Hello and welcome. We are looking at ways that we can position ourselves to have a collision of inspiration and we are on to the second way that you can possibly do that and that is to create a ritual. What do I mean when I say create a ritual? Good question. I'm gonna look at my notes and find out.
What's a ritual? Well, it's kinda like a habit. It's something that you do over and over. But just unlike a habit, which is a little bit mindless, a ritual is mindful. It's taking a moment and actually seeing outside of yourself and allowing yourself to drop into that moment, not for you, but for everything outside of you.
A couple of years ago, I had this awesome opportunity where I got to just hang out with a whole lot of Benedictine sisters in France. And they had these moments through their day where they would have these rituals, these stopping points where they would sing or read or light a candle, and they would recenter themselves. All of a sudden, everything wasn't about everything going on in their world, but it was about just that moment. And that's what a ritual does. So what do you do?
Well, first, you pick your moment. Okay. Are you doing a ritual to start something or to end something or to transition from one thing to another? After you pick your moment, you figure out where your direction is. Direction can be anything outside of yourself.
For me, I'm a Christian, so that means I've gone to God. And for you, it might be looking at the people that you love or or how you can help the world or the universe. Whatever it is, it's about looking at something other than who you are and the moment that you're in. And the third thing that you do is you add an action. You put a verb to it.
Are you crunching or or burning or ripping or what are you doing? But it has to be a doing thing. It could be burning a candle or picking fleas of a cat or moving everything on your desk to one side. But you do it with intention and you do it with a moment of saying, you know what? It's actually not about me.
It's about somebody else. And when we do that, we help position ourselves to have a collision of inspiration. Hey. By the way, all of this was, from a book. It's called The Power of Ritual.
I'll put a link in the description so that you can actually read it if you want. It was good. Thumbs up.
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