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In this week’s episode, we explore living life on your own terms through guided visualization and journaling.
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dear dope chick,
I really appreciate you being here with us. It is our first podcast episode ever!
what you’ll need:
I don’t require much from this podcast, you can listen to it straight through.
It is, however, an action based podcast so I would encourage using a notebook or journal that is dedicated to this podcast so that you can participate in the activities and exercises discussed.
Active engagement helps you hone in on some of your wants, your needs, your desires, your aspirations and it will certainly help you navigate your way down the path of living life on your own terms.
living life on your own terms
I wanted to start off with an abstract concept that can be narrowed down to a more personalized experience for you.
Living life on your own terms sounds like a huge undertaking. It sounds damn near impossible and quite frankly, it sounds unattainable.
But what I’m here to tell you is living life on your own terms is not unattainable. It is something you can start doing today. Hell, you’re already doing it.
Every day you come face-to-face with choices you can make for your life. What you choose is shaping and molding your reality.
Do you hold the power to change your life? Absolutely!
The issue that many of us run into is that we are not clear on where we wanna be in life. We tend to focus on what we don’t know not understanding that what we focus on manifests into our realities.
So let’s explore and achieve clarity today.
visualize the life that you want to live
What I would like for you to do right now is to get into a comfortable meditation position.
This can be laying down or sitting upright. Close your eyes and slow your breath to a calming and relaxing cadence.
Visualize yourself living a life that you dream of.
Whatever you love, whatever is in your heart, let it speak and come into a vision for you right now.
Kick that imagination into high gear, sit there, and think about what your life would look like if you decided to do exactly what you wanted to do; the exact desires of your heart today.
questions explored during this exercise:
What do you see?
What do you smell?
What are you eating?
Now, picture yourself doing an activity — what is the activity that you’re doing and what is the feeling that it brings to you as you’re doing it?
Continue breathing slowly + steadily as you look around the scene that you’ve created, fully experiencing it with all of your senses.
Be here right now. Take in the joy, take in the laughter, take in the peace…
Release the worry. Release the need to figure out the “how” and embrace the imagination right now. Let it do the work for you.
*** Feel free to take a pause here so that you can fully be enveloped in your vision right now. When you’re ready, you can leave your vision knowing that you can come back at anytime. ***
now write that shit down!
Whatever you are thinking, I want you to write that down in grave detail. Give as much detail as possible:
how you live your life,
what you spend your money on,
where you shop,
who you spend your time with,
what color drawls do you have on… are you even wearing drawls? —
make it that vivid!
Everything you’ve just visualized, recount it and write it down!
This is the first step to living life on your own terms: being clear about who you are and what you would rather be doing than what you’re doing right now.
what you want is important.
It is important for you to write your vision down so that when times get hard, you can remember why you are doing what you are doing.
A vision is what keeps you motivated.
It’s what keeps you going and ready to take on new challenges!
what should i write?
Write down every single thing that comes to your mind! Don’t limit your imagination — go bigger, go beyond anything you’ve ever seen before!
There is no good or no bad when it comes to this, so don’t judge it.
Let your vision come, let it flow through you, and let it out on paper.
This may be your first time or it may be your 100th time ever completing an activity like this. Either way, it can impact your behavior if you allow it to serve as your why.
to do this week:
Visualize yourself living the life you’ve always dreamed of living. Be as specific as possible during this visualization.
Use your imagination to dream the unthinkable, making your vision for your life as grandiose or as simple as you’d like (why not go big though?!)
Write down everything you’ve visualized yourself doing, be as specific as possible.
Revisit this visual as often as you’d like (daily at least), keeping it as a forethought to increase awareness of your daily actions and choices: are your choices in alignment with this version of your life?
Make adjustments where necessary and live life like this vision is already your reality. Shit — you saw it, why can’t it be your reality?
i appreciate you taking the time to read and listen!
Thank you so much for being here and most importantly: thank you for being you.
I’ll see you on the next episode. 👋🏾
be you, be dope!
Phylicia Sadsarin
Mindset Coach
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