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Holding Space for Meaning to Emerge

There’s nothing “wrong” will leaving things empty, if in doing so it creates a vacuum that pulls meaningful things into it.

Oh my god! What if that’s it? What if that’s all it is?

In effect, what if this is all about is just holding space for something to emerge?!

What I’m talking about here is that I was working on my Life as an MMORPG website and I was changing my existing quote posts so that certain keywords weren’t just bolded for emphasis but were actually linking to pages that would describe what these keywords meant.

But for many months, perhaps even a year, I’m been struggling to find the words to articulate the meaning of these keywords, even though these words are slowing emerging within me.

However, because I couldn’t find the right words immediately, even after repeatedly failing to figuring out ways to do so, I ended up feeling like were was something wrong with me and I was doing something wrong.

So since I felt this way, I felt like I was stuck and couldn’t go forwards.

But today, while making these changes whereby I wasn’t just bolding these quote keywords but I actually linked them to pages, something suddenly clicked in my head that I had visualized before but couldn’t fully understand previously.

For the longest time, I’ve felt like when you’re trying to discover something new, it’s like you’re walking around it virtually to get a better grasp of it. What this could be visualized on a whiteboard as is simply a large empty circle with a bunch of thoughts written out around the exterior of the circle and in the middle of the circle is a large question mark.

Do you understand what I just described?

This is what “holding space” looks like and means.

This is what not rushing cognitive dissonance feels like and instead giving it time to resolve on its own.

So this entire time I felt like I was doing something wrong from my Self-Authoring Mind’s perspective, I was actually on the cusp of doing things right from my Self-Transforming Mind’s perspective. But because I wasn’t aware of what I was doing, my Self-Authoring Mind continually blocked me from embracing my Self-Transforming Mind.

So now I realize that what I’ve been doing all along with my Life as an MMORPG website is actually right and the key thing that I was missing was that there is absolutely nothing wrong with leaving these keyword pages blank because that’s the whole point, to leave and hold space for them so that something can emerge on it’s own.

In effect, the words and their meaning that I will write upon these pages in the future will emerge the more I add quotes and link to them in the present. And then by looking at these quotes collectively and reflecting back upon them, that’s how these words and meaning will emerge.

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