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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" activity.
This activity may be simply going to an empty place of worship and feeling
the strength that resides in that place even when you are there alone.
Or, you may stroll along in a playground feeling alone and yet connected
as you watch children play, parents show concern or indifference, or
how couples communicate. Feel the way energy rolls around and how many
instruments there are to help you stabilize as your acquire your wishes.
Before beginning your ritual, you decide its elements.
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