We all have a version of ourselves we secretly (or not so secretly) dream of becoming.
The one who moves with ease and confidence through the world; the one who earns the desired salary or income, whilst doing meaningful work; the one who is in love, and with their dream partner.
But there is a truth to all of this, you don’t get there simply by thinking.
You get there by becoming.
One of the simplest and most powerful tools to do that?
Writing short, intentional future self messages.
These aren’t long journal entries. They’re bite-sized moments of identity alignment. Mini messages or full messages.
Think of like text messages for your subconscious.
It’s not just woo woo, it’s a universal law
You’ve like heard of the law of attraction, the concept that like attracts like. That your thoughts and feelings help create your reality. It gets a lot of attention, but it’s just one piece of a much bigger framework, The Universal Laws.
These laws aren’t rules like “don’t run with scissors.” They are energetic principles that govern how things work, from the physical to the spiritual. Think of them as a code behind manifestation, and your Future Self messages are how you program the system.
Here how a few of the laws work in harmony when you write to your future self:
- Law of Vibration: Everything has a frequency, including your words. Writing messages from your future self emits a higher frequency, and your brain begins to match it.
- Law of Inspired Action: Desire alone doesn’t change anything. You must move. You must take action.
- The Law of Correspondence: As within, so without. What you believe internally shapes what shows up externally. These messages begin to reshape the internal landscape or rewire your subconscious.
- Law of Cause and Effect: Rather simply, that for every cause, there is an effect. The butterfly effect is a small part of this, such as a small action can have a much larger effect, altering the future.
- Law of Compensation: Simply put that again what you do affects what you get. IN other words, you get what you give, and in this context your reality is what you think about.
All of this is to say that the internal shifts don’t happen later, they happen as you embody them.
Why Short Messages Work
Your brain, specifically the Reticular Activating System (RAS) acts like a bouncer at a nighclub. It decides what information gets in and what gets filtered out based on what it believes is important.
Future Self messages act as a VIP list. You’re telling your brain: this is who I am now. It starts scanning your environment to prove you right.
The secret is that it doesn’t always take paragraphs of journalling, you can start with short messages. It takes a moment of energetic clarity. A spark of embodiment. That’s where the transformation beings.
How to write a future self message
It doesn’t need to be fancy or long. It just needs to feel true enough that your nervous system isn’t in full resistance and bold enough that it makes you sit up straighter.
Here are examples to try:
- You’re not trying to be her/ he/ them – you are already here. Keep going.
- The money already exists. You’re just catching up to it.
- You walk into the room and people feel the difference. It’s safe to take up space.
- This version of you doesn’t chase. She magnetises.
- Today’s rest is part of tomorrow’s abundance.
- The love you’re asking for starts with how you speak to yourself right now.
- It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else. It already makes sense to your future.
- You’ve survived every hard thing so far. That resilience is your runway.
- You’re building a life that matches your insides, not just your Instagram.
- You’re already walking through the door. The future version of you left it open.
Stick these on your mirror. Put them as prompts in your journal.
Say them before you go to sleep. Set them as reminders in your calendar.
Think of them as soul pings from the version of you who already exists, jut further along the timeline. Because the more often you hear from you in the future. The more clearly you become the future you.
Write your letter today