Hello and welcome to this meditation for reflecting on a positive future.
Let's begin by taking a moment to allow your body to settle.
Find a comfortable position that allows your spine to be long but with a natural curve in the low back.
You can close your eyes or soften your gaze and let your belly and your shoulders relax.
Today,
I'll guide you through a practice to envision a positive future.
It's a chance to connect with that place inside of us that wants to work towards a life of meaning and fulfillment.
This is a useful way to consider how we care for ourselves and others and how we show up at our best to meet life's challenges.
At our best to meet life's challenges.
Before we start,
Take a full breath in and a long breath out.
Now allow the breath to find its natural rhythm in and out.
Allowing yourself to be fully present,
Resting on the breath.
I'll provide you with questions to prompt ideas and responses that can help to find a positive future.
Throughout this practice,
Let your body and your mind feel loose and open.
Repeating the questions I offer silently into yourself and resist the urge to problem solve and see if anything comes up on its own organically.
If nothing comes to mind,
You can always continue to rest your awareness and your attention on your breath until something does come up.
Let's begin.
Ask yourself,
What kind of future do I feel deeply moved towards?
Notice the thoughts,
Feelings,
And images that come to mind.
Meanwhile,
Remembering to breathe.
Breathing in and breathing out.
As you hold this positive future in your mind,
What feelings are present?
Here's some more questions to help explore the future you feel deeply moved towards.
How can I show up in a way that will allow this positive future to unfold?
How can I show up fully for the opportunities that I encounter?
What do I want to be in relation to others?
What might get in the way and how will I move beyond it?
What are the skills or capabilities that I'll need to get there?
How might practice support this future?
See yourself right now somewhere in this positive future and reflect on the things that you did that enabled you to get here.
See yourself doing some of these things.
Maybe it's spending time with family.
Maybe it's putting your energy into learning new skills.
Or maybe that's how you allow yourself to connect with others.
See those things in your mind's eye and notice what it feels like as you imagine doing them.
You can come back to this meditation at any time to rediscover the connection to that place inside that's ready to create that positive future.
We all have the ability to improve our lives and our lives.
And the lives of those around us.
Can you take this feeling with you as you head back to your day?
Can you allow it to guide you and guide your interactions with your world now?
Let's finish this positive future practice by taking in a full breath in and a long breath out.
