thresholds
We cross small thresholds continually, consciously and unconsciously, before we begin new projects, when we are presented with unfamiliar opportunities, or when we encounter new relationships.
Every so often we find ourselves at a threshold that seems quite daunting, where we become aware we are being ushered into a whole new reality. We find ourselves in liminal space, that in-between, the place of not knowing how things will turn out.
I feel as though I am crossing a new threshold as I write this letter. Just a few weeks ago was the anniversary of a major life shift, a job loss that was deeply painful, and disorienting. This past year has been for me, one long experience of liminal space, a questioning of where my work would take its next form, and how I would find meaning in it. I would need to learn again, to make friends with my grief, really feel the pain and the loss. To acknowledge that I had been forever changed by this experience. I would experiment with different opportunities, and delve into understanding my gifts and capacities. I felt all the feelings; confusion, fear, anger, shame, depression.
I would spend time listening to that still small voice. This threshold year was practice for me learning to trust my intuition, and confidently share the gifts that I have with the world. As I listened to my own heart, its beating got louder and clearer.
I think often, like in this example, the threshold isn’t chosen by us. We are somehow dropped into a different reality, and we can feel a little lost. We might feel those waves of fear, but deep down we also know we can’t abandon the call we are feeling toward something new.
Our practice in threshold time is to stay present to ourselves. To learn to listen to our own voice. To learn to listen to Spirit, or Mystery and how we may be guided or attuned to something bigger.
Where are you standing today?
Has the pandemic been a catalyst for a threshold experience for you?
Are you standing on the precipice, a threshold of initiation, ready to cross into a new opportunity?
This may call for some growing pains, some experience of loss.
What aspects might need to let go of?
Don’t resist those difficult feelings, let’s explore them, and what they might teach you.
It may require you to leave behind the old you because a new adventure is calling
