I am Enough
What if we remembered that we are enough? What happens when we know we have choices, that things can be done differently and that we are all full of potential?
In this Podcast we share stories, experiences and tools, our own as well as others who join us to share their journey towards enoughness. We challenge cultural beliefs and patterns, and draw on the Wisdom of Nature exploring how all of this can support us in seeing our wholeness and create new possibilities.
I am Enough
Reclaiming Sovereignty Through Connection to Self and Earth
What does it truly mean to be sovereign in today's world?
Suzanne Hovmand-Simonsen takes us on a remarkable journey from childhood responsibility to corporate burnout to biodynamic farming, revealing how reconnecting with the land became her pathway to personal sovereignty and wholeness.
Growing up on her family's centuries-old Danish estate, Suzanne experienced both deep connection and painful disconnection. After her mother's illness forced her to take on adult responsibilities as a teenager, she initially sought normalcy through university education and corporate life. The result? Physical illness, allergies, and a profound sense of being unable to breathe – literally and figuratively. At thirty, she made the radical decision to quit everything and return to her roots, embracing organic and biodynamic farming practices.
The transformation Suzanne has witnessed on the land mirrors the inner journey we all must take to reclaim our sovereignty. "It takes seven years to convert a farm to biodynamic farming," she explains, "but it's not nature that takes that long – it's us." This profound insight encapsulates how our internal shifts manifest in the world around us, creating spaces where diversity flourishes and life returns in abundance.
Suzanne challenges us to reexamine our relationship with wisdom itself. True wisdom, she argues, doesn't come from intellectual achievement but from connecting deeply with ourselves and the universal field that unites all beings. This sovereignty – taking full responsibility for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing – is the foundation for creating what she describes as "paradise" wherever we are. When we stand in our truth and express our unique gifts, we contribute essential pieces to humanity's collective puzzle.
This episode invites you to discover how reconnecting with nature's wisdom might be the key to finding the enoughness that already exists within you.
Thank you for listening and taking the time to explore our podcast.
Earthaconter: Connection, Exploration and Expansion
www.earthaconter.org
Welcome to I Am Enough, the space where we explore journeys back to our forgotten birthright of enoughness, to draw on natural wisdom, along with awareness, acceptance and compassion, to support each of us on that journey and embrace our wholeness, despite what society tells us. Each one of us is enough exactly as we are. My name is Lynne Mann and I'd like to welcome you to this space where we explore enoughness, people's journeys along the path to feeling I am enough, and look at what can support each of us on that journey. Hello and welcome to another episode of I Am Enough, the space where we embrace our wholeness. So today I have with me Suzanne Hovmand-Simonson, and I had a conversation with Suzanne last week, having been introduced to her by Mark Henderson, who's co-creator of Earthaconter, regular feature on this podcast, and it was a beautiful conversation. So I'm really looking forward to just seeing what emerges today.
Lyn Man:So Suzanne is someone who has a deep-rooted connection to Earth, having been brought up on an estate which her family owned and farmed for hundreds of years in Denmark. It took moving away and doing something different to realise where she needed to be, having returned back to the estate and run it in a biodynamic and organic way. Having done this, she then had to go through the challenge of losing the farm. Suzanne now works the land on a smaller farm in the same area, from the age of 14, when her mother was diagnosed with an illness and they changed the way they live, through feeling she could not breathe in a corporate life, to losing the estate and to the present day, farming the land while studying to be a naturopath and herbalist. There is a theme that runs through Suzanne's life one of claiming back and standing in her power. Whatever the challenge is, there is a feeling of always coming back to yourself. So welcome Suzanne. I'm really looking forward to well, I'm really happy to have you here and looking forward to the conversation.
Susanne Hovmand:Thank you so much, and thank you for having me. I'm looking very much forward to it too.
Lyn Man:So the first word I wrote down last week when we talked and is sovereignty and it in a way, it goes back to that, that theme that's run through your life. So just love to hear you share in your own words how that feeling of always coming back to your power and even whatever the challenges you've faced, have moved you on your own journey to being enough have moved you on your own journey to being enough.
Susanne Hovmand:Yeah, I think that it's quite interesting when we face challenges in our lives.
Susanne Hovmand:Everybody and we all do whatever they may be in our life and what we've chosen to come here to experience but they're all here to let us grow and make us grow within and it's really sovereignty is that feeling when you are standing in your own true self and you are connected to your own higher self and you actually get to know yourself better and know your path and know what is right and what is wrong.
Susanne Hovmand:You are being set free from cultural expectations or habits and you're coming to your true self. So that's what true sovereignty really is, but it's also getting to know yourself deeply, deep within, which is actually the biggest experience you can have in your life. We're very busy today, if I should elaborate a little bit on that, and we are very busy traveling the world to experience the external world, and we spend very little time going within and spend time with ourselves and discover all the possibilities and the amazing world that you actually find within and I think that that's what I have learned from the challenges that I've been brought into through my life is to to go within, and that's actually where you find what you're looking for. It's never outside yourself, it's always from within.
Lyn Man:I love that reminder of it is going within and it is about getting to know yourself more. And I think the more we experience life, the the more almost the more challenges we face, in a way, the more we get to know ourselves. But it's taking time, as you say, to step back from that that busyness and allow yourself to do that. And I know with myself it took a health issue to force me to step back because I just kept go, go, go. That was always my thing was doing, making sure things were done, taking care of people, but just for yourself. When was it that actually you realized the importance of allowing yourself to go within and start to reflect and learn from the challenges?
Susanne Hovmand:I think actually it has been a thing that has been developing over my life. I was lucky, I came to this world and already as a child I had some experiences that were a little bit weird to other people, I would assume. But when my mom became ill and went to intensive care, a whole new world spiritually opened within me and dimensions actually opened within me. And that's where I there were two phases, because one was I had to suddenly take care of my family on the physical plane. My dad was more or less giving up on everything and I'm the biggest sister of two, so I also had to look after my sister the same time.
Susanne Hovmand:But I I started, I grew up very fast in that period of time and then I would say that within those years, in my teenagers, I was in and out in this role and and ended up, you know, in a way where I really want, wanted to be like everybody else, really wanted to be like everybody else, I wanted to eat like everybody else, not being restricted by diets and all of that that I experienced in my teenage years. So I had some years where I traveled, when I finished primary and secondary school and backpacking school and backpacking world and when I came back from that I I needed a little bit more structure in my life and and needed to to formalize things and and so I ended up going to university and I took a degree in economics and I went into the corporate world and, as you mentioned, I simply couldn't breathe. So within a few years I really had to breathe that. So I was really stressed and I've lost contact with myself. I couldn't feel myself at that time at all. I even developed allergies myself, I became sick myself, I had to take medications even to get out of bed, and then I realized everything just had to.
Susanne Hovmand:So when I turned 30, I just I quit everything. I quit my job, I quit a boyfriend, I moved back to the island. I think that I came from and stayed in a cottage house for three months looking out the windows and knew I had to go back to what I realized when I was a teenager, actually what I've been taught, also the values from my childhood, from my family background on the island, and so that's where the progress really came and I decided to. At that time I had also taken a degree in history of art, which I unfortunately found that also the the art world was quite corrupt so so I I realized I had to end competitive, so I decided to become a farmer and so I decided to move back to the island.
Susanne Hovmand:I went on farming school and I started to become an organic farmer to start with, and then I converted into biodynamic as well, where, for the first time, I could really use both spiritual abilities and myself in a totally different way, together with the connecting with the land, connecting with the spirits on the land, connecting with the trees, ladybirds, the elemental beings, the animals, and that's where the big development really happened, when I really saw how important it is for all of us to be connected to the land, and that's where the sovereignty also grow from and and where it come in, comes into life, when you really connect with the land, where you're from and as, as we spoke about about, I truly believe that it's not a coincidence where you're born and the energies on the place where you're born comes from, and it's those roots and those energies.
Susanne Hovmand:They are fundamental for you and it's exactly what you have come to connect with in order to grow. So I think that a lot of people should look less without in order to make that development that most people are looking for but should be found within and wherever they are actually, where that makes any sense.
Lyn Man:It does. And you know, just even looking at your journey you know it's almost like you had to grow up too quickly. And then the whole. You know, often when we go into our teenage years that's when kind of the longing and things like that come up as a challenge, when kind of belonging and things like the opening up of the spiritual side, and then almost seems like it's stepping away from it and then realizing you have to come back. It's like it's another part. But just looking then at bringing that side in, bringing the whole biodynamic element of working in, element of working in, how did the two, how did they almost mesh together? And if you to kind of support you, but also, how can you, how do you see that as in supporting the world,
Susanne Hovmand:yeah, I think that for me personally, it was not until I became a farmer and until I connected with the land and allowed my spirituality also to flourish that I really felt that I became alive. To be honest, before I was living a life, I was working, I was earning money, I was doing the things that was expected from me, but it was more mechanically. So I think it's that connection with who you truly is and connecting with the land and allowing also those messages that are being allowed through you when you are connecting with yourself, your own higher self, with the land, that really made me alive. So, instead of just being present and existing, it's so much more fundamental. So you're going into your, you're finding your soul contract maybe, and that can be within biodynamic farming, but for other people it could be art, it could be. But I think the big difference for us as human beings, what the biodynamic has taught me also, is that the difference between us and the animals, it's really our ability to be creative and to create, using our own free will and our own power to decide what we want to do and what we don't want to do.
Susanne Hovmand:But today, because of the way of life, the structure of societies and how we have organized societies. Today we are being taught more or less to get away from that and live more mechanical lives where we are becoming more and more robots in a money-controlled world where structures you have to fit into boxes, you have to fit into structures, have all this political correctness that you have to fit into and you limit yourself, you're not being free to fit into structures. Have all this political correctness that you have to fit into and you limit yourself, you're not being free. So I think that sovereignty going back to sovereignty as well it's really about becoming a free man, a free spirit that can develop, that can create whatever the true feeling that you have within you. That needs to be expressed in this lifetime.
Susanne Hovmand:It's really it's so important for us to be able to to express those feelings from within truly, and and that takes time really. So if you are in the hamster world and and you are going from meeting to meeting, you're losing, losing contact with yourself, you're losing contact with the natural world, you're eating on the way, you're eating poor food, you're not putting your mind, your senses, into that connection with the land, the love, the spirits, and that's what I have seen, how healing that really is to all human beings. As soon as we let go of all these expectations and we give in and and just just is so, we're present, we are connected and with each other, with the land, with the all life, all beings, and then we start to see. And we start to see clearly and we are better at judging, we're better at knowing what is right and wrong, what is truly right for us instead of what is expected.
Lyn Man:Yeah, and I think that is one of the biggest challenges, isn't it? It's those expectations, because, you know, from a very young age we're brought up to do things in a certain way, you know, initially probably guided by our family and the expectations that they have absorbed along the way, and and then, as soon as we go into schooling, then obviously a certain way in it and it just does carry on. What I love is we're talking about going to that vibrancy, and where we're different is that we, as humans, can be creative and we have a choice about what we can create. And I think that's something that we forget so much, because creativity, you know, when you're in school, being creative is about being good at drawing or art. It's about being maybe good at drama or something like that. You know, those are seen as the creative people, but we're not taught to find how we're creative.
Lyn Man:And I know when I took a break, so I left the corporate world, when we moved to Switzerland for a number of years, and that's when I did my coach training, but I was so drawn to being creative because I never thought I was creative and it was in that exploration like, literally, I did my usual, I read everything I could possibly read about being creative and then I realized that actually, I had been creative in a way, all my life, because it was the way I put things together, information, the way I connected dots in different ways that others didn't, and I think it, for me, one of the big things is that and I think it links to being creative and knowing yourself is really believing in yourself and seeing or allowing the gifts you have to emerge, because you know, we're not all the same.
Lyn Man:We are unique. You know, yes, we're part of a big whole, but each one of us also is unique and so, therefore, when we can actually step out of that um being, you know, kind of, as you say, fitting the expectations, being in that mold, and just allow ourselves to, to start to realize that we are creative, we have got choice. And, and going back to what you said about you know, actually living so not just going through life, but truly living and embodying life yeah, and that in itself, you know, when you said that, it was like, yeah, that when we start to allow ourselves to be ourselves, we start to truly live lives.
Susanne Hovmand:And make a difference also to other people, and I think it's really important that we are here for a purpose and that we all find our individual purpose. And it's very much what you say. You can be creative in so many areas. Some people are the best carpenters and some people are best at making bicycles, so I love to be in nature and with the land and that's where my creativity comes out. So when I connect with my land, it's never a straight line. Usually when you talk about farming, you talk about straight lines, efficiency, how you can have the highest yield with the smallest possible land.
Susanne Hovmand:I always see the landscape as an artwork all species present. I really want something for all senses. I need something for the birds so I can hear them sing. I want something for the eyes. I need something to eat that I can taste, something that I can feel. So I'm really trying to. I even did that on our family estate as well, and I'm doing that right now also on the smaller farm but I'm trying to invite in as many species as possible for them for me to grow, and it's amazing to see every year that passes by, that new species are coming, making themselves present, and I'm very thankful for that and I really enjoy that when I see new flowers, new plants, new birds yeah, that arrive on the land. New frogs yeah, whatever kind of species we're talking about, it's, it's yeah.
Susanne Hovmand:And then, of course, we have to live on the land as well. We need to to pay our, our bills. We're still in that kind of uh an environment where we have things to we need to do, but I I think that it is possible. If you are living a modest life, you are actually able to have both. When you're able to have some kind of whether you're going to make drawings or you're going to make produce that are special, or you're going to do whatever your call is. I think when you do things with love, things will fall into place in the physical. If you align internally, then things will fall into place in the external world. So I think that is a way of the more we can use our creativity wherever we are, and whatever we are chosen or have chosen to come here to do, then, yeah, it's really. It's not just a small surplus, it's actually beneficial to on a much, much larger scale. That is really incredible.
Lyn Man:Yeah, and I love the way you've described how you look at the land and you're creating, yeah, I guess, the environment you're creating, the ecosystem you're creating with the land. You know easy to think of somebody farming as just large fields that have been turned over every year turned over and and the you know kind of large crops to yield, and I know farming is a very difficult thing to to do because because there's so many different elements. But, going back to what you're saying, and I can just feel that love coming through for what you're doing, but just seeing how everything comes together, how everything interacts, how you're getting more species showing up, it's just that, you know, even if we take that out into to bigger than your farm and just look at it, looking at it every, everywhere, in, everywhere in in the world, it is that reminder that everything has a place, everything fits in. You know there's, there's animals, insects that that people really do not like, but they have a place, they, they fit into somewhere in the environment. And it's when we try to change things to make them fit our expectations of what the world should be or how we would like it to be, that things then start to not go as smoothly always smoothly. I think there's just so much richness in the image you're creating of your that I'm seeing of your farm, but also just how much we can can learn from it.
Lyn Man:One of the things I want to go back to which you you said earlier and again it links back to listening to yourself was it is that listening to yourself and listening to what comes through and seeing whether you're aligned and I think that's something that you've so forgotten how to tune in to and understand what is right for us and what is not. And I had a conversation for the podcast not too long ago. It was about intuition and the difference between knowledge, intellectual knowledge, and intuition. But the thing was, how did people understand as well the difference in the feelings? So, just for you, how do you know when you feel something is right for you and feel aligned and not just for you, because it isn't just about you, it's about the land and the ecosystem, and not just yours but beyond. So how does that show up for you?
Susanne Hovmand:In many ways, I think this is a very deep and big topic that I could focus on for hours. But just generally, the difference between I've met so many professors in my life, people who have degrees, or even in my family I have professors in my near-close family, university professors and lectures, but funny enough, those are not the most type of people I've ever met in my life, the most clever people I've ever met in my life but they have read a lot of texts, they have been educated in how to interpret the texts, how to handle the texts, but the difference to me is really intellect instead of wisdom. Wisdom comes from within, and wisdom is something that you cannot be taught in a university. You have to connect with your own higher self to obtain that connection with your own higher self, but also with the universal field that connects all of us into one and when you are opening up to that knowledge by going within, then you actually reach a wisdom that is very, very unique and you don't need to go to school to learn that.
Susanne Hovmand:One of the most wise people I've ever met in my life is the highest chief of Fiji and he hasn't gone to school like we go to school and university. Of course he's gone to school, but he hasn't gone to university. He's a farmer, but he doesn't have any degrees. He doesn't even have a bank account. He doesn't earn any money, but he's the wisest person I've ever met in my life, the most clever person I've ever met in my life. He's the wisest person I've ever met in my life, the most clever person I've ever met in my life. But it's a totally different wisdom that is coming from deep, deep within you and also has been building up by experiences through many lifetimes, I believe and that is being shared from very deep within very considerate, very thoughtful, and even though he's a young man he's 42 now, so it's a very wise person that is not even an elder in traditional description. So I think that we all have that opportunity and we all have that possibility, even in the Western world, and I really think that in our part of the world we really have to come back and find our roots. We have lost a lot in our modern cultures. We have lost our connection with each other and with the land, and we have a lot of opinions about how things are supposed to be, not only within our own near habitat, but also what is going to happen all over the rest of the planet.
Susanne Hovmand:Yeah, and we really like to missionary, I think, our beliefs to the rest of the world, but on the other hand, I also see that the indigenous people we do have something that they need as well. So it is because I think that one thing that we are especially now I think within the last 10 years, I think that there has been a change to a large extent that people are starting to more and more breaking out of the corporate way of thinking and the world. More and more people are starting to fulfill their own dreams and where they want to be. And I think that creativity, and also that creativity that everything is actually possible if we create ourselves. I think that is one of the things that we are actually able to see in the West that if we really want to make things happen, it is possible to make things happen. So I think that we have something to offer as well to the world, and definitely the indigenous people also have a lot to offer to us.
Susanne Hovmand:So I really believe that we should bridge their wisdom with our more, I would say, creativity, that we are more action-oriented, but if that action-orientedness could be within, something that is for the benefit of the world, benefit of the nature, human beings, the planet, because we connect with ourselves and we come into our true hearts, then I think we have a really strong oneness, actually from both sides, that we could create an amazing world. We can create a paradise in the entire world. We just have to start with ourselves. So if I build paradise where I am and you build paradise where you are and everybody's doing the same, then there's no room for power, control, some of the more bad existences that we are faced with in this world.
Susanne Hovmand:So we can all create paradise wherever we are, but it has to come from within and it has to start within, to start with your love for yourself, respect for yourself, finding out who you truly are, finding that deep, deep connection, and to understand that you have to express that to the world in some way. You're here, unique, and you're part of the puzzle, and if you're not expressing yourself truly, then we are all, not just you, but we are all lacking one brick in the puzzle to fulfill a beautiful carpet. I think it's up to us, it's really up to all of us, and that's where we're coming back to sovereignty as well. It's not up to anybody else, it's all up to us, it's all our decision and yeah, it can be amazing. Yeah, and the world can be amazing. Yeah, so they so giving to each other what we really are able to express.
Lyn Man:That challenge and it is a challenge of allowing yourself to express in a way that is true to you is really difficult, because there's there's so much almost wounding that happens in the other years and it's we forget how to you know. Just going to what you're saying about the eugene chief and being the what you know, the wisest person you know, and it's coming from the heart, it's coming from within it's. But going back to ourselves, in our society, it's not often mirrored anywhere. When we, when we look around us, because people are still acting as a childlike way or a teenage way, or because that's how they've learned to survive, because that's how they've learned to survive, and what you're describing is actually by coming back to ourselves, being in our sovereignty and in our power, by tuning into our wisdom and the wisdom that's surround us, then we step into being the wise, elder, the adult, however you want to describe it. Yeah, exactly yeah, and it's not something that we're ever taught or that we're, you know, ever. And it's interesting going back to what you're saying about what we can learn from the indigenous peoples, but we also have something to bring them or to share with them, and, again, it's interesting because very often it's like we have to learn from them, but I love the fact that what you're saying is actually how we've been brought up in the west.
Lyn Man:When we come back to ourselves, we still have something that's powerful, we have still something to offer, and it's bringing everything together, as you said, creating that bridge, and for me that's. It's the way you're talking, it's. It's not about making anything right or more right or wrong. What I'm hearing is it all comes back to going within and creating from that place, but also knowing that there is enough, and I think a lot of the challenges we face have come from when there's that fear of scarcity. If we go back to the farm you're creating. So when you moved to the farm you're currently on, can you describe what it was like then compared to what you're seeing now?
Susanne Hovmand:Yeah, I actually seen it twice now, because when I first took over our family estate, it was a conventional estate, right, and because my mom, she became sick. My dad, he was more or less in a survival mode so he couldn't change anything, he just had to have things keep going. Yeah, with two children and yeah. But when I took over the farm, the very first day I took over the farm, I converted everything into organic from the very first day and it was actually a very large conversion. And that experience having your employees that have been engaged on the farm for 42 years and 27 years, 38 years, having those old men try or engaged in doing things in a different way, was an amazing experience as well. And then more people came to the farm and everything grew and there was more people on the farm. But that experience was a beautiful experience in many, many ways. But also seeing the life coming back on the farm from that conventional farm where there was not even a womb left in the soil, to after the first year, second year, third year, seven years. In the beginning you see what you almost describe as the seven disasters. You see one year lies in all crops and then those populations collapsed and it found a level and never came back. New species enter the sand, but only within. It took seven years and then everything was settled. The soil was cleaned, the orc became stable, it all became calm and no big ups and downs. It became a lot more calm and stable in nature and within the fields and how that was run. We planted all the original hedges, we made new habitats for frogs, for bats, we made projects in the forest and made bells for spiders and ladybirds and all sorts of things. We opened up the streams that had been turned into pipes on the ground and we opened up the streams again. So the entire farm became alive again and that was really, really beautiful and all the people that attracted us were to the place. And then the same happened now on the smaller farm.
Susanne Hovmand:When I took over the smaller farm, not so far away from where we are now, and now we are in our six, seven years, and it's five, six, maybe about six years now, and the change that has happened from when we came it was conventional no species, no bees, no butterflies, no, and now it's just more and more birds coming back, worms in the, in the soil, so many species, and even I have a feeling that trees are now speaking back and and I just had my son out for a walk this morning and and incredible amount of birds in one big choir bring their height and their their sound to the world. Yeah, I think it's. It's so beautiful that it cannot be described. You have to listen and be there and I think it's such a privilege to see how things can come together and also see how things can change within years. When you change, then the world around you changes and it all moves as waves where we are giving to each other different species. And, yeah, I think it's.
Susanne Hovmand:For me, this is paradise and there can be a lot of challenges in the world, but I feel happy, I feel safe, I feel privileged to be, just to be.
Lyn Man:That's absolutely beautiful and thank you for sharing that. The reminder is it's a journey. So even when it's we're going back into ourself, it's that reminder it's a journey and that it's particularly in the first part. It is very difficult and that's the time when it's easy to give up and go back to the way things were. But it's that keeping going and what you're describing in that journey of the farm was that things just kept coming back, it kept opening up, it kept just growing and thriving and it is such a if we can look at that as an analogy for ourselves and how we can show up and keep growing and thriving, it's, it truly is beautiful yeah, in in the farming you know biodynamic farming.
Susanne Hovmand:we say that it takes seven years to convert a farm into biodynamic farming. Usually we say it takes only two years to convert into organic. There's no sign, nothing in the soil that should say that it should be exactly seven years. But the seven years is actually what it takes for man to convert his mind and think in a different way. So it's not really nature that takes seven years to make that conversion, it's us that takes seven years to make that conversion. Our way of thinking, our wisdom has to get those wisdoms coming into us and let that come out as an expression. Wow, so the soil can be trained after two years, I would say. But we had to change.
Lyn Man:Yeah, that is amazing. It's interesting how we create these rules for want of a better word or structures, expectations, whatever it is, but actually it's based on our experience and what we're going through, not what nature is going through. Yeah, I love that. Thank you for sharing that. So I have one question. I ask everybody, and I'm going to ask you that now If you could change one societal belief that would benefit humanity as a whole, what would that be?
Susanne Hovmand:I think we have to come back to what we spoke about earlier, which is really the sovereignty we really need to have everybody to take care of themselves. Really, they have to grow up. You mentioned it very beautifully. We have a society today. We have people who are very much adults, even people who are elderly, but they're still childs in many ways and they expect somebody else to handle things for them, or somebody else has to do. Somebody else is responsible. We all are.
Susanne Hovmand:We really have to stand in our own self. We have to be sustainable within our food. We have to take be responsible for our own health and wellness. We have to look after our own mental and spiritual situation. So as soon as we become free all of us then we will set the entire world free, all species and all nature. We will all come together as one, unite in unity Instead of being fragmented. All fights will stop all arguments because we know who we truly are and we stand in our own true self. So my wish is really if I could change anything, I would support society to become sovereign, every human being to become sovereign. I would love to teach people to become sovereign.
Lyn Man:So if you could just share now a couple of like what would the first few steps be? Because again it goes back to it is a journey you can't, just, unfortunately you can't click a switch and it happens. Journey, you can't, just unfortunately you can't click a switch and it happens. But if somebody was to come to you now and say well, how, how do I do that, how do I start stepping into that path of claiming back my power of being a source and being, what would you say to them?
Susanne Hovmand:I think that, because we are in the Western world, we would probably have to start doing a little bit of exercise on the physical, but in other places it wouldn't be that. But I think the easiest way right now is to. I really think that we are truly also what we eat, what we breathe in, what we let in. So the first thing would probably be, if people have no experience in self-harm, they would have to start to change their diet. Okay, to be honest. Yeah, because you really need to eat clean food in order to make that deeply rooted connection with your own true higher self, because otherwise you are letting caution into your body all the time. It would be very difficult not to get that deep connection. So you really need to change your diet. On the physical, and therefore I also think it's important that many people who are actually becoming sovereign they are going through a health crisis first, and that is actually opening up their spirituality and their own access to unified field of grit. So we have to clean up our own terrain on the physical, and that can also be with health exercises, whatever treatment it takes, but it's a process and then you start getting connection with yourself, your own feelings and a lot of trauma is coming up from this life, past lives, generational trauma in your family that you need to handle and you're here to clean up and not to pass on to next generation. And and then, when that physical kind of experience has happened, you, you start to to connect with nature in a totally different level, deep-rooted experience between both, what comes from above and comes from below. And, um, yeah, and you're bringing in light and wisdom to you, to yourselves, to your core, and you start getting new abilities that we all have. We all have these abilities. We all go on with those abilities, not like only few people who are able to see or feel or hear things. We all have that ability. So it's a matter of connecting with your again, your own higher self, and letting that flow through you and connect with you. And then you have to, of course, take responsibility, because then you start also freeing yourself from the structural society and you're starting to take responsibility for yourself. And by then you, I have a thing that I need to eat something or take in something every single day that I've grown myself, 365 days a year, whether it's tea that I've made, I've dried, or whether it's whatever it is, but I have to eat something from the farm every single day, 365 days a year. I'm not there at the moment. We are 100% self-sustainable 365 days a year, but I have to take in something from the land every day in order to connect with my land and process that.
Susanne Hovmand:But you have to be again responsible for your own health. You have to sort out your own health why has it come to you? And find natural solutions to that issue that is coming to you that you need to deal with. You have to take care of your own learning and you have to take care of your physical and have experiences or have opinions about what you don't want to engage with in society that can be poisonous to all existence. So that will grow within you. And, yeah, so sovereignty is coming from within and as soon as you speak to people, you can hear whether they're sovereign or not sovereign, and many true sovereign beings they don't speak to not sovereign people Because it's like, yeah, that's how it's considered amongst the indigenous elders, but you will know what it would be like when you feel it within your body. But you need to change out yourself and take responsibility for your spiritual, mental, physical body as part of that.
Lyn Man:Yeah, and it's interesting you come back to. First thing is the physical body, and that's what most people relate to. Is that that physical body? But even just what you're describing as you go through it is that we start to take care of our physical body and as we do that, so we're clearing out a lot of, say, toxins, but at the same time we start to clear out the emotional. So then it comes into the emotional body and so it's like we're starting to expand out to that and learning the what we learn from the emotional body. Yeah, and then we can't forget the mental body, because we need to be stimulated, and so it's bringing it's. It's. It's like we start with where we're at, but the journey then becomes like a dance with. It automatically throws us into the emotional. We can draw on our mental, but we need to bring in the spiritual and open up to that, and then it does become this kind of weaving together of each.
Susanne Hovmand:I have actually met some people who have been very much in the spiritual part, but they skip the physical and and lived very unhealthy lives and looked very unhealthy, and I think it's so important that again, it's not a coincidence we've chosen to come here in the physical, and some people they want to escape the physical and just think that we could just be in the state of emotional and mental, uh, spiritual plane and and don't relate to the physical.
Susanne Hovmand:But we have decided to come here in the physical presence. So the physical is very, very important for this life experience and it's part of making us grow. So we really need to look at all aspects of our being in order to reach that high living and level, and that can include fasting, many things without eating. But you have to clear your terrain in some, some way in order to to and and put in healthy, nurturing food in order to be able to connect with your all, all senses, yeah, which is so much more than just the five senses. We have so many more senses, yeah, connecting in on our levels totally and all of that comes back to exactly saying it's.
Lyn Man:It's learning more about yourself along the way yeah, and then we are.
Susanne Hovmand:We are abundant, and nature is abundant and the world is abundant. So it's and. And that abundance is actually within us also. So, so yeah, it's that that lack of abundance or lack of that structure that we've grown up with, that that there's not enough for everybody. It's, it's an illusion. There's enough for everybody if we come to the state where we are sharing whatever we have to give to the world. There's plenty for all. If you have an apple tree, each apple tree has maybe 50 or 100 apples. Each apple has like 15 kernels. That could become new apple trees. So as soon as you are within nature, there will always be more from year to year, not less from year to year. It will always be expanding and more and more abundance will come, but it has to start within you. So when you feel that development happening within you, then it will also become present in your physical.
Lyn Man:What a beautiful place to end. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I really, you know, I really do appreciate it and just, yeah, I could just feel it coming, coming through. So thank you so much. It's been wonderful having this conversation with you and you've just created so many beautiful images to come through, but also a beautiful reminder that it's so. It is coming in, but it's the journey we have to go through and there is no right, there is no wrong. It's creating it in our own unique way and being okay with that thank you so much, then.
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