rituals
How to design your own rituals
Creating personal rituals that serve your specific needs only takes a bit of observation, experimentation, and reflection.
Creating personal rituals that serve your specific needs only takes a bit of observation, experimentation, and reflection.
- Start with observation. Notice the moments in your day when you feel scattered, stressed, or disconnected. These transition points are perfect opportunities for designing a new ritual.
- Next,
Why your brain needs everyday rituals
Rituals are like a software upgrade for your nervous system. They affect your brain and body in three specific ways:
- Calm. Rituals help quiet the brain’s threat-detection system, especially the amygdala. When that system calms down, we feel more grounded. This is one reason repeating familiar sequences of actions helps during chaotic transitions.
Why your brain needs everyday rituals
Ritualization is a potent stabilizing agent, a simple salve for a stressful time if only we are mindful of how we use its powers.
The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual
Second, in doing so, ensure your rituals are sufficiently striking to effectively shift your mental state into something more supportive of your goals.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Why your brain needs everyday rituals
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Ritual Design Toolkit – A process & toolkit that anyone can use to design secular rituals.
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The subconscious responds deeply to strong emotions associated with a particular behavior, which explains why so many manifesting practices revolve around rituals, typically acts that are performed repeatedly in a precise manner. Ritual is one of the most potent ways of aligning our conscious and subconscious minds into focus, allowing us to enter
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