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Rituals are immensely powerful and used throughout our public and personal
lives. We may joke about the ritualized aspects of our readying for
work in the morning but there is a powerful quality to rituals that
cannot be denied. We use them for every important time of our lives.
So, we invite you to use that power in your journey.
A ritual has four elements:
- You must have a goal.
- The act of a ritual must have time and space boundaries, occur during
a specific length of time, perhaps from the time you say �begin� until
you say �end,� and occur in a specific location, perhaps in a garden
bounded by four stones.
- A ritual must have a beginning, middle and end.
- The ritual must include a physical activity.
All of our rituals follow these four rules. Think of a marriage ceremony,
a funeral, the swearing in of officials, the school year, a religious
activity. Your ritual�s goal is to strip away all impediments to your
ideal life.
We want you to include in your ritual a "Letting Go" of your
old way of life. Your activity may be simply phoning a friend with whom
you've lost touch and inviting that old friend to coffee, reconnecting
with your past, your sense of fun and innocence.
You may have a tea party with your imaginary Mentor and converse about
what is involved in creating and maintaining your ideal life with a
sense of compassion and generosity.
Before beginning your ritual, you decide its elements.
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