When recently giving a talk on Soul Soothers, a friend asked me to talk about the “Birthday Candle” Meditation. Its formal name is the Candle Burning Meditation and it uses the flame of the candle to ignite your own healing fire within. Most everyone loves birthday candles. For our family, it is the ones you can’t blow out! Using something as innocent as a birthday candle serves two purposes: One, it isn’t scary so no one thinks you are going to do some weird ceremony. Two, it burns quick. One or two sessions and you are done! Many people have found the Candle Burning Meditation useful, so here it is: Candle Burning Meditation
- Choose something you want to release. For this example, I use letting go of being angry with the neighbor who always parks in my parking spot.
- Know that you are going to do this exercise for just 5 minutes or so, even if the whole candle has not burned down. You can do the exercise daily until the birthday candle is mostly gone.
- Safely set up your candle in a candleholder or you can fill a small cup with salt or sand. Don’t use a cupcake or anything edible for this exercise unless you throw out the food.
- Take a few deep breaths and ask that you are surrounded with light and all that you release is taken to the light to be transmuted into healing energy for you or the neighbor.
- With sacredness and purpose, light your candle intending that as the fire burns the candle down, it burns away the core issue that is creating your anger at the neighbor. You are intending that this release be for the highest and most loving good of all those concerned.
- As the candle burns, focus on the wax disappearing. See the anger that you are releasing represented by the candle and as the candle burns down, the internal issues that supported this anger, the wax, are burned away at the same time.
- See that as the wax is consumed, it is transformed into heat and in the same way, intend that what is being burned away within you is transformed into healing energy.
- Once you are done for that sitting, blow out the candle and with that exhale release whatever might be energetically left over.
- With the next inhale, bring in Golden Light to surround and permeate your entire being, The Golden Light replaces and fills any void that might have been temporarily created through this release.
