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Recognising the physical signs of death: A guide for keeping vigil
The post describes the emotional experience of keeping vigil with a dying loved one and offers guidance on recognising physical signs of death and steps to take afterward. It emphasises the importance of cultural rituals, notifying necessary parties, and seeking support. The article aims to help others navigate this challenging time with dignity and care.
The importance of soft lighting in keeping vigil: creating a comforting atmosphere
Creating a comforting environment during a vigil is crucial for supporting both the dying person and their loved ones. Soft lighting plays a key role by promoting relaxation, reducing stress and physical discomfort, and enhancing intimacy and emotional well-being. Practical tips for implementing soft lighting include using dimmer switches, lamps, candles, string lights, natural light, and light diffusers. Choosing warm-toned bulbs and adjustable lighting helps maintain a serene and nurturing atmosphere, providing solace during this emotional time.
Aromatherapy and Keeping Vigil: Enhancing Comfort and Connection
Keeping vigil with a dying loved one is a profound way to show support and love. This time can be filled with emotional intensity, making it essential to create a comforting and serene environment. Aromatherapy, the use of essential oils to promote physical and emotional well-being, can be a valuable tool in enhancing the experience.
How meditation can help you stay healthy.
You’ve likely heard about the health benefits of yoga in improving mental and physical health and improving flexibility, and you might assume that meditation is the same thing. Although meditation can certainly be incorporated into yoga, it is an entirely different practice.
Keeping vigil: A guide to supporting a dying loved one
When a loved one is nearing the end of their life, many people find solace in keeping vigil by their side. This act of being present, often quietly and attentively, is a profound way to show support and love. Keeping vigil is an age-old practice that can provide comfort to both the dying person and their family and friends.
Making Your Wedding Ceremony Uniquely Yours.
A personalized wedding not only stands out in the memories of those who attend but also creates an intimate, meaningful experience for the couple. This blog will guide you through various aspects of customizing your wedding ceremony to make it uniquely yours.
In Praise of the Potter’s Pace: The Gentle Art of Slow Creation
In a world that incessantly hustles, the methodical steps of pottery feel like a gentle rebellion. There’s a soothing cadence in the wait for the clay to dry, the deliberate application of glaze, the eager anticipation as the kiln fires the piece into existence. Every stage is a testament to the idea that beauty not only takes time—it thrives on it.
The Soulful Alchemy of Pottery: Rekindling a Love Affair with Clay
When the wheel starts to spin, and the clay begins to take shape, the world falls away. There’s only the mud and me, a dialogue between my hands and my heart. Each piece I craft is a silent conversation, a narrative of my innermost feelings and experiences. This dialogue with clay is meditative; it requires a presence that washes away all else, a focus that is both grounding and liberating.
Writing your own vows Part 1
Your vows are one of the most important parts of your big day. With all the excitement and planning, party preparation and all that goes in to creating the perfect celebration, the vow is often left to the last minute. This guide will help you to create the perfect vow, to write and declare a promise on your #wedding day that you will remember and will be happy to be bound to for ever.
Embracing the Happy Accidents: My Journey with the Goblin Incense Burner
In pottery, as in all creative endeavors, it’s not the flawless execution but the genuine expression that holds the most profound beauty. Like the strokes of Bob Ross’s brush, which turned blunders into mountains and spills into rivers, the goblin incense burner stands as a charming tribute to the philosophy that every mistake is a step in the dance of creation.
Unveiling the Meditative Magic of Pottery: A Path to Mindfulness and Creativity
Pottery is not just about creating beautiful objects; it’s a profound journey into the world of meditative practice and personal expression.
HOW THE MOON PHASE ON YOUR WEDDING DAY CAN INFLUENCE YOUR RELATIONSHIP
Planning your wedding and choosing the perfect date can be an overwhelming task, especially in the current state of the world. It may be difficult to feel romantic and coordinate special events as the coronavirus pandemic continues to present itself as a real threat....
The Digital Book of Shadows: Embracing Modernity in Witchcraft
Introduction The Book of Shadows is a sacred and personal tool used by witches to record their rituals, spells, correspondences, and spiritual experiences. Traditionally, it was kept in a physical form, often a handwritten journal or a collection of papers. However,...
Natural remedies for depression
People experience periods of sadness, feeling out of sorts, a bit blue, detached and other variations of mood at different points during their life. Depression occurs when these feelings become a persistent state of being rather than a passing mood.
Listening to your body for better health.
For many of us, better health does not come naturally. It is usually something we must work on in order to lead healthy lives and have overall excellent health. This means listening to your body and understanding what it is telling you about what is going on inside of your body.
FINDING YOUR SACRED GIFTS – eBook
Where Does Your Life Exist? YOUR PERSONAL GUIDEBOOK TO FINDING OUT WHAT MATTERS TO YOU.There is nothing more wonderful than getting to know oneself. The journey within starts with one question:What matters is our courage, our bravery, and our belief in our self, but...
Which Crystals Are Good For Meditation?
Using a crystal in meditation acts as a visual aid to clear the mind or hold an intention for your meditation.
Five spells you must have in your book of shadows
Creating a spell is an individual and creative process, so there are many different ways to go about it. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, some types of spells you may want to add include protection spells, healing spells, prosperity spells, divination spells, and spells for invoking love or communication.
Building your own Grimoire (/ɡrɪmˈwɑːr/ grim-WAHR)
Creating a grimoire can be a very rewarding and personal experience. It is a place where you can store all of your magical knowledge, spells, and rituals.
Do you want to know who your future spouse might be?
A sweet and simple spell to learn the initials of your future spouse. Do you want to know? Are you game to try?
Mother Goose protection spell
Mother Goose rides through the air on a very fine gander. Today, Mother Goose is limited to the nursery, her rhymes intended to entertain only children, yet Mother Goose’s namesake bird links her to a host of powerful spirits: Aphrodite, too, rides through the air on...
Simple ritual to find your true love
On mid-summers eve, set a plate of flour under a rosemary bush at midnight. In the morning, you may find the initials of your true love traced in the flour.
Rituals for marriage
Because marriage, hand fasting, or any ritualized union is one of the major thresholds of life, it’s perceived as a time of tremendous power, promise, and vulnerability. The entire marriage ceremony, the arrangements preceding it, and postnuptial celebrations may be...
Manifesting with the moon
The presence of a full moon is an opportune time of the month for purging rituals to take place. The light the full moon offers illuminates those things that are interfering with our spiritual advancements. Once we have become enlightened to ways that are blocking us, the easier to let go.
Bride’s Anti-Evil Eye Spell
One of the psychic dangers inherent on the Wedding Day is that so much celebration and happiness will inevitably attract the envious eyes of jealous spirits, or the Evil Eye. Among those perceived as vulnerable to the Evil Eye, brides rank highest, right alongside...
Creativity Exercise – Image Streaming
Are you keen to find ways to increase your creativity? If so, you might like this exercise. I find it really gets you into a habit of thinking creatively, noticing rich details and really engaging your senses. You can do this exercise with a friend, or make a voice...
Activate an Engagement Ring
When choosing your engagement rings, emerald is by far the best choice for promoting and preserving love and long-term relationships. However the following ritual transforms any ring into an enchanted ring of love. Once you have obtained your ring, tie it to a red...
Bouquet spells
Presenting someone with a bouquet of flowers was once a method of delivering a spell right into your target’s hands. The “Language of Flowers,” whereby each type of flower represents a specific message, originated in the harems of the Middle East, where secrecy regarding romantic intrigues was crucial.
The Triple Goddess: 7 ways to connect the Mother aspect.
Mother’s Day. A day for all mothers, a day to celebrate the mother we have, the mothers we are, the mother we want to be, the mother that taught us, the mother that loved us, the shadow mother, the bearer of fruit, of creativity, of love and of joy. What does it...
How do I love the?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need,...
Each of us have the ability to deepen our intuitive knowing.
When we develop this deep sense of knowing, we can make use of it to help navigate through the sometimes stormy waters of our daily lives; use it to help is make decision that are fulfilling; and most importantly, use it to discover a path that keeps us living in a life we love.
When we learn how to hone our skills and start to pay real attention to our inner voice, we soon discover that it points us in the right direction. Developing a strong intuition and learning to trust it gives us a new way of knowing or seeing the truth without need for explanation, double guessing yourself.