Guided Meditation
The world you wish for
We spend most of our lives being sensible. We take the world as we're told it is — its limits, its trade-offs, the long list of reasons things can't really change — and, almost without noticing, we trim our hopes down to fit inside it.
This is a short meditation for setting all of that down. For six minutes or so, you're invited to imagine as though none of those limits were binding: to walk through a door into the world exactly as you'd wish it to be, and to notice how it feels to stand there. Not the world you think you're allowed to want — the one you'd choose if anything at all were possible.
What would you dare to hope for, if you knew there were no limits?
Before you begin
- Find somewhere quiet where you won't be interrupted for ten minutes or so.
- Sit or lie down, somewhere comfortable. Headphones make it easier to sink in, but they're not essential.
- There's nothing to get right. Let my voice lead, and let whatever comes, come — even if it surprises you.
Press play when you're ready
The recording runs about six minutes, in my own voice. Woven quietly underneath it are two tones: a 528 Hz frequency often associated with the heart, and a 7.83 Hz pulse — the Schumann resonance, the faint electromagnetic heartbeat of the Earth itself.