Being Authentic

Take a moment to settle into this space…. Bring yourself into stillness. As you breathe in, soften the muscles around your eyes. As you breathe out, feel yourself relax a little more each time.

Enjoy stretching your out breath, without effort. Feel the relief it brings as you breathe out and out and out and out. As you breathe out and out and out, you’ll feel your mind slowing, you may find yourself sighing with relief. With every breath in and out and out and out… it becomes easier and easier to let go of your storyline and to be fully here, right now.

As you settle into this moment, remember:

The future is not real.
The past is not real.
The story is not real.
Right here, right now, there is no future, no past, no story.

And there is nothing you need.
Here, in this moment, you are perfect, whole and complete. Even as you are expanding into more. Feel the relief of this moment in all its fullness.

As you connect with the truth of your being as the energy that expands, endlessly, scintillating, brilliant, you realise that this is the truth of your authentic self. This is who you truly are, at your core. This is Home. You are at home here. And you also know that this is the truth of all beings, whether or not they consciously connect with the fullness of this awareness.

From this place, you can imagine. From this place of authentic brilliance, you know that all is well. That everything is working out for you. That there are no problems to wrestle to the ground.

This authentic self is your North Star. This feeling of joyous, creative awareness guides you onwards towards your ever expanding self.

You have found great value in the contrasting ways of approaching your work. You feel the desires born out of experiences that don’t feel true to your authentic self. Every experience is of value.

Every experience guides you Home. Your divine dissatisfaction with showing up as a lesser version of yourself is precisely what brings you into greater joy, greater power to lead, to influence, to inspire others to be their authentic selves, even as you align with yours.

As you focus attention now on a specific event or venture that has been raising fear or anxiety, from this open space you can appreciate the guidance these emotions bring. Your fear does not signal your doom! It simply guides your thinking. You have desires for this venture. Great desires. Great dreams. You are a grander version of yourself even as the desire forms.

Your authentic self has expanded. You are that grander version of yourself. In your imaginings, in your dreams, you feel the truth of that self.

Your work is to catch up with that expansion.

You can’t go back. You can’t undream that dream!

You may not know the particulars, the hows or whens or whats of the specific events that will bring you what you want here, but you do know the way that it feels.

What if your most important preparation was to set your inner trajectory? What if being authentic, loving the way your work feels to you were as easy as spending time in advance of the next event or meeting, imagining the way you feel afterwards, as you bask in its success? And imagine doing the same for the next one. And the one after that…

Allow yourself to think of an event you really want to go well. Allow yourself to imagine an afterglow. Imagine you have just finished the event and you are beside yourself with delight at the way that you felt, before, during and after it.

Allow yourself to imagine how powerful it is to connect with that future version of you, who is smiling and thrilled - it’s been such a joy to be fully, authentically yourself, knowing that all is well and confident that, whatever the apparent outcome, everything is working out well for you.

You might find thoughts like these helpful, to play with and practise until they become easy to maintain:

I really like the way I feel when I am being myself.
I love what I bring to my work, I love being uniquely, creatively me.
I love the desire I have to do great work, and be practical and focused, whilst being joyously, confidently free.
I love that I want to be successful and have fun doing it.
I love wanting to be myself, fully and completely. I love wanting to trust that I can do that AND be successful and productive.
I love the idea of feeling excited and enthused because I love who I am and I love what I bring to this work.
I love the idea of bossing the room with warmth and love and passion for the brilliance of what we can co create together.
I love the idea of being inspired and inspiring and trusting that these states will see us through all the details of completion.
I want to be free to love what I do and do what I love.
I love that I want that!

I love the idea of imagining myself after my next engagement. I love the way I can see myself smiling and I can hear myself saying ‘That was GREAT! I enjoyed that!' I love imagining the thrill and success of the ride without going into the particulars. I can feel how well that resources me to approach the whole experience from a place of expansion and confident, happy expectation.

Allow these thoughts to settle and permeate. Enjoy the way it feels to imagine yourself smiling as the events unfold with ever greater ease and you will find yourself having more and more fun.

As you combine this pre paving experience with the downloading of contrast that naturally comes your way, you have a practice that guarantees that you can find your way Home to your true, expansive self, more and more easily. You show yourself that you get to feel good no matter what. As you practise with that good feeling as your North Star, you realise, you don’t need anything or anyone outside you to bring you Home to your authentic self.

As you let go of the illusion of need, you can enjoy your great desires. You can enjoy them in every stage of their unfolding. You can embrace all the ups and downs and ins and outs. You do not fear unfavourable outcomes. Outcomes of all kinds simply bring you more expansion, no matter what occurs.

As you bring yourself up to speed with each new level of confidence, abundance flows to you - money yes, and ideas, wonderful experiences, relationships… and more.

You are doing so well to be here in this moment.
Allow yourself to relax and know that all indeed will be well. Because all is well. You are all that you need.
Breathe, relax into appreciation for the boldness of your desires.

If there were a colour that would make you smile and take you deep into enjoying your expanding desires, allow yourself to breathe that colour in through your heart and out from your heart as you breathe with soft eyes…

If there were a colour to take this even deeper into the smiling that comes with success and satisfaction… breathe that colour in through your heart and out from your heart… that’s it… with soft eyes, breathe it in and breathe it out…

Bathe every cell in the colour of success and satisfaction.
Science confirms that emotions are chemicals in the body. They affect every cell, every sinew. You are achieving powerful expansion in your body’s neural functioning as you sit and smile and bask and bathe in this colour of success.

Breathing it in, breathing it out from your heart, send this colour now into your next minutes and hours and days… imagine drenching your time line in this colour of smiling and expanding and loving all that you want to have happen and the way you want it to feel.

Good job!

Now… bring your awareness back into this space, make yourself ready to return to your day… take a nice deep breath in… and let it out, and when you’re ready, open your eyes and continue with your day, knowing that your North Star is calling you onwards!