Generic symbolism for action in rituals and metatheater

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

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Generic symbolism for action in rituals and metatheater
An important note on rituals and metatheater
Using the symbols provided here
Symbolic actions and/or actions

The following actions and items have been used as symbols in rituals and metatheater to honor the intuitive guidance which individual have received and/or use to represent symbolic actions. They are provided here for your reference and to help you create a ritual or metatheater appropriate for what you deed to do. Do not limit yourself to what is described here. Do your own experiments. Become creative and allow effectiveness to be your measure of truth. Use what is effective in your life to catalyze and stimulate your creative passion to act. and provides you with a fullness of being and inner satisfaction that you know you have done what you need to do.

An important note on rituals and metatheater (Top)

What is provided here is provided with the intended purpose of freeing the creative spirit within each individual and for them to become conscious creators to both create the experiences they have and create the reality of those experiences. Nothing should every be forced on an individual. They in no way should be forced, coerced, or otherwise made to participate in any ritual, ceremony or metatheater. They may be apprehensive or fearful in some way, but they should act in their own free will. They should act without pressure to be acceptable and pleasing to another. Each individual needs to be free to make the decisions in their life for, after all, the intent is for the individual to take responsibility for what they experience and how they create it.

In whatever is done, the individual needs to be given the option of freely participating. There should clarity of intention for why the ritual is being performed. Additionally, the rituals should be playful and help us to return to a state of childlike play.

What is provided here is what others have use and is their symbolism. Although their symbolism maybe your symbolism, it is suggested in doing any rituals that a short statement or prayer be used which states the symbolism being used. For example, to say, "...in touching my chest, I touch my heart and I restore my ability and my power to love and be loved." The words help to reinforce to the mind what is occurring and allows the ritual to move us to a deeper level of our being.

In using any actions/symbols presented here, one should become aware of any judgments mind may have or any feelings that arise in using the symbols. These judgments and feelings can reveal many things about our deeper beliefs and the cage of our own making that we use to keep our creative spirit captive. The intent of the ritual and the symbolism of the action in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what the symbolism represent to access what lies within our begin to either catalyze our actions, surface the obstructions or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Pilgrimage: The pilgrimage is usually a composite of many different types and kinds of symbolism. In general it is any movement we make to represent the transition of our current way of being and living to move to the new desired way. The intent and symbolism of the action in the pilgrimage is to being the focus of our attention and awareness to surrender our ego to the task at hand.

In a traditional pilgrimage, one would travel to a particular sacred place and perform certain types and kinds of rituals and/or ceremonies. The purpose of the pilgrimage was to receive or obtain certain blessing or good favor of God or the gods, establish or improve our relationship to God and/or the unseen world, and/or to achieve some religious or spiritual end. The traditional pilgrimage had a flavor of being long and/or arduous so as to "burn off’ one’s unworthiness or sins so as to become acceptable and eligible to receive favor of God or the gods.

In many ways when we set an intention to create what we desire, we may need to perform what needs to be the equivalent of a traditional pilgrimage, if not in travel in magnitude of effort. Often we need to make the equivalent of a pilgrimage to know without a doubt our intention is set and that we are committed to what we undertake to do. The pilgrimage is the manifestation of the proof of the desire we have. Similarly, it can be done in a way to obtain the support of the unseen creative powers/Creative Powers as we understand them.

What we do is a pilgrimage in the sense we go somewhere other than our normal places of being and perform some type and kind of ritual, ceremony and/or metatheater relative to the intentions we hold. It could be a very short distance or an actual trip of some duration. The location does not have to be sacred or special other than being special to us. The intent in traveling is to symbolize the desire to move our current perspective, psyche and world to a new place and one the better supports what we desire to create. While we are there in this place of pilgrimage we do something that demonstrates to a witness that we are committing ourselves to that intention.

Exactly what our pilgrimage will look like is unique to each of us. It may be done in conjunction with another or others, but what we do will ultimately be unique to us to address our needs. Although we may follow the guidance and recommendation another makes, it must be something we create and in which we willingly participate.

Traveling to another location: Traveling to another location has features similar to a pilgrimage but it is not as involved and often serves quite a different purpose. There are two primary uses for traveling to another location.

One intent and symbolism of traveling to another location in a ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, moving form our current life or from our current place in life to a new life to support the creation we desire. It is one way of demonstrating moving from one way of being to another - from the world of the past to the world we wish to create.

The second way traveling to another location is used is to access information and/or creation another state of mind. For example, we moving from the first floor of a house to the basement symbolizing moving from the existing world to the underworld to access information. In moving to the basement, we focus our attention and awareness into our nonconscious mind to surface the information which we seek. We then return to our original starting location returning to present bring back whatever it is we have found and/or accessed.

In either case, traveling to another location is used to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or, surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Lighting a candle: Lighting a candle is about bringing the light of understanding and wisdom into our being relative to the creative endeavor and/or lighting our path in the dark and through the unknown. It is about becoming enlightened on the subject of interest and/or the issue at hand, and/or enlightened as to how address whatever is binding our creative life energy which needs to be freed to manifest the creation we desire, and/or finding the path we to manifest what we desire. The intent and symbolism lighting a candle in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, the information we seek. to support the creation we desire. It act to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Imbibing the spirits: Imbibing the spirits can be symbolized in two ways. One way is to bring the power of what one believes to exist in an animal, plant or object into one’s being. The other way is imbibing the fruits of our own life.

Imbibing the spirit of something is a very ancient tradition. Some ancient hunters, immediately after killing their prey, would cut out the heart and eat it with the intention of obtaining the power of that prey. Rather dramatic, but symbolically very powerful. Something a little less dramatic but just as powerful is eating any part of a plant or animal to gain its powers.

Within this idea, an action quite symbolic relative to our creativity is imbibing mead wine. Mead wine is made from honey. Because of how honey is made and from which it arises, it is symbolic of the fertilization and fruitfulness of nature and the creation process to bring life into the world and continue the spirit of life. However, mead wine is not readily available. Consideration can be given to imbibing the spirits of any fruit representing both taking the power of the fruit as a unique fruit and/or generically representing accessing the fruits of life and growth.

Imbibing the spirits of any fruit can become intoxicating since they are alcoholic. Yet it is the potential to become intoxicated by the spirit which symbolizes the willingness to experience the intoxication of our own creative spirit in its freedom. In the same way our creative spirit and our creativity is the fruit of our own being, wine is the fruit of the vine and can be intoxicating. Drinking of wine in this context is symbolic of opening ourselves to whatever the fruit and flow of life opens within our being. For those that do not imbibe alcoholic beverages for whatever reason, grape juice can be used or the spirits of any other plant for that matter. It needs to be remembered it is not so much as what is done as the symbolized of what we do what we do. The intent here is the willingness to take on the spirit of something other, name, the spirit of our own creative spirit.

The intent and symbolism of imbibing of spirits in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, allowing ourselves to become intoxicated by the fruits of our own being - that is our creativity and the experiences we create. Imbibing the spirits within the ritual is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest the fruits of our own being.

Symbolic dying: Symbolically dying can be done for three reasons. One reason is to symbolize our intention to die to some aspect of our past and/or release our attachments to the life we have live. The second reason is to symbolize our willingness to let go of whatever we need to let go to meet the sacrifice of creation. We may not know what we need to let go, but symbolically dying is one way of creating the mental understanding we are willing to let go. The third reason to symbolic die is to move from the attachment our awareness has to our body and our life and to enter and/or experience some other state of being - sort of an in body out of body experience. In any case, the intent and symbolism of dying in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, letting go and dying to whatever needs to be released to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

It needs to be noted different traditions have different ways of burying the dead. Using the practices of the tradition most familiar to the individual will have the greatest impact in symbolizing dying. Using a practice other than the one most familiar to the individual have the greater possibility of surfacing memories of the transcendental mind of a previous existence. Similarly, symbolically dying by being shot, stabbed, or whatever, can also cause memories of past experiences to surface. In this regard, exploring and playing with different ways of dying can be used to call forth suppressed memories.

Wrapping the body in a shroud: In many traditions, when death occurs, the body is wrapped in a shroud. Wrapping the body in a shroud as part of ritual or metatheater is one way of symbolically demonstrating death and dying. The intent and symbolism of wrapping the body in a shroud in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, letting go and dying to whatever needs to be released to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Placing the body in a cardboard box: In many traditions, when death occurs, the body is placed in a coffin. Placing oneself in a coffin as part of ritual or metatheater is one way of symbolically demonstrating death and dying. Rather than using a coffin, a cardboard box serves equally well. The intent and symbolism of placing the body in a cardboard box in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, letting go and dying to whatever needs to be released to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Breaking out of a cardboard box: Breaking out of a cardboard box can represent several different things. One is that it can represent a general desire to break out of the cage we created which keep our creative spirit captive. Another represents the resurrection of our creative spirit after symbolically dying. A third is that be used to surface issues that are keeping us bound relative to a particular creative endeavor. Here the thoughts and feelings we have of breaking out of the box can be most useful. The intent and symbolism of breaking out of the box in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, releasing our creative spirit to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Tool box - bag of tricks: In many trades, the tradesperson has specific tools they use in their profession. Often they carry their special tools with them in some type of bag or carrying case. By creating a tool box or our "bag of tricks" either in literal or symbolic form, allows us to help call back and consolidate our creative power. Each item in the tool box or "bag of tricks" represents some aspect of our being and/or our creative power. The intent and symbolism of creating a tool box and/or bag of tricks in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what is our power and/or consolidate our creative power to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Trash can: Trash cans are used to throw away things that are not longer used. Items representing aspects or things in our life we desire to release or place in the trash can. Or, the items are written on individual sheets of paper and thrown into the can The intent and symbolism of the use of a trash can in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into of things we wish to discard and throw away to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Fire: Fire consumes and represents the destruction of some existing form It also represent light, purification, transformation and the process of being reborn as in the phoenix. The use of a fire and/or burning of something symbolic can be used to help move things out of our life. Most often, it is simply the issue or aspect we wish to address written on a piece of paper. The intent and symbolism of fire in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what needs to be transformed to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Spanking: There are many things we do in life that we judge ourselves as not been acceptable if not bad or evil. Often simply understanding what we did is not sufficient. Although not really necessary, many of us have deeply ingrained patterns and beliefs that there needs to be punishment for what we have done. Punishment and penance are often demanded by our mind before we become free of things we have done in the past. In these cases, a balanced spanking have been found by many to be very freeing for past "sins." Part of the power in a spanking is that for many ages, many parents believed spanking was necessary to teach children right and wrong and punishment for doing wrong. Many were spanked as children and as part of the process where we lost our ability to freely creatively play. The spanking often takes individual back to the past where their creativity and the free expression of their creative spirit was thwarted or the experience of a painful experiences that caused their creative spirit to withdrawal from an aspect of life. The intent and symbolism a spanking in ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into where our mind thinks it has the need to be punished for it past actions before it can become free to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey for we become absolved our "sins" and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Death and Entering the Cave: For any creative endeavor, we need to die to who we think we are. The mind that created the problem we face is not the mind that will find the solution. The mind that created the problem must die. Death can be represented in many different ways. One simply way is to make a light mud and smear the mud over parts of the body representing dying, disintegration of the body, returning to dust and going down into a cave and the underground returning to the womb only to be reborn. Symbolic dying and entering the cave is also about returning to the unseen to access part of ourselves and Creation that is normally not available to us and our conscious mind. The intent and symbolism of entering the cave in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, returning to the unseen realms of creation to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Binding the arms and legs: Binding the arms and the legs can be seen in many different ways. From a creativity perspective, they represent all the burdens, limitations, entanglements and other restrictions that have been placed on any level of our being and our unique creativity whether willfully, in ignorance, or by accident causing us to restrict our freedom to be fully self expressed in however and whatever way that we freely choose. The bindings have been place there in a variety of ways. Some go back to listening, mimicking, and believing our earliest care givers such as our mother and father, and others in our life such as our family, our friends, our lovers, our teachers, our society and humanity in general. They are placed there at the expense of our own unique creativity and freedom to be self determination at every level of our being. Symbolically they include other limitations carried over from past creative efforts which no longer serve our current creative needs. Others have been paced there simply by the experiences of life we have had and the need to protect ourselves from harm or injury in ways that no longer serve our needs. Others come from mind imposing the past on the unknown of new creative efforts for all mind knows is the past and binds us to the past.

In working with binding the arms and legs, there are a variety of memories, feelings, thoughts and images that can arise. Some are things we carry in our conscious mind that we never seem to forget. Some are of this life and long forgotten memories. Some are of an existence that appear we have never lived or experiences and seem to be pure fantasy. Nevertheless, they are energetically real and represent aspects of our being that bind our creative life energy.

The intent and symbolism of binding the arms and legs in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, those aspects of our being or things which bind our creative life energy that do not support the creation we desire to create to surface them for release. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Removal of binds on the arms and legs: Removing the symbolic binds on our arms and legs represent removal of all the chains and limitations of the past and the burden of all that we have done and been. Removing the binds represent create the space for us to freely express our truth and ourselves true to who and what we are. Removing the binds also can represent freeing us from any vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, silence and similar restrictions that we knowingly or unknowingly placed by ourselves or under the direction of others limiting the free expression of our creative spirit to be self determined at every level of our being. Exactly what we release will depend on the intention we have set and what we desire to create. The intent and symbolism of the removal of binds on the arms and legs in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what we need to do to release those burdens and the like to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Placement of a kiss: A hung and a kiss are similar and means many different things to many different people. In fact, there are probably as many definitions of what a kiss and a huge mean as there are individuals. In general a kiss tends to be more intimate than a hug and represents the desire for a deeper intimacy than relayed in a hug. Within the creativity perspective and rituals the kiss or a hug is a demonstration that we are fully accepted as we are. It demonstrates that we are loved for who we are. It is a demonstration that we do not have to be anything other that who and what we are. We are accepted as we are for who we are. Similarly, placing a kiss on any part of the body represents the acceptance of that part of the body as it is and for what it does. The intent and symbolism of placing a kiss in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, both the body part kissed and to fact it is acceptable and necessary to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Hug/embracement: A hung/embrace and a kiss are similar and means many different things to many different people. In fact, there are probably as many definitions of what a kiss and a hug mean as there are individuals. In general a kiss tends to be more intimate than a hug and represents the desire for a deeper intimacy that relayed in a hug. Within the creativity perspective and rituals the kiss or a hug is a demonstration that we are fully accepted as we are. It demonstrates that we are loved for who we are. It is a demonstration that we do not have to be anything other that who and what we are. We are accepted as we are for who we are. The intent and symbolism of a hug in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, the fact that we are loved and supported for who and what we are and have what is needed to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Hands: Touching and focusing on our hands is about focusing on our ability to feel, to reach out and touch, and to receive pleasure in touch and through touch. They represent our ability to consciously handle and mold the reality we experience The intent and symbolism of working with the hands in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, our ability to handle and mold reality to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Skin: Touching and focusing on our skin is about focusing on our ability to feel but is more about feeling to protect ourselves and our identity. The skin, in addition to being an organ of feeling, "holds us together" and makes us separate from the environment in which we find ourselves. Our skin protect us and gives us our identity. Focusing on the skin is about accepting, respecting and embracing the unique creation within Physical Creation that we. Touching the skin is about facing and releasing the anxiety, fears and the like about being protected and being safe as a unique creation. The intent and symbolism skin in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what the skin provides us and allows us to transcend the limitation of our separateness to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Eyes: Touching and focusing on our eyes is about our ability and our power to perceive and discern truth - to see reality and/or our life for what it is. It is about our ability to clearly see both through the eye of the mind and the eye of the heart is restored. Shifting between the eyes is about knowing and understanding the difference between these two views.

Our eye represent our inner vision and to clearly see the past, present and future. The eyes represent how we have, and are, creating the reality we experience and to see what we need to do and/or become to create what we desire. Removing blinders from eyes invite us to open our eyes to see and look - to look beyond what is in front of us to see ourselves free now and in the future.

The intent and symbolism of the eyes in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into perceive and discern truth and that ability is always available to us to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Ears: Touching and focusing on our ears is about our capacity to hear at any and all levels of our being are restore that ability. We are free to listen to the call of our creative passion and readily discern and hear the voice of our intuitive guidance and our body wisdom in whatever form they may take. List to what we hear. The intent and symbolism of the ears in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, our ability to what we need to hear inside and out to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Lips: Touching and focusing on our lips together represents our ability and power to be free to speak our truth and to actualize the truth of our being. They represent the freedom to take within our being the food and drink that nourishes us to both sustain our being and allow it to grow and expand in whatever way that we wish. The lips are about the freedom to taste and savior the flavors of life and what it has to offer. The intent and symbolism of the lip in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what we speak and what we bring into ourselves at every level of our being to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Nose: Touching and focusing on nose is about the gateway for the breath of life. The nose is about to be free to fully breathe life into our being and be enthused by the breath of life and feel it in all parts of our being. Breathing is about being invigorated to live the passion of our heart in whatever form it takes. The nose is about the freedom to smell the fragrance of life and savior the scents it has to offer. Energetically, through the "sniffles" the nose is about regrets and remorse about the past. The sniffling nose is about need to cry for love or ask for help out of lack and need. It is about grieving.

In breathing through the nose, we recognize our own worth and the gifts we bring and are fully empowered by the breath of life to accomplish whatever we desire. The intent and symbolism of the nose in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into primarily is about what being life into our being and makes us feel alive to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire

Chest/heart: Touching and focusing on chest we touch our heart. It is about our ability and our power to love and be loved. The heart is about our ability to feel the passion within our being, our creative passion, and to be enthused with our own unique creativity. The heart is about the freedom to fully participate in the life that is ours to live and to feel the joy and bliss of life that flows within and through our being. The heat is the about the awareness of our intuitive guidance, body wisdom and our feelings in each and every part of our being to guide us into, and through, the unknown. It is about getting in touch with, and become intimate with our creative spirit. The intent and symbolism heart in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what pumps life into us and instills our creative passion to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Breasts: Touching and focusing on breasts is about our ability and our power to be free to be mothered and to mother. The breasts are about the ability to give and to receive the nourishment and nurturing needed for life. The breasts are about the balance is fully restored only giving and receiving in a way that fully sustains our being and allows us to grow and expand in the experience of life bearing fruits of bliss and joy that can be freely given to nourish others. It is about the freedom of this moment what do we need to do to nourish the release and unfolding of our creative spirit to be true to who and what we are. The intent and symbolism breast in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into what nourishes our life and nourish life of others to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Feet: Touching and focusing on our feet is about our ability and our power to be free to step into life and into the unknown of life and living. It is to know we are free to know that we are protected, loved and cared for by the universe as we step into the unknown of our creative experiences for in the end, we are the creator of the experiences we have. The feet are about the freedom to be fully present wherever we are and wherever we go. In being fully present to wherever we are, we are free to understands ourselves, others and the life that we experience. The feet represent adequately and effectively being grounded to create a flow path that allows the free flow of energy through all parts of our being. Being effectively grounded allows the flow of energy to grow and expand such that we can manifest whatever our heart desires into a physical manifestation. The intent and symbolism feet in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, the mobility to move where we need to move in the way we need to move to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Forehead: Touching and focusing on our forehead we focus on our ability and our power to be free to fully know and understand who you think you are and how you have created the identity that you have. It is about our ability to freely step out of mind and the past that created it. Touching the forehead is about our ability to step out of the mask which mind projects to mask the present moment, so we can see reality and our life in the truth that is. The forehead is about the freedom to be able to embrace ourselves and love ourselves as we are and we are liberated from self criticism and any and all fears that we are in any way inadequate or unable to fully step into and become our unique creative passion. The forehead is about our ability to freely think and to realize and experience the fullness of our unlimited possibilities. The intent and symbolism forehead in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, the fact that it is mind which holds our creativity captive and that we are free to step out of mind to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Crown of the head: Touching and focusing on the crown of our head is about opening the door to understanding and experiencing the unseen realms of the universe. It is about our ability and our power to freely walk though this door without fear. It is about accessing the awareness we only need to choose to understand and experience what the universe has to offer. We are free to explore these unseen realms as we desire. If we desire, we may call upon the universe and the teachers, guides and/or experiences we desire will be provide to us. We only need to be aware they will not necessarily appear in a form that our mind can predict or expects. The intent and symbolism of the crown of the head in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, our connection to the unseen realm of creation and what we believe and think about God to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Navel: Touching and focusing on our navel, we honor the reason for our incarnation and being here in this time and place. It is about opening the door to feeling the flow of energy which brought us into this world and follow to create our life. It is about our ability to freely live and unfold the intention for our life and face all the obstacles to fulfilling the intention as they surface to be addressed. Touching the navel is about being free to see the awareness which lies in the feelings we have to know what direction we must go in life or how to address the obstacles as they arise. It is about the freedom to have the experiences we incarnated to have wherever they lead and whatever they may look like. The intent and symbolism of the navel in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, why we are here and how the intention for our life is related to and/or supports the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Genitals: Touching and focusing on genitals is about touching the source of our masculine and feminine identity and the source of life itself. It is about our ability and our power of both our masculine and feminine aspects of being to create life and bring life into the world that frees our creative spirit at each and every level of our being. It is about restoring the balance between the inner masculine and inner feminine aspects of our being and allow us to fully develop the depth and breath of what it means to be who and what we are in spirit, emotion, body and mind without guilt, remorse, or denial and to freely live the life that has been given to us in all aspects of our being. It is about being free to fully embrace and act on both our masculine and feminine identities. The intent and symbolism in the genitals in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, the inner masculine and inner feminine and what brings life into our being and into the world to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Anal area: Touching and focusing on our anal area is about the gateway for the release of all that no longer serves us and controls all that we hold and all that we release and let go. It is about our ability and our power to release of all that no longer serves us and controls all that we hold and all that we release and let go. It is about the freedom to are free to release and dump all that is no longer needed and/or holding us back or not longer serving us. We are free to release all of our anger, fears, and any conscious or unconscious vows or commitments that are preventing the release of the past and/or the free flow of our creative life energy. We are free to let go of any guilt and remorse of the past and are no longer burdened by anything that can be passed. We are free to let go in any and all ways at all levels of our being. We need to set the intention that we will know in the freedom of the moment to realize what needs to be released that will open the door to freedom at each and every level of our being. The intent and symbolism of the anal area in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what we are holding onto and needs to be released that no longer serves our being to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Blowing into the heart: Blowing into the heart is about catalyzing our creative life and blowing life into us. It is to see our creative spirit is like a glowing ember of a fire. As one blows into the heart, this glowing ember will ignite and begin to glow brightly and become self sustaining. It is about igniting the life which that both warms our inner being and bring an enlightenment to us to light our unique path through life and guide us on our way. Eventually the light will glow so brightly it will shine out lighting the world thought our unique creative spirit and the gifts we bring into the world. Blowing into the heart is about becoming a light unto ourselves and a light to guide others into the joy and bliss of their own hearts. The intent and symbolism blowing into the heart in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, cause what lies in our heart to glow bring like causing the embers of a fire to burst forth to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Nakedness: Nakedness is about openness to the truth of what is and the truth within our being without any covering or hiding from the truth in any way. It is to take away all that covers and hides truth in any way. The intent and symbolism of nakedness in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, being fully open to truth whatever truth looks like to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Cleansing: There are two aspects to cleansing relative to rituals and accessing our creative ability and creative power. One is we view the world we experience through the illusion of our mind. That illusion can be seen as a lens that is dirty that does not allow us to see and experience the truth of what is. As a lens, it must be cleaned inside and out to see clearly. To be open to do what is necessary to clean this filter, we create a ritual and/or metatheater symbolically representing cleaning the inside and outside of the lens. What is done could be as simple as washing the inside and outside of the windows of our house representing our effort to clean the inside and outside of our lens of perception. Or, it could be taking an enema and a shower to was our body and our being inside and out.

The second aspect of cleansing is we need to clean out all that does not serve us and make room for that which does serve. It is like having a house with a room full of furniture. We need to clear out the room of furniture before we can move in new furniture. Here we can clean out old file cabinets, rid our house of old furniture to take an enema to symbolizing removing what is no longer needed and need to be purged.

The intent and symbolism any cleansing in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, what impedes the clarity of our visions and what we need to move out of our life to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Shower/bath: A shower or a bath is about washing off that which comes from the outside to dirty or cloud the filter which we use to view life and Creation. It is about becoming clean externally. The intent and symbolism of an external washing in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into become clean externally to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Enema: An enema is about the washing, cleaning, and removal of that which comes from to inside to dirty or cloud the filter which we use to view life and Creation. It is about removal of all that no longer serves us internally and needs to be flushed out, eliminated, discarded. The intent and symbolism of an enema in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into, removing and cleaning what is inside that needs to be eliminated to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

Sex and sexuality: Sex has been used by some to represent joining and/or creating a new life and it is a very powerful tool literally and symbolically. The topic, "Creative Sexuality" address the issues around the creative use of sexuality or the influences of sexuality on our creativity. However it is NOT recommended that sexuality be used in a ritual way for two basic reasons. One is that sexuality is a mixing and joining of energy and a new life is always created whether or not that life is physical. There will be an energy and life created. The second reason is sexuality is the second most creative state one can enter. The energy giving rise to the thoughts, beliefs, intentions, desires, wants, fears, apprehensions and the like tend to be amplified. Sexual should be reserve for creating life within each individual and between the individuals and unless the life created is desired, sexuality should not be used. The intent and symbolism of sex and sexuality in the ritual is to bring the focus of our attention and awareness onto, or into what creates life within us, within another, between two individual and in the world to support the creation we desire to create. It is to create a memory to catalyze our actions during the creative journey and/or surface the obstructions to address and/or what we need to do to manifest what we desire.

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