Future Self Meditation | Embody Your Highest Self

Welcome, this is a somatic meditation for living from the highest possibility for your life. When you're ready, let yourself arrive exactly as you are, in whatever state you actually turned up in. That's the only honest place this can start from. If you're feeling flat or wired or somewhere in between, all of it's okay. So find a position that feels comfortable and allow yourself to land, get comfortable, take up the space you need, and when you're ready, let your eyes close, and take one slow breath in. And on the exhale, take a moment to notice what state you're genuinely in, without grating it or judging it. Notice where your breath is sitting. Is there tension anywhere, and does it feel more like bracing or tiredness? What's the pace of your thinking right now? Fast or slow, circling or fairly quiet, whatever you notice, leave it exactly as it is. The noticing is the entire instruction and trying to improve on it would take you straight back out of your body and into managing yourself, which is where most of us already spend the day. Take a deep breath in, and on the exhale, let your attention widen, feel the air against your skin, the whole surface of you at once, the front and the back, and both sides. Let your sense of yourself become less concentrated and less like a point, and more like a region. Now widen even further than that. Take in the room, the shape of it, walls, ceiling, the space behind you that you can't see and don't need to, moving wider again to the building, the street, whatever weather is going on out there, the dark or the light in the sky, and as far out as your attention wants to travel, notice there's no edge to it anywhere. Space carries on in every direction from where you're lying, and it always has whether or not you had any spare attention to feel it, let yourself feel a little less contained than usual. Most of us move through the day at roughly the size of our own concerns, and the field is considerably larger than that. There's nothing you need to do with the extra room that you've found here, just register that it's there, and that you're already in it. What you're able to want is limited by the state that you're in, a nervous system that's braced, narrows the field, and it's supposed to. Under threat, options become a liability, and speed matters more than range, so your system cuts everything back to whatever is defensible, which means the future you can picture on a hard day is a defended one. That isn't a failure of vision or a shortage of belief. It's the body doing precisely what it was built to do, with the information it believes it has. So none of this is about wanting harder or believing more convincingly. The field of possibility widens on its own once the state changes, and the state is the thing we can actually work with. On the next breath, come back from the edges, and find your center. For many people, it sits somewhere behind the sternum, or lower down in the belly. See where you feel the sensation. There's usually a place that feels like the middle of you, and let your attention settle there on its own, and give it a moment. This is the place of regulated center. Even if you leave it over and over again, it's the place that you learn to come back to, more and more often, until finding it stops needing anybody to walk you there. I'd like to think of the nervous system as a tuning fork, and there's something tuning forks do that's worth borrowing. When you strike one, an identical tuning fork across the room will start sounding on its own. It begins because the note it was built for is moving through the air, and there's nothing else it can do. Your nervous system works something like that. It doesn't push a state out into the room. It holds one, and whatever's nearby that can match it begins to do so. What's worth noticing about that second fork is how little it is. the first one did. It wasn't projecting or persuading or reaching across the room. It held its own personal note accurately and the resonance to care of itself. Feel where you are right now and consider the note you are currently holding. Now bring to mind the version of your life you'd want if nothing at all felt heavy or in the way. Leave the objects out of it, rip the house, the number, or any particular physical details, and go for the feeling instead because that's the part that's actually available here. What is it like in the body to be the person living that life? Take your time with this one, feel and breathe into it. How do the shoulders sit on that person? What's the pace of their day? How does their breathing move? And what does their face do when nobody's looking at it? Is there an ease somewhere or a warmth? Or maybe a quiet that doesn't need managing? Let your body take that shape now as much of it as it can find. Rather than performing it, let the shoulders genuinely drop to where they'd sit. Let the breath actually move the way it would move and stay here for a while, breathing naturally. If your body is in pain tonight or dealing with something that doesn't answer to any of this, that highest version of you might feel like a long way off, and I never want to talk over the top of that. Perhaps you can find one quality of the state you'd like to be in rather than the whole picture. Maybe just ease around the eyes or the way breathing moves when nothing is being braced again. A single degree of it is plenty to work with. A body that's been holding a great deal for a long time will take the smaller version far more readily than the bigger one. And the smaller version is the one that we can build from that sustainable and can last. So now notice what just happened. You produce that feeling. Nothing changed in your circumstances or arrived here and your body found the state anyway. Which tells you it was never waiting on the conditions and that the state that you want to live in has been available the whole time. And you've been treating it as the thing you have to earn and get at the end. But this is how we turn the tables and allow the nervous system to be the tuning fork that attracts the frequency that brings in your best life, your highest potential or that feeling that you already felt in your body. The person in that state makes different decisions, notices different options and openings, finds more synchronicities in their day and is met differently by nearly everyone they come across. There are many versions of tomorrow available to you and there always have been. Which of them you can see depends almost entirely on where you're standing when you look. From a braced state, the defended version is visible and the rest are out of view. Not because they left, but because you're not attuned to see them. From here, when you raise your frequency, more of them are in range. You have watched this happen in a small way already. The same conversation can land as an attack on one day and nothing on the other. The same afternoon holds an opportunity or a threat depending on how you slept and how your nervous system was braced or free. Nothing in the afternoon shifted at all. What shifted was the instrument reading it and you're here adjusting, training and widening its capacity. That's the whole of it. It's not a decision you make once. It's a moment by moment thing. Part of the beautiful, expansive existence of being human. And it's offered again. And again, every time you choose to come back to yourself. It's okay no matter how many times you drop out of this. Nothing was ever meant to arrive at regulated state. We weren't meant to live at regulated center, a hundred percent of the time. The range is what makes this human. And even the most ordinary things can bring us out. That's completely expected. And it says nothing about whether the work you're doing is helping. The noticing is the return and the moment you register that you've dropped out of regulated center. You're already part way back. And the only thing that keeps anyone out for long is grading themselves for having left. So when this happens, be interested instead of disappointed because interested and curious brings you home and disappointment keeps you standing outside of yourself returning faster is the actual skill here depth is being able to hold this while something is going wrong around you range is how quickly you find your way back being human means that nobody lives at the center all the time people can live near it expand their range and their depth and get better at the walk back and here is why this reaches well past you the people closest to you are tuning forks to your children your partner the people you work alongside all of them picking up the note you're holding without a single person deciding to you can tell them whatever you like about how to live but what they'll take is the state you were in when you told them so the work of finding your way back was never private and it was never only yours it's the thing that genuinely passes down and it goes in whether or not anybody's paying attention to it so stay here at your center for a few more breaths letting your belly rise and fall naturally letting it feel ordinary because this is a place you can live rather than something you need to achieve and when you're ready let your attention come back toward the room the sounds around you air on your skin the weight of your body wherever it's resting you can begin to move your fingers and your toes and allow a fuller breath to come in and open your eyes when you're ready take the note that you found today with you you'll lose it somewhere in the next day or two and you'll find it again and finding it again is the entire practice thank you so much for being here with me namaste [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] if this practice landed for you today it's worth exploring deeper when we can finally name the survival pattern we've been living inside something in the body exhales the what's your pattern quiz is linked in the description it's a fun way to understand yourself better