How to Make a Wish

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By mel ash
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This is old pagan Scandinavian method for attaining what you most wish. Do it in the spirit of gaining increased self-awareness and clarity of purpose as well as surrendering attachment to a goal. Just observe the interior state of your mind as you do it. As in most things that are spiritual or emotional, the formalization and physical act of carrying out an unformed wish puts us under a spot light. Look deeply within yourself as you do this.

If your wish comes true, treat it as a bonus. The real boon is that we’re able to overcome feeling foolish or weird and try something new, something you can’t buy in stores.

A wish is the soul’s unspoken, unwritten belief. In fact, the very word “belief”, is a descendant of the old Anglo-Saxon word “life”, meaning quite literally “to wish.” What you wish for, you generally believe. And just maybe, with strong enough belief, it can come true.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Find a secluded area with bare earth. With a twig (or rock or other natural implement) from the immediate area, write or draw a picture or word representing your wish in the dirt. Make sure it includes some aspects of your emotional state, such as “More love,” “less stress”. Or “lessening of guilt.”
Step 2

Now draw a circle around the whole thing with the same implement. Kneeling in front of it, lean over , place your palms on either side of the circle and whisper your wish aloud.
Step 3

Walk away and don’t look back.
Step 4

Do this at the beach, too, or near water, but this time stay and watch as the waves melt away your desire leaving only the blank slate of sand and new possibility once again?
Step 5

This is the hardest part. Forget the wish. Forget ever having performed this mini-ritual. Remember only that you have made your wishes visible in the real world, if only in sand and sea, ephemeral and vanishing like us, ourselves. May all your wishes come true!