Awesome 2009 Ritual

[Note: While this ritual can be an antidote to the uncertainty I referenced during the most recent entries on global economic somersaults, it can also be of a much more personal nature, may I suggest that you trust your instincts. You’ll need to find a comfortable position that has a private feeling to it for this ritual. You can read this ritual and perform it, or you can download my 27 minute spoken version here and listen to it in a relaxed way]

Follow this: We can distill ritual into three refined elements and still benefit from its magical powers. These elements are: Intention the force making transformation possible, Resource a catalyst for amplifying the intention energy that also makes your BE-ing feel good, and the Curious Observer the inner part of your self that takes an interested, neutral, perspective or view allowing the inner energies to self-reclaim each other.

I am initiating this 2009 ritual with my own primary Intention: that each participant reading this has an awesome 2009 grounded in gratitude and humility. I invite each of you to bring your own realistic primary Intention to our virtual gathering (or, vortex of good energy). And, you can all Curiously Observe the results as they mysteriously manifest. No need to post anywhere, better to hold sacred these experiences as protected and subtly effusive.

You now know my Intention for this 2009 ritual, I hope you have yours or can grab it quickly. It can be the same as mine, or it can be the dissolving of any inner barrier impinging on or blocking your vital life force in any area, right now.

With clear intentions in earnest play, move to Resource, the energy that nurtures our Intentions and fosters their manifestation. We all have many more resource energies than we first realize. I'm going to choose a special couple as my resource energy to fuel this ritual’s Intention. As you get the drift, please allow your own mysterious resource-of-the-moment memory to surface (from yesterday or ancient history) and be a good energizer for your intention and those of the larger collective in this vortex and our shared humanity.

Shabd Sangeet Khalsa and her husband True Indigo are my resource couple. They inspired me in 2008, and helped me differently re-claim my calming sense of wholeness that makes my experience of them a resource, a felt-awareness. Shabd Sangeet has opened my olfactorary senses (and some of my clients) to foster the energy of re-patterning, in a method that also fits my new learning in neuroscience/neuron-plasticity.

True has written a book named A Personal Aristocracy: The Power of Nobility. There is no text that has captivated me so since Peter A. Levine's Waking The Tiger in 1998. True’s writing has me learning to dance/rest in an infinity I can totally trust. That is something, especially for one who considers myself a research scientist! This photo of my friends was taken two days ago in Arizona. I invite their spirits to grace our ritual along with all of 'your' resources.

Now, if we just let go of our Intention (allow to float away) this begins to bring us to presence (being present and sensing at the same time). Ritual does not like to be pushed; no judgment, no agenda. To come more into presence, in a relaxed way put aside voices of judgment, cynicisms and fears, even just temporarily. Just hold your resource image in your minds eye, letting it develop in a sensory way (color, smell, light, heart). Very gradually invite your body to connect with the image. No rush, slow is fast here. As we hangout in this experience a bit, we may notice body sensations (especially if we close our eyes). We just want to give them tons of space, whether they are subtle or expansive. Make believe you’re resting back into True’s aforementioned infinity, and just notice. Now, in your own time, slowly invite your intention back into conscious awareness, edge by edge. Notice any body sensations or images as you do this. Now, give these awarenesses space, just noticing

With presence and curiosity you will quickly or gradually notice a commingling of the Resource energy and the Intention energy, this is good. We just want to keep giving space to whatever we notice next. Space is love and it transforms. At some point in time, you decide without haste, just bring the original Intention front and center again and notice that it has changed. It will be more “approachable” and perhaps a blind spot has dissolved, giving direction for a graceful next step. Feel your whole body. Notice an adjective or two that discerns its sense-of-self in the moment. Envision yourself coming out of this ritual space and holding close to your heart whatever new information your innate intelligence presented you about your intention. Now, walk softly into 2009 allowing for this manifestation to mysteriously enter your world in the most perfect and timely way.

Repeat this ritual with new intentions to keep amplifying the awe.

Note: The elements of above ritual are graphically illustrated through Focalizing’s nine-pointed star, click here.

Mp3 download here.

Looking forward to sharing the awe-someness of 2009, Michael