You Are The Captain Of Your Ship

Are you holding on to stories or memories or future visions that don't actually serve your higher good? Then this meditation may well help.

A light meditation where we drift out to sea together...and a little lesson on the importance of focus, choice, and embracing life on your beautiful terms.

Transcript

Please do not listen to this recording if you are driving or operating machinery.

And let's begin today by just taking a few very deep breaths together.

In through the nose,

Nice and slowly,

Filling the diaphragm as best you can,

Perhaps for a count of five.

Then I invite you to hold just for a few seconds before releasing very slowly,

Perhaps for a count of eight.

And let's just do that a few more times at your own pace,

Just to centre yourself and give your body the message that you're safe and everything is fine.

You're home.

And as you continue to take those wonderful deep breaths into the diaphragm,

I'd like you perhaps to imagine that you're breathing in beautiful love or light and as you release,

I would like you to release any worries that you may be carrying.

And as we become more conscious of what we're breathing in,

The essence and beauty of life and what we're releasing,

All that no longer belongs to us,

We start to embed a very mindful mindset.

And whenever it may feel ready to do so,

I invite you just to breathe your eyes closed,

Finding joy in the presence that you have with you right now.

And I'd like you now to imagine yourself at the edge of the seaside.

It's a beautiful sunny day and you feel excited,

Excited to be so close to nature,

To the seaside,

To the beach and the weather is just so outstandingly beautiful.

This is a beautiful day to be alive.

Somewhere in front of you,

There is a small boat and you decide to get in.

You're feeling playful today,

Adventurous and you know the sun has got your back.

As you get into the small boat,

You look at the wood,

You can smell it in the sunshine,

The varnish smell still there after so many years.

And you notice that down on the floor of this small boat,

There's a rope and the rope is super,

Super long.

And you notice that one part of it is actually attached to the shore.

When you see this,

You suddenly realise you could go for a wonderful adventure out to sea and you'd still be able to come back anytime you like.

Now that fills you with real excitement.

And as you notice this,

You switch on the little engine at the back of the boat and it starts to rumble.

Very gently,

You start to go out to sea.

And as you look back behind you,

The shoreline gets more and more distant and the rope just seems to keep on giving.

No matter how far out to sea you go,

There's always more rope appearing,

As if by magic.

At some point,

You're so far out to sea that you can't see the shore anymore and everything has gone very,

Very quiet.

And at this point,

You decide to just lie down and look up at the sky for a while and just enjoy the bobbing motion of life.

And as you do so,

You drift off,

Almost into some kind of hypnotic state from that very gentle bobbing in your very safe boat.

And as you're drifting off,

Enjoying so deeply this beautiful experience,

You start to notice some interesting things in the sky.

You notice words floating past,

Almost like clouds.

You see images and pictures.

Some of them are very positive and beautiful and inspiring.

You see some happy memories from childhood that move you to tears.

You see pictures of those that you love and you see some pictures of people at school that you didn't love so much.

They're all just floating by.

You see pictures of things going on in the world,

Wonderful dreams of your future.

And as you notice all of these words and images passing you by,

You notice that they have a little string on them and you get very curious.

And you know on some very subconscious level that that string is there for you to choose what to pull in to your beautiful boat.

And as you notice this,

All those words and pictures start moving higher and lower in the sky,

Almost in touching distance.

And you see one in particular,

The image of your future,

Where you can't help but reach out and pull it closer to you.

As you pull down this beautiful image of your ideal future and you pull it into the boat with you,

Like pulling a balloon down into that wonderful boat,

The boat starts to get bigger.

You're absolutely fascinated.

How is that possible?

And you decide to try another one.

You see one of your favourite words floating through the sky,

A word that uplifts you and makes you so happy.

You reach out for the string and that too you pull into the boat,

Wondering what will happen now.

As you pull it down to be with you in this beautiful bobbing boat,

Again the boat starts to get bigger.

Well,

Now you're really curious.

What happens if you bring down one of the words that you don't particularly like?

Let's see.

As you reach up and pull that string down of one of those words or images you don't find so positive,

You notice that the boat starts to move a little bit more strongly.

And as you pull that word or image down to be with you in the boat,

Not only does the boat start moving more erratically,

But it gets smaller again.

Wow,

You think,

How is that possible?

You immediately throw that word out overboard,

And the size is back a little bit bigger again,

And the boat is settling.

So now you start to ask yourself,

What would happen if I pulled maybe 20 words or images into the boat that I love and that inspire me?

How big could we go?

And you start going to town,

Reaching up,

Looking into the sky,

Looking around you,

Behind you.

Where are those magical words and images and memories and loved ones?

And as they float past like clouds,

You grab that string and you pull it into the boat.

And with each one that comes in,

The boat gets bigger and bigger and more and more peaceful.

You have space not just to sit.

You have space to move,

To dance,

To roll,

To play,

To somersault,

To sit and to be.

The joy is so magical.

As you keep pulling these words and images to be with you in your boat,

You suddenly realize that this is your life.

Pulling and choosing what's good for you,

What inspires you,

What you love,

Bringing that into your reality brings calm to all that may be going on around us.

Now,

At some point,

The inside of this boat is so beautifully spacious,

You want to get creative.

And just as you're thinking,

How could I make the inside of this boat even more beautiful?

And you start to imagine extraordinary images of how this boat floating out in the middle of the sea could become more you.

You notice some of your favorite items from your home and your life floating through the sky and you bring them in.

Plants and flowers and ornaments and books,

Maybe even another person to share this space with you.

You look at the sky,

It's all out there,

It's in abundance.

There is no limit to all the things that you can imagine and bring in to your wonderful life.

Soon,

What started off as a very small rickety boat is now a most beautiful,

Magnificent area that reflects you to the core.

Your values are reflected in this beautiful boat and you are feeling so playful,

So alive.

And as you look down at yourself,

You're not even sure you like your outfit anymore.

Oh,

But gosh,

Just as you think that,

Your favorite outfits float through the sky.

You're in the power to make choices at every moment and you do.

And you're enjoying this process so,

So much.

The boat is now so big and so at peace,

You would hardly know you were sitting out at sea.

And as you move from one end to the other end,

Northeast,

Southwest of this beautiful space,

You may be singing,

You may be talking to yourself or talking to the universe.

Your happiness is in every cell of your body.

And you wonder,

How could I not have realized all this time that I choose what I bring into my life.

And the more beauty I bring in,

The less space there is for anything else.

Why would I want anything else but beauty and joy in my life?

At some point you take a seat and you just enjoy the space that you've created and are continuing to create.

You sit back,

Looking up at that beautiful sky.

And the words float past,

You don't even notice any of those stories going on outside in the world that don't resonate with your truth.

All you see are the positive memories,

The ones that may not be in your boat,

But they're floating all around you all the time.

You may even see one of your loved ones waving to you.

Wave back,

Go on.

This is a unique time in your life.

And as you now look out to sea,

Of the enormous space all around you,

You notice a large ship in the distance.

And in the past you know that would have made you nervous.

What is the ship?

Where is it coming from?

Will it come too close?

But today you have no need for any of those fears or worries,

Because you know you are absolutely safe here in the world that you've created.

And fascinatingly,

As the ship gets closer but moves past you,

You notice how the water around you has become incredibly choppy.

Big waves are moving through the ocean,

And yet you and your boat remain at peace.

And you realize,

Perhaps for the very first time,

Just how important your choices are.

And just how abundant this life is,

Of all emotions,

All stories,

All experiences,

But that we choose to hold on to those that bring us light and healing and love.

As you lie back,

Just enjoying this moment,

A single bird flutters by above your head,

Flapping its wings,

Flying this far out to sea.

And it makes you feel grateful.

Grateful for everything that you have around you in your life,

In your boat.

And you start to send gratitude out to people in your life,

To experiences,

Even to those experiences that at the time felt difficult and challenging.

You now smile because you realize what you learnt,

And how you've grown.

You now gently look down at your hands,

And you wonder at the creativity within you.

You wonder at your human body,

In which you're living this soul experience.

Everything as you sit here just feels so magical and amazing and inspiring.

And when you feel ready,

You just have to press a button in that boat,

And the rope will start bringing you back to shore.

As it does so,

You're filled with such,

Such joy of this wonderful experience.

And you notice that with every kilometer,

The boat is gently getting smaller again.

But as it gets smaller,

You can feel the energy moving into you.

All the energy,

The beauty,

The wonderful memories,

The wonderful words that you pulled into your boat,

Is now moving slowly more and more into your energy space.

And this now feels truly transformational.

So the huge size of your boat is getting smaller,

But you are being filled with an incredible level of life force.

Soon you can see land in the distance,

And your power is truly surging.

You feel in your truth.

You have refound your levels of confidence that so often in life seem to have disappeared from you.

Here they are now,

Absolutely strong,

At peace and solid.

Your clarity about the future and what needs to be done is absolutely crystal clear.

The people you want to spend your life with,

And those people perhaps that you now want to move away from a little,

To give yourself more space to be in this wonderful life energy that you are bringing in and around you with every conscious thought.

By the time the shore is almost there,

You are feeling playful and energised and youthful.

You feel like a child again,

With the capacity of an adult's mind.

How magical that is.

And gently as you come into shore,

Back to the size of boat that you started with,

You step out onto the beach,

And you feel totally revived.

This is not a new you,

This is the true you.

And as you look around at people around you,

Life going on,

And you know that nothing out there can touch you,

Or rattle you,

Or phase you,

When you know that everything inside is aligned.