Things happen around us, and we react — often with emotion. Especially in crucial relationships, between friends, family, at work, and all through the human landscape — we react with emotion.
But between the thing that happened (which we can usually agree on as a “fact”), and our emotional reaction, is something we don’t pay much attention to: a story we tell ourselves. Our story is often quite below our radar.
“Pay attention to your thoughts!”
This is the command we hear that tells us how to improve our lives. But how? The way to pay attention to our thoughts is by consciously ritualing with them. Using ritual to discover and to develop the thoughts, feelings, sensations, and intuitions that are the most meaningful and useful to us is the essence of being qualiadelic.