Rather than shutting down our senses to
focus on an inner realm, incense involves our senses as we follow
whirling smoke upward and outward while we take its scent into us,
filling us as we breathe.
The journey starts with a flame, and then a glowing ember releases smoke
to rise above us in an ethereal dance. Ashes fall below, purified by
the fire. We can use this to imagine negative thoughts being changed
from darkness into the beauty of warm gray snowflakes and a scented
spun-silver plume, lighter than air. We can watch as our atmosphere is
altered to become reminiscent of the heavens and lifts our thoughts:
Embers become shooting stars, and the silver ribbon of smoke becomes
unraveled clouds. Altered senses may guide our inspired thoughts to
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