Hello,
βYou can go and come
back and go and come back and i shall always be
here. I shall always be here.β
- Yrsa Daley-Ward
A couple of months ago I wrote down a bunch of beliefs I had about a particular person. On little slips of paper I jotted down flattering and unflattering stories that I framed as truths, along with what felt like more neutral declarations. And then I set all of these pieces of paper on fire.
When I want to shift out of conditioned mind patterns I find it useful to do something in the material world. In the case of burning these papers, I was tired of βbelievingβ all of these things because it interfered with truly knowing this person and genuinely loving them.
A few weeks later I did the ritual again. This time though I set fire to a range of beliefs I repeat about myself. It came from a desire to more easily surprise myself. Burning my running narratives also felt like a way to clear the way to my essential nature, the part of me who in Yrsa Daley-Wardβs words, βshall always be here.β
During these final weeks of winter, is there anything you would like to set on fire?
What in your head or life is ready to be cleared?
As we step into spring, is there any part of you that you would like to come back to?
In appreciation,
Ashley π
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