What Story Are You Telling Yourself? - Guided Meditation for Financial Freedom (ep. 243)

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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 Coelho, and I'm so glad you're here. 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 mindfulfire.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 at mindfulfire.org/start. Let's jump into today's episode

Adam Coelho 1:06

As always, this meditation was recorded as part of the Mindful Fire Legends community. You can join us live at just find a position that allows you to be alert and relaxed at the same time. Sitting with a tall, straight back, but not rigid, resting your hands wherever's comfortable. You can gently close your eyes And drop into this moment with three deep breaths in and out And as you sit and breathe resting your awareness on the breath coming in And the breath going out I invite you to tune in to how you're arriving here in this moment Tuning in to what it feels like in your body Tuning in to what it feels like in your mind Noticing if your mind is busy or calm if your body is tense or relaxed. Just noticing whatever's there to be noticed with the kind, curious awareness of mindfulness Right now it's like this My mind it's like this In my body, it's like this. No need to even explain how it is, just meeting it as it is right now I invite you to once again bring your awareness to your breath coming in and going out Just resting in that awareness In this moment, there's nothing that you need to do Nowhere else you need to be. There's just this in breath And just this out breath Whenever you notice that your mind drifts off into thinking, no problem. Just meeting thinking with that same kind, curious awareness and then gently choosing to come back to the breath and beginning once again with this in breath and this out breath Over and over again, noticing and returning to the breath And one of the most powerful Things that mindfulness allows you to build in your life is just an ability to see what's happening with a little less resistance, with a little more clarity and compassion for yourself and whatever's coming up And as you continue to practice this noticing and returning, you may start to notice patterns of thought, of stories that keep coming up I often say that our minds are like a snow globe that we're constantly shaking and agitating and that practicing this type of meditation, mindfulness meditation is like setting the snow globe down on the table allowing the snow to settle so that you can see more clearly what's going on inside So in a moment, as you sit and breathe I'm going to invite you to bring to mind Your vision for life after Phi And I want you to bring this kind, curious awareness emphasis on the curiosity to what is arising, both the story of that vision and the quiet story that comes up around that vision Perhaps a excitement or a planning mindset Or perhaps some doubt Some negativity around why it's not possible Whatever is arising, just noticing and coming back to the story of the vision you have for your life of financial freedom And so sitting for a moment with the breath coming in And the breath going out Again in And as And now bringing to mind your vision for financial freedom. Just see and sit in that life allowing it to unfold in its own time and way and resting a- in awareness of both that story and the story you're telling about that story be slow going or difficult at first, but just stick with it and visualize this life that you dream of living Observing it all in a kind, curious awareness. Noticing as this vision unfolds and if you've gotten carried away, just coming back as the vision unfolds Noticing any stories that pop up meeting all of it with a kind, curious awareness. And any time you notice that you're caught in an unhelpful story Something that doesn't feel good Maybe it's doubt, maybe it's a feeling of not being ready Maybe it's a feeling of being unclear that the vision isn't fully formed Anytime on or off the cushion you notice that you're telling a story that feels negative, you can always ask yourself, "Is this useful? Is this moving me towards what I want or pulling me away from what I want?" And if it's not useful choosing to let go To release that story and allowing it to float away like a cloud in the sky. And then returning to the vision And now I invite you to let go of all of that and come back to the breath resting for a few moments in the awareness of just this in breath again Just this out breath Let us finish this practice with three deep breaths together breathing in And a half Again in And letting it go And once more in And letting it go When you're ready, opening your eyes and coming back And as always, if you'd like to join us live for a guided meditation and conversation with other people on the path to phi, you can join us at mindfullfire.org slash join. Thank you for your attention