The Dance Between

I feel like I am currently writing this from the space between. A space I am doing my best to accept. It is a space I know all too well - of holding on and letting go. As cliche as it may sound, life really is a dance between the polarities of our world, our reality. We are an embodiment of that polarity and the dance between. We breathe in and we breathe out. We have a lightness and a darkness that swirls within us. We experience grief and joy. The dance between both ends of every spectrum unfolds within us.

This journey of life is one of both/and. We are constantly dancing in between the experience of one moment and the next. The steps are learned as we go and sometimes it feels like we have two left feet. The dance illustrates a beautiful point that life is fluid, it keeps moving forward even when we wish it wouldn’t. And the key word is “between”. In my own healing journey on and off the mat, it has been the space in between that I find the most potent wisdom. I feel suspended, like everything is moving in slow motion yet quickly at the same time. 

I have been in the process of learning to embrace the act of letting go COMPLETELY. Letting go of not only the life I had and the person I was, but the life I thought I would be living. There are days that I feel grounded in my strength,  that I am learning the steps and the way forward, only to have the next day feel like I have fallen on my face with no strength to get back up. This is the dance. It’s learning to ride the waves of the extremes and everything in between. The brave and courageous act is to continue to dance in the storm, to fall and get back up again. How we dance in the in between will determine how life unfolds.

Between the difficult moments and the easeful ones, this is the dance.

Between the grief and the love, this is the dance.

Between the anger and the gratitude, this is the dance. 

Let the dance of life move through you. It’s the dance between that holds the wisdom of your healing. This where you learn about yourself and you expand beyond your limits, if you are willing to rise again. I invite you to practice honoring the dance between. Knowing that this life is fluid and impermanent. We will never have this moment, right here, right now, again. So, I leave you with this question: How will you dance in the in between?

And as always, Shar(e)on Lightly.