Spiritual Preparation

"The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path, most people just don't know it."

Marianna Williamson

Step back and take a look at your current lifestyle. Where are there pockets of negative energy that you can reduce or eliminate in preparation for your journey? The spiritual preparation for a healing experience involves clearing your mind and your energetic space. Take a break from your television and Netflix subscription, cut down your internet time, and spend more time in quiet solitude. Get out into nature as much as you can to breathe and connect with Earth.

You can create an altar in your home to support your spiritual connection. An altar is a shrine, table, cabinets, shelf, or platform on which spiritual or religious objects and images are placed together in a way that invokes a sense of the sacred. When all the objects are brought together in a particular arrangement they create a unique field of energy that represents and reflects those who participate in it's making.

Preparing for a ceremony can be through observing a period of silence. Just listening to the inner self requires quieting the mind to practices such as meditating, watching the breath, meditating with a candle, or focusing the senses on one object. A quiet mind can also be obtained through reciting prayers, mantras, or sutras.

Before entering a journey space, we can reach out to people who possess a certain level of sensitivity and compassion. We recognize the preciousness of certain relationships and the richness that they can offer to our process, especially if they are friends or family who have gone through a similar experience.

"Wealth is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you."

Malidoma Patrice Somé