A Winter Solstice Ritual: Embracing Yin, Quiet, and Stillness

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What if embracing darkness could lead to a more profound sense of peace and purpose? During this episode, we challenge the typical winter focus on light and festivities, suggesting an alternative approach that honors the quiet beauty of darkness. By turning away from the bright lights of the holiday season, we offer insights into how the winter solstice can serve as a time for deep reflection and stillness. Discover how engaging in retreat-like behaviors and rituals can help you nourish those often-overlooked parts of yourself, fostering an atmosphere of tranquility amidst the seasonal chaos.

Join us for an enlightening discussion as we share a special winter solstice ritual, inviting you to experience the power of silence and stillness by turning off all the lights and simply being present. We explore the value of postponing new intentions, allowing a deeper sense of purpose to naturally emerge from the silence. Enhance your winter with practices like meditative reflection, qigong, and dreaming, tapping into the yin energy of the season. Embrace this opportunity to quiet your mind and let the darker days guide you to a place of inner calm and clarity.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
this is a time when many traditions celebrate the
light.
We light candles, we put upChristmas tree lights and
there's Kwanzaa a big tendencytowards celebrating the light.
And the counsel would be whynot celebrate the dark?
We certainly don't spend oursummer solstice celebrating the

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dark.
We celebrate the light and thenmidwinter we go to celebrate
the light.
And the question is what is itthat we skip when we don't also
celebrate the dark?
This is a very yin time of yearwhere we have a chance to slow
down and to nourish those deeperasks of ourselves that aren't

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nourished by doing an activity.
So going on retreat is verybeneficial and there's a way
where we can incorporateretreat-like behavior and
conduct into our winter dailyrituals and also if we want to

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do a specific ritual in thewinter solstice.
So I'm going to describe aritual that I like to do during
the winter is to turn off allthe lights.
Let it be at dark time, in thenight time, make sure everything

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is as dark and dark as possible, and to simply sit in that
darkness by yourself, withfamily, with friends, and feel
into the stillness and the rest,with the time to be, with not

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knowing being in the quiet.
Many people set intentions thistime of year as to what they
want to do for the new year andkind of thinking of this time as
a new beginning.
But that council is alsoinstead, maybe use this time as

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not as a new beginning but as anothingness, and wait a month or
two to set the intentions.
When we allow ourselves todeeply be in not knowing and
stillness, a deeper sense ofwhat it is that will nourish our

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lives emerges.
But I don't think we can get toknowing what it is we want
without entering into deepsilence.
This is the time of year whenwe can deepen our meditative
practices, our qigong and ourdreaming.
Thank you for listening.
I hope your winter is deep andquiet.