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Repeat the MANTRA yourself aloud or silently at least 3 times or up to 5 minutes. How does it feel to speak and listen to these words? Does it feel true? How would it shape your future if it did feel true? Notice if you have any resistance to the message of the mantra. How does the meaning grow, change or expand if you play with it over time? You're invited to check in with this mantra over the next moon cycle. If needed, make refinements to the words of this mantra so that its message is nutritious, helpful and TRUE for your vision of the future.

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Choose a STORY PORTAL and write for 12 minutes. Try to keep your pen moving until the time is up and skip any judgement about your writing so you can allow what wants to flow. When the time is up, Offer yourself the gift of reading your words aloud (if you have enough privacy to do so comfortably of course, otherwise feel free to read silently). Close your story portal by thanking yourself for offering space for your inner wisdom to be expressed and witnessed.

+ What does your utopia look like? Perhaps this becomes a list, a poem or a fairy tale. Offer space for your imagination and intuition to seek wisdom from within.

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+ Your self from 5 years ago, your present self and your self from 5 years in the future are all sitting around a table. What do you have to say to each other?

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Listen to or read the poem We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future by Joy Harjo ("We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future," appeared in Harjo's book In Mad Love and War. Copyright 1990 by Joy Harjo, Wesleyan University Press.)

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Choose a STORY PORTAL and write for 12 minutes. Try to keep your pen moving until the time is up and skip any judgement about your writing so you can allow what wants to flow. When the time is up, Offer yourself the gift of reading your words aloud (if you have enough privacy to do so comfortably of course, otherwise feel free to read silently). Close your story portal by thanking yourself for offering space for your inner wisdom to be expressed and witnessed.

+ Write about “a song that hasn’t been written yet..."

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+ What happens when you “plant something like [yourself] in the wet earth”?

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+ Flow with any image in Joy Harjo's above poem that presents a doorway for your expression

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Choose a STORY PORTAL and write for 12 minutes. Try to keep your pen moving until the time is up and skip any judgement about your writing so you can allow what wants to flow. When the time is up, Offer yourself the gift of reading your words aloud (if you have enough privacy to do so comfortably of course, otherwise feel free to read silently). Close your story portal by thanking yourself for offering space for your inner wisdom to be expressed and witnessed.

+ Write the header Things I do and/or dream of doing at the top of your page. Free list whatever comes up for you in response to this header. When you are done listing, journal answers to these questions: How is what you "dream" of doing different from what you already do? Does what you "dream" of doing seem more in reach when it is mixed in the same list as what you already do?

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+ I define future self for myself by…

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Repeat the MANTRA yourself aloud or silently at least 3 times or up to 5 minutes. How does it feel to speak and listen to these words? Does it feel true? How would it shape your future if it did feel true? Notice if you have any resistance to the message of the mantra. How does the meaning grow, change or expand if you play with it over time? You're invited to check in with this mantra over the next moon cycle. If needed, make refinements to the words of this mantra so that it's message nutritious and helpful and TRUE for you as you move toward your ideal future. Journal if you feel called (scroll for related story portals).

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Choose a STORY PORTAL and write for 12 minutes. Try to keep your pen moving until the time is up and skip any judgement about your writing so you can allow what wants to flow. When the time is up, Offer yourself the gift of reading your words aloud (if you have enough privacy to do so comfortably of course, otherwise feel free to read silently). Close your story portal by thanking yourself for offering space for your inner wisdom to be expressed and witnessed.

+ Bring to mind a specific question you’ve been pondering about the future. Use any tarot/divivation card deck to draw a card for insight (click here for a free one card pull if you don’t have any decks available). In what ways does the message of the card apply to your question, your dreams or desires? Let any image on the card or line of meaning about the card speak to your intuition to inspire your journaling.

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+ What is a choice you’re weighing about the future? Flip a coin to choose between two options. Rather than feeling like you’re stuck with what the coin says, use the coin flip as a window to let your intuition speak. When you see the results, do you feel expanded? Do you feel a twinge of disappointment? How is the intuitive response you have to the flip more important, telling or useful than what chance determines?

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Listen to this 9 min somatic meditation then journal for 10 minutes about any aha moments, resistance or other insights that arose during the experience.