The Beginner’s Guide to EXTREME Candle Meditation
April 23, 2009
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Wow! What an awesome idea! I’ve done lots of the ordinary candle meditations before, but never anything like this. I’ve never even stopped to think that something like this would even be possible! I love this idea! it’s full of love, light, oneness, and peace. It’s perfect magick! I can’t wait until my daughter comes this Summer, she would LOVE doing this! Thank you for the great idea!
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Hey Lisis, great post. I’ve never actually heard of Candle meditation, it sounds a bit dangerous knowing my luck
P.S. On a side note could you allow the full-feed via RSS? I know a lot of people who aren’t really a fan of a couple of extra clicks and it’s a lot easier to read everything at once.
Cheers,
Glen
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@ Glen: Absolutely, and thanks for mentioning that. I was just discussing the pros and cons of full vs partial feeds this weekend, and pretty much was leaning towards full… you’ve just confirmed that decision for me. I really appreciate helpful feedback! As for the candles… you may need to get someone to supervise you.
@ Jay: This is truly some fun and crazy stuff. Ali spent most of the weekend melting candles with my son so she’ll be able to testify to the wonders of Extreme Candle Meditation when she gets online. Kids especially love to do this because normally they are told not to play with fire. As long as you are careful about how you do this, it really is very safe.
Hi Lisis,
Very cool!
I think I will give it a try since it is so different from the traditional candle meditation!
Hope all is well!
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Lisis, What a fantastic idea, I have never heard of this. Perfect for kids, and so whimsical I love it. I do enjoy candle meditations occasionally, especially my own form of bathtub/bubblebath/red wine/candle meditation, which is a little unorthodox, I realize:-) My ‘formal’ meditation practice is a chakra-based form, but I mix it up with – I think different ‘techniques’ help us free up different parts of our awareness, and there is value to switching it up sometimes, so I try and do that…
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Lisis,
Nice idea! It looks like a lot of fun.
I’ll never look at candles and crayons the same again.
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Lisis, you need to post a newer picture of the candle art table! Hunter and I built up some pretty cool things over the past week, including enormous volcanic craters that carved powerful rivers and valleys through the wax landscape, not to mention the crayon box castle!
It really was meditative. I had so much fun with it that I even continued after Hunter went to sleep. There’s something relaxing about staring at a flame in the near-darkness… it was calm in the house, so peaceful. I was literally miles away from my troubles, but also mentally free from them.
I’m going to send you a big box of crayons and candles so that you can continue this mindfulness exercise. I am also going to more regularly practice Lisa’s (MommyMystic’s) style of candle meditation (above), as that is another one of my favorites. : )
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Hey, Lisa! Yeah, I almost forgot about the bathtub/bubblebath/red wine/candles technique for highly advanced Yoginis like ourselves. That one is pretty key to my practice as well, though it works best sans kids.
There’s Ali… I’m glad you chimed in here because I know you spent some quality time with our candle art table this past week. We had an insane waterfall of “lava” flowing last night (had to keep swapping out the containers to catch the wax as it ran over the side of the table!) It was a little too extreme to be entirely meditative, but it was a great bonding exercise. Hunter said that was the coolest candle art ever! I thought we were seriously about to have ourselves a little incident, though. I’m ready to get back to the slow drip version instead. Thanks for playing/ meditating with us!!!
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Oh my goodness. This is just completely fabulous! I totally love this idea
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Thank you! I am so glad you like it, and I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know.
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Lisis – What an amazing post! I love the alternate use of crayons, and, with fire involved? It’s a sure winner.
Doing it with others and making it meditative is definitely icing on the cake! Thank you for sharing this -
Oh, this is a big winner… great way to bond with kids and get them unplugged from electronics. NOTHING is more interesting to a kid than getting to play with fire! Even when I do it alone, though, I find it to be a soothing, mind-clearing activity. Kinda nice to have the “art” as a constant reminder of our meditating and bonding times.
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I’m a bit late to this discussion, but having found this post I think it’s a brilliant idea. Want to rush out now to find a decrepit old coffee table and start. We have so many crayons that the kids no longer use! They would love this! Tomorrow’s activity methinks….
Oh, it is such a wonderful way to relax that now I often find myself doing candle art even when he isn’t in the mood for it! Also, I’ve started taking pictures of the wax when it starts to flow, and creating art I frame to use around my house. So can see some of those here: http://lisismb.deviantart.com/ (in case you are curious).
Thanks for being here, Princess Kate!