Dear Ones,

Many of you said my email from last week LANDED, especially where I spoke to these threshold times that we are living in:

Today I want to invite you to feel somatically into the metaphor around living and working in "these threshold times," because I think it may give you some subtle but poignant relief and insights--and our nervous systems need tending right now!

I did this exercise myself today, and found it really powerful. Give yourself some time to work through this.

First of all, what IS a threshold?

I am not going to tell you, but I will support you towards your own discernment.

Ideally, you do this exercise by going and standing in a threshold.

You could visualize one, but these exercises are meant to be felt in your body, in all of you.

Why? Because one aspect of Work in Service to Life is healing the split that dictates that intellectual capabilities and thinking are more valuable than our other ways of knowing. Here, we are recovering our ability to be fully present to all of life and all of our available wisdoms.

The threshold can be a doorway, a place where the forest begins and field ends, or a towel you place on the floor that demarcates here and there.

Once you find yourself in the threshold, really be there, and slow down and attune to how it feels to be in this threshold.

What all information is available to you? Notice and value your full knowing of this experience.

Now, image the place behind you... and that you are leaving that place.

You may be able to come back, or not. It's not clear.
How does that shape your experience of the space time and experiences from which you are taking leave?
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Do the same exercise for the place you are moving towards...

If it will become your new reality that you live in, how does that change your experience of it?

How does the quality of your inner state shape these exercises?

Can you shift your inner state, and does something new become available?
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How will you know when it's time to move forward to the new reality?

• Will it be some energies inside you that push? or pull you?
• Or will it require external factors to activate you?
• What is all that about?

Take your time being present to all of this.

Next, close your eyes and image these three scenarios:

Again, be fully present and to see what comes alive for you in each:
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• The place ahead of you is one that feels scary (please discern how resourced you are for this and how far you want to go with this--do you need to gently feel into slightly uncomfortable scenarios? Or do you have plenty of resources and support to metabolize big fears?)
  How does that affect your experience?
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• What if that place ahead of you is delightful?
  ​How is your experience of the threshold now? ​
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• What if you cannot see what’s ahead of you? It could be anything and you have no way of knowing.
  What is activated in you?

What did you learn about what it means for you to be in a threshold?

How might this relate to these threshold times we are living in?

How does this "threshold energy"

• shape your experience of this moment in history?
• activate or restrain you from being fully present and discerning what's next for your life and work?

For me, this exercise illuminates so much of what we are living through...

• The old systems are grinding and eroding life; and for most of us, our life also depends on them. It’s pretty damn clear the dominant economy and the ways we live and work are (excuse the pun) unworkable, and tottering, and collapse is likely.
• The emerging future is not yet here, and it's wildly uncertain.
• Amidst this threshold:
  • How do we discern
    • Who we are going to be No Matter What?
    • What's our role in life and work in these threshold times?
    • How do we move towards that (or not)?
    • Who and what are our support systems and comadres in these times?

I would love to hear about your experience and reflections from this exercise!
Press reply and share, if you feel moved to do so.

In my next email, I will share with you a beautiful question that I have been meditating on as a multifaceted mantra.

It brings me alive and recenters me -- even amidst these threshold times.

My gift to you, with the aim that it may nurture you as we together shift towards Work that Serves Life.

Love, Karryn