The Pekid 7 Step Ritual to Turning Over a New Leaf

What did you say you were going to do this month? Did you say you were going to find a new job? Move to another state? Take more risks than you ever have before? Well good for you! It's about time you shook it up a little and tried something new, exciting and beneficial for your life and your character.

So now that you've decided to turn over this new leaf, how do you memorialize the change? Don't tell me. You're going out to dinner with your family. No? Okay, then you'll probably pop open a bottle of mid-priced champagne and drink until you're tipsy with your giggling and soon to be obnoxious friends.

It's fun doing all of the above - there's no question about that, however, when you step out on faith and make important decisions and life altering changes in your life, the ceremony and celebration needs to start with you first, because out of all those around you helping you celebrate, you life will be affected the most.

A Pekid ceremony or ritual is a spiritual tribute to different stages of change in a person's life and each ritual is a symbol of growth on our journey. The act of "turning over a new leaf" is one of the critical plot points in a person's history and deserves allotted time for symbolic celebration and intense reflection with it's own seven step ritual. The only things you'll need for it is water; jasmine incense; soap; paper; a pen and a quiet place.

Step One - drink a glass of water

Not only for hydration, but water is a symbol for purity and change. When drinking the water reflect on your internal self and feel your inner cleansing and transformation take place.

Step Two - burn incense

Jasmine is good if you have it, but if not, then use a scent that represents plants or nature that symbolizes life and growth outside of you that surrounds you. Try to stay away from scents that imitate perfume or cologne fragrances.

Step Three - write an obituary for what you want changed

Something has to die so that something new might live. For example, if you are now vowing to have more patience with your children, then your impatience is what must die. Give the impatience a name and a gender and write a few sentences about the destruction it caused and how you project your life to be without it.

Step Four - shred the obituary

Once your obituary is written, you have released this energy and your desires into the universe, and there is no reason to hang on to it further. Place the torn pieces into separate trashcans as a symbol of permanence and the undesired item or trait cannot reconstruct itself and become apart of your life as it was.

Step Five - take a shower

The shower is as outwardly symbolic as the glass of water was inwardly. Lather and rinse three times as thoroughly as possible, and once you're out of the shower do at least on thing differently than your normal out-of-the-shower routine. If you normally use lotion, this time, use a thin coat of body oil or if you normally go without a fragrance, spray some on your feet.

Step Six - meditate

Sit somewhere quiet for about five to ten minutes and visualize the changes you want to take place in your life. As W. Clement Stone has been quoted to say: whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve.

Step Seven - feel it

While you are meditating and even after you have stopped, feel your commitment for change fall on you like a heavy rain. It will take discipline to follow through and you will not be able to follow through unless you are completely connected with your intensions and your desire to make this happen.

This is not a perfect world, which means you may stumble a time or two, but never let a set back discourage you. If you should find yourself falling back into old ways, then start over again... and again until you get it right.