Below are the Opening and Closing Prayers. While you wait for your Verdant Cycle Affirmations booklet to arrive, you can begin your new practice with these simple steps:
1. Find a quiet place.
2. Ideally, go outside, or look out a window.
3. Silence your phone—or better yet, turn it off.
4. Sit comfortably yet upright, or stand. [Link to easy sitting comfortably for mediation video]
5. Read the Opening Prayer, either silently or aloud.
6. Take a moment to observe your surroundings. Watch the wind, notice a bird, listen to traffic, or hear the people around you—just listen.
7. Take ten slow, deep breaths.
8. When you feel ready, read the Closing Prayer, either silently or aloud.
Verdant Cycle Affirmations Opening Prayer
There is One Power,
A Power for Good,
A Seed of this Power is within me.
It is a transcendent Spark,
I was born with it,
It will always be a part of me.
I choose to nurture this Spark
and open to it through every cycle of life.
To bless it as it blesses me.
Verdant Cycle Affirmations Closing Prayer
I recognize this Seed within, this Spark. Its Power fills me.
With grace and encouragement, I tend Life’s garden for myself and those around me.
Each cycle unfolds blessings. I keep watch for them
and, like the ebb and flow of the ocean’s tide, I release what must be let go.
Within every ending is a new beginning. I will watch for it.