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The Ceremony of Healing
In this newsletter, explore four potent self-healing ceremonies, learn from Rachel Kelly about her happiness rituals, and uncover three additional easy rituals to incorporate into your life.
Sol TV
March 09, 2023
This Newsletter at a Glance:
🎉 4 Powerful Self-Healing Ceremonies
🎞️ Video Bite: Power of Ceremony
🤏 Sol Bites: 3 Easy Rituals
🦉 Words of wisdom
 | There are great things about mental health services like talk therapy and psychiatry, but as a rule, they typically do not focus on healing. As a result, if you’re hurting, you need to look for different paths to get better. |
One path that can provide relief is ceremony. "Ceremony" refers to any activity done intentionally and with a formalized approach. It can range from lighting a candle to more elaborate activities that involve focused ritual and thinking. While you might be familiar with ceremony, let’s explore its healing potential.
⛑️ 4 Powerful Ways to Self-Heal
1) Healing Weakness. Have failures caused you to no longer trust yourself to succeed?
Find a symbol of strength and create a physical embodiment of this symbol (such as a tiger eye in jewelry) and wear it or pay homage to it daily.
Every time you look at it, say, “I am strong” or “I can persevere,” which will help you live powerfully.
2) Healing Regrets. Stuck on taking the wrong paths, the time you wasted, or how you failed yourself or others?
Select one of your biggest regrets that you replay in your mind, write it down on a sheet of paper, fold it, tear it to shreds, and toss it in the air while saying, “I am through with that regret!”
Repeat as needed since regrets tend to linger or return.
3) Healing Sadness. Hopelessness, pointlessness, and despair can tangle into an emotional mess.
Select one feeling, such as hopelessness, and heal it by planting a “hope” garden. As you water it, say or think, “I have hope.” Or create a hope altar with a candle. Each time you light it, say, “I have renewed hope.”
Hope is something we regularly lose—and something we can also readily recover.
4) Healing Chaos. Many of us juggle school or family, jobs, social commitments, and more and need to feel more at ease.
Get a snow globe and shake it up. Breathe deeply as you watch the snow settle and say or think, “I am settling,” or “I am calming down,” or something similar.
🎞️ Video Bite
Meet Rachel Kelly, Sol TV Contributor and Founder of Make Lemonade, a former co-working space that pivoted to a floral design shop during the pandemic. In this video, she describes the little ceremonies she creates to keep her happiness levels high.
🤏 Sol Bites
If creating and engaging in ceremonies may not seem like your kind of thing, consider other the value of ceremonies, such as walking across a stage during graduation or exchanging vows at a wedding. Those ceremonies feel special, and they matter; they punctuate our lives. Ceremonies of healing can serve you in the same way. Here are three additional ways to make a ritual in your life:
🎵 Chanting. It’s a powerful ritual that energizes and relaxes the body and mind. Hindus often practice chanting mantras (repeating Om) or repeating positive affirmations. Chanting can focus on a particular goal, increase self-awareness, evoke a spiritual connection, and divert the mind away from negative thoughts.
🧘♀️ Laughing Yoga (Hasya Yoga). This type of yoga focuses on laughter’s physical and mental benefits. Studies show it helps reduce stress, boost immunity, and increase happiness and joy.
🌺 Positive Reminiscing. Reflecting on past experiences and memories that bring us joy, happiness, and peace can be a powerful practice. It helps you focus on bright spots and find gratitude.
💡 Words of wisdom
By engaging in healing ceremonies, we create a space for transformation and healing to occur, as we move through our journey of self-discovery, growth, and healing.
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We love you,
Mona & The Sol TV Team ❤️
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