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Psychology
How To Unwind Your Unwanted Patterns With Ease
Anthony and I met at Sundance.
He is a Harvard educated Navajo medicine man, with a heart as big as the sun. We bonded over our mutual obsession for an earthwork sculpture jutting into the Great Salt Lake known as The Spiral Jetty. To get there we drove in darkness over unpaved roads, and waited for dawn in silence.
Liminal moments are fleeting and precious.
The Spiral Jetty is the perfect site for a ritual of release. We were both at major transitions in our lives, shedding old selves but not yet sure of our becoming. We walked slowly 1500 ft. to the center of the spiral, thinking of what we wanted to let go. We offered prayers and called in blessings for our new paths.
And then we walked back to shore, without looking back.
You don’t need to go to Utah at the crack of dawn to let go of something that no longer serves you.
You just need to draw spirals.
But you must draw them counterclockwise.
These spirals can be actual doodles with a pen, or traced with a finger in the air or on a surface. Spiral when you think of an unwanted thought, a pattern you want broken or anything that needs to go.
