• Toast awaking to a new day with a morning beverage. Raise a coffee cup or glass of orange juice in the air and acknowledge the sheer beauty and joy of starting the day’s adventure.
• Walk the dog. After the boots are on, the leash is secured and you’ve walked out the door, pause to stand still in the middle of the journey. Take time to notice the trees, a flower or the dog’s activity without being concerned where the walk is heading, when you’ll get there or when you’ll be back home.
• In the car at a red light, instead of checking for calls or email, take a deep breath. Then give full-hearted thanks for this glorious in-between moment on the road of life.
• Move to a place of non-thought. No- tice how unfocused awareness soaks up all that is around and inside you. Enjoy several moments each day of the freedom in not thinking at all.
• Step away from the computer. Stand up and do a short soft shoe dance beside the desk. Maybe it will start a new craze in the office.
• Laugh. There’s no better way to mark the in-between than with a good belly laugh. Let it well up from the abdomen and penetrate being as it moves through the body, is wel- comed by the jaw muscles and then rushes out through the mouth in its own personal concoction of sound and breath.
Life-Cycle Cel- ebrant Dorry Bless, of Musconetcong River, New Jersey, creates and presides over one-of-a-kind
ceremonies to mark her clients’ big moments: marriage, birth and death. She also crafts rituals for extraordinary in-between moments such as career and relationship transitions, moving, milestone celebrations and healing life shifts, plus animal companion tributes. Bless is certified by the Celebrant Foundation and Institute and serves on its board of
directors.For more informa- tion, visit
CircleOfLifeCeremonies.com.
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