Meeting Yourself

This visualization was originally recorded for the book, Good To Grow by Laura Valvasori. It is a beautiful introduction to using one's imagination to connect to the truth inside. In it, you are guided to a party in which you interact with yourself as the guest. And you meet yourself as the fullest expression of yourself.

Transcript

Hello there,

Welcome.

My name is Catherine Ferguson and I'm a Mindset and Transformation Coach and I'm here to guide you on a visualization.

If this is your first time doing a visualization,

I want to let you know that it's going to be different every time and one of the things that we want to be practicing is repeating visualizations to allow our imagination to expand,

Allow our imagination to take chances,

To try on things that maybe we've never let ourselves think before.

So if you enjoy this process,

My recommendation would be to come back and repeat it for a number of days in a row and see just how much changes and how much expands every single time you give yourself permission to dream.

One of my favorite things about visualization is that you can use your mind's eye to create real sensations in the body and this is one of the most powerful ways to communicate with our subconscious mind and be able to invite in the experiences that we want to have in the future inside of us in the present.

So let's try this together right now.

Let's imagine that you're hosting a party at your home.

You're having some people over.

So have a look around and let's start activating your imagination.

So you're looking around in your mind's eye and what do you see?

Just notice to yourself,

Do you see decorations?

Do you see food?

Is there music playing?

What's the vibe of the party?

How many people are there?

Do you hear laughter?

Do you smell something coming out of the kitchen?

And as has been going all night,

The doorbell rings,

Just like it did a few minutes ago.

And as you open the door,

You notice that the person on the other side of the door is you.

It's actually you today.

What is your first impression?

What do you notice first about yourself?

You're happy to see you.

Happy enough.

I mean,

You're used to it.

You see yourself every day.

So you hug and you direct yourself to the living room to where the party is.

And as they go into the other room,

You take a pause to reflect on how present you were for yourself.

Did you get a sense for how they were feeling today?

Did you have any heart connection?

Did you brush them off?

Shoot,

Maybe you didn't really notice.

You peek into the living room to see that they're okay with the other guests.

And as you see yourself interacting with the other guests,

What do you see?

Notice how the guest of view is interacting.

Are they right at home?

Are they in the middle of an entertaining anecdote?

Are they sitting by themselves?

What's their posture like?

What do they appear to feel like with all these other people around?

What can you sense about yourself here in the living room?

Now,

As you observe,

You feel this presence in the room behind you.

It's like an energy.

You can feel it.

It's so strong.

You don't even have to see the person.

You can just feel them.

You know,

Like one of those energies when someone walks into a room and everybody just turns their head.

It's like that.

You can feel that person.

And you turn around and you look and you see the most beautiful person talking to another group of guests.

I mean,

They are just captivating.

Not just beautiful with their looks.

It's actually their energy.

It's so bright.

So clean.

So clear.

You just watch them.

Each person that they're talking to is so clearly feeling seen by them.

They stand so tall,

So proud,

So present,

So powerful,

So full of love and confidence.

You can't take your eyes off them.

But wait.

You look a little closer.

I know that person.

Oh my goodness,

You realize.

It's me.

You say to yourself,

That person is me.

How can that be?

At that moment,

They look over at you in lock eyes.

They smile and they wink.

They know.

They know,

You know,

And they start heading your way.

You are just flooded with love and comfort as they approach.

And when they reach you,

They just take your hand.

You're standing hand in hand with yourself.

Such a beautiful version of you.

From that touch alone,

You understand this is also you.

It's just another version,

An incredible version of you.

You realize that this person is the version of you that is aligned with your dreams.

They are the one that knows they are deserving.

That lives in the space of full permission to go what they want to go for in life,

To experience what they want to experience in life.

Just so free to be themselves.

It's you living that way.

They pass this exact energy to you through their hands and it starts to spread up your arm and into your body.

So comforting and warm.

And you just welcome it.

It's familiar actually.

You know this energy.

It's yours.

It's your own energy,

Just amplified.

It fills your torso.

It goes down your legs and up your spine.

It fills your heart and just lights all of you up.

It is the beautiful energy of your truth.

You just know it.

You feel it.

You accept it.

It is the most beautiful energy to bask in.

While you are here in this energy of you,

Your most aligned and pure self,

Breathe in slowly into your heart area.

Inhale slowly.

Exhale slowly.

There's so much energy in your heart area right now.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

And as you do,

You are awash in gratitude.

Breathing it in.

Breathing it out.

Gratitude.

Gratitude for your journey.

Gratitude for all your learnings.

Gratitude for all the parts of you that are old,

That are still kicking around,

Trying to protect you.

And gratitude for knowing that you are not your programming.

You're not this old version of you.

You are not your limits that you thought you had.

You're not your past.

You're none of it.

You're you.

Gosh,

You are you.

And how complete that is.

You can feel that so clearly right now.

Just breathing it in.

The truth of it and exhaling.

You are limitless.

You are supported.

And you're guided and you're meant to be living the full expression of yourself through your dreams.

The things that light you up.

Your unique self.

It's all so true for you right now in this energy.

So in this place of peace,

You ask yourself,

You ask your heart,

What do I want?

What do I want?

What do I want?

What do I really want?

I see now that I can't get this wrong.

I can do whatever I want.

However I want to do it.

So what is it that I want?

And listen.

You might hear a flash of an answer.

You might hear a whisper.

You might hear your answer today.

It might come later.

It might just be a feeling,

But it's okay.

Because you know that there's an answer for you.

And you're opening yourself up to finding it by stepping more and allowing more of the truth of you to come through you.

You feel another moment of gratitude for the journey.

And when you're ready,

Open your eyes.

Reviews

thank you..that was beautiful

Catherine has the unique ability to take you deeper into the journey to yourself. Loved everything about this meditation ❤

Incredible visualization exercise! As someone who’s only ever done a few guided visualizations, I found Catherine’s technique to be simple and easy to follow, but highly impactful. I’d highly recommend!

I absolutely loved this guided visualization. It felt easy to tap into the higher version of myself and by doing so my energy was shifted! I feel calmness, love and playful joy. Thank you Catherine.

I feel positively lit up inside after listening to Catherine. Her voice soothed my soul + sent me to a much needed celebration of myself. ✨Thank you!