What might happen if you try this?

How a visualisation a few years back led me to sitting exactly where I am right now. Back in London.

A couple of years ago, I was at a crossroads in my life.

We were still in the pandemic, I was fed up with living near a stinky polluted road, I was thinking ahead - as mothers often do - and I realised it was time to move.

The area we were living in was meant to be a temporary stopover but I’d become pregnant and a year or two had stretched to seven.

Now, I wanted to move to a place where there were schools that would suit all of my three children, up to the age of 18.

And so we started looking in north London, where I was born and raised.

We found a house. It was a wreck. We made an offer. But it didn’t come together, for various reasons.

Meanwhile, we started having conversations about leaving London and trying life in the countryside, in Somerset (where my husband is from).

It felt exciting, but also scary. Was now the time to leave London? Would the school situation be better in Somerset? Did I want to move away from my family and friends?

We got swept up in a tornado of exploration and house viewings and suddenly, we were moving to Frome, a small Somerset town.

We’d lived there before, for a year, a decade previously. So it wasn’t completely unknown. But life back then was very different, as it was pre-children.

I wondered how easy it would be to make new friends. To get the kids into a local school. To find work. And to get back to London, for visits.

One afternoon, sat at home in London on my own, I found myself doing a guided visualisation that would take me to meet my future self.

As I followed the directions, I could see two versions of myself:

1. In Frome, on the edge of countryside, with roses growing up the front door.

2. In London, in a lovely area, with a wide garden and country-style kitchen.

I went with the latter. It wasn’t a conscious choice, it’s just where I was led. I dreamed my way into the London life and thought about who I’d be, in this version.

What I was wearing, who I was around, how life felt.

I went deep.

And then we moved to Frome.

I had a big panic before leaving London, and several more panics while there.

It was nourishing, to be out of London. The air fresher; the grass greener. But also lonely, at first, and I felt like I was so far from everything and everyone I knew.

In time, I made friends and it was those friendships that carried me through the next two years.

But eventually, for various reasons - listed here - it was time to return to London. And so in January, I moved back.

It wasn’t until today, while thinking about the power of guided meditation and visualisation, that I remembered that past vision I’d had.

And realised that I’m a large part of my way to that being my reality.

I felt a deep sense of satisfaction to have been on this journey - this adventure - but to now be settling back into life in London.

I don’t yet have a home here. And when I do, I’m not sure how similar it will be to the vision I had. But I’ve realised that doesn’t matter.

What matters is that I’m in the right place.

Guided meditation can take us to our subconscious mind and help us to unlock what we really want - in love, life, work.

But it doesn’t always happen straight away. Sometimes, there’s a wait. Sometimes, there’s another plan first. Sometimes, there’s an important lesson to learn.

If you’re curious about guided meditation and meeting your past, present and future selves, you might like my new course The Creative Way (to build your confidence).

We’ll be going on some journeys, together. But it’s all online, access in your own time. So you can be at home, or on holiday, dreaming about the future with me guiding you.

It’s powerful stuff.

Annie x