Hello and welcome to today's meditation.
I'm Kate Swoboda,
Also known as Kate Courageous,
From Your Courageous Life.
Today's guided meditation is a rallying cry of sorts for those times when you feel like maybe you can't do the things that you really want to do,
Or your dreams are just out of your grasp.
I invite you to get into a comfortable position,
Your eyes can be open,
They can be closed.
However it is that you choose to arrange yourself,
Take a moment to call in the dream,
The thing that you long for,
The thing that you want to shift in your life,
That you want to create,
That you have created and you are hoping will be received well by the world.
Breathe and call that dream in and go ahead and even allow the doubts or the fears or the worries.
Really get their place here too and you will learn the more you practice leaning into courage that those doubts and fears and worries are just along for the ride anytime we step outside of our comfort zone.
So back to that big dream.
Here's the thing.
Of course you can.
You think you can't,
But of course you can.
Why not?
Are you afraid of criticism?
Well that's unfortunate when it happens,
But criticism is not a roadblock.
You feel like there's not enough time,
Not enough money.
Well those are obstacles,
But there are so many examples of people in the world who have created incredible things with no time and no money.
Maybe your mind keeps saying over and over,
But what if I fail?
Well here's a thought.
What if you succeed?
Are you able to predict the future?
No.
So stop predicting failure before you even know.
Stop predicting why bother.
Stop predicting be realistic.
In its most essential sense,
You create your reality.
And if you want,
You can receive that statement on some kind of cosmic plane,
But I'm speaking very pragmatically.
We've all met those people who walk the world feeling that most people are selfish and only looking out for themselves.
They create their reality from that belief system and they've got all the evidence.
And we've all met people who walk the world believing that as flawed as humans can be,
Humans really doing the best they can with the skills they've got.
And that belief also creates their reality.
You create your reality.
So of course you can.
Related to your big dreams.
Have you been creating the reality of,
There's no point.
Have you been creating the reality of,
Oh,
But what if I fail?
Or are you deciding to create the reality of,
I am going to try until I succeed?
Are you creating the reality of,
Of course I can.
Of course I can do this.
Of course I can figure this out.
Of course I can work on this dream.
Of course I can find the support that I need.
Of course there are ways to create more time,
More money.
Of course I can find solutions.
Of course I can turn around challenges.
Whatever your dream is,
Whatever it is you want to create,
Whatever it is that you have created that you are holding out to the world for the world to receive,
Whatever obstacles have come along with that somehow,
Some way there is a way.
Somehow,
Some way there is a way.
So of course you can.
You want your dream to succeed?
Then be the first one to step up for it with unwavering support for your own ideas.
You will have days that don't feel good,
But feelings are not facts.
You can feel sad if you find out that someone's house has burned down,
But that house is not your house.
Use your feelings to galvanize you to take action.
Use your feelings to say,
Enough,
Done.
I'm no longer tolerating feeling so bad because I keep spinning in how I think I can't.
I'm no longer tolerating that.
I'm creating something in the name of my deepest dreams for my life,
My one wild and precious life.
Of course I can.
You just get this one life.
Do you want to spend it arguing for limitations?
Using all the proof,
All the evidence?
Or do you want to spend your days declaring,
Of course I can?
Which one do you think will set you up for success?
My friend,
You already know.
You already know what life is calling you to do.
It is no accident that you are listening to this.
Your life is calling you to declare that you can.
Take a moment now to really breathe.
If it feels right,
Close your eyes.
Conjure up a picture of yourself.
See yourself declaring,
Of course I can.
See yourself stepping into this new way of being,
Of living.
You can create something new right now.
All creation begins in this moment.
The things that you are creating in your mind,
Believing in your mind,
Telling yourself about what you're capable of,
Are setting the course for what comes next.
Every single moment,
You get to decide what course you're going to be creating.
You just get this one life.
And,
Of course you can.
