Unstoppable Confidence (Meditation/Visualization For Growth)

Good morning and welcome to the artist morning.

My name is Darius and I'm very excited to share this meditation with you.

This might be a little challenging for some of you.

But if you're open to it,

What's available to you with this meditation is an opportunity to build unstoppable confidence,

Unstoppable belief in yourself,

Your abilities and your dreams.

Now the path to unstoppable confidence is to initially acknowledge that unstoppable confidence is not perfect confidence.

It doesn't mean you are always confident because that's not a real thing.

For me,

Unstoppable confidence is developed in the moments where things do not go the way we had expected.

And that's where we will focus.

I will guide you through some visualizations where a vision,

An idea,

A creation of yours did not go exactly how you had expected.

And in this place,

This tender place,

We will practice keeping our hearts open,

Keeping our spines tall,

Keeping our vision clear and building unstoppable confidence.

If you are ready to go on this journey with me,

I'd like to invite you to close your eyes now as we go inwards together.

Let's begin by connecting with our hearts.

I want you to bring your attention to the left part of your heart.

Notice if there's any sensations that are a little different on this left side of your heart.

Maybe it feels exactly like the rest of your heart or maybe there's a little tingliness,

A little like electricity in this left part.

Let's take a breath into our hearts.

Bring our attention to the right side of our heart.

Does it feel any different?

Now to the back of our heart.

And finally to the front of our heart.

Maybe all sides feel exactly the same to you and maybe you are very sensitive and you can notice minor differences.

And as you take a deep breath into your heart,

Noticing if your heart feels any different and we bring attention and breath and care and love to our hearts.

And finally,

If you're open to it,

Place one or two hands on your heart.

Continue breathing into your heart and just notice if that touch,

That support has any impact on your heart.

Thank you.

Thank you,

Beautiful heart for everything you do.

Thank you for being here from the very beginning to the very end.

Thank you for how much you care.

Thank you for how much you dream.

Thank you,

Dear heart.

You can place your hands back down on your lap or if you want to leave them in your heart,

You can do that too.

Now that we've activated our hearts and we're a bit more attuned to our hearts,

We're going to go in and find a longing.

There's something in your heart that wants to be expressed.

A creation of some sort.

Don't overthink it.

Maybe it's an event,

It's a business,

It's a song,

It's a book,

It's a course,

It's a home,

It's a relationship.

Take a moment to find that one thing and remember you can come back to this meditation in the future and pick a different thing.

Maybe a few things float to the surface and one floats a little higher.

Go with that thing.

Whatever your creation is,

There's probably something that gives you joy,

Something that excites you,

Something about sharing this gift,

This creation,

This expression with the world.

It's good to acknowledge that we are excited.

However much you can feel your excitement,

Whether it's 100% or 1%,

It's wonderful.

Imagining lives that can be impacted by this creation,

Imagining how great it could feel to express this creation and bring it to life.

Imagining smiling faces who are experiencing this creation,

Looking at you,

Acknowledging you,

Celebrating you.

And if your heart gets a little nervous here,

Starts to close down,

Let's practice opening our hearts to receive the love,

Receive the joy.

Playing in that feeling where everything is just going right,

Everything is flowing effortlessly.

To be really great at anything,

It requires consistent practice.

Many of us practice thinking about what can go wrong a lot.

I do it too.

For this first part of the meditation,

I wanted us to go on a little practice journey of what could go right.

How could I bless people's lives with my creation?

How could my life get blessed?

Now for the second part of the meditation,

This might be more challenging for you.

We're going to go temporarily and intentionally in the other direction.

That same longing,

That same creation that is longing to be expressed in the world,

Very intentionally,

Very temporarily,

We're going to explore.

If nobody came,

If nobody showed up,

If nobody signed up,

If nobody bought your thing,

If nobody celebrated your thing,

Sit in that energy just for a moment.

I know it can be difficult,

But this is where we grow.

We are not afraid of difficult.

We are not afraid of taking risks and things not going exactly how we expected.

You are stronger than you know.

You feel the impact of nobody coming.

And your spine will want to get smaller and your heart will want to close down and your gaze will want to look down and your breath will get shallow.

And we practice,

Even in these moments,

Staying strong.

These moments are opportunities to taste our greatness.

When you fall off your schedule,

When things don't go the way you expected,

Are you able to keep your heart open?

Are you able to sit and stand with a tall spine?

Are you able to bring your chin up,

Eyes straight ahead?

Are you able to soften your solar plexus,

Your chest and keep that glorious heart of yours open,

Even if it hurts?

Breathing deep and long,

Accessing confidence that you didn't even know existed.

It's easy to be confident when everything is going great.

But you,

Dear artist,

You walk with the divine.

The universe has your back.

And you have access to a level of confidence and belief that is beyond the human brain.

Even if nobody comes.

Even if nobody buys.

Even if people don't say yes immediately.

You keep showing up.

You keep going.

Accessing new levels of confidence,

New levels of belief in yourself now.

Let's take a deep breath and close that short window,

That exploration of the quote unquote worst case scenario.

We are not afraid of that.

We felt it.

And we know we are more than that worst case scenario.

More than one event,

One launch,

One attempt to ask for something.

Now that we expanded our hearts on the what can go right side and expanded our hearts on the what if it goes wrong side and on both sides,

We tapped into more confidence.

With this last song,

One more invitation and maybe this will be the easiest part for you and maybe this will be the most challenging.

I want you to step into what if it went better than I ever could have imagined?

What if I was actually so much more capable than I even knew?

Take your longing,

Take your creation and explore in that space.

I'll stay quiet and meet you at the end.

Let's take a deep breath to bring our meditation to an end.

Breathing in and letting it all go.

Bravo dear artist.

Bravo dear creator.

Greatness takes practice.

And today we practiced.

We practiced expanding our hearts and standing strong and confident with clear vision and an open heart in many situations.

I want to invite you to come back to this meditation because we need practice.

Come back as often as it serves you and take that longing in your heart and continue imagining it and continue remembering the confidence and the belief you have access to.

For those of us joining live at the artist morning,

I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and allow us to continue exploring together.

You're catching us on a replay.

Of course you can do the same for our insight timer meditators.

So put 20 minutes on your own clock and see what's here and accessible and ready to come through you.

My name is Darius.

Thank you for meditating with me and I will see you next time.