Confront the dangerous ‘gap’ during an extra hour.
Yes, there is a gap that I constantly avoid throughout my day.
The gap between stimulus and response.
The stimulus is always there, be it sitting on my bedroom couch or in the street.
We are so impatient or scared that we would do anything to avoid that gap.
A gap before I fill it up with my reflex reactions or any self-help techniques I had practiced; all in order to avoid the uncertainty in that gap.
I can give myself a “time off” period where I am freed to not reach for a solution or safety. My mind is given permission to stop trying to control everything.
And take a leap into the ‘gap’ that might lead to insights and the possibility of my own intelligence to arise; beyond any learned mental tricks.
Gap.
