{"id":3237,"date":"2012-05-31T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2012-05-31T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T22:49:22","slug":"crossing-the-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/05\/crossing-the-threshold.html","title":{"rendered":"Crossing The Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2012\/05\/door.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3238\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2012\/05\/door.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody wants to rush through transition like it\u2019s a bad root canal. But transition is a threshold. It\u2019s a sacred life appointment\u2014the crossing from one world to another. You are compelled to let go of fear and uncover uncanny power. Transition, if you choose, is a way of being trained in magic.&#8221;-Tama Kieves<\/p>\n<p>I have long been fascinated with borders and boundaries; the edges between one plane of existence and another. When I was a tween in\u00a0in the late 60&#8217;s\u00a0(before that term was even conceived), my family went on vacation to\u00a0a locale that was on the border between NY and PA. I was amazed that if I stood on one side of the street, I was in the Keystone State and on the other The Empire State. I kept jumping back and forth between them, delighted with the experience.<\/p>\n<p>As a recovering co-dependent, I have learned that appropriate boundaries are necessary for healthy relationships and yet there are times when I am called on to re-configure my sense of what that means, since I also love the spiritual concept of One-ness.\u00a0 In my interactions with people in my life, there are times when I have a foot in both &#8216;states&#8217; and that definitely stretches my boundaries&#8230;good thing I have been practicing yoga for the past 8 years.<\/p>\n<p>I have also discovered in the past 53 years that transition is part and parcel of a well lived life; yoga off the mat. I can deny it, resist it, fight it, stomp my feet literally and figuratively, but it&#8217;s gonna happen no matter what. In an effort to push past it, I have often been lacking in compassion for myself, as if I was on a piece of exercise equipment, saying &#8220;Come on, you can do it. Five more minutes&#8230;.give it some effort!&#8221; rather than coasting for a change, knowing that I am going to get through it. What if instead, I was to view it from Tama&#8217;s perspective and see it, not as a chore, but a charm?\u00a0 An invitation from the Universe to dance with it as I had from state to state 40 some years ago. What if I saw myself as a magician, trained in the unseen, but deeply felt wisdom of creation? What couldn&#8217;t I do? As I release fear of the unknown (and isn&#8217;t it ALL unknown, until it isn&#8217;t?), I can leap into love, cast myself into the waiting metaphorical arms of God\/dess and cross the open threshold from where I am to where I desire to be. I am eager to see what awaits on the other side of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8<\/a> Changes by David Bowie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Everybody wants to rush through transition like it\u2019s a bad root canal. But transition is a threshold. It\u2019s a sacred life appointment\u2014the crossing from one world to another. You are compelled to let go of fear and uncover uncanny power. 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