#25 A brief moment of no tension, where everything becomes possible
Life is mostly tension. The feeling that something is missing, that a decision must be made, that you need more. But the magic does not happen in the tension.
A friend we will call Dan texted Stefan, asking to speak with Monica as soon as possible. He was having an emergency. It was the first time Monica had intervened in a case like this.
— I need your help, Monica. I took some drugs and I’m having a psychotic episode. I feel extreme fear, he said when she called him.
Monica asked him a few questions to make sure he was physically safe. He was alone in his apartment in Los Angeles. He was lucid enough to explain what he had done and knew where he was. From time to time, he would lose coherence, but he was able to regain it.
— Dan, I know you play guitar and violin. I want you to think about your favorite song, or simply a song you love that you played recently.
— Yes, I have the song in my mind. It’s playing in my ears now, and it’s beautiful.
— As the song plays in your mind, can you see the strings? Can you feel them? Monica asked.
— Yes, they are very tense. I feel the fear again.
— Now I want you to listen to my voice and focus on the space between the strings. That space where there is no tension, where there is nothing, and yet it makes the music possible.
Dan’s mind began to focus on the space between the strings, and the fear started to fade. For the next 30 minutes or so, Monica’s role was to support him in staying in that space whenever the fear returned. The psychotic episode ended, and Dan was able to take care of himself again.
In February 2026, we started a new email series called The Space Between the Strings (Chords).
When we changed the title in April, some of you wrote to us saying that The Space Between the Strings was your favorite name and that you wished it had stayed.
Then, last week, we changed the name for a second time, and many of you told us again that you preferred The Space Between the Strings.
But this time, we listened.
We deeply appreciate your honest feedback.
We appreciate that you took the time to write to us and express what you believed in.
So, we changed it again, for the third time, to align with your preferences.
We want to create something that you feel part of.
That’s why we’re returning to the original name and staying with it.
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When we first started The Space Between the Strings, the idea was to create a newsletter that we would want to read ourselves.
Something practical, but spiritual.
And short.
That is, something that can be read in 2–3 minutes. No more.
Most importantly, something that would connect you with your inner truth.
Life is mostly tension.
The constant feeling that something is missing, that a decision must be made, that you need more etc. etc.
But the magic does not happen in the tension.
It happens in the space between it, where you integrate the pair of complementary opposites, and then there is silence, and you make a quantum jump.
That’s what this email series is for.
To offer you a small moment of no tension…
where everything becomes possible.
Love and Wisdom,
Monica and Stefan
P.S. Reply, if you want, and tell us one way you connect with silence. How do you find your own space between the strings?
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