-Short Version-
The Labyrinth Process: What Matters To Your Heart

When you have only a small amount of time…

1. Place your hands over your heart. Breathe into this space.
2. Ask: What really matters to my heart? If I could have anything, no matter how small or big, what would that be? Just a one-word answer will work.
   
3. Next, ask to know what is the opposite of my heart’s desire? What is keeping me from what I truly desire? Again, a one-word answer will work.
   
4. Hold both of these opposite images in your mind’s eye, equally. Then, take at least three, or more, deep breaths into your heart and hands while thinking of these two images/concepts.
   
5. Then let them go.
   
6. Take another breath and ask to know a third new thing. Be curious as to what will come. A single word or image will work
   
7. Take a few more breaths and be with this new awareness
   

-Long Version-
The Labyrinth Process: What Matters To Your Heart?

When you have some time to explore these opposites in more depth using the Santa Rosa design or any other labyrinth you have access to.

Materials Needed:

1. A journal & pen or pencil
2. Art materials: paper, colored-markers, pencils, crayons, paints, clay, or any other desired medium.
3. Finger labyrinth (any design will work, the longer the path, the longer the contemplation).
4. Or you can use a permanent or temporary walking labyrinth
   

The Seven-Steps: What do you want to explore? Or, what problem are you dealing with? Almost anything that comes to mind has an opposite. Take one side and begin.

1. What really matters to my heart? If I could have anything, no matter how small or big, what would that be? Use your journal or art materials to write about this or draw your image, or the colors that represent what matters to your heart. What shape, form, color, or image would best describe this first exploration of opposites?
   
2. What gets in the way of what matters to my heart? Using a different page of your journal or a second piece of art material, ask to know what is the conflicting polar opposite of my first image? What is keeping me from my heart’s desire? What shape, form, color, or image would this opposite look like?
3. Reflect on the conflict or struggle between these two images, or concepts while walking, or finger-walking the labyrinth. Keep your mind focused on both of them and don’t linger more on one or the other.
4. When you reach the center of the labyrinth, release these first two images, let them go. Then, ask to know a third new image or concept.
5. Walk, or finger-walk, your way back out of the labyrinth with this new image and/or concept.
6. Use your journal or art materials to create this third newly discovered image or concept in response to the experience of having walked, or finger walked the labyrinth. What shape, form, color, or image emerged for you in the labyrinth?
7. Identify and discuss (if by yourself, journal) any new self-awareness resulting from considering your original focus or exploration of opposites within the whole experience.
   
   
   If you have any questions or would like for me to be a witness and hold space for you in doing either the short or long versions of this process, please contact me through the following button. This process can be done over the phone, on zoom, or in-person (with social distancing and COVID guidelines).

To learn, or remember, how to pray the Rosary (non-denominational) please visit:

 The Way of the Rose: A New Way That Is Really An Old Way 

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