“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
~ Meister Eckhart
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Trust the magic of new beginnings. That’s how the idea of Lyminality took shape.
Liminality originates from the Latin word – limen, meaning a threshold. It’s a place of ‘in-betweenness’, a stage between ‘what was’ and ‘what’s next’. This space does come with its share discomfort of not knowing ‘what’s next’ and the pain of leaving behind 'what was'.  Its a movement out of one's comfort zone but not knowing where exactly we are headed. 

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A metaphor I use to understand liminality is the miraculous transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. This metamorphosis fills me with awe. The tiny egg hatches and out comes the very humble caterpillar. As soon as it does, it dives straight into this adventure with fervor, devouring its egg first and then exploring new terrain for leaves to feed on. It marches on, chomping and munching along the way looking for more. And more it finds. It grows. It flourishes.

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Just when things start to look fantastic – good food, awesome growth, feeling high and energetic, strange things begin to happen. What seemed like fun earlier loses its appeal. It feels like life has come to a standstill – stagnating even. The caterpillar soon isolates itself and goes through a phase of losing itself and its identity. It builds a wall around itself. To the caterpillar, this may seem like a space of total darkness and chaos because inside this wall, it is disintegrating and reality, as it knew, is all gone. The life that the caterpillar knew was coming to an end. It has no idea of what is to come or what it is capable of. Even though it was born with the potential to become the butterfly, it forgets. This stage that the caterpillar goes through as the pupa, of deconstruction and reconstruction, is the liminal space. And it can be an overwhelming experience.