The Space in Between
As I sit here days away from meeting my new baby, I find myself in a place. A place that feels familiar and new at the same time. An excitement for what’s to come and a hanging on to what once was. As I reflect in these last budding days, I’m overwhelmed by a type of hurry and wait that, while familiar, feels much more defining than ever before.
I think a lot of us find ourselves in this hurry and wait space -- the space in between. The space in between where you are going and where you have been. I have found myself in the space in between in my business quite often. You’ve done everything you can to prepare and now you wait. It feels uncomfortable, torturous at times, yet this time around I’m (trying to) find it a beautiful place to be and perhaps my biggest lesson right now to learn and to teach is to love the space in between. The Germans have a word for this space— Zwischen.
As calls come in daily from excited family and friends, “Is he here yet?!?!” or as I send texts to my doula, “If I bounce on my birth ball enough will this baby bounce out of me?” She quickly reminds me to relax. To enjoy this space in between, which I have found, up until this point, extremely hard to do because of that exact reason. I’ve been asking the wrong question. I’ve been asking myself, what else can I do. I’ve been trying to DO the space in between. Perhaps that’s quite obviously the wrong question to be asking during this time. It’s actually not about doing at all, it’s about being. So how do you BE in zwischen? Here are a few steps to try:
Step One: Surrender into the moment
Know that everything you’ve ever wanted or desired in life is even closer than you could ever imagine. There is a moment in this space where we try to control every outcome, the zwischen is a place to surrender all control and trust that the Universe has got it covered
Step Two: Choose a quality you want to embody
Choosing a quality you want to embody helps to shift from doing to being. By choosing a quality it supports you in moving away from the to do list and supports you in stepping into a place of Being. For example, my quality for the year is play. I’m finding ways I can incorporate play into the zwischen.
Step Three: Listen to Music
I find that music supports you from moving from your head to your heart. It gets you out of your thinking mind and into your body. For me, music gets me into my heart but for you it might be dance or yoga or a walk but find ways to get into your body.
Cheers to enjoying whatever zwischen you might be finding yourself in.
Big love,
Karlie