| Four Ceremonies: A Journey
to Light & Power by Kimberly Errigo During the healing process, there is a time and place to rely on practitioners and a time and place to rely on ourselves. Both are part of the sacred hoop. The following four ceremonies are meant to be created by each individual. They will heal old wounds, replacing the resulting weakness with light and power. Give yourself time between ceremonies for your whole self to adjust to the changes. For some people this process takes months, and for others it is very quick. Going too fast can cause problems. Be gentle with yourself. The First Ceremony: Intention The first ceremony is to declare your intention to heal. Make a peaceful space and sit quietly. Watch what comes to you. Focus on your earliest experiences with conditional love, the root of your wounding. See what happened and what the effects on you were. Forgive everyone, including yourself and God. Name and release all fears that were produced by your wounding: rejection, vulnerability, failure, success, visibility, invisibility, abandonment, betrayal. Name and release all dramas you developed as a response in order to feel safe: addiction, fight, flight, control, loss of control. To conduct a fire ceremony, write down everything you understood from your meditation. When you finish, take some tobacco and put it in the middle of the paper. If you are not inclined towards tobacco, use some other offering. Wrap the paper around your offering and hold it in your hands. Show it to the Creator and ask for release from the prison of your creation. Then throw your bundle into a fire. Fireplaces and bonfires are equally beneficial. Breathe deeply and stay present as you watch it burn. After this ceremony, you may find that a healing crisis is unleashed in your body. As the old emotional garbage that was in your cells is released into your bloodstream, you may develop flu-like symptoms. Make time to detoxify yourself. Drink lots of clean water and herbal tea. If the toxins were tribal in nature, use red clover. If they were from self-esteem and self-love issues, use dandelion root. If they were from cyclical wounding or invasion, use nettle. The Second Ceremony: Wholeness The second ceremony is for healing in the energy field. You can do this yourself even if you are not an energy worker. Trust yourself. We will focus on the second chakra, the area underneath the belly button and above the genitals. It is the home of boundaries, sex, money, control and discipline. All of our past and current sexual partners have cords attached to us through the second chakra. All people who try to control you have cords in you, and you have cords attached to anyone you try to control. To conduct the ceremony of healing, choose a quiet time when you will be uninterrupted. Lie or sit down and relax. Imagine the bubble you live in all around you. Focus on your second chakra. Breathe deeply and visualize the cords that others have attached to you. When you are ready, pull them out. Give them to the earth, the sky, the fire or the water as you feel is best. Next, visualize all of the cords you have going to the people you are invested in controlling. Trust that they are a drop of God in a sea of God, just like you are, and stop controlling them so you will feel OK. Give them back to God. Pull the cords out. Imagine the whole of your bubble being clean and whole, shining gold like a giant egg. Patch up any holes you find. Paint it a beautiful new shiny color if it seems faded or worn. Then, breathing deeply, bring your hands to the outside of your bubble opposite your second chakra. Hold them there. Wait until your hands are warm and full of energy. Then bring them slowly through the energy field, filling the space with light and love, until your hands reach your belly. Place them against your belly and hold them there until light and love fill your belly with warmth. Take some deep breaths. Feel how whole and safe you are. Allow yourself to stay in this space until you are ready to come out. After this ceremony, if you experience chaos in your life it may be because you forgot something. Notice what it is and start the process over again, beginning with the first ceremony. When peace reigns, trust that you have cleared out all the layers of wounding. The Third Ceremony: Union The third ceremony is one of sacred marriage. It is best done on the new moon, time of new beginnings. In it, you will marry your highest self. You have released the past and healed the places where your energy was fragmented. You are now ready to make new core choices. From this foundation a new future can be created. Choose to trust, to allow yourself to be vulnerable, to receive nurturance from others, to follow your heart, to stand in your power, to love yourself, to dissolve totally into the Divine. To conduct the sacred marriage, create what you like. For some, this would mean a bath with candles and for others it would mean a bonfire and a drum. It may mean all of this and more. Whatever seems right to you, is. Consciously invoke your new choices. "I am willing to take responsibility for my own happiness! I have made the changes and faced the fears that held me hostage inside of myself! I have forgiven anyone and anything that ever created pain in my life! I have chosen to be free of fear! And now, I choose Love!" The Fourth Ceremony: Celebration The fourth ceremony is one of gratitude. Define a period of time that feels right to you. Live the life that you dream of living. As you focus on your life being full of the things that nourish you, you will reaffirm their presence in your life and open the door for more of the same to come in. To conduct the ceremony of gratitude, remember again that there is no one right way. But when you wake up, declare your intention: "I allow myself to receive all that supports my wholeness! I love myself and my path on this Earth! Thank you, thank you for giving me the life I have always dreamed was possible!" Kimberly Errigo is a certified life coach. She works with families and individuals, blending together ceremony, feng shui, energy healing, yoga and coaching techniques to support clients as they create a powerful life. She can be reached at (952) 393-7711 or via e-mail at kimberly@touchesthesky.com. Copyright © 2004 Kimberly Errigo |
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