Exercise:

Trust in life is the special domain of the Black Madonna. In the ancient times the Black Madonna was the patron of mothers and the birth process. This process requires a complete surrender to the wisdom of the physical body. This surrender is the hallmark of the capacity to trust in life. At the fundament of the trust in life is the ability to attend to the small things in life. This does not refer to attention to detail, although that is a prerequisite. The idea of attending to small things refers to the esoteric capacity to notice how seemingly small events are the seeds of much larger patterns in life. This has great import when circumstances seem to be careening out of control and the tendency for the soul is to shift to a consciousness of blame and shame.

See post for the background and context of this exercise.