Rituals of many kind are very important for our sanity and mental health.
Please tell us about your favorite rituals.
what a let down. I was hoping you would let us in on your own favorite ritual, considering the thread is titled “My favorite ritual”…rats
I can’t think of any rituals at all. Maybe that’s why I suffer mental health problems… 
my favorite ritual is eating bean and cheese burritos and 24 hour dive mexican resturants late at night and reading the newspaper.
what is your favorite ritual, it sounded like the thread was going to be about some cool hip ritual you got goin, . . . don’t let us down. 
My favourite secular ritual right now is tea-making – in a teakettle, not in the microwave.
Heat the water 'til I hear boiling or the whistle; pour the hot water into a teapot with three bags of Irish Breakfast Tea in it; let steep about half-an-hour until strong. Enjoy warm, or save for iced tea later.
“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you.”
– Gladstone
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When I was a kid my father received his salary in cash.
We all new witch day is payday and we all gathered together and he counted the money into my mothers hand.
He worked very hard and he was proud of himself.
I miss him.
role-playing every thursday with my friends, it relaxes me and makes me thing of new things to play with.
going out with my friends friday night. to see a movie, to eat some good food, anything. it makes me feel like i’m not alone in this world, and i’m greatly saddened when it doesn’t happen.
singing in the car with my daughter, she brings me more joy than she well ever know.
rituals are important, it is something the present has forgotten, that some parts of the past did very well. i think it’s why so many people think postively of things like the tea ritual from japan. making something simple into something important… i’ll have to think on this more.
Did your father pass away? How long ago? This time of year I always think of the member of my family that have died. Especially my grandmother. She loved the holiday, all of them, in fact. And she always nagged everyone until they all got together. She died about 15 years ago, and the extended family rarely gets together anymore.
Still, my memories of her are all good ones.
Thank you for your thoughts, I think I will start a thread about ‘remembering’ before New Year.
The main reason for this thread would be to share ideas of rituals.
You don’t have to copy them but many times just the act of talking of something makes things happen.
And anyway it is Christmas time, the time to share your time and thoughts with family let it be relatives or under god.