Everything is changing, constantly. Chronic states of stress suppress our systems of healing and calibration. Simple rituals of love, compassion and altruism with ourselves and others can fortify those systems of healing within you.

All of daily life can be seen as a healing of a sort, and healing can be messy.

When things are especially charged and complex, rituals can help because they don’t operate in typical, chronological time. Rituals make space in which we learn how to engage with, and live with, circumstances that bring confusion and challenge. Ritual opens our perspective, guides our emotions and helps us locate options for response and renewal, moment by moment. And while meditation can help create space and time, ritual helps when meditation just isn’t possible.