11:11 ~ Starting From Scratch

Join me in exploring what it would be like to create your life anew, starting from scratch, by discovering what is essential and remembering what is elemental. We begin with a poetic series of questions and then slip right into a guided visualization to provide fuel for further exploration while soothing your nerves and bringing you back to center. This recording offers the encouragement we need to re-imagine our lives being intentionally assembled from a place of love and connection.

Transcript

Hello loves,

I'm Riza and I'm here to bring you an 11-11 meditation and teaching.

Today we're going to talk about starting from scratch.

So this is an inquiry that was brought to me by my counsel this morning and I wanted to share my writing about it,

Ask you to consider these questions for yourself and then we're going to slip right into a meditation where we will explore these topics on our own.

Starting from scratch.

Discovering something essential and remembering something elemental.

If you could start from scratch with how your life,

Community,

Family,

Vocation and growth work could look,

What would it be?

What elements and essential activities would it contain?

How would it feel different coming from a place of abundance and grace,

Creativity and choice rather than a place of scarcity,

Need,

Fear and chaos?

Can we still have the appropriate and necessary levels of urgency,

Drive,

Consistency and effort required for the task of building something new if it's not coming through fear but rather from love?

Those are the questions that I have and I'm holding dear to my heart today and I would love to explore this with you.

So this idea that we can make something new,

This idea that if we could just scratch everything in our life and just build up from these elemental pieces,

What would our life look like?

What would we be doing on a daily basis?

How would we engage with our friends,

With our family,

With our own personal growth work?

How would we work?

How would we add our efforts to the wheel of community and society?

What would our vocation be?

Remembering that our sacred purpose,

Our soul purpose and our vocation don't need to be the same thing.

Our soul purpose and sacred purpose here can be worked through and should be worked through every moment of our life as much as possible in whatever it is we find ourselves doing.

And the idea that we could create that now,

That we could do that now even if there isn't an urgent need in our lives,

Even if our lives aren't completely falling apart,

Which for some of us they are.

And for some of us we're being squeezed so tightly that we are being urged into a new level of remembrance,

A new level of discovery,

A new level of creation.

But I wonder,

Could we create without catastrophe?

Could we create from a place not of chaos and fear and squeeze,

But could we actually preemptively create from a place of joy and wisdom and abundance?

Abundant possibilities,

Right?

Not necessarily abundance and resources,

But abundance and possibilities,

Which is a form of abundance that we can cultivate internally with our mindset and our perspective.

So with that thought in mind,

We're going to sink into a meditation.

I'm going to ring our bell and we're going to just settle into our bodies and explore this idea.

I invite you to close your eyes and settle into your body.

Take a deep breath in and allowing that exhale to move you all the way down from your shoulders to your back,

To your belly,

To your hips.

Let's do that again.

And placing a sense of presence or your hand on your heart.

Just pull your energy back into your back body,

Back into the moment,

Into this present time and place,

Into alignment with a sense of patience,

A sense of grace,

A sense of healthy self-regard.

Let your chin dip down just a little bit towards your heart and bring your energy into a place of gentle embrace.

Acknowledging and remembering something elemental,

As that quote said at the beginning,

That quote was from Christa Tippett,

Discovering something essential and remembering something elemental.

So remembering now something elemental,

Which is that which is true,

The four sacred elements of life that hold us here to this planet,

That nurture our lives here,

Air,

Fire,

Earth,

And water.

Our breath,

Our shelter,

Our nourishment,

And our satiation coming through our dreams,

Our memories,

Our emotions,

Our felt life.

And this fifth essential being,

Which is our inner self,

Our inner worlds,

Our heart,

Our consciousness,

That which is not visible but strongly felt.

So holding this all inside of you and around you.

Letting the chaotic nature,

The rushed,

Urgent nature of life begin to melt away,

Begin to reveal itself as a mere illusion,

A choice,

A construction that we have created and that we are living inside of just for this moment,

Allow it to melt away and allow yourself to feel present in a blank space,

A great white nothingness,

A space of infinite possibility and as of yet no form,

A blank canvas.

What is essential to you?

What relationships are essential?

Begin there.

Begin by bringing in the essential relationships,

Your primary partnerships,

Your relationships to your children,

Your parents,

Your close friends,

Your animal companions and allies.

This is your inner circle and your circle ripples out many,

Many times,

A great distance to all the people who touch your lives,

All the people who are woven into the fabric.

But right now we're just focusing on this innermost circle of the essential beings in your life,

Your essential connections.

And now drawing in from this nothingness,

The essential activities,

The things that you do in your day or would like to do in your day that feel essential to you,

That feel nourishing,

Life enhancing,

Supportive.

You might start with simply the water that you drink,

The food that you eat and share,

The spaces,

The physical spaces outside of you that you nourish and are nourished by,

That you protect and clean and are protected by,

As well as the internal spaces that you cultivate,

That you tend.

How do you tend them?

Do you allow yourself the space,

The time to matter,

To tend this internal landscape?

Do you allow yourself time to rest?

Rest is also essential.

Time to dream.

Time to imagine.

So now in this space that was once a blank canvas,

An empty space of possibilities,

You have populated this space now with your innermost circle of belonging,

Your innermost circle of relationship.

You have populated this space with essential activities of nourishment and care.

And now to the work that you do,

The ways that you contribute to society,

To family,

To community,

How does that happen?

When does that happen?

Is there a shift that's needed here?

So lastly,

I'd like to invite you to imagine a rhythm.

Imagine all of these elements woven together in an environment on earth and woven together with your sacred purpose,

Your way of being.

Your sacred purpose isn't necessarily your vocation,

But it can be contained within every part of life.

Perhaps your sacred purpose is to create safe spaces.

Perhaps your sacred purpose is to ignite realization.

Perhaps your sacred purpose is simply to nurture and to care,

To express compassion for others and for yourself.

Let that be the thread that connects all of these elements that you've called forth.

And now let's imagine how these could fit into life.

So let's just take yourself through your ideal day from when your eyes pop up and open and you witness the environment,

The shelter that you are inhabiting.

You notice your deep connection to your space,

A feeling of safety,

An expression of beauty and functionality,

A sense of connection.

Your space expresses you in some way.

And notice how you wake up,

How you care for those other beings that may be in your home with you.

Notice how you move through your day,

How you eat what you eat,

How you nourish your environment and are nourished by your environment,

How you work and contribute to work and feel the feelings.

Not just witnessing the activity,

But feel the feelings of joy,

The feelings of satiation,

The feelings of grounded purpose.

The feeling of an open heart,

The feeling of resilience and ability to witness yourself and others,

Your ability to respond appropriately in times of crisis.

Going through your day,

Feeling that rhythm like your own unique drum beat that works in harmony with your environment.

And imagine the feeling of going to bed again,

Relaxed and ready,

Feeling a sense of optimism and hope about the coming night and coming day and a sense of deep,

Deep gratitude for the day that you have just lived.

Bring a gentle smile to your lips and a gentle smile to your heart and give this whole feeling,

This whole life day that you have lived,

Give it a color and perhaps even a scent or a flavor and come to hold that in your hands.

Hold it as a little orb in your hands and increase it.

Give it a little friction,

A little rubbing back and forth and grow that orb a little bit bigger and place our earth inside that orb,

Imagining all the life on this planet and the life of the planet itself.

And imagine all the collective of humans all over the planet like little dots of light.

And we're going to simply squeeze the planet,

Hug the planet with this feeling of satiation,

This feeling of creative expression and a life well lived.

This ability to create from the sense of love and optimism rather than a sense of fear.

And we're going to just squeeze that into the earth and scoop that into your heart.

Hold that as an intention for yourself and for all others,

That we may have a taste of that,

That we may feel inspired by that and move towards preemptively recreating our lives and our earth one day at a time,

One choice at a time,

One liberation at a time.

And thank you for joining me.

Until next time,

This is RZA with Full Awakening and I hope you have a beautiful,

Beautiful day.