Tara Brach - Reflection: Your Future Self (2016-08-24)

Episode Date: September 4, 2016

Reflection: Your Future Self - Accessing the Wisdom of Your Heart (2016-08-24) - When we are cut off from our natural love and wisdom, there's a way home. This meditation guides us to a visit with our future self, and reveals a pathway to our awakened, evolved consciousness. The more we practice this pathway, the more we realize and trust the loving awareness that is always and already within us. (from the full talk: https://www.tarabrach.com/your-future-self/)

The following reflection is led by Tara Brock. To access more of my meditations or reflections or to join my email list, please visit tarabrock.com. What we're exploring is a way of taking refuge that, I mean, there's many, many different variations. But I'd like to invite you just to experiment right now with one variation that I've personally found really valuable and many people I know that have done it have found it, it gives them a way onward to keep on calling on what they most trust and love in themselves.

Sitting comfortably, closing your eyes, you might take a few long, deep breaths, filling the lungs with the in-breath and with the out-breath, that kind of releasing, relaxing outward, letting go and again and again, letting the breath be in its natural rhythm. Imagine you could journey forward in time and encounter your future self. You might go 10 years or 20 years, depending on how old you are and how far forward you want to go. But let yourself engage with

that, that you're moving forward in time. You're going to meet your future self, an older, awake, evolve version of your being, fully evolved. And just see where this future self is living. Let yourself see what they look like. And what the feeling of their presence is like. What's the quality of that presence, the quality of the listening, the way your future self looks at you? It's the heart quality.

Let your future self know something that's going on in your current. life that feels difficult, maybe to do with work or relationships or how you are with yourself, just ask for guidance and just listening with an open heart available. Before leaving, you might find out if there's any message your future self wants you to leave with that will serve you right here, right here, tonight, to this weekend, in the moments of your current life. Take a moment to imagine the feeling and vision and wisdom and heart of your future self-filling you,

filling yourselves and the spaces between the cells and your heart and your mind, sensing the light and the warmth of Bodhita and the possibility of remembering and connecting with this awakened heart mind during daily life. So as you return to this moment and sense just what you're carrying with you, sense the calling and the presence and the liveliness of your evolved self, right here and now. Rumi says, sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you.

As a fish out of water hears the serfs come back. This turn towards what you deeply love saves you. This turn towards what you deeply love saves you.