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Each Mission in the book is designed to be a process that will help cultivate Elemental energy in your life. Most of the Missions are self-contained and some have supplemental materials that will help yield the most benefit from the Missions. This supplemental material, categorized by Element, is below.
Earth Missions
Make Your Own Sculpey Figurine from the mission on page 194.
- Instructions with photographs. This page is a step-by-step guide for how to make your figurine.
Meditate on this image to cultivate some immediate Earth Element energy.
Air Missions
Story example from the Air Mission: Write a Story on page 178.
- Washington Square on the 29th: This story follows the guidelines of the Write a Story Mission and will help you see how you might integrate all four items into the stories you write.
- NEW: Workshop participants' stories for this mission are available here from the August 17th workshop at Greenbelt Om Yoga Studio.
Meditate on this image to cultivate some immediate Air Element energy.
Fire Missions
Music for the Fire Mission: Dance on page 204. These mp3 files will give you a musical starting place as you complete the Dance Mission. Feel free to use them to start your motions for dance.
Video for the Finger Weaving Mission "Act of Creation" on page 201.
- Instructions for winding the yarn: This video shows detailed steps on how to wind the yarn.
- Images of the finished chain: Chain 1, Chain 2, Chain close-up
- This mission uniquely lends itself to cultivating all four Elements depending on which words you use when you "cast off" the bottom row of yarn.
- For Earth, say: Stability, Balance, Centering, Foundation
- For Air, say: Truth, Thought, Reason, Clarity
- For Fire, say: Passion, Action, Motion, Power
- For Water, say: Emotion, Intuition, Compassion, Fluidity
Meditate on this Fire image to cultivate some immediate Fire Element energy.
Additional Fire images: 1
Water Missions
Make Music from page 217. Click each individual music file below to complete this Mission but first, walk in place for two minutes to prepare your body to stretch and sing. (audio files coming soon)
- Prepare Neck, Torso, and Lungs
- Deep Breathing
- Tones on a Vowel
- Tones With Consonants
- Tongue Twisters: Minimal Animal
- Sing and Rejoice (song)
- Rose (song)
Making Music With an Instrument.
- Access your Water Element with this Mission exclusively on this website. You will need a soprano recorder to complete this Mission.
Meditate on this image to cultivate some immediate Water Element energy.
Completion of the Integration Process Missions
- "Honor the Integration Process Meditation" Music from the Meditation on page 236.
