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Everyday Calming Rituals
‘A warm, knowledgeable guide that will calm even the most frazzled soul.’ - Poorna Bell, author, In Search of Silence.
Actively working with rituals and your senses to create daily practices that you can draw on to relieve stress is an easy, everyday way to work with your body. This book will enable you to create simple rituals that will allow you to work with your five main senses to ensure you have a first aid kit of emotional associations that will calm you down when you are beset with a racing mind, insomnia or general worry.
Rituals featured include: Vision boards, mindful listening, smudging, self-massage and tea ceremonies. The book also includes daily, weekly and monthly rituals which you can easily integrate into your life.
Actively working with rituals and your senses to create daily practices that you can draw on to relieve stress is an easy, everyday way to work with your body. This book will enable you to create simple rituals that will allow you to work with your five main senses to ensure you have a first aid kit of emotional associations that will calm you down when you are beset with a racing mind, insomnia or general worry.
Rituals featured include: Vision boards, mindful listening, smudging, self-massage and tea ceremonies. The book also includes daily, weekly and monthly rituals which you can easily integrate into your life.
192 pages, Paperback
Published March 5, 2020
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February 24, 2023
A really warm book that isn't preachy and takes care to consider a diversity of people's backgrounds who may be reading this. Although I'm not one for incense meditation, I am keen to try some of her many ideas out to help ground myself and find pockets of rest and gratitude in the day to day.
February 9, 2023
The book started well as I particularly enjoyed the first chapter or so. However, it took a turn, which didn't appeal to me. I completed the book to see if I could connect with it again, I didn't.
February 14, 2026
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Although this touched on aspects of mindfulness, the author lost me when she went into her shamanic practices -- birthing a drum, chanting, and digging her own grave then burying herself alive in the middle of the woods (!!!) were some of the highlights.
I also found some of the suggestions to be a bit gimmicky, like eating fruit beginning with the first letter of that day of the week ("A mango on Monday, a tangerine on Tuesday," she suggests) to make life more ~~fun. Not sure how eating watermelon on Wednesday is going to make me feel calmer...
Although this touched on aspects of mindfulness, the author lost me when she went into her shamanic practices -- birthing a drum, chanting, and digging her own grave then burying herself alive in the middle of the woods (!!!) were some of the highlights.
I also found some of the suggestions to be a bit gimmicky, like eating fruit beginning with the first letter of that day of the week ("A mango on Monday, a tangerine on Tuesday," she suggests) to make life more ~~fun. Not sure how eating watermelon on Wednesday is going to make me feel calmer...
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