But if I go to a friend with a problem and they're looking deeply into my eyes, I feel like they are really present and connected to me. If I'm talking to someone and they're not looking at me, I don't feel like they're really interested in me. Energy comes across in our body language, movements, actions, how we are talking, and the look in our eyes. Notice the environment around you and how you can sense the energy level of the group. How did you know if people were excited? Were people standing up and cheering or dancing? When people applauded, what did you feel inside? How were people sitting? Did people look interested or bored and tired? How about the teacher or facilitator, did their voice drone on, or were they excited? Now think about a concert or sports event. Think about the last meeting or class you were at. So sensing energy is largely becoming observant. I can also see energy through the physical reality of body language. Breathing in oxygen, there's a chemical reaction and we exhale carbon dioxide chemical reactions release energy. I sense energy more kinesthetically, and I also work with energy less as a metaphysical thing, and more as the life-force cycled from our bodies. While some ritualists may be gifted with the ability to see auras and energy, I'm not among them. Excitement is contagious, and if you are invested in the energy, then your participants will be more willing to buy into it and commit their energy as well. Having talent as a singer, drummer, musician, or dancer can help, it's perhaps more important to have a team of people that is engaged, excited, and willing to model the energy as an example. This article offers some of the tools from an energy intensive I co-taught in Chicago for Imbolc of 2009.įacilitating ecstatic energy is the ability to sense energy and the ability to understand the logical energetic flow of any event. Despite the challenges, there are some skills, tools, and processes that you can use to help build potent, transformative energy in rituals. Many ritualists get a chant going only to find the group stops singing it as soon as that ritualist pauses to take a breath. Raising energy in ritual can be a difficult ritual function to facilitate. Have you ever worked to build ecstatic energy in rituals? The chant moves into a tone that rises and falls like a fire at the bellows until we hold the silence together. Our prayer is singing, movement, rhythm, and our shared intention. I am singing for my gift, and for the gifts of everyone there. Our song is a prayer for transformation, a prayer for our individual gifts to be transformed on Brigid's Forge into their highest potential. We drop the chant down to a whisper, then bring it back up again. We draw closer I look into the firelit eyes of people around me and we smile as we sing. I move the drum beat, and the drum beat moves me. The energy builds and slows then rises up again. Every kind of negative karma can be purified by the sacred homa fire, due to divine grace.Together we are singing, moving, dancing, chanting, and drumming around the fire in the center of the circle. The element of fire is associated with the upward motion of the divine kundalini energy and is considered to be the most powerfully purifying element. The energetic vibrations that are invoked during a traditional Vedic fire ceremony represent the most powerful presence of the Divine on Earth. Even the damaging effects of natural catastrophes can be reduced through the performance of homas. The smoke that rises from a homa contains a powerful healing energy, and as it rises to the heavens it purifies the atmosphere, both physically and subtly, encouraging a peaceful environment and gentle weather. Special offerings are cast into the fire while Sanskrit mantras are chanted, and the combined energy of the fire, offerings, and mantras generates powerful spiritual vibrations that bless and purify everyone present, spreading peace and healing through the world. It is a fire in which forms of the Divine are invoked through the power of mantra and profound spiritual intention. Homa is the most ancient and sacred ceremony in the Vedic tradition of Sanatana Dharma.
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