with my own projections.

So I'm powerless over their interactions,

Their relationships.

Where I have agency is over my own.

I have absolute agency over the quality of my own consciousness,

My degree of awareness and presence as I interact with others and as I move through my day.

Moment to moment I am responsible for the quality of my consciousness,

Which is all I really have.

Moment to moment I surrender any impulse to manage other people's lives or fix them or even to fix myself.

I let my loved ones be responsible for their own lives no matter how they might look to me right now.

Their journeys belong to them and I own responsibility for myself,

Including my reactions,

My inner weather,

The mind state with which I move through this day.

And so today I radically trust my loved one's path in life,

Their soul journeys and their sovereignty and I radically trust my own journey.

I actively cultivate my own inner sovereignty.

The more I step into this sovereignty,

Into this power,

The more I help the collective.

And so while I let go of trying to fix others or fix myself,

I trust in love to restore me to wholeness,

To heal me,

To remind me that I am already whole.

I turn myself over to my soul source,

To divine spirit,

To love,

Whatever name you choose to give it.

I hand myself over to the healing power of nature itself and I make a decision to cultivate the inner weather of gratitude,

Of joy,

Of freedom,

Of delight in this day,

Of love for life.

And so whatever this day brings through the cracks and fissures I choose to let in light.

And how?

The way that I do this is moment to moment staying powerfully and devotedly attuned to the quality of my consciousness.

Ah,

So simple and profound.

I choose to stay attuned to my degree of presence.

Over and over I make the decision to surrender to love.

This is what I wish for you today my friend,

To surrender to your true essence,

To the core of who you are,

Which is pure love.

Meet your Teacher

Tess CallahanTruro, MA, USA

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Recent Reviews

Lynda

January 26, 2025

Dear Tess…. There are no words that fully describe how beautiful and meaningful your guidance is. Impeccable….. thankyou… bless you 🙏❤️

Sara

June 6, 2024

Thank you for sharing this beautiful reminder. I will listen to this often to remind myself of these truths. 🙏🏼♥️

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