Here’s how my day was shaping up. A client called with a complex dilemma, phone calls demanded to be returned, a misunderstanding replayed in the background of my mind, I was on a self imposed deadline to finish a blog and I needed to make an appointment by 3:00…I said, “Stop.” I stepped aside from the bzillion thoughts and angst and stood still. I quietly walked over to my altar, placed one palm on top of the other, filled my lungs with fresh air and imagined small, radiant suns circulating throughout my body restoring each cell. I called to the universe in an ancient voice of untranslatable sound. I repeated this in slow rhythmic meter. Bodily stress, opinions, dark clouds and “what if” melted away. Returning from my journey within, the space I call my mind sparkled with relaxation as the world hustled by.
This day could be your day. This could be any time of the year. But as THE holidays draw near and there is an expectation to be jolly, well, our scrambled thoughts have more weight upon our psyche. If left to their own devices, they may well churn into the next day. They knock some folks around until they wake up with a migraine.
Before I reached physical debilitation I knew I needed a way to save my sinking spirit, a ritual to climb out of my worries. I inhaled deeply. I blew above, I blew below and I blew all around a gentle platform of restoring grace. As I felt the buoyant Ch’i encircle me I recalled this quote from Malidona Somé, one that I had “coincidentally” found a few days earlier. “…As much as our body requires food for nourishment, our souls and spirits require ritual to stay whole. It is as if without the spirit being nourished in us, the body pays for the consequences. The food of the psyche is the symbol, and it is through ritual that our spirit is fed. Because human beings are spirits at our core, it is natural for us to remain mindful of our true spiritual identity.”
Certain problems cannot be resolved with words alone. The ritual I performed harnesses the power of Universal Ch’i. Here it is for you. For those times when you think you cannot go on. May you create a space to leave your worries behind, restore your spirit to a place of calm; increase your clarity of mind; overcome serious obstacles, accidents and disasters; and recognize it is your Ch’i that is real. May it enfold you in deep abiding trust that all is well. If you have a thorny problem, practice it three times a day to find an inspired resolution.
From the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui
Inhale Exhale Breathing Ceremony.
Procedure
– Hold hands in Calming Heart Mudra (left over right, thumbs together, palms up, place your hands over your stomach). Stand with legs hip distance part. Feel your feet upon the earth. Recite the Calming Heart Mantra: Gate, Gate, Para Gate, Para Sam Gate, Bodhi Swaha nine times.
– Inhale with one long breath through your mouth. This is what is called “spiritual breathing”. You are not simply breathing with your lungs and tan t’ien. You are breathing with your mind. Every cell is opening and breathing in this auspicious air and also breathing in the light from the Buddha, or a holy deity of your choice. Breathe in wealth chi, health chi, good luck, good karma and joy.
– Exhale in eight short puffs with the last puff long, total nine puffs. The last or ninth breath should be the longest. This should expel all the air that you breathed in. Imagine that all evil chi, sick chi, stress, worries, sadness, sufferings and problems are being released. All negative karma from body, mind and speech is being eliminated, bad luck is being removed and your body is cleansed.
– Repeat this for a total of nine times.
Your Ch’i mixed with the Ch’i of the Universe circulate throughout your body, helping you to release and let go.
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