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Catching myself managing, I sit with not-knowing and feel-observe what's emerging...

- compliments of Uncertainty Enthusiast and Emergentista, Rike Pätzold <3

Lovers of Uncertainty,

Uncertainment Lounge is a co-created space for practices of embodied participatory knowing. Together, we practice building our capacity to turn toward the unknowable, the uncontrollable, and the mysterious as they emerge within and between us in real time.

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#286

July 8, 2024

Uncertainty Lounge Letter

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Catching myself managing, I sit with not-knowing and feel-observe what's emerging...

Quieting my impulse to speak, I choose instead to contribute to this silence.

In what ways might we co-create the conditions for the emergence of wonder?

Noticing my contraction, I loosen, soften and claim more space and perspective.

Here again at the threshold of language, wondering how this wholeness might be conveyed...

Being with you being with me, I flow into spontaneous we.

Having done their work, speaking and listening dissolve into one another, leaving us to savor the moment.

Inside your listening, I am able to hear from the part of me that wants to turn away.

Resting here in the rhythm of the breath, I become a clearing for something as-yet-unknown.

From how we are being together, something un-being to either of us shows up.

Feeling a rush of wonderment accompanied by the inadequacy of language...

Here at the edge of language, I marvel at the un-boundability of knowing.

Opening again, I relax my urge to contract into what I feel certain about.

Being with you in the unknown, my hesitation melts into wonder.

Tenderly noticing the part of me that orients toward how I want us to be.

Staying in dialogue despite our differences, I feel alive.

Uncertainty, what do you want me to notice in this moment?

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What translucent uncertainty has quietly emerged whilst I’ve been busy focusing on what I can get clear about?

Staying with this state of heightened uncertainty, I enter an even more spacious not-knowing.

Fellow travelers, uncertainty is canceling the lounge for today. Apologies and hope to see you on Thursday!

Wondering...how much more of me can show up in the generous tension of our shared silence?

Dwelling with you now in the presence of uncertainty, I am infinite possibility.

What might expand our field of generative uncertainty in this particular moment?

How does it actually feel to make the path while walking it?

Now I know why I think better when someone else is listening.

Settling into the way more that now exists between us.

So grateful for your unique presence and skillful uncertainings!

Suspending my impulse to turn away from the wobbly ambiguity of this moment, I give myself over to the ensuing rush of joy.

Swooned by the murmurations of living being...!

Resting in the ebbs and flows of this body, I wait for uncertainty to yield to knowing.

Despite what my mind says, there is nothing I can control in any meaningful sense.

Beloved uncertainty! ...show me again how my yearning to know can melt into awe and wonder.

Staying with this state of heightened uncertainty, I gently relax my impulse to judge it.

... sometimes, as you are speaking of your experience, I am expanded.

Staying with my trouble (yet again) I allow it to dissolve into a warm, spacious wonderment.

Drawn into what had felt like a gap between us, I find no such thing.

Resting in the knowing of this body, I wait for any words that may come.

...and although knowing is fleeting, I keep pursuing it...

Although certainty is nowhere to be found, I dwell in knowing.

Even now, when it feels a bit scary, I choose to take the chance to know you more fully.

Feeling into the tender places where we join and where we differ, I feel grateful for us.

Taken yet again by beauty, I savor what's here and, exhale.

Inner Wild-ing

Feeling disoriented, I soften to embrace this unknowable and with it, the sense of relief that washes over me.

Indulging my desire to dwell in this warm, evanescent silence.

Accepting you, and me, and our varied experiences as uncertain beings.

Noticing how despite the apparent certainties of this situation, other possibilities exist.

Awaiting even more, we dwell in the beauty that is already here.

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