Why rituals are important in our lives?

I live in a small city in Germany, Germans used to live in cities with 9.000, 20.000, 40.000 people, and not everyone tries to relocate to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt-am-Main, or Hamburg. As I was born in Kyiv and have lived there all my life, I used to live in a big city, and be in the epicenter of cultural life surrounded by museums, theatres, cinemas, beautiful architecture, and of course a wide variety of art and business events. But here I am in a small city and I need to build somehow life here, not waiting for this life, but creating it with my own hands and attitude.

I have a ritual to which I dedicate around three hours each Saturday. I take the book I am reading now and go to a café near the church. This is almost the only café where you can order coffee with lactose-free milk: oat or almond. Besides, there is a big terrace outside, and literally I can sit and observe the city, and people, and feel the atmosphere, which means to tune with it and make the resonance with it.

On Saturdays, there are a lot of people there because in such a city you will not find hundreds of cafes, and the quantity is very limited. So, I buy a regular small cup of coffee with oat milk, sit down, take two or three swallows, then take three deep breaths, open my book, and wait. I don’t read at this moment. I wait…. Wait for what? For tuning…. I hear Arabic and German language, a lot of people they are talking and talking, then some laughter, I look up and watch people passing by….what do they wear, how they walking, what are their movements (more confident or unsure, slow or fast), are they alone or with a family, what they are talking about…. All these help me to feel the rhythm and vibration of the city and its inhabitants.

Among all these voices, noises, and movement is a special portal for silence, which is a meditative state of your mind that does not depend on outer silence, it could be silent even in a turbulent and chaotic situation. I like this state very much. At this moment, I am relaxed and a smile appears on my face and I begin to ultimately read. I still hear voices in the background, but they do not disturb me, even more, they help me to tune with the essence of the book. As usual, during such rituals, I have a lot of “A-ha” moments and insights. My Souls knows perfectly well when to return and to stop, and as usual, it is about two-three hours.

Rituals are very helpful in our everyday and professional lives, they enrich four main aspects: Authenticity, Creativity, Communication, and Uncertainty.

• Authenticity. Rituals aid us not only in tuning in with the city but also in tuning in with our Higher Self and feeling ourselves in that particular place.

• Creativity. Rituals boost our creativity and reveal new facets of it.

• Communication. Rituals help us to LISTEN, that the most important part of any communication.

• Uncertainty. Rituals help us to adapt to the uncertainty as each single Saturday creative coffee meeting will be different and unique.

Try to create your ritual/rituals or copy-paste the main and access the hidden energy inside your essence and new potentials for a better life and as a result better you.