Exercise: Sovereignty
What’s covered in this learning:
The Sufi approach to Sovereignty is based in both humility and strength, being in service without collapsing.
1. Sovereignty PDF
- The Sovereignty Workbook. You may have already downloaded it.
Here’s the PDF workbook you’ll use for all the topics in this module. Reading it reinforces what you’ll be hearing in the audio.
2. Listen to the Exercise: Sovereignty audio
Here’s the audio tracks!
Pause the audio as often as you want to give yourself the time you need.
Exercise: Sovereignty
Questions and wrap-up
Your assignment:
- Listen to the audio.
- Read the PDF, pages 12-14.
- Chant with al Malik, or if you have a similar name from a different tradition, or in English. What is your experience invoking/witnessing that Divine quality?
- Complete the exercises. Page 14 “Partnering” can be done alone, or if you’re inspired you can find a partner in the Community to partner with you.
You might find it helpful to open up a Google Doc, or another file, or even in a paper notebook (gasp!) and answer the questions there, so you can track your progress.
- What’s your experience with chanting the quality? What do you notice in your heart and being?
- What did you see as your mission as vice-regent over your business?
- What do you see changing in how you are with the people you serve? What do you see possibly changing in what you’re offering them?
- What situations or people did you identify as throwing you out of your power?
- In facing one of the situations where you lose your power, what was your experience in resting into al Malik (or the equivalent)? What changed in your heart?
- What other experiences, insights or take-aways did you get from this material?