Karmic Muscle Group: Intention
Today’s Exercise: Light A Prayer On Fire
- Spend a few minutes thinking about the one thing you wish you could do for the world and the life in it.
- On a clean piece of paper or a piece of stationery, hand-write your wish for the world and sign your name to it.
- Take your prayer paper and some matches or a lighter and step OUTSIDE.
- In a safe place, light your prayer on fire.[hr]
Training Note:
Clearly this must be done in safety, but even in our modern times the human relationship to fire still has places where it can be safely exercised. Make sure that you are very intentional about what you write and think it through. Sign you name to claim it as your intention. Lighting it on fire is a gesture of broadcast to the world, but it also makes it impossible to take your prayer back. This little ritual doesn’t burn the paper, it burns the intention into your mind. [hr]
Karmic Benefits:
- Clarity: the exercise has you think through what is really important to you and what your life stands for. When you are clear about an intention it becomes manifest around you without much effort, almost magically, because it is present in you mind to make real.
- Commitment: by burning the prayer you are promising yourself that you will not and cannot take it back. We make promises like this all the time and they last five minutes. When we step out of our normal routine and swear by fire, we hold our intention with a whole new intentionality.
- Causing Reality: By making an actual gesture rather than having a passing thought, you have already taken action on your intention. You have brought into the physical world. Even though it may only be a seed, it now lives in the same dimension as you do. Placing an intention the physical world is the first step to causing the benefit that are trying to create. After this exercise what there is for you to do is find every opportunity to make that seed grow.[hr]
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