FLOATING LIGHTS

Candles are one of the most useful aids for creating your own romantic rituals and celebrations, for remembering loved ones you cannot be with right now, or for healing the separation between enemies.

Time for Exercise: 10 minutes

Properties Required: a number of small candles (birthday candles are about the right size), the same number of small flat-bottom paper bags, the same number of small paper plates, and one or more larger candles for dripping wax onto the inside bottoms of the bags to attach the smaller candles.

Steps:

1.Open the paper bags. Use the larger candles to drip wax into the paper bags. Secure one birthday candle upright inside of each paper bag. Place each bag onto one of the paper plates.

2.When all the bags and candles are ready, light the candles one at a time

3.Set the plate afloat in a tub, pool, lake or river, while saying a dedication to a friend or loved one, speaking aloud words of encouragement for a cause you are committed to, or offering amnesty to an enemy.

4.Silently watch the floating lights carry your message, wish, and energy out into the universe.

Variations:

Ceremony for integrating the 4 Freedoms: Body, Mind, Heart and Soul
   

Use four candles, bags, and plates. Prepare them by following the above instructions. As you light each one, read together the statements you have prepared in advance, dedicating a light to each of the 4 Freedoms. Here are examples of what you could say for each of the 4 Freedoms:

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MYSTICAL MAPS

Time for Exercise: 15 minutes

Properties Required: none

Steps:

Take turns describing for your lover the qualities or properties of a mystical experience you have had.

What were the properties of time and space?

Was there time travel?

Was there space travel?

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SEEING IN THE DARK

Time for Exercise: all day and night (short variation: one hour or more)

Properties Required: blindfold

Steps:

1. One lover puts on a blindfold as soon as she wakes up and keeps it on until the next morning.

2. Her partner, who is not wearing a blindfold, acts as a guide for her when she requests his assistance. Another day he will wear the blindfold.


Variations:

• Condense the exercise into one hour.
• Get up and walk through the house in complete darkness in the middle of the night.

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SOUNDS OF SILENCE

Time for Exercise: full day

Properties Required: none

Steps:

1.Designate one day as a “Day of Silence.”

2.Shut off the phone, and don’t answer the door. You might post a note on your door that says you are not available.

3.Go through the entire day, from when you wake in the morning until you go to sleep at night, without speaking a single word to each other, but be fully present together in this space of silence you have created.

Popularity: 2% [?]

STRETCHING YOUR LIMITS

Yoga means union. Yoga postures work your body, focus your mind, and build your life force. When done in tune with a partner, they also strengthen your heart connection.

Time for Exercise: three minutes – longer the first time you do it

Properties Required: clothing you can stretch comfortably in

Steps:

1.Stand facing each other at a distance of about 4 feet (1.2 m).

2.Your feet are together, arms hang gently at your sides, back straight but not rigid, shoulders relaxed, throat loose, and your eyes are soft.

3.Make loving eye contact with your partner.

Popularity: 3% [?]

LOOKING BACK

Time for Exercise: 15 minutes to one hour

Properties Required: pen and paper

Steps:

1. Write out what different loved ones and friends might say at your funeral.

Write out what you would like them to say about you and use this as a guide for how you intend to live your life (see From Here to Eternity ).

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

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Also available as an eBook in pdf for Adobe Reader, prc for MobiPocket, or on CD.




 Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass


 
 

Al Link and Pala Copeland

Sexy Spiritual Relationships

Popularity: 3% [?]

OUT OF BODY

Time for Exercise: five to 30 minutes

Properties Required: none

Steps:

Each evening as you prepare to sleep, give your deeper consciousness instructions for going out of your body.

1.Relax your body completely.

2.Quiet your mind with a meditative practice.

3.Reassure your ego self that you will be safe while you travel and that you can return to your body whenever you wish to, by associating your return with some simple action such as moving your arms or legs.

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DREAM TIME

Not only can you remember your dreams and interpret their meaning, but you can also influence dreams with your intention through conscious dreaming. This exercise focuses on the first part of conscious dreaming, setting a theme for your dreaming before you go to sleep. (The second part of conscious dreaming is to participate actively in the dream while the dream unfolds, but that is beyond the scope of this exercise.)

Time for Exercise: three minutes

Properties Required: pen and paper

Steps:

 

1.Choose a question you want answered, or an issue about which you want guidance.

2.Write your choice on a piece of paper.

3.Before you go to sleep, read your question.

4.Place the paper under your pillow.

5.Hold your question in your consciousness as you drift off to sleep.

Comments:

If you wake in the night with insights, write them down immediately. Alternatively, write down any insights as soon as you wake up. Write them down even if they don’t seem to make any sense at the time. Allow what you have written and what you can remember to percolate through your consciousness over the next day or two. Often you will grasp exactly what needs to be done.

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007

Available at Amazon.com

 

Also available as an eBook in pdf for Adobe Reader, prc for MobiPocket, or on CD.

Check also at Amazon.com, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Paperback) by Ram Dass

 

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LEAP OF IMAGINATION

Beliefs are extremely powerful but not supremely powerful. There is something more powerful than belief. Otherwise no one could ever transcend their limited beliefs and become unstuck. Your imagination is more powerful than your beliefs only if used in a particular way. The process is simple.

Time for Exercise: five minutes

Properties Required: none

Steps:

1.Pick an image of the end result you wish to create. If your end result is complex, use a visual symbol to represent it.

2.Be aware of your current situation, especially any existing negative beliefs that might be limiting your vision.

3.Make your limiting beliefs part of your “starting from” picture.

4.Compare your “end-result” picture with your “starting from” picture.

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DANCE YOUR PRAYER

Time for Exercise: five to 15 minutes

Properties Required: selection of music for dancing

Steps:
1.Select music for the mood you wish to create, anything from gospel to rock and roll.

2.Imagine a conversation you’d like to have with God, which would include, for example, something you wish to thank God for, something you are angry with God about, something you wish to ask God for, or something you want to offer God.

Popularity: 2% [?]