In this Mini Musings episode I share with you the map that inspired Threshold Moments. The Cycle of Awareness map was created by Don and Amba Stapleton PhD. I share this map at the beginning of most of my trainings because I find it highly orienting.

When I feel lost, this map helps me see where I've been, where I am and where I'm going. If only it could let me know how long I'll be in any one stage! Maybe grab an astrologer for that?

I hope this is as helpful to you as it is to me.

Peace and blessings,

Sarah

 

The Cycle of Awareness is usually drawn in a circle 🙂

1. 1. Normal: Every day life
   2. Challenge Interrupts Balance: This can be a split second in which life changes such as a diagnosis, an accident, or disruptive information. It can also be something that is incrementally changing so you don't notice the change. You may start to feel agitated in your every day life and you may not be able to pin point why. One morning you may look in the at your partner, your job or yourself and feel like you're looking at a stranger. You may feel a pull toward another life or a big leap even though it would mean destroying your current life structure. This is a Threshold.
   3. Confusion and Chaos: You try to live life as you did before but it's just not working. You try to flex your muscles to control outcomes, but your whole being feels out of alignment. You try using the tools you've always used but they're not working. This place is about max effort and with a negative return. This is the place the ego tries to block the soul's journey and cling on to what it knows.
   4. *The Fertile Void: This is the place of surrender. It's the dark night of the soul. It's the place in which you feel powerless and can't make sense of what's going on yet. Most people feel lost in this place. You can't see the silver lining yet. In the unknown so many outcomes are possible. *Fertile Void was coined by Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls.
   5. Inner Resources: Insight and Inspiration: You start to see possibilities that you could not see before. Because you have shed layers, because you have let go of old securities, because you've been wide open to signs and insights, you can see what wasn't visible before. You begin to gain more energy.
   6. Integration: You begin building a new life with your new understandings.
   7. Evolution into a New State of Being: You are now living a life that feels highly aligned with your soul. There's a sense of authenticity, maybe even pride for the journey it took to get here.
   8. Normal: Your evolved state becomes your normal state and inevitably the cycle begins again with new lessons and life experiences.

 

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