Begin Your Answering The Call Ritual
A step by step guide to designing a walking meditation that allows you to meet each season of life with a sense of inner purpose, power, and presence.
This practice is even more important in our modern culture because many leaders fully blend with their protective parts and have limited or no conscious awareness of what it means to embody the qualities of the Self. This is why we start each season with this intentional practice.
To learn more about the purpose and format of this practice, read or listen to The Introductory Guide to the “Answering The Call Ritual.”
Begin your answering the call ritual.
Step into discomfort, try something new and begin your first season of The Embodied Leadership Training Program. If you complete the three-month journey and return here, I promise, from the bottom of my heart, that when you return next season, you will have discovered something deeply profound and special, and your life will be changed forever. This is an initiation into “something to experience.”
Take a moment to call on the qualities of your embodied Self and then read:
"You are crossing a threshold and entering a liminal space. A liminal space is a space between worlds where transformation and change can occur. You are leaving your default world and social environment and going to a place where the normal doesn't work. This is an opportunity to let go and uncover your hidden gifts, just like the hero who leaves her home to go into the abyss … are you ready and willing to start your adventure?
Allow Your Protective Parts To Answer:
YES - Notice, what am I feeling? Where do I feel it? What does it need or want? Then see if your Self can give it what it needs, celebrate to yourself, and move on down the path
Embodied Self: May you get what you came here for.
Go to your first stop on the path or a spot that calls to the qualities of your embodied Self.
Begin Your Answering The Call Ritual:
Embodied Self:
"What do you need to happen here this season?"
Your Parts Answer:
Embodied Self:
"What are you afraid might happen here?"
Your Parts Answer:
Go to your second stop on the path or a spot that calls to the qualities of your embodied Self
Embodied Self:
"What do you need to surrender to be fully present this season?"
Your Parts Answer:
Go to your third stop on the path or a spot that calls to the qualities of your embodied Self.
Embodied Self:
"What may be changed by what you experience this season?"
Your Parts Answer:
Embodied Self:
"Are you willing to step into that challenge?"
Your Parts Answer:
Embodied Self:
"Who is responsible for your experience this season?"
Your Parts Answer:
Close your ritual with a celebration, appreciation, and commitment to making the journey of your practice this season and a walk back to your home.
As you walk home, notice that you have just answered the call and conjured your embodied Self to welcome another season of transformation. Put a pin in how you feel so you can reflect on this experience with the group.
Congratulations to you.
May your practice continue for the good of everyone and everything, and may you get what you are looking for. I look forward to seeing you in the group and/or our 1:1 session