Every one can create a sacred space at home to help bring protection to your home and family, as well as provide a rich source of spiritual power to sustain you wherever you are. The more you visit your sacred space to contact the deeper part of your nature through prayer and meditation, the more the grip of the conscious mind will be lessened. Through your efforts, you will light a spiritual flame that will nourish you and will spread outwards towards the nourishment of the whole world.

Because this area of your home will become your sanctuary and the place where you can find great joy, peace and love, it is important that you select it carefully.

Choosing Your Sacred Space

You should choose a space that just feels good to you and where you can, if possible, face east, while performing your daily ritual. The sun – which is constantly radiating the life-giving pranas or universal life forces that are the basis of manifestation in our solar system – rises in the east. The east is always associated with mystical power and spiritual practices, so that facing in this direction will help to enhance your spiritual workout.

Once you have found an area in your home that feels right to you, the next step is to build an altar to focus and enhance your spiritual practices. On your altar you will put photographs and objects that are sacred and significant to you, that uplift and inspire you. This altar does not have to be grand or even bigger than a few precious objects on a shelf, but the important thing is that you love it. In time, your altar and surrounding area will become like your inner sanctuary that is yours alone, which you will want to visit as often as you can. In time, you will find that just looking at your altar will bring you peace and strength.

Sacred Objects for Your Altar

Keep your altar area very simple and gradually build it over time. You may begin with just a picture of your own spiritual master or guru, one of the Indian saints or sages for example or a beautiful photograph of Mother Earth. Some of the other objects I have on my altar include a holy cross. The cross has obvious associations with Christianity. This symbol predates Christianity, however and is a very ancient, mystical symbol that represents the resurrection of the spirit of man through experience back to our Divine Source.

The objects on my altar all have mystical or symbolic meaning to me. Yours will be very personal to you and therefore should be selected by you very carefully. Do not rush in collecting your objects together. It may take you years to complete your altar but you will find that it will grow and unfold as you do. The secret is to hold the thought of your sacred space in your mind whenever you have a moment of quiet. Visualize it being filled with light and power; feel a link with this in your mind’s eye and feel the light and power from your altar flowing back to you. If you do this practice you will find that over time wonderful artifacts will be given to you or you will somehow track them down.

The desire to develop spiritually has great power, allowing you to start to develop a mystical flow that will bring to you those things that you need for your enlightenment. These objects will be the correct ones for you because of the link you have established with your altar and because of the light and power you have visualized there. This occurs because of the law that what you think and visualize eventually comes into manifestation. Given this law, you must always employ discrimination in your choices and only use objects that are uplifting and inspirational.

The following is a wonderful practice that you can use to charge up your home, office, your sacred space or even inside your car within the wonderful vibration and feeling of love.

Sit quietly in your room alone. Visualize the great universal life forces and, with the power of your mind, see this filling every inch of your room; see everything in the room impregnated with this scintillating power.

Feel a great, all powerful, unconditional, universal love within you. Feel this so intensely that you could almost burst with love. As you do so, feel your Heart Center slowly open.

Then see this love energy leaving your Heart Center as a beautiful soft, pink light. See the pink color of your deepest, most heartfelt love, fill the universal life force which is in your room, so that this peaceful love energy fills every square inch. See the whole of your room imbued with the pink light of love.

Sit for a few moments in this sea of love and peace. Enjoy this wonderful atmosphere you have created.

Chrissie Blaze is an Aetherius Society Minister, international lecturer and author of several books, including Power Prayer (co-author Gary Blaze; Foreword Marianne Williamson). For information call (248) 552-9153 or visit www.chrissieblaze.com.