Your Life Coat Metaphor

Your "Life coat" is a creative metaphor that embraces your whole life story; a significant and potent guided visualisation, that creatively speaks to your emotional healing and wholehearted acceptance of all that has been in your life. Sim will invite us to play with a metaphor of designing a sacred life coat, inspired by Clarissa Este's ancient soul stories "Women Who Run with the Wolves." Our imagination has no limits, you don't have to be a dress maker or designer, just allow for this exercise to guide your unconscious to design your very own sacred life-coat. It may be shamanic, or Ancient Egyptian, or modern Grecian, tribal and ceremonial, or simple and zen like...it probably wont be a designer label, more like a mysterious cape - unique to you and it only fits you and you can wear it with pride because you have truly lived, loved, lost, rebuilt and accepted much. Feel free to post your life coat impressions in the feedback.

Transcript

Hello.

This visualization that you're about to experience is called your life coat.

This is a very important visualization because you're about to connect with all that you have been,

Your life.

So those parts of yourself that you may have rejected or denied,

It's an opportunity for you to give new meaning to those experiences in the form of your life coat and the symbols that you would use to represent those experiences.

So this is a very important visualization because you're about to connect the present day self with all that you have been.

And this life coat metaphor is that it represents you,

Your emotions,

Your experiences,

Different ages in a symbolic form.

And you're going to be tapping into the creativity of your unconscious,

Your imagination,

Rich with symbols,

Archetypes,

The collective unconscious,

The personal unconscious.

And at the end of this visualization,

You'll have designed from your imagination a life coat that represents you as the marvelous,

Weird and wacky person that you are.

And in our life,

How are we to know really what our life means to us until we live it?

And who really knows until the end of our life what our life has been about?

So we can keep redefining and recreating the meaning that we give to our experiences in the past,

In the present and what we hope for in the future.

And the main thing,

The main aspect of this visualization is that you own every aspect of yourself and welcome it into your life.

So as you prepare yourself for this visualization,

You may be aware of that inner voice that wonders and perhaps criticizes you and says,

Oh,

I'm not going to be able to do this or I don't like that symbol.

The rational part of your mind and your thoughts.

And I'd like you to acknowledge that part of yourself,

But just place it to the side somewhat and allow for the creativity and the richness of your imagination to be working for you.

So you might like to close your eyes now.

You're going to begin this inner journey and I will be connecting you again to different emotions and experiences and allowing for different symbols and ideas to come to your mind as you design your coat.

Be aware of your breath,

Be aware of the gentle rise and fall of your breathing.

Going to be connecting you to a deeper level of your unconscious,

To go beyond the everyday and to find that still place within yourself,

An area where you can work,

Design,

Create your life coat.

And I'm wanting you to be able to imagine that you can take this journey within and that you're going to be finding a clearing,

An area where everything is there that you need.

Perhaps like a warehouse that is filled with objects and gems,

Different ornaments,

All the materials and fabrics that you might need.

They'll all just be there at your fingertips,

Available for you to design this life coat of yours.

And so to allow yourself now to drift easily and comfortably toward that place,

You might like to allow the sounds of the flute to carry you and to guide you into that safe place where you are going to redesign and give new meaning to all that has been in your life.

And as you journey within,

Connect to your heart and take with you on your journey an acceptance for yourself and an openness to the creativity that is within you.

Allowing the sound to guide you to that place,

A place where you can design and create your life coat.

Allowing your thoughts to drift easily by,

Directing your attention to the sound of the flute.

As it guides you and reassures you of the importance of connecting and owning every aspect of your life.

And so I wonder,

As you allow for the impression of yourself to be in this warehouse or this place where you can make your life coat and everything's there that you need,

There may be a machine there,

Needles and threads,

Beads,

Shells,

Leaves,

Different colours and fabrics.

This is an amazing place filled with all the wonderful things that you need to design your life coat.

And so I'm wondering,

What comes to your mind,

What fabric would you like to have that is the foundation of your life coat?

And so allow for that fabric to appear before you in its richness,

In its colour and form.

And you may notice as you're designing and creating that that can change at any time,

That it's not fixed,

It's flowing.

And so as you have that basis now,

The foundation of your life coat,

I wonder what that represents to you,

What period of your life does the foundation represent?

And I wonder how you would represent your vibrancy,

Your youthfulness,

Your aliveness?

And so allow those symbols to come to you,

To place them on your coat.

And trusting that the right symbols come to you.

And so I'd like you to think about your youth,

Different times in your life,

Perhaps remembering your first day at school,

How that was for you.

I wonder how you'd represent that on your life coat.

And as you reflect back to your childhood,

Those times in your life when you felt so frustrated,

So angry,

It was all you could do to keep breathing,

To keep alive,

How would you represent those times on your life coat?

And the important people in your life,

How would you represent their influence on your life coat?

And so allow for the symbols and the way to represent those people that have been important to you.

Place them on your life coat.

And I'd like you to reflect upon those times in your life when you really shone,

You felt a great sense of success.

How would you represent those times on your life coat?

And there's a sense of busyness about you as you create and you find just the right things to place on your life coat.

And you can reflect on those times now when you felt a deep sense of knowing,

A connection to knowing.

How would you represent that on your life coat?

And what about jealousy,

Those times in your life that really stand out in your mind when you felt jealousy,

What's that been like?

And how would you place that on your life coat?

And those experiences in your life that have connected you to fear,

Where you felt your fear.

How would you represent fear on your life coat?

And you're busy designing and placing these things on your life coat,

It's taking form and shape as you reflect back on different emotions that have influenced your life.

And I'm wondering now if you can reflect back on those lighter times in your life,

Times when you felt a real sense of freedom and joy was like a skip in your step,

You could jump high,

A real sense of freedom and joy.

Embrace those periods of your life and how would you place them on your life coat?

Remember back to those times and just the right symbol will come to your mind that you can use on your life coat.

Those wonderful free times.

And reflect back on those times when you may have rejected yourself in some way,

Rejected some part of yourself that just wasn't okay.

I wonder if you can place those on your life coat,

Those rejections,

How would you symbolize them?

And what about the important transitions in your life,

Those times from childhood,

From school,

To work?

Transitions in your life,

How have they been for you?

How would you represent those transition times?

Times of love,

Work,

Relationships,

Birth and death.

Those important times where you've grieved for the loss of someone,

Someone that you loved,

Someone you love.

Allow for your unconscious to give you just the right symbol for those times to place on your beautiful life coat.

What a life you've had.

Many many experiences,

The highs and the lows.

Stretched in all different directions,

Times when you felt that you couldn't go on and then you found that you could.

And the joy that comes from accepting yourself,

Making changes.

Coming to a place of wonder at what a life it is that you've had and what a life it is that you're having.

And I wonder if you can reflect on times when you've really felt at one and at peace with everything and everyone around you.

Those spiritual times when you've really connected in with the divine within yourself.

When you thought,

Yes,

There is that hero and heroine within me.

Reflect on those times,

Those thoughts and desires to be great.

And as you work away creating this life coat that is yourself,

I wonder where you can place your feelings of love and your feelings of acceptance for who you are and all that you are.

Place that.

It's important to recognize the love and acceptance for everything that's been in your life.

And so your life coat starts to represent all of those emotions of love and hate,

Jealousy and fear,

Sadness and joy,

Excitement,

Aliveness,

The light and the dark,

The polarities of your experience,

The multitude of experiences that you are.

Add to your coat all those important times that need to be added there.

Bring them back in this symbolic way,

The richness,

The shine,

The vibrancy,

The feel of your coat,

The texture and the shape that it takes.

And I'd like you to spend some time adding to it all the things that need to be added there.

And that it's this wondrous creation of yours.

Wow,

What a coat.

And the thing that you notice with this coat is that you feel like you want to put it on and wear it.

And so I'd like you to be able to do that,

To place your life coat around your shoulders and to feel what that's like for you.

And breathe into yourself the realization that this coat,

It doesn't fit anybody else.

This is your coat.

It fits you and only you.

And as you wear it,

Notice is it light or heavy and how does it move when you move.

Feel the strength that this life coat gives to you.

Something to be proud of,

Something to marvel at.

Wow,

This is my life coat.

And so I'd like you to get a sense of moving in this coat and wearing it with pride.

A sense of how it feels.

Walk around with it.

Dance with it.

And this life coat represents to you where you're at right now in your life,

Where you've been.

And that you can bring to your present day life everything that is you,

Claim it back,

All those parts of yourself.

Claim it back and wear it with pride and acceptance.

Breathing into the power that is you.

Breathing into and stepping into your present.

And feeling a sense of comfortableness in your body.

It feels easy to be you.

It's okay to be you.

And so as you parade this coat of yours,

It's a place within yourself that you have created a new meaning,

A new symbol,

Empowering yourself.

And so it's important that when you take your life coat off now that you have a place where you can keep it,

Where it can be,

Just waiting there for you to wear it whenever you need to again.

So there can be a special place to put your life coat.

And so any time in your life when you're needing to reconnect again with that sense of acceptance for everything that you are and every aspect of yourself,

You can imagine putting that life coat back on.

Standing there,

Breathing it into yourself and wearing it with pride and remembering Who you are.

And so as you make your way back,

Remember the feel of your coat on your skin.

Remember the feelings of acceptance.

Wow,

What a life you've had.

What a life you're having.

And that you can choose to create it and redesign as you go.

Your life coat is changing its fluid.

So that if you were to do the life coat visualization again,

You might find different things that come to your mind.

Your coat may look different in six months time or a year's time.

Because you're different,

You've added new experiences to your life.

And so making your way back.

And bringing back those feelings of acceptance.

Bringing back with you the impressions and the images of your life coat.

Making your way back to being aware of your breathing.

Coming aware of your physical body.

Connecting in with your toes and your fingers.

Gradually reorientating yourself.

Just resting there for a few more moments.

Listening to the beautiful sounds.

Reconnecting with your body.

Reconnecting with the environment that you're in.

And in a few moments I'm going to just ring a gentle bell.

And when you hear that bell,

You can open your eyes.

Have a bit of a stretch.

Take in a nice deep breath.

And be fully present and aware in the room.

So just connecting in with your breathing.

Feeling back in your body.

Back in the present.

That's good.

Thank you.

Reviews

Thankyou Simonette. I think it's a very long time since I did meditation. It must of been when I listened to you on CD but I do remember it. IT HIS time round I was able to just imagine rather than visualise as I struggle with visualisations. I always have done when ever I've meditated and I normally meditate at night when I'm in bed. So actually I nearly fell 😴 💤 😴 💤. Thankyou for such a very deep and insightful and remember able meditation .

Thank you, very peaceful. I will revisit this meditation again. Namaste 💚🙏

Very interesting metaphor, gentle guidance, thank you 💜 x

Brilliant journey into the past, raised a lot of emotions. I will do it again. Thank you for showing me my life coat. Namaste💫🙏

Beautiful guidance, thank you! Namaste 🙏🏼

Made me feel better about my life. Loved it

I absolutely love this, and will be returning to it again and again as my life coat grows and changes. Bookmarked and downloaded. Thank you for sharing this with me and the world. I see the light in you. 🤲❤️🤲

Wonderful thank you

One of the most positively impactful meditations I’ve done. Thank you!

Beautiful imagery. I can see how this meditation is fluid and will be different every time it's listened to.

This was so powerful for me! Thank you 🙏

Oh my! That was incredible! My coat is so full of life and all parts of the various feelings blend in beautifully with each other! Thank you for this gift. 😄💕🙏

Very much enjoyed

What an incredible inner journey! Thank you, Sim🙏🏻 You always provide ways for my most creative parts to show up. My cloak took form of many fabrics and colors; layers of chiffon with watercolor scenes (actual and imagined) over a velvet slip. Every suggestion you gave allowed me to add a symbol or scene, embellish them with sequins, pearls, feathers, tassels (which also I placed in my hair). As I twirled and danced all the layers flew around me in spirals of colors and my life cloak became the treasure trove of all my parts, all my experiences, and all the wisdom this crone has gained...with room for even more. What a delicious experience. Much love and gratitude, Sister🙏🏻💖🌟💃

Wonderful meditation. My lifecoat became very comfortable and beautiful. Thank you