Creating a Labyrinth with Syl Carson

This seven-minutes streaming, is dedicated to all the hands that helped complete the Labyrinth, feet that have already walked the path and to the many friends to come.

When going through my toughest days of cancer treatment, I would trace this path, on a print out. It helped me stay in the "Now", but I knew if I didn't make it, I was learning on a spiritual level, to wend my way home...and if I did, I would build one someday here on earth with my own two hands.

So grateful that I allowed that desire (through the Grace of God) to manifest through me, as so many more hands than my own, are also printed on this path!

A labyrinth is a sacred path for prayer and meditation:

The Labyrinth is a symbol for THE PATH of awakening.  Walking the Labyrinth is a meditative, spiritual tool for awakening.  It is a symbol that is found in many cultures over thousands of years--a universal symbol for the path into truth and self-knowledge.

When walking the labyrinth, you will find your perspective is constantly changing.  Your mind’s tendency to fall into old patterns is interrupted, as you are repeatedly lead into, and away from, the direction you "think" you are heading.  Your vision and body are never facing the same direction for long--a technique to coax your inner-knowing outward, and you begin to let go of your ego's need to anticipate, and start to trust that the path will eventually lead you into the center. 

You repeatedly head in the four directions of east, west, north, south--a message that the support you need to take you through life, can come from any direction, person or place.

Once in the labyrinth, you will find no dead-ends to block you or strategic choices, it is not a maze meant to test you like that, but a path to lead you into more of who YOU REALLY ARE.  It's no mistake that this ancient symbol resembles a cross-section of the human brain.

In a labyrinth, you cannot go in the wrong direction, unless you give up entirely.  After you spend the time you need in the “center” and begin out again you will feel yourself begin to relax along the meandering, smooth lines, drawing you back and forth, inward and outward, where you are gently nudged further and further; having moved in through the center then back out again. 

Three Stages to Walking the Labyrinth

There are 3 stages to our walk the Labyrinth that mirror the three stages of prayer:

Stage One—Purgation: A gentle (or not so gentle) challenge to your ego-self to turn your will and direction over to the path, to be guided, each step as you slowly become more willing to open to releasing and letting go of the details of your life. A sacred cleansing of your attachments and naturally occurring habits of outcome-based expectations. In short, you learn to stop trying so hard. To let go and let God.

Stage Two—Illumination: When you reach the center, you reach a sacred place of openness, meditation and prayer, set aside for you to be more open and able to receive whatever insights or guidance that is for you to receive.

Stage Three—Oneness: Joining with your Higher Power, God-Source, the healing forces at work in the world as you wind more calmly outward. Completing the path by going out, the same way you came into the center, yet not the same, changed, more awakened, closer to your Essential-Self. In short? You become more comfortable within yourself, you've let go of resistance, you've received insights in deep, often subconscious layers, you've cleared patterns that create new and play out old karmic stories and you are ready to allow yourself to be blessed in ways your God-Source is always pouring toward you.

Every time you complete your labyrinth journey, you are brought "full-circle", with new insights into who you really are, and where your path can lead you into a more exemplary, honest, and "well-lived" life.

Each time you walk the labyrinth, you are in a creation circle that marries Heaven and Earth through your intention, clarity, meditation and union with God-Source. With each walk, you become more naturally empowered to find and do the work you feel your soul is reaching for. The intention you take with you, will help determine the energy and experience you will have; however, you can also just enter the walk “open” to whatever you are supposed to experience.

If you don't feel comfortable setting an intention, you can always allow the general intention, set by me when creating this particular Labyrinth, to pour in to guide you as well, designated by the four directional quadrants you walk through of Healing, Enlightenment, Prosperity and Peace.

Follow stories from this path and learn times it is open to the public by liking it's community FaceBook page at:

  / talesfromthelabyrinth  

Namaste