Answering Your Soul's Call
Releasing Labels
Dear Soul,
I have a special contemplation for you here, and an added meditation further down. This feels so dear to me that I have also recorded this writing so you may gently recline into the contemplation and truly integrate the meditation. From my heart and soul to yours…
I have been in a waiting period, listening for what is mine to do. Maybe you have also been in this space? Or perhaps, you have settled into doing what you have always done; out of not knowing your next step or purpose, or due to not clearly hearing your call. It is alright to be in any or all of these places. Be patient. Stay the course. What is most important is to not be distracted by shiny baubles, or another’s point of view. It is important to know your own.
How does one find themselves again, after becoming like a world that is enveloping? Maintain listening, patience and regularly inquiry into what brings the most meaning to your life, while also exploring how your gifts, skills and talents might serve the ‘we’ in a powerful way. That ‘WE’ may be with animals, the environment, your garden, your family, friendship circle, community, country, or globally.
All calls are valid, They each impact in profound ways through the presence brought forth by the individual. There is no lesser or greater call. Nor is there a quantity of people, or field, you are required to touch for your call to hold significance.
In truth, there is no hierarchy in service. It is ‘service’. Believing otherwise is the voice of the ego, your past, a parental figure, and society’s shadow. Do not be a victim of such oppression; which ultimately becomes self-oppression.
“Whatever call you’re hearing right now, what matters is that you answer. What matters is that you go to it.” — Ryan Holiday
When you do not feel or hear ‘the call’ — or have not anchored into what you know to be ‘your calling’ — it becomes important to have sacred, intimate, powerful, rhythmic steps toward deepening into the Self.
Today’s world offers the illusion of quick fixes, too many paths, and all manner of people, protocols, practices, and things to follow. The ego’s neediness and resistance to feeling pain or discomfort creates many reasons to follow attractive diversions.
I want to caution you. These distractions and deceptions pull focus and attention from your real teacher, true guru, and innate wisdom. I am speaking of YOU! You must begin following yourself! Access the inner guru, who holds great wisdom.
You might be thinking, ‘But, I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know what I am doing. I don’t know what direction to go. I am not sure why I am here. What is ‘mine’ to do?’
These very statements are part of your process of unfolding. And this collective conversation is what has prompted ‘the call’ I am guided to answer.
I am not here as ‘someone to follow’, but as ‘a guide who points’ in directions that can and will support you in bringing your energy back into yourself. My call is aimed at illuminating the places inside which can allow your power, your wisdom, and your truth to re-emerge.
Do you need me? Do you require what I will be sharing weekly?
No… No one really ‘needs’ anything. But, if you are distracted, chasing too many directions, or not feeling fulfilled, then it is time to simplify. Focus, and let the distractions go. These steps I will be sharing will empower your inner authority and presence, awakening more purposeful living.
Might life feel easier if you had ‘a rhythmic focus and centering practice’? How about one that you did not ‘control’? Are you open to living in the mystery? In a place of Self discovery?
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The still small voice cannot be heard beneath the loud rumblings of the ego. Nor, can it be discerned when ‘my will’ is held with greater importance than ‘Thy Will’.
But, how does one tap into that still small voice of the great power within?LIFE is your yoga. Stay on ‘your mat’. Let us engage a practice of presence together.
Today, I am inviting you to delve into a pointed contemplation and meditation on ‘Labels’, and how that impacts you.
For your still small voice to be heard, you must release ‘the labels’ you own and have become attached to. These labels affect your filters, ways of seeing, believing, and hearing. Labels form aspects of identity that perceive the world; each displaying their own inhibitions, resistance, fight, wounding, etc…
Our world has used labels as a means of understanding and categorizing people, places and things. Some labels are positive, and others negative. Certain ones are neutral. There are those which are ostracizing, or judging.
When negative or judging, the label tends to direct words, thoughts, actions and responses toward separatism, isolation or limitation. Even when identifying with positive labels, conformity and limitation can still occur by shrinking ‘pure Self’ into a box, structure or life that does not serve the expansiveness of the soul.
Simply be Life. Untouched. Natural. Organic.
When looking into the lives of many prominently recognized people, they are often seen to possess quirks and eccentricities that earn them all manner of labels from the societies they lived in; some positive and others negative.
Artists and musicians tend to be labelled loners, disruptors, troublemakers, or alternative. Yet, their willingness to live outside of the labels of ‘normal society’ have them impact the world profoundly. They bring forth unique visions or new things. Their philosophies, or ways of seeing the world, expand other’s understanding of life and the universe.
When looking at ourselves deeply, we can find the bright side to any label or characterization. We can also find the opposite. Either way, these thoughts give us great insight into what is being held within the subconscious about ourselves, our limitations, beliefs, and infinite possibility.
“People are too complicated to have simple labels.” — The Amber Spyglass
Today’s world... black/white/brown, republican/democrat, left brain/right brain, wealthy/poor, religious/spiritual, good/bad, etc... create many labels. But isn’t this how we make ourselves ‘smaller’? Could casting away identification assist us in seeing our greater magnitude? Our magnificence? Our majesty?
“The tennis ball doesn’t know how old I am. The ball doesn’t know if I am a man or a woman, or if I come from a communist country or not. Sports broke down these barriers for me.” — Martina Navratilova
Contemplate all the ways you are labeled... how others label you... how society labels you... and how you label yourself. Make a list of these. See how you unconsciously conform to these; or limit yourself because of them.
Perhaps, share this prompt with a friend, your tribe, or group for further discussion. Then, dig deeper to discover the subtle and unconscious labels that rise from the following questions, and corresponding meditation.
What labels have you bought into, that you hold as ‘negative’?
How do these labels impact your life... causing stagnancy, interference or blockages?
What ‘positive labels’ do you anchor into to empower yourself, your thoughts, words and actions?
At what point do these labels become boxes that limit you, or begin creating stagnancy in your life?
If you lived without labels, how might your joy, fulfillment, opportunities, and experience expand?
If you only knew yourself as ‘pure experience’, how differently might you embrace life, and everything that it brings?
By living as ‘pure experience’ — casting aside all labels — how might your life experience be served? How might the world be served? What greater peace could arise through this understanding?
The following meditation is designed to support a deepened integration. It will provide an experiential release of labels and expand your understanding of this contemplation.
How did the meditation feel? Were you able to connect to your infinity when unzipping? I hope the experience has provided a sense of the richness you have available within yourself.
This experience of Labels offers you a taste of what is to come through a new series of weekly contemplations and meditations. What I know to be true, is that when fully committing to, connecting with, and communing inside of Self in ways that stretch you beyond your normal ways of thinking and seeing, awakening occurs. I am excited to bring this to my member community.
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Most in the world are serving ego, allowing identity to drag the soul along by ‘my will’ based upon the need to feel significant, important or famous; or a desire for accumulation. But, this is actually based in deeply subtle lack consciousness. These pursuits are backwards, and do not create true happiness, fulfillment and abundance. Take care to not be bamboozled by the ego’s trickery of engaging in its indulgent pursuits.
The soul is not meant to serve identity and ego. The soul does not seek the glory of such trappings. Instead, identity and ego are meant to serve soul, soul purpose, and the soulful experience of human expression. In achieving this level of partnership, the natural byproduct becomes the success and abundance that truly supports life, heart and soul.
You are larger than labels or identification. You are not who you think you are. You are not what you feel; nor w hat you want. You are not illusion or real.
You are beyond your comprehension… An idea, Or, an ideal.
‘Listening’ is where I am called to assist. Humans are unconscious in many ways. And, because areas are unconscious, we cannot know them until prompted into realization.
No person is present 100% of the time. But, when having the commitment to deepen into one’s own presence is a powerful act of soul devotion and self love. Are you ready to become more present? Sacred? Soulful? Consistent?
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You likely lean into particular directions of study and exploration. However, to move beyond who you are, it is helpful to be pointed, prodded, and provoked into contemplations you might never consider. In this way, you are expanded into dimensions of ‘your unknown’ wisdom, power and presence.
My work has always been ‘devoted to the journey of the soul’, and to bring that prominence into hearts, minds and lives of others.
I am excited to show you how to stretch, breathe, and relax into a relationship with your energy, your soul and your knowing. I want to keep reminding you to remain present. Through this consistent weekly practice that encompasses a series of curated contemplations, meditations and prompts, you will be able to do just that. Let it create a foundation within you; one that is built through ‘your’ presence, ‘your’ experience, and ‘your’ wisdom. This is a practice that does not give your energy away, but instead continually builds self-sustaining power within through receptivity.
With what our world is currently experiencing, and the great potential that exists, I am excited to provide this rich, in depth study that merges human being and soul being. It will be fun, insightful and integrative. There is a marriage that must occur between ‘who we are out in the world’ and ‘who we are deep within our Being’.
I have utilized this powerful, rhythmic, contemplative practice to exponentially expand over the past three decades. I have curated and created a series of prompts, practices and pointers that touch the subtle. They support the unconscious in becoming conscious.
This membership is designed to support those who truly desire to be more conscious and present with their ‘purely Divine Self’. The contemplations and meditations are intended to intimately yoke you with life.
This weekly support series is provided to monthly or annual paying subscribers. Additionally, 11:11 Master Founders receive the bonus benefit of 11:11 Magazine’s new focused curriculum on audio, beginning with the April 2025 edition titled, Resilience.
If you have not already become a paying member subscriber — I invite you to give yourself the ‘annual’ or ‘Founding Master subscription’ and utilize this structure of powerful personal growth and weekly presence to ground within.
For those choosing the full experience, by becoming Founding Master members, 11:11 Magazine’s added curriculum compounds and accelerates growth for strengthening inner authority, enhancing well-being, empowering your life, and embodying a more soulful expression of Self.
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In Love, Of Love, With Love, As Love…
I Am SIMRAN (a Sanskrit word meaning ‘remembrance’ of the divine within)