Preparing to Cross Over Life's Thresholds

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Thresholds appear many times a day. Thresholds are not only something major in our lives, they happen every time we make a decision to open our mouths. A threshold is the conscious difference between here and there, and every moment we create ourselves anew, and certainly when we cross a major threshold like getting married or getting a new job or welcoming a new being into our family, We have to prepare for that. And so I'd like to offer right now to take you into the preparation arena for the next time you find yourself at a threshold.

So here we go.

There you are, living your life, walking along, just doing what feels natural. And in times of stress, what feels natural sometimes feels awkward, wrong or totally inadequate, and sometimes we don't know that we are allowed to stop and just say, "Wait a minute."

So now let's just say to ourselves, right in this moment, whenever you're watching this, "Wait a moment.

I deserve to stop and collect myself before I go forward over this threshold," and we're going to do that.

Maybe you want to close your eyes or look at something that makes you feel good, or that gives you hope. And maybe that means closing your eyes and conjuring a memory or a sound, conjuring not something visual, perhaps, but a feeling to be in that feeling of “Okay, I can pause. I can try something new. Here I am in a moment of hesitation that is strategic. I have not been startled into hesitating on a journey, hesitating as one foot stopped in midair, I am hesitating before committing myself to my next step, because my next step takes me over a threshold, and when I have crossed that threshold, I am somebody new. I am somebody with more confidence.

“I am somebody prepared to take in what is happening around me and know that the chaos that I will find does not define me, nor does it require that I answer chaotically or that I pull up some magic from within me that I don't think I have.

“I step over this threshold knowing that I allow myself to pause for as long as it takes to gather myself together, to notice before I cross, what is it I am crossing into with whom am I making this journey, if anyone at all.”

Do we need to change positions?

Do we need to turn to each other and wish each other well.

Do we need to cross separately in our own best times across this threshold?

And think about your hands, how we rub our hands together, and we feel the warmth, the heat, how we feel our own energy, how we are knowing that we are alive, when we feel Our energy, when we know that we are here.

Think of the blessing positions: this one or that one or this one, but especially the blessing position in which we broadcast with our open hands out in front of us the blessings we wish for ourselves and others, that those blessings may precede us into the space into which we are about to walk.

So think of the blessings you want to make for yourself on the other side of that threshold, and maybe for the others who are already there or who will follow you, the blessing of peace, the blessing of intelligent capacity, the blessing of knowing what words to say in the moment they need to be said, the blessing of enough energy to do whatever it is we're doing. On the other side of that threshold, see that energy flowing from your hands forward into your future, or hear it as a rushing river or a beautiful band marching playing a song that makes your heart sing and see yourself or imagine how it will feel to cross the threshold prepared, even if you know that you can't possibly prepare for everything.

We can't possibly prepare for everything, but we can give ourselves the grace of allowing ourselves to pause before making the step. And also, we can allow ourselves to open our vision so that we see the threshold moments in front of us, so that we recognize, “Oh, this is an important moment. Hold on. Let me pause before I rush through it.”

I wish you all of the joy possible and then some. I wish you great abundance of every good thing you want in your life, and I wish you a successful crossing of every threshold that is yours to cross .