SACREDPASTPROJECTION

The following ritual requires that you turn off your monitor, so you will have to memorize it, unless you can play the audio version. (It's not as complicated as it looks though.)

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TURN OFF YOUR MONITOR (not your computer...)

Take a deep breath...hold it a moment...exhale...again: inhale...hold...exhale, releasing your tensions, your fears and frustrations. Relax. Continue to breathe slowly and deeply. After you turn off your monitor you may see a faint reflection of your face, or perhaps nothing at all. Let your eyes adjust, move your head slowly from side to side...sharpen that image of yourself in your minds eye, fill it in...now allow that face to slowly turn into the face of your mother or father (you choose)...take your time...think of a sacred moment spent with them......now allow that face to slowly turn into the face of your grandmother or grandfather...think of a sacredmoment in their lives...take your time..now allow that face to dissolve into the face of a greatgrandparent...imagine the face if you haven't seen it...allow the memory of a sacredmoment in their lives to surface...let it come, don't work to hard at it....now go back farther, into the face of a greatgreatgrandparent....and further, and further, pausing each time to allow a sacred moment in their lives to emerge, as you journey, further and further back, into prehistoric times...into amphibious life, to cell life...as far back as you want to go...now reverse the flow, and travel back out, out through your ancestors...out to yourself sitting in front of the computer screen...and breathing deeply and slowly, when you're ready, turn to computer screen back on. If you like, you can tell some of these stories, or other stories, here...