Inspired Confidence You can use this meditation before entering any situation that would usually challenge you or make you anxious or afraid.
You can also use this meditation to grow a reliable baseline experience of inspired confidence.
To prepare for this meditation,
Choose one low-confidence situation that you would like to shift.
Go ahead and do that now.
Choose one low-confidence situation.
Call to mind the environment in which your confidence is challenged,
Any people involved,
And how you normally feel at that moment.
Next,
Recall a time when you had high confidence.
It can be any time that you've felt positive,
Happy,
Connected,
Empowered,
Or in the flow.
Go ahead and take a moment to do that now.
Recall a time when you had high confidence.
Call to mind the environment,
Any people involved,
And how you felt at that time.
Now if remembering a high-confidence moment was challenging for you,
No worries.
We'll begin the meditation by generating relaxed,
Positive,
Grounded,
And empowered feelings in your body and shift into a perspective that facilitates confidence as we go through this practice.
To begin,
Sit comfortably upright with your feet flat on the ground and parallel with each other.
Rest your hands cupped in your lap in an open,
Receptive posture.
Lightly close your eyes.
Focus down into feeling the soles of your feet resting down on the ground.
Soften and relax your feet and your toes as if they are melting deep down into the earth.
Feel the solid support of the earth underneath you.
Feel your hips,
Legs,
And feet are warm,
Heavy,
And completely relaxed down on the solid support of the earth.
Feel the confidence of having solid support underneath you.
Embody this solid,
Grounded,
Confident feeling.
Feel this grounded support flowing up into your legs,
Hips,
And your abdomen.
Focus into your hands resting cupped in your lap.
Soften and relax your hands as if they are melting down into your legs.
Imagine and feel that your hands and forearms are warm,
Heavy,
And completely relaxed.
Imagine and feel as if a string is attached to the top of your head,
Drawing your spine gently upright like a string of luminous pearls.
Feel the tingling aliveness,
Openness,
And brightness at the top of your head.
Notice how you feel more confident and empowered as you sit more upright.
Tuck your chin just slightly,
Gently lengthening the back of your neck.
Lightly close your lips and breathe in and out through your nose only.
Soften and relax your tongue.
Smile,
A subtle smile of relaxed confidence.
Feeling what it is like to be relaxed and empowered.
Smile through your eyes,
Feeling the light of confidence shining through your eyes.
Release any tension in your eyebrows and your forehead.
Allow the feeling of smiling to blend with the feeling of the light of creation shining down on you from above.
Allow this feeling of smiling light to pour in through the top of your head,
Down through your brain,
Your spine,
And out through your whole body.
Relaxing and enlivening every cell.
Feel every cell smiling and radiating pure positive energy,
Empowered by the light of creation itself.
Now,
Feel your body as a whole from the inside.
Feel the entire space inside your skin.
In this open space of your body,
Call to mind a situation in which you have felt low confidence.
See if you can be curious about yourself in this situation.
Step back,
Observe yourself,
And see what you discover.
Imagine yourself in that situation right now.
Call to mind the environment in full sensory detail,
Including what it looks like,
Sounds like,
Feels like,
And smells like to be there.
Call to mind any people that are present and what they are doing and saying.
Notice any sensations in your body as you imagine being in this situation.
Are there any areas of tightness or restriction?
Where do you notice this situation affecting your body?
How do you feel?
What thoughts are running through your mind?
See if you can notice all of this mindfully,
Without self-judgment.
Simply noticing the sensations,
Feelings,
And thoughts that are present.
Being aware of them without being absorbed in them.
Ask yourself,
What am I believing about myself and this situation that gives me a feeling of low confidence?
What am I believing about myself and this situation?
Name these beliefs.
Now,
Take a snapshot image of yourself in that situation,
With this belief written across it,
And allow it to float out in front of you.
Take a deep in-breath and blow that image away so it shoots off into the distance and dissolves in a poof of smoke.
Take another deep in-breath and breathe out with a deep sigh,
Letting go even more.
Now,
Feel the open space inside your body again.
Allow yourself to settle.
Notice how you feel.
Allow yourself to be just as you are.
Now we're going to shift gears and imagine and feel a different scenario,
One in which you feel empowered in this situation.
Sit up a little taller,
With your chest slightly elevated,
And expand your sense of personal space to include a large bubble several feet all around you.
Imagine and feel this bubble filled with effervescent light that infuses the space inside and all around you.
This light is the light of creation itself,
Which supplies everything you need,
Just when you need it.
Now,
Imagine yourself in the same situation,
In this bubble of light,
Which now expands to surround and infuse the whole space of this situation,
So that you and the whole space are surrounded and infused with this effervescent light of creation.
Feel all your inner resources come online.
Feel the inspiration of this light.
Your awareness is now at a high level,
So you see and feel exactly what is needed in this situation.
Feel this light flowing through you,
So that you respond to this situation with exactly what is needed,
At just the right time.
You feel confidence in this flow,
Seeing that everything and everyone is part of this flow.
And everything happens just as it needs to,
For the best possible results for all concerned.
You now see that this situation is orchestrated by the light,
Enacted by the light,
So that everyone involved receives exactly what they need to learn,
Grow and thrive.
You and everyone involved are expressions of this light.
It's all light,
Interacting with light,
Reflecting back and forth to each other.
You see that this is all about the light,
And there is no such thing as a you that is separate from the light.
Or others that are separate from you.
You're all light.
There is only light,
Refractions of light,
Shades of light,
And shadows that enable perception of the light.
You are confident because you are the light of creation,
Playing with the infinite family of light,
Together as one.
Feel what it is like to easily and effortlessly be inspired with exactly what to do and say in this situation.
Notice others responding to you positively and sharing exactly what you need to hear as well.
Experience others being inspired and happy to see,
Hear and support you,
And you being inspired and happy to hear,
See and support them.
What does it feel like in your body to be in this flow of light?
Allow this feeling to amplify and expand,
So it is pure joy to be in this situation.
Smile with appreciation and gratitude for this experience of light,
Confidence and flow.
Really feel it in every cell.
Record an image of this experience in the front and center of your mind.
Give this experience a name.
Record the name,
Image and feeling of this experience in your body,
Heart and mind,
So you can return to it at will,
Anytime.
Imagine you can effortlessly recall this experience through this name,
Image and feeling whenever you enter this situation or anytime that you need.
Slowly open your eyes and take in the feeling of the space all around,
Together with the feeling of the space inside as one space of light,
Confidence and flow.
Recall the name you've given this experience together with the image and feeling with your eyes open.
Smile with appreciation and gratitude for this moment of confidence.
Take a moment to write down the name,
Image and feeling of this experience so you keep it with you and can refer to it anytime you need.
You can practice this meditation often to deepen this experience of flow and groove this state of confidence in the light that you are.
You are confident because you are the light of creation,
Playing with the infinite family of light together as one.
