When you're overwhelmed, try this

I found myself grasping for my pagan prayer practice this past school year, a period so taxed with labor and overwhelmed with uncertainty that I wonder if it didn’t take ten years off my life.

There was no one to help me. No one can do my schoolwork for me. No doctor could figure out the ambient pain shooting through my limbs, keeping me up at night.

Intuitively, I turned to prayer. But as a pagan, a witch, I have a different relationship to prayer than your average evangelical.

Part of what made me return to my prayer practice was going to a Al-Anon meeting to support a friend of mine.

You know, that AA thing of accepting that your life has become unmanageable and giving it over to a higher power.

Part of the reason that works is because addiction (or in Al-Anon’s case, co-dependency) is about control. Or more precisely, the understanding that trying to control things you can’t control could literally destroy your life.

How do you pray to precipitation?

Pagan prayer is generative, rather than descriptive. Which means that it generates, it CREATES, a reality where I am in relation with the clouds, my ancestors, with wise and powerful personages who have my best interest at heart.

I found my pagan prayer practice so helpful, I immediately wanted to share it with all of you, and so I started crafting my Pagan Prayer workshop, which will take place this Sunday at 11am Pacific Time.

• Helps people move through challenging transitions (grief, growth, birth, etc.)

• Improves general life satisfaction, existential well-being, and overall happiness

• Decreases heart rate, lowers blood pressure, alters brain activity, and improves immune function and self-regulation (IOW, it makes you healthier)

There’s a reason people in every culture, in every time period return to prayer again and again.

I’m so excited to teach you what I’ve learned this Sunday!

We will be learning more about the benefits of prayer (backed by academic research) and practicing simple techniques to help you integrate it into your daily life.

This workshop is available ONLY to Yearly and Founder’s level subscribers in gratitude for their dedication to my work.

Note that becoming a subscriber at a Yearly level is 20% cheaper than subscribing month to month, AND you get 4 additional workshops a year.

Links to join us and downloadable PDF will go out Saturday evening to Yearly subscribers.

Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop!

P.S. If you’re already a Monthly subscriber, but would like to switch to Yearly, simply enter your email in the Subscribe box above to start the transition.

*We have discounts for those in financial need. Let’s find something that works for both of us. Don’t be shy. To find out more, email us at: guardian@oracleoflosangeles.com