Moment after one thought and just before the next.

Moment after an exhale and the next inhale.

Moment lying in bed right before falling asleep.

Moment waking up in the morning just before getting out of bed to start the day.

Moment after you’ve finished a meal and before getting up from the table.

Moment between getting in the car and starting the ignition.

Moment waiting in line, in traffic or on hold for a call.

So many space between moments like these happen throughout our day but we never give them much attention. We would never ever talk or post about them. Too boring, too insignificant, too mundane.

Yet if we add these transition moments up, they actually make up a significant part of our day when we've typically gone unconscious and on autopilot. We glaze over these moments in favor of the next moment and wonder where the time goes.

What if we take back these moments and include them in our awareness? How would our lives change? How would we change?

1. You slow down so that your moments don't just blur into the next. You experience a fullness of time as you cultivate more awareness of each moment.

2. Your body has a moment to reset, relax and make its way back to its natural state. Every moment can be a clean slate.

3. You’re able to take a step back and observe the thoughts that influence your feelings, your words and your actions. You can then intentionally lean towards thoughts that love to fill your mind. This sets you up to create more moments you love instead of fear.

4. You come to an empowering realization that there’s no dark or hurtful thought that you can’t hold space for to love and forgive. These are moments you cultivate compassion for yourself and others.

5. Creative inspirations aligned with your deep core truth surface in these moments of rest and neutral, along with the courage to act on them despite the wrath of your inner critic.

“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

What are 10 ways to wake up in the space between?

Here are simple and easy centering practices that take seconds to do. Nothing serious going on here as Abraham-Hicks would say but the benefits of these brief moments go a long way.

1. Ground your body with gravity. Give your weight over to the earth below you and feel a release, even if it’s just a little. As you walk this planet every day, stop for a moment to acknowledge her support.

2. Trust your body to breathe you. Allow, not control, your body to take a few deep breaths and notice the easeful pause between the exhale and your next inhale. Trust in the intelligence of your lungs to breathe you.

3. Slow down, even just a little - how you walk, eat, talk, brush your teeth, drive, read, type, etc. This is an easy hack to your unconscious pace. The inner pace of awareness is different from the outer pace of unconsciousness. Slowing down allows you to lock into this more gentle internal rhythm.

4. In slowing down, get tactile. Feel your body’s engagement with the world around you - feel your feet fully touch the floor as you walk, feel the pen or keyboard with your fingers, feel your phone in your hand, feel your clothes touching gently on your skin, feel your body soften into a hug. It doesn’t seem like much but in an instant it settles your wandering mind back into your body, into this moment.

5. Close your eyes for a moment and feel the sensation of energy pulsing through you, in your eyes, in your hands and feet, in your chest, in your spine, in your joints, in your organs or anywhere else in your body. This pulse or vibration that is flowing through you all the time is an anchor especially when you’re outside your comfort zone.

6. Soften to any resistance or tension you feel in your body as you react to life and feel your reaction fully, without judging it as good or bad. Resistance is just a cry for love and attention. With awareness, it will leave your mind and body on its own.

7. Notice the empty space between objects you see and you realize that space is infinite, connecting us to each other. And in that empty space we share, we breathe in the life within it that keeps us all alive. This trains your eyes to see the unseen connection between us and not just what visibly separates us.

8. Be grateful for the moment that just passed, this moment and the next. Big or small. Appreciate what you have and what you don’t yet have.

9. Set an intention for the next moment. Choose how you want it to play out. Choose love over fear despite the discomfort, you win every time. Actually, we all win.

10. Do nothing, surrender and energetically free fall backwards and trust that something will catch you, that your intention will be met. Mentally, find comfort in not knowing. Physically, allow your back muscles to soften and your chest muscles to open. Hold onto nothing, yet open to everything.

When these practices, individually or simultaneously, are carried forward into your interactions with life, a deeper realization of who you really are is unveiled to you.

“Accept awareness as your way of life and you will find a freedom you have never known before.”

— Neville Goddard

Awareness of the space between redirects your energy, focus and attention back to you and your well-being.

We are so conditioned to keep all of our energy directed outwards to the people, places, things and situations in our lives that very little attention is left for our state of being and we wonder why we’re depleted.

At the same time, it’s not clear where to turn so we give up and settle for a life that, for the most part, looks and feels good. We resign to the thought that this is as good as it gets. Yet we live with this subtle underlying feeling that there must be more for us here.

Well, there is. And the good news is you don’t need to grasp for anyone or anything for relief.

Space between moments exist within your awareness. The space between can fill you up like nothing else can. No person, no career success, no amount of money or investments, no outside validation or praise, no place, no thing, no situation could even come close. All to be enjoyed and celebrated but never to fill your cup.

In this inner fullness, you have more of you to give...more of you to live.

With consistent practice, the sensation of ease, softness, presence, gratitude, intention and surrender…you remember, it is your natural state.

“When you are fueled and filled by the unseen source of fullness within, you embody your true self.”