Not every meditation must enter darkness to find stillness. Some arrive smiling, impossibly pink and floating through the air. The Pink Elephant Meditation is a playful visualization for moments when the mind feels heavy, the mood has darkened or negative emotions have begun to repeat themselves. It uses breath, color and imagination to change the...
Some rituals leave a silver hush behind them. The candle has gone dark and the last thread of incense has disappeared, yet part of the mind still seems to linger inside the circle. Thoughts move strangely. The body feels distant, as though the spirit has not entirely returned from wherever the spell carried it. Grounding...
Magic begins before the candle is lit. It begins in the moment when a single thought is chosen from the hundreds moving through the mind—and held there. Without concentration, an intention flickers. The words of an incantation become ordinary sounds. A carefully constructed image dissolves before it can gather power. The wandering mind creates wandering...