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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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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BIORHYTHMS

Being familiar with your biorhythms can help you make effective decisions.

Time for Exercise: two minutes daily

Properties Required: pen and paper

Steps:

Chart your biorhythms by using a scale that goes from minus five to plus five, where minus one is mildly negative to minus five a vicious bummer state from hell. Plus one is mildly positive, and plus five is joy and bliss supreme. Zero is a neutral state with little feeling either positive or negative.

1.    Each day use the scale to rate your mood.

2.    Plot this daily for three months to see if you can identify monthly emotional patterns of highs or lows. Such patterns evidence powerful forces, outside your ego self and independent of the circumstances of your life, that influence your life in predictable ways.

3.    Use this information to help you move more smoothly through life. For instance, if you discover the third week of each month is typically a low-energy, bad-mood time, you can avoid important decisions or projects. If possible, make decisions and compete when you are at your peak in the monthly cycle. If you find yourself in arguments and confrontations, stop to notice what time of month it is and act accordingly. For example, go away from the person or situation and come back another time when you have positive feelings.

Comments:
   For women, you will notice some biorhythm swings that are both related and unrelated to your menstrual cycle. Some men also note more subtle monthly swings.

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