HEALING INTENTIONS
The Institute for Peace and Joy and Burnsville Counseling and Healing Center are collaborating on this project. Our goal is to make a significant impact on our communities through the focused intentional thought or prayer of groups of people. We expect to enlist hundreds of people to join with us in holding this intention over the next 4 months.
The Intention:
That people experience peace, connection and kindness with their neighbors.
Healing Intentions Guidelines:
1. Gather with a group of people. This may be as few as 2 and increase to any size. Ask one person to keep time and speak the intention.
2. Prepare your space by making sure that for this period you will not be interrupted. You may wish to light a candle.
3. Prepare yourself by sitting comfortably. Take 3 deep breaths and focus your attention on your heart.
4. Read the intention out loud.
5. Bring the words into your heart. Focus on the words or the meaning of the words: what this might look like and feel like to you.
6. Spend 3 minutes holding this intention. If your mind wonders, bring it gently back to the intention.
7. At the end of the 3 minutes ring a bell or simply let people know the time is complete.
8. Invite people to share their experience – thoughts, feelings, or images that may have come up during the meditation.
We are asking groups to follow this process each time they meet between May 1 and August 31. In September we will have a gathering of people who participated in this project and provide feedback regarding the experience.
If you are aware of other groups who meet regularly and might be interested in helping hold this intention, please feel free to pass it on and ask them to let us know who they are so we can be supportive. Every few weeks we will update groups about the interest that is being generated for this project. In order to do this we are asking for an e-mail address of one person in the group with whom we can make contact.
We are grateful for your willingness to participate in this project.
If you plan to join us in this please send us an email by clicking here inpeaceandjoy@msn.com
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