Series: Threshold Practices
When you wake up, don’t rush to become a person.
Stay in the in-between space for as long as you can.
I saw it as an image: a woman’s head emerging from a deep pool of water, inside a cave with a low ceiling. But this image is excellent too.
You’re not fully “up” yet. Thought hasn’t taken the wheel. The world hasn’t asked for your identity, your plans, your performance.
This is a threshold.
Before the noise returns, feel-notice the data that lives here—wordless, subtle, and strangely exact. It’s fresh every time we emerge. Not yesterday’s insight. Not a recycled story. New information from the deeper layer.
You don’t have to interpret it. You don’t have to share it. You don’t even have to name it.
Just stay with it.
If you want a single question to hold in that cave, let it be this:
What is true right now—before I explain it?
Then let yourself rise slowly, carrying only what’s real.
Author’s Note: I’ve been doing this for as long as I can remember—mostly unconsciously. This morning I felt a clear nudge to name it and share it. If it’s helpful, I may offer more of these small lived-wisdom practices as they surface. — EM
These notes and guidance on what to do and particularly what to think, what to say to one self is bery helpful because when we are accustomed to prepearing stories, a new script is not intuitive. I love Joe Dispenza's morning meditations because he gives the words "i am a co-creator", etc... it's a different approach perhaps but he works with that in between later and has been tremendously helpful. And that helps me later come to a natural "Dialogue".
In that vein, if you were to share the thoughts and the words that are helpful to start the day... after that intitial listening with no meaning period it would be very valuable to me and I'm sure others. When you have shared the words you ise to dialogue that hs helped me so much!
This is SO reminiscent of something Anne Tucker said, some of which is her book “What’s Coming Next” … that we will need to be still and allow ourselves to be carried to the threshold, where we will have to decide if we are ready to enter and what to do once we do because it will be very different. But that initially we have been very still and literally lie down!!!!