living with ceremony

It’s a busy, frenetic world out there. Everyone is going in different directions and moving fast.

How do you make time for connection and rest?

Bringing rituals into everyday activities can help. Allowing time to beautify the environment in which you dine, for instance, whether it’s just for you or for you and your family, can be one small way to enhance the experience of the communion of sharing food together.

Having a table that is just for meals, a sanctified clutter-free zone, and making time to set the stage for the meal can provide an important element to the meal itself. Setting the tone with the lighting of candles ,for example, as the dining time approaches marks the transition from day to evening, a signal to shift energies from the days’ activity into the nights’.

Observing regular rituals such as cleaning up, perhaps even a change of clothes before dinner, washing hands, lighting candles, the evening cocktail and newspaper, whatever your style, its a way to say the day is over and evening has begun.

Your body will respond to this kind of ‘making space’. It will feel calmer and less frazzled, and more rested. Ritual is a tool to signal a shift in energy and activity. You are important and your every day is important. So is your family- whether they are four legged or human.

By living with ceremony, you give permission to yourself and others around you to enter the doorway to having a satisfying experience.