Day 3: Melting Beliefs: Part 3

Light the candle. As it burns, vow to remain aware of your feelings during your learning process over the course of this year and a day. As the candle melts your emotionally charged word away, changing its form into something else, imagine that your concepts formed from the past also melt and transform. When the candle finishes burning, take the wax and bury it someplace far from your home.

Note:  A taper candle is a slender (usually slightly conical) candle, sometimes referred to as a dinner candle. I recommend 5- to 6-inch taper candles simple because you can find them almost anywhere, and they don’t take nearly as long to burn as the average 10-inch taper.

Now think over, discuss, and journal about these questions:

• What was it like to take part in this small ritual?
• What emotions did the ritual bring up in me?
• Did I “let go” of anything with this ritual?