For any of you who feels the energy in your house is a little stagnant and stuck, here’s a little shaman tip to get that Fire Element working for you right away!
Your magic ingredients:
Epsom salts, 91% rubbing alcohol, and ideally a small metal bowl.
Take a handful of the epsom salts and place it in the bowl. Then add about a tablespoon or two of the 91% rubbing alcohol. While standing back at arm’s length, strike a match and light the alcohol soaked epsom salts. It can flare up, so be careful! Then, place the bowl on a book or square piece of wood and begin to walk along the lines of your living room. You can be playing or chanting a mantra as you carry the bowl with the flaming epsom salts, and you want to walk along the walls as well as holding it over the sofa and chairs. As you get the hang of it you will notice when you need to replenish the alcohol to keep it burning. Fire is very purifying, nothing can withstand it. This ritual will help to cleanse your home space, room by room.
Now, as a footnote to this, please,please, please put the bowl in the kitchen sink when you’re done! The flame can still be alive for a while even if it looks like it’s gone out. Remember, I told you.
Additionally, in the positive polarity the number 9 of September represents the themes of completion, self-mastery, intuition, refinement, and a spiritual integrity that attracts new opportunities. We are looking at our relationships at this time and deciding what can stay and what needs to go. The good news is there’s an influx of cosmic energy coming on the 17th of the month that will help to boost you forward. I would call it a “clarifying awakening” that has the power to shine a light on where you have been self-sabotaging and allow you to break free. This is really good news.
If you want to super-charge your personal breakthrough, here’s one of the best mantras for the job. The Adi Shakti mantra has the power to invoke the creativity of the Universe and synchronize the flow of your psyche to new opportunities. This is the way out of that stuck-in-a-rut feeling. Choose your favorite Adi shakti Mantra from whatever music source you’d like. Pick one side of the coin (call or answer) and chant along for 11 minutes. If you do this 31 minutes every day then no negative energies can build up in your living space.
POSTURE: Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine.
MUDRA: Bend the elbows down by the sides. Bring the hands into Ravi Mudra, Sun (ring) finger held down with the thumb, the palms face forward and the fingers point straight up. Keep the other fingers straight.
Important: The wrists are at the level of the shoulders, with the hands in line with the ears. Make sure the spine is kept very straight, and Neck Lock engaged.
EYES: Eyes are closed.
Yogapedia explains Surya Ravi Mudra
Mudras are believed to influence the flow of energy throughout the body. Surya ravi mudra is an hasta (hand) mudra, which is the most common type in yoga; although, there are also head, lock, postural and perineal mudras.
Known in English as the seal of the sun or the seal of life, surya ravi mudra represents vitality, sexuality, energy and balance. It is believed to have these benefits:
Stimulates the nervous system and improves digestion
Strengthens the body and increases stamina
Boosts metabolism
Strengthens intuition
Supports positive transformation