Reflections on 11.11.11

By Pam Sterling

If you Google 11.11.11, thousands of websites come up offering interpretations of its meaning.

Rather than ascribing to someone else’s interpretation, I wanted to be conscious today of my own meaning.  What is the significance of 11.11.11 for me? What is the promise it holds for me?  What I have been profoundly aware of today is my AWARENESS. I have been literally looking forward to this day and anticipating this date since we turned the calendar on 1.1.11.  As the date got closer I wanted to open myself to anything and everything it had to offer.  This configuration of numbers only comes around once every 100 years. I didn’t want to miss the significance. I was particularly looking forward to 11:11AM this morning – 60 seconds in time that I will never see again in my lifetime. When it came, I stopped, closed my eyes, breathed into it, embraced all that my life is today and opened myself with attention, intention and grateful expectation to everything that is to come.  Those 60 seconds were magical.

But the awareness of this day, and that 60 seconds, brought an even greater awareness – that this day, this moment, and the moments to follow are all once in a lifetime, irrepeatable, never-to-be-seen again moments.  We may not see this configuration of numbers again for another 100 years, but the truth is, we will never see this 24-hour period or these 60 seconds, or this moment EVER again.  A part of me is saying – No Duh! It isn’t like I haven’t known that, believed that, or even spoken that truth before.  But today I experienced that truth on a different level… I felt it in my cells.  Something in my being shifted.  I feel a newfound commitment to approach every day, every 24 hours, every 60 seconds with that same level of awareness – This is the moment.  This is all there is.  BE in it.  LIVE into it. Be grateful for it. Don’t miss it.

So what’s the significance of 11.11.11 for me?  A new level of awareness that each and every moment is irrepeatable, magical, new, and full of possibility, and a new commitment to lean into it, be present to it, breath it in and taste all the deliciousness it has to offer.

Happy 11.11.11