During my morning ritual - get up at 5am, into sauna for 30 minutes, while reading a book - I came upon such a great way to create life-changing goals, so, of course, I wanted to share with you...
The Arrow Ceremony is handed down by the Great American Indians. This is one group who have never gotten the respect they deserve, don't you think. They were in 'America', where they had lived for eons and were essentially corralled into reservations; a great choice for naming their new homes too if you think about it.
Anyway, here is this vibrant, intelligent, proud group of people with SO much to offer and learn from, yet 'we' put them away because they looked different, thought different and acted differently.
So, the arrow ceremony is a ritual for every New Year's Eve, where the Indians would take pride in creating 3 good arrows and 3 bad arrows. The bad arrows were things or thoughts or conflicts they wanted to get rid of and the good arrows were items they wanted to bring into their lives.
The ritual was to create a ring of tobacco lives where each person in the tribe would enter and silently pray to the Great Spirit to rid them of these items and those arrows would be burned to symbolize death of those traits.
Next, they would go to higher ground, create a new ring and enter with prayers of what they wanted to have manifested in the new year and those arrows would be stuck into the ground as a reminder of the gifts to come.
Read more in the book, Write It Down, Make it Happen by Henriette Anne Klauser, page 203.
Have a great day - You deserve it!!
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