Hey everyone. Welcome back to Seeking Witchcraft. It's me, Ashley, your host. And today I'm going to be

talking about a topic that I've touched upon a lot during this show. And that is the ritual mindset.

This is such an important topic and concept that it warranted its own episode. So what exactly is a ritual mindset? Well, a ritual mindset is exactly what it

sounds like. It's getting into a mindset that's fitting for ritual. It's a way to strip away

the mundane issues, stressors, or anything else in your everyday life that's not relevant

to the ritual you'll be in.

So getting into this mindset is a way to be able to focus your soul attention on what you're going to be doing without having your mind wander about mundane things.

Like, I don't know, did I leave the oven on?

Am I going to be able to finish that report on time?

I wonder if they texted me back.

Where's my birth certificate? I could go for some tulipas. I wonder what people think about my ritual attire.

Blah, blah, blah, and so on and so forth. All of those little pesky things that we tend to think about

a million miles per hour that have absolutely no significance to being part of a witchcraft circle.

And while, yes, I'm saying the ritual mindset, you may also think that this can apply to random

things as well when you're trying to clear your mind, like meditation. And you would be right.

A ritual mindset is not only useful for ritual, despite the common term. It's also really useful for

things like meditation or when you may be engaging in some sort of daily witchy routine,

like pulling a tarot card for the day. If you're doing that, you don't necessarily want to be

thinking about if you remember to put on a moisturizer or not that morning when you're trying to pull a card.

And while sure, I mean, putting on moisturizer is a very important thing to think

about and that you should do every day.

It's not going to serve you or your practice in that moment.

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