Future Self Wisdom Through Visualization And Embodiment

This guided meditation allows you to access and embody the ageless wisdom of your wise, older self. Through visualization techniques, you will be transported to a future time where you meet your wise, older self and receive guidance for living your life. This is a helpful exercise for self-leadership and self-actualization, helping you tap into your inner wisdom and find clarity in your actions.

This exercise was inspired by the Positive Intelligence framework and is being successfully utilized with my coaching clients to create clarity, confidence and wisdom for self-actualization.

Transcript

So just sit down on the floor or a chair or cushion and get comfortable and have your spine be straight and relaxed.

We're going to do a visualization to put you in touch with your wise older self so you can apply your self-energy with more ease and flow in the here and now.

So please go ahead and close your eyes if you may,

If that feels right for you.

Have your feet flat on the floor,

Unless you're sitting on the floor,

And try to find as many of your toes as you can.

Wiggle your toes if you need to so you find as many of your toes as you can.

Have your spine be straight and relaxed,

Have your head be straight and relaxed,

Your eyes closed.

And now let's pay some attention to your sense of touch.

Gently rub two fingertips against each other with such a tension that you can feel the fingertip ridges on both fingers.

Gently rub all the fingertips of one hand against all the fingertips and palm of the other hand and feel all those sensations of touch.

And now take a few deep breaths and let your breath relax into its natural rhythm.

Let your breath relax back into its natural rhythm.

In a moment what we're going to do is take you to a process of visiting your wise older self.

Visiting you at the end of your life,

Healthy of mind and body,

Celebrating this great life that you have lived.

And to take you there,

Notice right now that to your right there's a beam of light.

Notice that to your right there's a beam of light,

A vertical beam of light.

And that is going to slowly transport you out of the room you're in.

So first notice what color or texture this beam of light might have.

Just notice the color of this beam of light.

And now gently attach yourself to this beam of light and have this beam of light very slowly begin to lift you out of your chair or off the floor and very slowly approach the ceiling.

Slowly have you go above the building or the dwelling that you're in.

You're looking down at the dwelling you're in and slowly further up you're now able to see the curvature around the horizon.

You're beginning to be at the clouds level and as you go further up you're now beginning to see the curvature of our beautiful mother earth planet.

How beautiful she is.

And as you go further up you're now enough in space to be able to see the entirety of beautiful mother earth.

And so you pause,

You pause and just soak in the beauty of mother earth and how nurturing she has been to you.

Feel that gratitude and appreciation for mother earth and your connection to her.

And now to your left you see another beam of light.

This beam of light is going to very slowly bring you down to mother earth but in a future time at the end of your life where your wise older self lives.

So notice what color this beam of light is to your left and very slowly begin to descend.

Still seeing beautiful mother earth getting bigger and bigger and you're getting close enough so you now see the curvature on the horizon.

You're at the clouds level and very slowly you're going to descend into a dwelling into wherever your wise elder self lives at the end of your life.

Healthy of mind and body.

Celebrating this great life that they have lived.

So you now see the dwelling,

The area where your wiser elder self will be living in the future.

Notice any details about this dwelling that you wish to see.

You're getting closer and closer.

Seeing more and more detail.

This area where your wise older self lives.

Celebrating this great life that has been lived.

Healthy of mind and body.

And you're now beginning to clearly see your wiser older self and you very gently land near your wise older self and you take a look at your wise older self.

Notice the expression of the eyes.

Notice the expression of the face.

It's the whole aura,

The whole energy,

The whole attitude on your wise older self's face.

Notice how your wise older self holds or moves their head.

Holds or moves arms and hands.

This is the whole physical posture of your wise older self.

The attitude,

The energy,

The spirit of this being that you are.

Now for a moment you look around to see who else is here in the celebration.

Your wise elder self is having a celebration of the great life that has been lived.

Notice who else might be in that celebration.

Who else is there?

And there may be nobody.

If there is nobody that's totally fine.

But if there are people,

Notice who they might be.

Great and now if you're not in a private space yet,

Move with your wise older self to a private setting where you can have a conversation together.

You move with your wise older self to a private space where you can have a conversation together.

And now you ask your wise older self,

What's important for me to pay attention to?

What's important for me to pay attention to?

And you notice what your wise older self says.

What's important for me to pay attention to?

And you ask your wise older self,

What's not important that I shouldn't worry about?

What's not important that I shouldn't worry about?

And you listen to what your wise older self says.

And you ask your wise older self,

What advice do you have for how to live my life?

And just listen to what your wise older self says.

What advice do you have for how to live my life?

And now your wise older self has a gift for you in a box.

This gift is something that symbolizes what your wise older self wants you to pay attention to and be guided by.

This gift in this box symbolizes what your wise older self wants you to pay attention to and be guided by.

You get this box from your wise older self.

You open the box.

What's inside the box?

What will remind you of what to pay attention to and what to be guided by?

Now thank your wise older self that you embrace as a way of saying goodbye.

And as you embrace your wise older self,

That being begins to become one with you.

It begins to become absorbed into you and become one with you.

Because that being is part of you.

You are that being.

This ageless wisdom of your wise older self is always there with you if you learn to activate it,

To listen to it.

And as you feel this absorption into your body,

Notice how it affects your body right now.

Notice the spirit alive in you and the scene.

And in this scene have yourself feel that spirit alive,

That wise older self alive in you.

Now you see another beam of light.

The one that brought you to this dwelling.

It reappears to your left and you're going to attach yourself to this beam of light that will slowly elevate you from the dwelling of your wise older self.

So have this beam of light slowly lift you from that dwelling.

You can begin to now see the dwelling underneath you as you elevate further up.

You're now getting to the clouds level.

You're beginning to see the curvature on the horizon.

And as you keep going higher and higher you begin to see the entirety of beautiful mother earth underneath you.

And you pause and you look at beautiful mother earth.

Feel gratitude and love for the nurturing that you have gotten from mother earth and her beauty.

And now you see another light to your right.

This is the light that will very slowly begin to bring you back to mother earth at the present time.

So have this beam of light get you closer and closer.

So now you're seeing the curvature but more details on the horizon.

You're at the clouds level.

You're seeing the dwelling in which you're sitting.

And you slowly enter this dwelling and the place you're in right now.

And where you're sitting.

And you come back to where you are sitting.

And you feel your body in your seat.

And as you feel your body in your seat you do feel the presence of your wise older self with you and in you.

That being is always with you.

So notice the attitude,

The wisdom of this ageless wise older self in your head and face right now.

Feel the attitude of the wise older self in your head and face right now.

Feel that ageless wisdom in your eyes,

In your face,

In the way you hold your head.

Move or hold your arms and hands with the attitude with the energy of the wise older self in you.

Breathe with your wise older self alive in you.

Breathe with the attitude of your ageless wisdom of your wise older self.

And have this wise older self be present throughout your body.

Feel the presence throughout your body in your whole physical posture right now.

Scan your body now and notice where in your body the wise older self lives the strongest.

Where in your body has been most affected.

Put your hand on that part of your body where your wise older self,

That ageless wisdom lives strongest for you.

So you can anchor it for yourself.

And notice how beautiful it feels to know that you have ageless wisdom within you.

This is your self energy,

Your true essence.

It's always been there and it has not changed.

Your self is never changing.

It's your constant essence.

You have access to ageless wisdom within yourself.

If you activate this part of you,

You'll have at any given moment access to deep profound ageless wisdom.

This is the one who would guide you to your self actualization.

What matters at any given moment to the action that's right to take.

You can consult this being inside yourself at any time.

That's what gives you the inner compass,

The clarity of the self.

And notice how good it feels to feel anchored by this knowing.

How much easier life is knowing that you have this power within you,

That you can learn to access at any time.

And so whenever you're ready,

Gently open your eyes again.

I trust that you enjoyed this beautiful experience.

I wanted you to have deep access to your beautiful self,

Your wise older self,

The one in you that always has the wisdom.

So thank you for continuing to show up for yourself.

Be well.