It’s a busy, frenetic world out there. Everyone is going in different directions and moving fast.
How do you make time for connection and rest?
Bringing rituals into everyday activities can help. Allowing time to beautify the environment in which you dine, for instance, whether it’s just for you or for you and your loved ones, can be one small way to enhance the experience of the communion of sharing food together.
Having a table that is just for meals, a sanctified clutter-free zone, and making time to set the stage for the meal can provide an important element to the meal itself. Even if the food is of the ordered-in variety, setting the tone with candles and flowers, plates that you love, and making the setting as pleasing as possible is a signal to the participants that this is an important activity and to make time for it. The ritual of setting the tone provides a fullness that enhances each experience.
Your body will respond to this kind of ‘making space’. It will feel calmer and less frazzled, and more rested. Ritual is a tool to bring more ceremony and calm into our daily lives. You are important and your every day is important. So is your family- whether they are canine, feline, or human.
By living with ceremony, you give permission to yourself and others around you to enter the doorway to having a satisfying experience.