Bringing Ritual into Everything I do

and how it has shifted my whole life

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Canele Drawing, work in progress + coffee

We often plan our lives out in order to get to a certain destination. Whether that is a physical place to live, a home to buy, a job to get, a perfect relationship to be in. Even just in our day to day, how to get from here to there, the to-do lists sprawled out ahead of us, the many pieces of a life to put together, over and over again. Our society puts a lot of pressure on us to be in a future-thinking space. I feel technology has enhanced this even more, we are so already in another dimensional space when we are looking into these screens, not as present or available to the environment we are breathing and being in.

I am just as guilty as operating in this way as the rest of us. I have placed a lot of emphasis on future outcomes, which are usually tied up in my own expectations of how I want things to turn out. But in the past year I had to really stay focused as I was working on a large body of work with a looming deadline. I found that ironically, focusing on the time I had and the deadline ahead, would actually constrict my creativity and leave me feeling incredibly blocked. It’s scary to feel blocked when all you want to do is flow. How do we take ourselves out of those patterns? How do we help ourselves free from rigidity into fluidity? I have found that creating acts of ritual has been the key.