🧚♀️Today, I’d like to share a practice we use in the program “Face to Face with the Shadow” to help release fears. This practice is called “Shadow Breathing.” Lying on a firm surface, begin breathing deeply and quickly, feeling areas of tension within you connected to your fear. Gradually slow your breathing, imagining that with each breath, you’re exhaling your fear. Let each breath become softer, slower, relaxing the tense
Our perception of this world, shaped by family examples, upbringing, and societal expectations, has created a kind of map for us—a map with routes that often lack alternative paths. We frequently continue along this mapped-out path, unaware that other, shorter and more pleasant routes exist. Just as blank spots on a map and blind zones in our perception can only be discovered and explored by stepping off the familiar route
If something is troubling you, pulling at your soul, causing pain inside, not letting go, or if you’re unsure of how to move forward, where to go, and your thoughts and vision are clouded with confusion, you can recite the fire spell “For Calm.” Place a burning candle in front of you, dissolve into its flame, merge mentally with the fire, think of nothing, mentally release all your worries, and
🌝 Today or tomorrow—under the energies of the Full Moon, take some time for the following practice. Place a lit candle between yourself and a window, and sit, gazing at the flame in such a way that your gaze is directed toward the night sky. Imagine that all your strength has now merged with the flame of this candle and with the power of the Moon, drawing the golden moonlight