For many years now, I’ve helped people in therapy and in workshops connect with their optimal future self. This is the part of us that has already achieved what we seek to achieve, healed what we seek to heal, taken the steps we’ve held ourselves back from taking. My own journey has been deeply affected by connecting with optimal future selves over the years, and I have a pretty deep conviction that I wouldn’t be the person I am living the life I live had I not invited the best in me to come into and move my life forward from the inside out.

A key thing about connecting with this part of ourselves is that the future self isn’t a conscious construct. Rather, we connect with this part of ourselves by being willing to have the best in us emerge, even when we’re afraid of what that will mean or where that will take us. It’s a matter of trusting that fundamental place in our mind-body being that opens us to the best we can be – and that there *is* a “best we can be” in us.

I know that, for me, fear has always been the roadblock I encounter along the way – fear of what will happen if I take steps forward, fear of what I may lose along the way, fear of what other people will think. Thankfully, these fears are much diminished these days, but many years ago they determined much of what I would and wouldn’t allow myself to do. Discovering my future self changed all that, and allowed me to find a way to say “yes” in spite of my fears.

Since I first experienced an optimal future self in 1981, I have had many experience of many emerging future selves, each inviting me into a new step along the way. Over these years, I’ve noticed that the factor that seems to be the most important has been my willingness to say “yes” to becoming the best I can be. And so, I invite you to play with saying “yes” to the best in you.

And so, for this week’s experiment, how would it be if you began each day with the thought that there is in you a blueprint already in existence that encompasses the best you can be at each stage in your life? And, how would it be if you didn’t have to know anything at all about the specifics of this blueprint or even of your own potential? How would it be for you to be willing simply to say “yes” to allowing the best in your to emerge in and through your life?

There’s nothing else to do with this experiment. That’s it – just to be willing to say “yes” to the best in you. There’s no need for content, no need for images, no need for anything but a deeply felt-sense, bodily experience of saying “yes”, with the intention that you are inviting your optimal self-expression to come into being in new ways. The intention is that you’re saying “yes” to moving beyond what may have been holding you back, even if you have no idea at all, consciously, of how that can happen. Take time to notice the sensations you experience in your body when you say “yes”.

This experiment is kind of like a trust walk. You create the intention to be willing to follow something you can’t see with the assumption that the best and most positive aspects in and of you also generates the best and most positive things *for* you.