DAY THREE: GUIDED MEDITATION: REST AND REFLECTION WITH FIRE

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Reflection offerings and practices for the day - Shelley Ostroff

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1. Intentional invitation:  There are many ways to connect with Fire.  Sense into the way in which you would like to deepen your relationship with Fire today.  How can you best create the conditions for this to manifest. 

2. Breathing with Fire:  Spend time with your breath and sense into how the fire element is present in your breath. Sense into how the spark of your soul, the passion that ignites your being and says yes to Life fuels your breath. How is the fire of your soul expressing itself through your breath now? What is it showing you about your relationship with fire?

3. Sensing Fire: Sense into the essence of Fire – the potential of Fire – the birth of a flame, the explosion of a star, the spark of a soul, the potential of radiance coming into being, the potential of all that Fire brings with it. How do you experience Fire in your Life? Sense into your everyday relationship with Fire? In what ways you are conscious/unconscious as to its presence in every aspect of your Life, from the air you breathe, the food you consume, the lifestyle you lead? How is your relationship with your own energy reflected in your relationship with Fire, and what are the consequences for you and for the environment of this relationship? How does your culture relate to Fire? What are the short term and long term consequences of this relationship with Fire? What would you like to see transformed in your own relationship with Fire? In your culture’s relationship with Fire?

4. Reflecting Fire: How is your relationship with Fire reflected in the way in which you experience your own energy over time?  In what ways do you express and engage with your fieriness? When you look in the mirror what kind of Fire do you remind yourself of?  How does your own fire need to be tended to, in order to radiate its fullness in Life-enhancing ways? How does the element of Fire feel about the way in which you relate to it, engage with it, use it, honor it? Look at yourself from the perspective of Fire’s experience of you? What is it showing you about how you impact it and what it would want from you in order to be in healthier and more honoring relationship with it?

5. Embodying Fire: Imagine yourself as Fire. Let yourself sense into the Fire in you. As you become fire in your imagination, what happens to your body? Allow your body to become the dance of Fire. Perhaps it is the fire of a candle burning in the darkness, perhaps it is the warmth of the Suns rays, perhaps it is a raging Fire burning all that no longer serves Life, perhaps it is a fire out of control, perhaps it is a spark waiting to be ignited. Perhaps it is the experience of moving through all of these and more – what is your dance of Fire today?

6. Fires of the Soul:  What fires you up? What sparks your imagination, your passion, your courage, your rage, your creativity? What enlivens you in ways that are nourishing for you and for the world around you? What is that remembrance of the spark that feels like it is your soul’s deepest purpose? How do you nurture that fire? How do you radiate that Fire from within? How would your human and non-human environment experience that soul passion in its fullest manifestation?

7. Messages from Fire: In your imagination – sit by the fire and watch its dance. Imagine that in the flames it holds a message for you? What is the fire showing you? What is the wisdom message that Fire is offering you? What would you be if you integrated this lesson from Fire? Imagine that the Fire is offering you a message for humanity? What would that message be?

8. Messages for Water: What would you like to tell Fire? Imagine it as a conscious being with whom you are in relationship – what would you like to tell fire about yourself, about humanity, about what you need from it, about what you would like to offer it in return.

9. Message from the Lions: Sense into the Radiance of the Lions and Lionesses and their connection with the Fire element.  Take inspiration from our gateway on Sacred Relationship where we honour the White Lions and Lionesses and the work of Linda Tucker and Jason A. Turner.

10. Art from the Heart of Fire:  Sense into the way in which this dialogue with Fire wants to express itself through the Heartist you in any art form you wish. Offer your own courageous heart offering to the Heart of Fire