Part 4.

Tonight I went to a level 3 (challenging for me) yoga class. Toward the end, as I lay in crocodile pose, the yoga teacher said, all that you have to do now is soften. Nothing else. Just soften. Perhaps that’s true.

I had this thought today: peace exists exactly where I am. All I have to do is be there.

We spend much of our mental-time in the past or the future. When we do, the middle exists. When we cease to relate to a past or a future, neither of which actually exists, we eliminate the middle. What’s available when we cease to relate to a middle?

My friend Shoshanna mentioned the other day that for her, the liminal space—the space in between where you were and where you will be—is a space of pure possibility. I agree. The middle can be the liminal space when we let go of our attachment to where we were (the past) and our speculation of where we might end up (the future). What’s available in a space informed by neither past nor future?

I went to my money seminar on Wednesday night, and the Landmark Forum leader said something like, you know the dash on the between your years of birth and death? That tiny little line is all you get. That’s your whole entire life. It’s short as hell. What are you going to do with it? That little dash is the middle. The middle between life and death always exists, even if you have no relationship to past or future. Who are you being and what are you doing in that middle? Who could you be and what could you do in that middle?

When we’re in the middle, there’s this breath-taking moment when we let go of what once was. It can be scary as shit. But when we let go, we invite something truly new to emerge. We invite in new versions of ourselves and our lives.

As we’re allowing something new to emerge, we can help it along by doing things differently. Even changing simple things—the order in which we dry off our body parts after a shower, the way we drive to work, or the name we call our spouse, for example—can stimulate newness in times of transition. Newness facilitates power and possibility.

Here are some questions I have for you:

• What do you want in your life that you haven’t yet gone after? When are you going to go after it?
• What are you willing to embrace in your life right now that you’ve thus far been resisting?
• How can I be of service to you? What kind of service does our world most need?
• What would our world be like if we all softened and let go of what was? What would happen if we truly created from the space of the unknown?

In love and liminality,

Annie Rose