Releasing control in the liminal space.
We will begin this mindfulness by connecting with your breath.
Settling into your mindfulness posture.
Just start becoming aware of the sensations in your body.
Focus on breathing diaphragmatically,
Allowing your abdomen to rise and fall with each inhale and exhale.
Allow each breath to expand your awareness of your body.
Noticing the sensations of your body expanding out to the top of your head,
To the tips of your fingers,
To the bottoms of your feet.
Allow your breath to slowly expand this awareness of your body.
If you notice any judgments or thoughts arising,
Acknowledge those and set them aside and return your awareness back to your breath,
Your body,
And my voice.
Today we're going to focus on the mindful process of releasing control when experiencing liminality.
We are in liminal spaces when we are in transition from what was to what is.
You may want to visualize a doorway between rooms,
A beach between land and water,
Or a chrysalis containing the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly.
To really feel and embody the meaning of this term.
As you hold an image of transformation in your mind,
Consider the liminality you are currently experiencing in your life.
What changes are you in the process of making?
Do you see yourself shifting out of an old pattern but not quite in a new one yet?
Are there comforts you have left behind and looking into an unknown path ahead?
Take note of sensations in your body as you hold the current liminality of your life in your mind's eye.
Practice non-judgment by recognizing judgments as they arise.
Label as a judgment and set aside.
Try to refrain from thinking about this liminality and into feeling the liminality.
What are these body sensations telling you?
Try not to avoid or intensify body sensations,
Just allow.
Remember that we do not think our way out of liminality.
Instead thinking may actually be one of the ways we try to exercise control over our liminality.
Liminality is the river that carries us from one shore to the next,
Moved by the force of the universe directing us toward a more aligned,
True and beautiful way of being.
Try,
Even just for this moment,
To set aside the urges to control your change process.
Set aside your thinking mind and move into your feeling body.
Notice,
Label and set aside the predicting of outcomes,
The planning,
The what-if thoughts.
Continue setting aside all of the mind's attempts to exercise control over the process.
Feel yourself slowly letting go from the branch on the shore,
One finger grip at a time.
Feel even for a moment what it is like to be carried by the river,
Not knowing where the destination is,
But knowing that you are releasing yourself into the current of the universe,
Sending you in the direction of a more true,
Beautiful and aligned way of being.
Feel yourself letting go of that branch attached to the old shore and surrendering to the flow of the river,
Carrying you to an unknown destination.
Connect with your breath in this space of releasing control over your transformation process to embody that feeling of being carried by your divine purpose.
When you notice yourself trying to exercise control over your liminal space,
Your transformation,
Remember that you can always connect with this feeling of surrender inside of you,
This feeling of freedom,
The feeling of being held and free.
You can connect with this through your breath.
You can always return to this space through the breath.
Namaste.
