Find Your Real Self
with Bedtime Rituals
by Jon Robertson
 Our most life-changing experiences take place in the bedroom. Many of us are born there. We cry there, make love there, pray there, and some even die there. The bedroom is home to our prayers and dreams, our solitude and sexuality. In this inner sanctum, where secrets and spirituality merge, we shed the masks we wear in our public lives and every night become whole again.
Stop and think of the bedroom’s awesome power. Whatever occurs during a busy day, we ultimately return to the bedroom after we leave in the morning. This quiet curtained chamber, with its bed, dressers, and closets, is where we release a breath at day’s end, change into soft clothes, or go completely naked without a care. For many of us, the bedroom is our stress-free zone of solitude and relaxation.
We share our love in the bedroom and create life itself there with our bodies and our hearts. So intimate, private, and personal is the bedroom, it is the perfect place to reconnect with your soul through personal rituals and celebrations that you can create yourself.
There is a link between what we do in this mystical, powerful space and the harmony or disharmony in our lives. If we rediscover the bedroom through its hidden symbolism, we can begin to heal much of our confusion about life, love, and personal identity. Discovering the potential of the sacred in our bedrooms can help us in every other aspect of our lives.
To use your bedroom for personal rituals and celebrations, begin by arranging the room simply, using the principles of feng shui, if you wish. Next, bring into the room symbols for what you hold sacred: emblems of your spirituality, religious images, figures, or Scriptures that you hold dear. Find a dresser top or small table on which to display them, and let this be your altar — a special setting for your sacred objects.
With your sacred objects displayed, next create new daily habits for practicing a more sacred life through ritual. Rituals help us fully live what we believe in our hearts by creating the outward evidence for what we think...
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Copyright
Jon Robertson. This article was originally
published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in August
2001,
as part of Soulful Living's "Personal Rituals" Issue.
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