217 : Meditation : Visualizing Your Ideal Future

This guided meditation was recorded live inside the Mindful FIRE Legends community. Adam Coelho first helps you settle into the present moment with the breath, then guides you through a powerful visualization of your ideal future, five years from now, where work is optional and you have the freedom to choose how you spend your days.

In this meditation, you’ll:

• Settle your mind and body with a calm, steady breath practice
• Notice what’s present with kind, curious awareness
• Visualize your “work-optional” future and the life you’re building toward
• Get clear on what you want your days to feel like, who you want to be with, and what lights you up
• Close by bringing the vision back with you as a living, evolving direction

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These guided meditations happen inside the Mindful FIRE Legends community, alongside people on the path to financial independence who are connecting, supporting each other, and building this life together.

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🔥 WHO I'm creating this for:

I'm creating this for YOU if you are feeling stuck & frustrated after saving and investing for years to create "financial freedom" only to find yourself:

• Unclear or unsure about what you want
• Overwhelmed by all the options created by financial freedom
• Not sure how to move forward to start living the next chapter of your life

🔥 WHAT we'll do together over 10 weeks:

In this small group coaching program, you will:

• Finally answer "What do I actually want?"
• Come up with a BIG vision for your next chapter of life
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Transcript

Speaker 2: 1:16

Welcome to the Mindful Fire Podcast, a show about crafting a life you love and making work optional using the tools of mindfulness, envisioning, and financial independence. I'm your host, Adam Quail, and I'm so glad you're. Each episode of the Mindful Fire Podcast explores these three tools through teachings, guided meditations, and inspiring interviews with people actually living them to craft a life they love. If you're ready to start your Mindful Fire journey, go to mindful fire.org/start and download my free envisioning guide in just 10 minutes. This guide will help you craft a clear and inspiring vision for your life. Again, you can download it for free@mindfulfire.org slash start. Let's jump into today's. Episode.

Adam Coelho: 2:18

Welcome to this guided meditation. This meditation was recorded at the Mindful Fire Legends community, a community of people on the path to fire, connecting, supporting, and encouraging each other along the path. And today we're gonna be doing a guided meditation that helps you first settle your mind and come into this present moment, and then we'll shift into visualizing our ideal future. And so, if you'd like to join one of these meditations in the future, you can go to mindful fire.org/join and join us here in the community the Mindful Fire Legends community. But let's begin by finding a position that allows you to be both alert and relaxed at the same time. And so finding a position with a tall, straight back, resting your hands, wherever's comfortable. You can gently close your eyes and just begin with three deep breaths, in and out, and on your third exhale, just check in with yourself, notice in your body and in your mind how you're arriving here right now. Often our bodies are in one place, but our mind somewhere else entirely, and so just using this moment to sync up. Check in, noticing what it feels like in your body, any areas of tension or tightness or areas that feel relaxed and good. Not judging, just observing with a kind, curious awareness of mindfulness right now in my body. It's like this. No need to even put words to it. Just observe. And extending that kind, curious awareness to your mind as well. Noticing in your mind if it's busy or calm, tense or relaxed. And again, simply observing with a kind, curious awareness of mindfulness right now, in my mind, it's like this. And when you're ready, bringing your attention to wherever you feel the breath most vividly in your body. Perhaps at the belly or the chest, expanding and contracting or at the nose or the mouth, where the air is coming in and going out. Wherever you feel it. Just rest your awareness there. Aware, as you breathe in, aware, as you breathe out, nowhere to go, nothing to do just this. Just this in breath, just this out breath, and whenever you notice that your mind is drifted off, no problem. Just noticing what's on your mind with that kind, curious awareness, and then gently choose to come back to the breath and begin again. Each in breath is a new beginning. Each out breath, a chance to let go and to relax more and more into this present moment. And now that we've allowed our mind to settle a little bit to whatever degree that has happened, let's shift gears now into. Visualization, and I want you to hold this lightly. No need to force or expect anything profound. We're just inviting this vision to come to us. It's there. You know what you want. This is just a chance to allow that to bubble up to the surface so that you can work with it. So as you sit and breathe, invite you to fast forward your life five years from now, and imagine you're sitting in that life and in this vision, I want you to. Assume a few things, whether or not that timeline matches your timeline in this vision. You are financially independent. You've accumulated wealth through years and years of saving, living below your means and investing, and you're finally there living. The life you've always dreamed and saved for work is optional and you spend days how you like to spend them. And so let's first consider and then visualize where are you visualizing the space that you're in. Visualizing the place in the world that you are, the home that you're in, or the destination if you're traveling and just seeing your surroundings, and it might be a little challenging at first. Be patient. Allow your body to relax. With each exhale, I'm just inviting these images to your mind. Visualizing. Who's there with you? Who are you surrounded by? Perhaps your family, your friends, community, people you're serving. Just seeing and feeling what that looks like, seeing the faces of the people around you. Are they smiling? Are you smiling? Noticing what it feels like in this image. Feel it in your body now as if you're there. Do you feel joy, peace, connection? Those are just some ideas, but see what you feel and you feel that now in this moment. And zooming out a little bit and seeing what does your life look like? How are you spending your days? How are you spending your energy and attention? How are you sharing your gifts? How are you investing in your health and wellbeing? Visualizing how you feel and look in your body. Having made these investments in your health and wellbeing, what are you doing for fun? What lights you up? See yourself doing the things you love, perhaps that you've always wanted to do but never had time for, but now you have time, you have time, money, and energy to pursue these things. What do they look like? And who are you doing them with? And again, how do you feel? What is the feeling tone of this life? Feel it now in your body, and as we come to the end of this visualization of our ideal life, remember, this is just the beginning. You can revisit this anytime. You can expand on it, you change your mind. It's your life. You've created the freedom to choose how you wanna spend your days. How you wanna spend your energy and attention. And so just coming back now to the breath, settling in to this in breath, this out breath, allowing this work in progress to be a work in progress. And coming back to this breath in and happening here and now. And let us finish with three deep breaths together. Breathing in. Again, in and and once more. When you're ready, opening your eyes and coming back, turning back on your video if you've turned it off. I thank you so much for your attention. Again, if you'd like to join us live, we'd love to have you in the community. You can join us in the Mindful Fire Legends community@mindfulfire.org slash join.

Speaker: 19:23

Thanks for joining me on today's episode of the Mindful Fire Podcast. If you enjoyed today's episode, I invite you to hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this. This just lets the platforms know you're getting value from the episodes and you want to be here when I release additional content. If you're ready to start your Mindful Fire journey, go to mindful fire.org/start and download my free envisioning guide in just 10 minutes. This guide will help you craft a clear and inspiring vision for your life. Again, you can download it for free@mindfulfire.org slash start. Thanks again and I'll catch you next time on the Mindful Fire Podcast.