Hello,
I'm Penelope Mavor,
Founder of EarthConverse,
Helping you best serve people and planet.
And this is part of the EarthConverse invitation to you,
To commit to a daily conscious practice of visualising the future society you want to serve.
A chance to exercise your potential and responsibility of co-creating the future you want,
For yourself,
Others and the earth that is our home.
At EarthConverse I am visualising people all around the world doing it,
Joining in daily at 7 o'clock CET or whenever you can,
Knowing others are energetically engaging in this with you.
By future visualisation,
I mean by engaging your imagination and feeling into it with all your senses.
Like a sports athlete visualising a race before they do it,
They create the neural pathways and physiological state as if it was happening in the present.
If you prefer guidance,
You can use these EarthConverse future meditations,
Which offer open questions as stimuli,
Allowing you to answer energetically with your own visions,
Dreams,
Longings and truths.
And this one focuses on visualising cities of the future.
The majority of humans reside in cities across the globe and may increasingly do so.
And our current design of cities are neither just,
Sustainable or regenerative.
They are places with examples of incredible human creativity,
Collaboration and care.
And they also carry the immense pain of colonialism,
Exploitation,
Extraction,
Division,
Inequality and pollution.
I believe like many others that visualising life affirming futures for our cities is integral to our individual,
Collective and planetary health.
I am one who grew up in a very small town and migrated to cities and have lived in the likes of Auckland,
London,
Trieste and Rome and city sustainability has formed part of my study and career from working as a strategic planner in Auckland and London to running city-based cross-sector leadership programmes with common purpose.
I like you care about our cities,
Our future and future generations as interbeing communities.
So let's take some minutes to visualise possible city futures together from a place of calm and connectedness.
I invite you to get comfortable and close your eyes if that feels right.
Maybe take a few long,
Deep breaths.
Invigorating on the in-breath and relaxing on the out-breath.
Coming to your natural breath pace,
You can start to call in some of the elements which are a part of you in the interweb of life,
Reminding you of your true nature.
With each breath,
Welcome in the element of air and what it gives in clarity,
Vision and truth.
And notice the warmth in your body to welcome the element of fire and its gifts of transformation.
Notice the saliva in your mouth,
The blood in your veins to welcome in water and what it knows about surrendering to the flow of life.
And notice the points of contact in your own body and with the ground to welcome the element of earth,
The playground to manifest your dreams and the physical.
Feel into this connection by scanning your body from the tip of your head to the tip of your toes.
Tune into the sensations of your body with curiosity and compassion.
Feel the aliveness within you and around you.
And from this state,
Bring to mind and take the color,
The city of the future you want and feel what emerges somatically within you.
These prompts may come too fast or too slow.
They may stimulate your own questions.
Work with what is right for you.
So to begin,
What size,
Shape and form does this city take?
What is life affirming about it?
Who and what does this city serve?
How are ecosystems restored,
Enhanced and thriving?
What has the city healed in terms of past pain?
What has died to be reborn?
How is the city regenerating itself?
What is the level of connection,
Inspiration and belonging?
How does one move into,
Out and around the city?
How does the city nurture collaboration,
Creativity and compassion?
What is private and what is public?
What smells are in the air?
What tastes are possible?
What now can be heard?
How are humans being?
And what are they doing?
How are the sacred elements being honored?
What do you sense around from the more than human world?
How does the interbeing community live?
How is love,
Kindness and balance showing up?
What is making everyone feel safe,
Heard and loved?
How is life celebrated in this city?
What is possible in this city?
What is possible in other cities?
And what of the future can you sense in the present,
Now?
What does it invite you to act on in this present time,
In this moment in your life?
Breathe into the vision and action.
Fill up every cell of your body.
Luxuriate in the light and warmth of this knowing and carry it with you.
