My childhood home caught on fire before I was born. Thankfully, nobody was injured, but the house and the things within it burned away. Although I wasn’t born until years later, every time I hear the story I can imagine the smell of the smoke and visualize the ashes that left behind the evidence of things that my family once depended on.

When things that we depend on burn away, a transition takes place, and we must decide how we want to live in the world without access to the things that once held us.

Yesterday, I used a fire to burn away the things I no longer need. On a sheet of paper I declared:

“I burn away the veil (of illusion) that keeps me from remembering (the truth of who I am). And release attachment to the things I no longer need.” 

I placed the sheet of paper in the fire and watched my old story turn into ashes.

To fill the space of the things I burned away, on another sheet of paper (that did not go in the fire), I declared:

“I call-in awareness (to remember my birth right), love, courage, compassion and truth. And the power of the imagination to create the world I choose to live in.” 

There is no right or wrong way to burn away or call-in the things we want. But from my experience, it is good to see the things that we know we longer need turn into ashes.