INTUITION

I recently signed up for Hay House Writer’s Conference. I have felt a calling to write a book about Intuition and finally, thanks ironically to CoVid, I have a bit more time on my hands. What I have found, over the last ten years or more, of reading auras and teaching, is that most people want either validation or affirmation of their choices. This presents as a 7th chakra (crown) situation.

Certainty comes with an inner knowing. Some people get to it by meditation, quieting the monkey mind, the voices, and self-doubt. How do you get there though if there is a lot of static?

It turns out, having a funeral for bad habits is a great start! The other day, I attended a full-moon tea ceremony hosted by Club Magic Hour. It was a simple Tuesday afternoon, tea time, and Zhena, the founder led the session in her usual exuberant way. We started by brewing tea, but since I was at the beach, I just drank my pre-made ice-tea; if you’re a tea lover , you’ll definitely want to check out their awesome blends, like my favorite, Sin Eraser, Puerh Tea of the Rising Sun !

She proceeded to do a sage clearing for everyone on the virtual session. Then she explained that for our ritual of the day, we were going to clear our bad habits by naming it and burying it. How novel! We each took a moment to journal on our bad habits that were preventing us from living our best lives. I had a small litany of bad habits like self-doubt, anxiety and wanting to control everything. In the end, she asked us to choose one of these to focus on for our full-moon ceremony.

I decided to make friends then kill my self-doubt! WHOA! I happened to be at the beach and set my towel next to a big hole that some kids probably had dug out.

Zhena asked us to visualize an actual funeral, imagine all the people present to witness and give a eulogy. So while I was at the beach, I closed my eyes with the sun on my back and began talking to my Doubt. I started by thanking it for giving me the opportunity to question everything! Doubt made me more discerning, more curious and gave me an incredible skill set to compare (and unfortunately despair) and also get really good at editing, narrowing and meticulously scrutinizing everything. But Doubt also gave me alot of anxiety and worry. Was I making the right choice? Were there better options? Procrastination. Thinking the grass is always greener instead of being confident and content with my choices. So many bad habits! So I said GOODBYE to DOUBT!

So I meditated it on, then wrote DOUBT in the hole, then covered it up and then after the zoom call ended, went for a purification swim!

I FEEL A TREMENDOUS LIGHTNESS OF BEING!

Funeral for doubt

Ceremonial meditation for releasing bad habits