Marilyn’s Soul Sessions
Last week we played a game of remembering a situation from your past and exploring what advice or other thoughts you’d share with your younger self.
How different would your life be if the younger you could have taken your advice? Is there anything about your current life that your younger self would be in awe of?
Let’s play another game today.
- Imagine that you live to 100 and are happy and healthy. You have countless memories that fill you with joy and love as you look back on your life. You know that when the end comes, that version of you will face it at peace because it was a life well lived.
- What advice does the older version of you have for your current self?
- What are three major differences between your future and current self? Are there things you can start doing today that will close the gap on those differences?
- If the older version of you has any regrets, what can you do now to prevent them from developing?
- Do you love the 100-year-old you? Why or why not?
Why are games like this important?
When you find yourself in transitional moments of life—facing a big career change, dealing with the death of a loved one, realizing that you want to follow a dream but not even knowing where to start, etc.—things can feel intense. You want to make the right choice.
But life isn’t like that. There isn’t one right choice. If you can play a game like we did this and last week, it lets you relax and realize that even if some of your choices aren’t ideal, you survive, you move forward, you get to keep making choices, and you’ll still feel love, meaning, joy, and happiness.
If you can change your perspective and have some empathy for yourself and what you’re going through, you’ll see that you actually do know what you want and that you already have some internal wisdom about how to get it. or move toward it.
Even saints have moments of doubt.
No one gets through this life without facing doubt. Even saints have it, but they also have trust that things can get better. They know they’re loved, supported, and cared for in a way that will get them through the tough times and into better experiences. They won’t be abandoned for making a “bad” choice. And neither will you.
Take a breath, anchor your trust to a happy future (or an already successful version of you), and then take a step toward it. It might feel ridiculously scary, but it’s simple. Breathe, anchor (or re-anchor) your trust, and move forward. Repeat.
Weekly Wisdom: “Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.” ~Sterling K. Brown
XO,
Marilyn
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