"Liminal Space" is for me a state of betweeness - of no longer feeling certain of or attached to our prior concepts of reality, yet having no firm grasp on what is still forming to replace it. The word “liminal” comes from the Latin word limens, meaning "threshold" and at times like this the sense of waiting for a door to be opened becomes palpable.

Within this liminal space the human nervous system, being led by the limited conditioning of the mind, often goes into fear & anxiety. This makes sense from a physical and egoic perspective because our body and mind are conditioned to want to know how to survive. But ironically it is at these times, if we can relax into the present experience & pause in our tendency to scheme or plan, that the greatest unseen potentials are at work.  So to focus our attention on remaining in the present moment and discovering the undercurrent of serenity that is always available is really our best viable option. For only then does the divine universe have free reign to synchronize the "inner" and "outer" worlds.

This is also when it is such a privilege to have teachings like those of Adyashanti, Gangaji, Eckhart Tolle etc. available at our fingertips through youtube & other online sources, for they can provide a calm perspective precisely when we need it most. We live in an age where, what was once rarely offered to devout seekers willing to travel to other lands, is now speaking to us in our own homes. And my experience has shown me that all of our inner work, in whatever form we have chosen to explore, will always eventually take us to this "liminal threshold" into the deepest truth of our being. 

The "liminal space" that exists as a threshold of personal and collective transformation is what I am most called to explore. I thank you for joining me here on Blue Earth Awakening and invite you to share your experiences here. What are you experiencing during this full moon and this time of great change? What threshold are you teetering upon................?

♡ Jeanette

We are accustomed to giving thanks for specific things, events & people in our lives. But it is a bit different to simply feel a sense of gratitude run through us without attaching it to the things we like, as opposed to the things we don't like. As a human being it is so very easy to polarize between the "good" & the "bad" in our lives & the world. But for me some of the most profound experiences have come through loosening my attachment to this tendency to categorize everything. 

So during this time of Collective ThanksGiving I invite you to join me in simply observing this tendency to choose what to be thankful for & instead attend to the cultivation of Gratitude itself. In this process I realized that even the most distilled prayer of thanks - just being thankful for my life itself - seemed to oppose that which does not have material form. And in the wake of this realization I began to feel the energy of Life that permeates All That Is, & this energy filled & surrounded "me" & radiated thru this personal embodiment. 

I am fond of saying "Thanks Be" rather than "Thank You" for this very same reason. For it lessens the division between the thanker & the thanked. So Giving & Receiving Thanks begin to weave together & become indistinguishable in the flow of the energy of Life. In the end it's all just playing with words......what really matters most is simply inviting this feeling of Gratitude to permeate Life & all that manifests within it.

It seems that at a certain point in our lives - usually when we've spent decades trying to fabricate a life that either conforms to or rebels against what we have been taught to believe about ourselves - we finally realize that there is something deeper & more mysterious that guides us if we are willing.

Yet often times this is easier said than done. In fact, our egos often co-opt this concept and we can get very intellectually savvy about how we've left all of that conditioning behind and are now manifesting a more enlightened reality. How very surprising it then is when we find ourselves once again facing the same issues we thought we left behind.

But there is a strange comfort in knowing that our Souls will never tire of providing the circumstances required for the liberation of our conscious awareness. So we can either lament finding ourselves in the same circumstantial cul-de-sac, or we can offer gratitude to the divine powers that be (meaning our inexhaustible Souls) for giving us another chance to face ourselves on a deeper and more honest level. And often it is only after more repeats than we can count that we finally truly surrender sufficiently to allow the divine universal flow to move through our lives and orchestrate a new and more liberated way of living. 

Will our liberated life look like all of the myriad examples of enlightened material manifestation that we are bombarded with every day? Perhaps not. So then the invitation is to feel our way into this new way of being and recognize the gifts that are presented to us right here and now. For we can feel when this river of life is unobstructed within us.....we can feel its irrefutable power and grace. And we can see how it opens up the limited labyrinth that our mind's expectations have created. And eventually, when we have revisited it enough times.....it erodes the old habitual ways of reacting & offers the freedom that is only available right here and right now. And that is what leads us home to Our True Self.

Blessings ♡ Jeanette