a small gesture representing hope, protection, and the desire for peaceful sleep.
You don’t have to believe in magic to understand why that idea appeals to people.
Sometimes a ritual isn’t valuable because it changes the outside world.
Sometimes it changes the way we enter the night.
If You Want to Try It
There’s nothing complicated about the traditional version.
Take one clean, dry bay leaf and place it somewhere beneath or beside your pillow.
If you like, write a personal intention on it first.
Then treat the ritual as
