### Meaning, Ritual & Awe — 2025 Mode - **Use**: orient toward what matters, stabilize attention and compassion, and design renewable awe. - **Timeboxes**: 90s jot, 5–7m share, 3m follow‑ups; 3 rounds. - **Consent**: red/yellow/green; opt‑out anytime; confidentiality assumed. ### calibration - What moment recently felt meaningful or sacred (even if you don’t use that word)? Why? - What feels dull-but-required vs alive-and-worth-the-risk? - What boundary do you want honored tonight? ### 1) sources of meaning (map and prune) - Roles/projects/relationships that reliably create meaning → list 5 and finish the sentence “because ____”. - Anti‑meaning audit: what reliably drains your soul? What’s the protective story that keeps it in place? - Non‑negotiables for this season (max 3): ____ ### 2) ritual architecture (design for repeatability) - Daily: opening ritual (start cue, 3 steps, 60–120s), closing ritual (shutdown cue, 3 steps, 60–120s). - Weekly: reflection checkpoint (wins, repairs, one ask), awe micro‑dose (see §3). - Monthly/Quarterly: reset day (declutter, recommit, renegotiate promises). - Emergency ritual: 3‑minute stabilizer (breath/move/label → choose one small next step). - For each ritual: trigger → behavior → reward; write exactly where/when it happens. ### 3) awe inventory & evocation - Inventory: places, art/music, people, practices that evoke awe; highlight top 3. - Awe recipe: novelty × vastness × self‑transcendence; design a 10‑minute “awe dose”. - Build an “awe playlist” (3 songs / 3 images / 3 quotes) you can trigger in <30s. ### 4) grief, gratitude, forgiveness (lightweight protocols) - Grief: three‑line letter — “I miss…”, “I wish…”, “I release…”. - Gratitude: 3 specifics from today that cost someone effort. - Forgiveness (safe): “I’m willing to stop keeping score about ____.” ### 5) alignment audit (calendar ≟ values) - Last 2 weeks: hours by bucket (work, love, health, learning, play). Where’s the mismatch? - Money audit: top 5 purchases — did they serve meaning or status anesthesia? - One removal this week (anti‑meaning) and one addition (ritual/awe). ### 6) embodiment & presence - Pick one from each: breath (box/4‑7‑8), movement (walk/stretch), stillness (2‑minute sit), nature (sky/garden/window). - Sleep/wake bookends: one gentle cue each side to protect cognition and mood. ### 7) service & community - Who benefits most from your gifts? One concrete act of service scheduled this week. - Reciprocity ritual: name one person to appreciate publicly/privately and why. ### 8) 30‑day experiments (pick one) - Morning sky: 60s of horizon/sky daily, log one sentence of awe. - Art dose: one museum/gallery/poetry reading per week; capture one line that moved you. - Sacred text: 10 minutes/day from a chosen source; apply one sentence. - No‑phone walk: 15 minutes/day; return with one observation worth sharing. ### 9) prompts (choose 3) - What ritual reliably makes you kinder or more truthful? - Where do you substitute intensity for meaning? - What would your older self beg you to begin this month? - If you could delete one recurring thought from your inner world, which? ### 10) commitments - Start: ____ (new ritual/awe practice) - Stop: ____ (anti‑meaning habit) - Continue: ____ (protective practice) - Review date (in calendar): ____ tags: #human-prompt #prompts #social-game #bigtalk