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How do you hold sacred space?

Wanda Buchleitner-Garstad • Oct 01, 2018

Holding sacred space for yourself, for your life and for others is one of the best ways to stay connected, honour yourself, others, your spiritual source and the world around you.

Whether you do this by simply listening to your inner knowing, holding patience for yourself, deeply listening to another (without needing to respond or fix), witnessing your world from a place of neutrality or creating an environment to do spiritual practices, a sacred space, inside or out, is a powerful place to experience.

Holding sacred space allows you to be with an energy that informs you of a greater presence, honouring what is (not what you want it to be) and allowing for something bigger than you, to hold you.

In my practice, it is often said that I create sacred space. I would agree to a certain extent, as what we think we create, but in my experience with energy, I do not create it, I simply open a container where sacredness already exists.

There is a sacredness in everything, if you choose to be with it.

Sacred space is in nature, in a church, in an office, in a workshop, in a hospital, in a prison, sacredness to me, is also anywhere where there is life and death and that is everywhere if you really think about it.

Sacredness is inside of you.

To create sacred space is simply a way to hold yourself, your heart & your spiritual source in a space of your choosing, for who you choose. What ever it is in the form of, a honouring and gratitude of a personal inner gift or conflict, space to hold others in, or a place to pray, send intent, it doesn’t really matter, the art of holding sacred space is accessible to us all.

This is a beautiful way to feel and be connected to all that is, everything touches something else I have heard it said and believe that to be true for myself. To take the time to open this sacred space is a huge energy gain and we can all use that in this busy world.

With one reminder! Care for the space you open. If you open sacred space outside of yourself and it’s not in a alter/mesa form, protect & honour your energy and others by closing it as well!

I invite you to open this space anywhere, in yourself or your world, especially where it is most needed. Remember it holds you and so much more.

For further info and hints go to my toolbox, book an appointment to further discover sacred space or have a look at the upcoming workshops and offerings that may speak to you.

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