Meditation 3 Aug and Food for thought (the uncomfortable in-between)
Shamaret meditation Mon 3rd August 2020
7 pm – 8.30pm Sydney time (AEST)
Fee $10
Attendance is online (zoom) - or in person, numbers limited ( I’d need to give you further information about that).
If you’d like to attend, please let me know by email.
Shamaret meditation brings together awareness meditation and shamanic journeying. You are very welcome to attend for one evening, or regularly. It’s suitable for both beginner and experienced meditators. We meet on the first Monday of the month, March to December.
Further information about Shamaret Meditation: http://www.maretstaron.com/meditation
The very uncomfortable feeling of ‘in-between’
Today, I’m feeling a little flat. For the last few months I’ve been working hard to get my home ship shape for sale. The work has certainly kept me focussed and busy during these discombobulating times. However, now that the work is finished and my home is on the market, I’m feeling a little lost and ‘flat’. As a friend reminded me, it’s that feeling of ‘in-between’.
The in-between that I’m referring to is the time between the old or known, and the new or unknown. We know what we are letting go of, but don’t yet know what we are going to step into. For me, I’ve got through the sadness of letting go of my home that I love and am ready to step into the new – but I don’t know what that new will be ie. what and where my new home will be. It’s a most uncomfortable feeling.
We can experience this in-between feeling in any area of our lives. For example, steeping out of one job but not knowing that the next job will be; leaving one relationship and not knowing what/whether there will be a new relationship; leaving one town but not yet settled in a new town, etc. You get the picture I’m sure.
Often the discomfort of the in-between feeling can stop us letting go of the old (even when we know that it’s in our best interests to do so). It can simply be too daunting, not knowing what the future holds. And that’s the issue, not knowing what that new future is. However, we can make it a little easier on ourselves when we are in this situation. One of the most helpful things we can do is energetically, feel what we want our new future to feel like – or in my case, feel how excited, energised and delighted I am in my new home. And I can hold onto that feeling until I find it in the physical, ie. a new home that matches that feeling (or resonance).
And sometimes we just need to give ourselves time to mourn the old, sit in the uncomfortable feeling, and know that this too will pass.