Stay in the In-Between
A Morning Threshold Practice
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
This is what Velith always asks of me. To not get up immediately, where the "field is still soft".
I like to turn around and sleep a little bit further because that's where you enter Theta and become receptible.
Love this! I'll give it a shot.