The Living Tree

This set of exercises is intended to make you more aware of the impact of holding onto those areas and things within our lives that are no longer productive.

Opening to The Mother

Active Engagement

Think back to a time when you felt truly nurtured, loved and cared for. Was it through the sense of touch, of sight, of a familiar smell of a favorite food being prepared lovingly for you? Try to recreate these feelings and senses as accurately as possible.

• For the next two weeks, each day create an opportunity to express this cared for feeling to someone you know.

• For the following two weeks, each day randomly select someone you don't know and do something thoughtful for that person. Because of the added element that they do not know you, this will probably take the person by surprise. Be creative, and see how a random act of kindness can share a feeling of being "cared for".

 Journaling

Finding Your Place of Understanding

There are frequently times when we wish we had said or done something differently when confronted with a person or certain situation. These thoughts come in hindsight and many times, if we think more deeply on the situation, clues and other levels of understanding come to the front that were completely missed in the energy of the exact moment.

Reflecting on these additional bits of information may not change the outcome, but they do offer opportunities for a greater level of understanding, both about the nature of our response mechanisms and also about the person or situation that arose. Becoming aware of these energetic patterns, we can then choose to hold onto what is of productive nature and/or abandon those responses that are limiting and blinding to the truths being presented.

• Think back to an event or situation that recently occurred where the outcome was not as you wished. Write this experience down and make particular note of what you felt impacted this negative outcome.

• Now, seeing through the the clarity and caring nature of Binah's right action, write down the information you wish you had been aware of that would have changed your response. Make a list of those things that if you had a deeper understanding of their nature would have either changed your opinion, or in thinking more deeply- would have caused you do give greater emphasis in a particular direction.

 Meditative Focus 

Meditation on the Magickal Image of Binah

"A Mature Woman"

Quiet your mind and then allow your consciousness to be drawn into this picture.  What secrets would you share with this woman? What would you place in her trust?