Good morning,
And welcome to the artist's morning.
My name is Darius,
And I am so grateful that you and I get this time together.
Let's begin our practice.
If your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now.
As we begin to go inwards together.
Nice and slow,
Taking a few deep breaths.
Breathing all the way down to your feet.
Allowing new energy to come in through your inhale.
And making some noise with your exhales.
As a moment to let the universe know.
That your voice is allowed to take up space.
You are allowed to take up space.
And let's practice together,
Breathing in all the way down to your feet.
You Big exhale with some noise.
I am allowed to take up space.
My voice matters.
I matter.
Sitting with the tall gentle spine feet grounded and rooted into the floor and earth heart open,
Voice open,
Vision open.
Crown open and ready to receive.
Today we're gonna go on a little journey.
Through what I call the four levels of creator consciousness.
I'm going to tell you the levels now.
You will go into your headspace because there's information.
And then we will let go of everything I just shared and go on a heart journey together.
The four levels are.
.
.
Happening to me?
Happening for me?
Happening by me.
Happening through me.
Now you don't need to understand all the details here,
Because this is a meditation.
But intellectually,
You can probably somewhat understand those four levels.
All of us experience all for.
All of us experience all four.
Let's start at the base.
That feeling when we feel like the whole world is happening to us.
Our family,
Our friends,
Our co-workers,
Our boss,
Our government,
The weather.
It's all happening to us.
There's a comfort because it's not in our power.
We're gonna leave this level quickly.
Just stay there for a moment.
Happening to me.
Why me?
Path forward to the next level.
Is when we can get one inch of separation from that story.
The happening to me story.
And we start to see.
Maybe it's not happening to me.
Maybe it's happening for me,
Maybe even the hardest parts of my life.
There's some sort of gift here.
And you can't fully logically get it,
But you start to see that there's some source beyond you.
That is guiding you.
That is supporting you,
That believes in you.
It might be fleeting,
It might be just for a second or a flash.
But you leave that victim perspective of happening to me and you start to believe.
Can you feel that in your body?
Even 1%,
Even 0.
001%.
Can shift your perspective and change everything.
Take a deep breath here.
Big exhale out.
Wow!
Give all of it.
All the hard parts were happening for me.
Wow!
What would that mean if something beyond me?
Believed in me so much.
That they gave me gifts even in the hardest parts of my life.
Just let that.
.
.
Possibility work its way through you.
That one millimeter shift in perspective can change everything.
Continue breathing.
Continue imagining the possibility of a benevolent,
Wise Universe believing in you.
Guiding you.
Loving and supporting you.
Happening for me.
Happening for me.
Take a nice deep breath here.
No.
This shift,
This evolution from the first level.
Of happening to me.
To the second level.
Of happening for me is massive.
And You don't need to go there.
There's deep comfort in the first level.
It's the lowest level of power and creativity and the highest level of comfort.
Because we give all of our power away.
And if you'd like to keep going,
There's two more levels.
So take a nice deep breath here.
Imagining playing with me that we are in the second level.
Starts to shift everything.
If there is.
.
.
A benevolent,
Wise source outside of ourselves that believes in us.
That gives us energy and drive.
To start believing in our own selves.
That energy and drive.
Can become action as we step into the third level.
Happening by me.
There is great power here.
There is great agency here.
We take the energy from the second level that is the universe believes in me.
And we convert it into action.
I believe in me.
I'm going to take action.
I'm going to start writing.
I'm going to start creating.
I'm gonna start connecting with people.
I believe in myself.
Happening by me.
If there's something I want different in the world,
I'm going to take action.
If there's something I wish existed in the world and currently doesn't,
I'm going to create it.
If there is a problem in the world.
I'm going to actively Participate in creating a solution.
Feel the power in this third level.
Maybe you sit differently,
Maybe your chest is open.
Maybe you breathe differently,
Feel your power.
Happening by me.
Even if you can feel it 2%,
3%,
It's powerful.
Even if your mind tells you you can't do this,
Remember we are playing.
We are practicing.
We've moved from happening to me to happening for me.
To happening.
Buy me.
Are you ready?
For the fourth level.
Are you ready for the fourth level,
Dear one?
The fourth level can be challenging to get to because There is a gate full of paradox.
We've worked so hard.
We've created things.
And to get to the fourth level.
We let go.
To get to the fourth level we let go,
We soften,
We rest.
And we acknowledge.
That none of it is ours.
We are not interested in recognition.
We are not interested in claiming our work.
None of it is ours.
It's never been ours.
We are a vessel.
And something incredible is working through us.
We let go.
Through us,
We soften.
Through us.
We dance with the infinite.
This is our last song.
I'm going to leave some space for you to open your channels.
Gonna leave some space for you to open your channels and taste.
And feel and dance.
With the infinite.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo dear creator,
You made it to the end of this meditation and for that I am so grateful.
I realize this was a bit of a different type of meditation,
Taking us through a journey that had some intellectual pieces,
But hopefully you got to feel the four levels,
Even a teeny tiny bit.
For those people that are joining us live here this morning,
I'm going to put 20 minutes on the clock and share a journal prompt connected to our meditation today to help us continue the exploration operation.
And of course,
If you're catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on Insight Timer,
You can do the same.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius and I will see you next time.