What Is Puja? How to Incorporate Rituals in Your Daily Life
Puja (pūjā) is a devotional ritual that you can use as an evolutionary tool in your life.
Puja is a conscious ritual that replaces unconscious rituals in our lives.
We are filled to the brim with unconscious rituals that happen out of habit. And our reactions are there as such.
So, we start our mornings with puja as a way to organize ourselves in a container or a space that allows the supreme intelligence of nature to also support us in our conscious evolution.
It’s a very holistic practice that goes in tandem with your breathwork, your meditation, your asana, your wisdom—all of it comes together so that way, you're on a path of living enlightenment.
Now, puja itself can look like many things. So long as you are opening yourself up to a state of receptivity and a state of gratitude and dropping into the heart, you’re already doing a puja!
It can be as simple as offering for the elements or lighting a candle. However, the mantras, the tools and technologies, and the offering styles that I'll be sharing with you all come from a time-tested experience based in conscious action over the course of thousands of years that we get to tap into today. We get to receive that benefit, that charged up energy to further our growth and development along just little bit quicker.
So, take anything that works for you, maybe you do it all, maybe you do some, maybe you just listen, or maybe you create a certain ritual that allows you to tap into that state of gratitude and grace. The ever present ever flowing grace in your life.
This is a ritual that you'll do in the mornings—one of the first things that you do when you wake up, ideally, with the sunrise, as it’s even more powerful when you’re tapping into the sun’s energy.
And you might be interested in this because I’ve shared that conscious rituals are really important for the astrological transit that you’re moving through.
This is one of the best remedies to help anchor you during some of these times that can be challenging or unstable, destabilizing.
So, whether or not you're navigating a turbulent transit, the puja practice gives you a sense of rootedness and anchoredness that you can carry with you.
Even if you’re a little nomadic or transient like me, you can still have the same practice every single day. Ideally, if you're in one space consistently, then you'll create an altar that will be an extension of life itself. You’ll honor it as it's a living item in your in your world in your environment, keep it clean, keep it sri—you're offering energy to it and aligning with dharmic action. Meaning, there is no attachment to any sort of outcome. You're offering your highest self to your practice, to this ritual.
In that light, showing up showered and clean is bonus. It’s beautiful to do it in that way. You can wear white if that charms you, but being in a space of calmness and openness and intention is more than enough. So, I will take you through my practice that I have customized over time but know again that you can take what works for you and leave the rest.
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