How to Cultivate Emotional Sovereignty Emma Seppälä
The One You Feed
Exploring Awareness and Courage in Emotional Sovereignty
Awareness combined with courage is vital for achieving emotional sovereignty. Awareness helps to distinguish between a bound state and a sovereign state in self-relationships. A bound state leads to toxic relationships with oneself, reducing resilience and increasing anxiety and depression, while a sovereign state enables moving forward and expressing the best self. Courage is needed to step out of comfort zones and make positive changes, even if it goes against societal expectations. Sovereignty requires aligning with oneself, which may be unfamiliar to others. Being aware of one's mental imprints and actively choosing what to nourish the mind with is crucial for a sovereign mind. Trauma can bind the mind, hindering the ability to be one's sovereign self. Overcoming trauma and consciously cultivating the mind with positive imprints and interactions with the world take courage and are integral to achieving emotional sovereignty.
