Practices from your religion that helps one's mind...

[illykitty]

Do you have a culture or cultural customs in your family? Maybe use those customs (if, say praying a certain way) to talk with your ancestors? Ask your grandmothers more about them: where you and they are from? Get involved in the land you live on. Is it family property? I believe spirits stay on the land they passed especially if it was there family home. Offering prayers to the earth can acheive this goal.

Also, what does NHP stand for? Maybe theres something in that you can find.

Well, I am part Hungarian and part French Canadian, it's hard because I can't really think of any customs we have. We just always lived quite "normally" with nothing special. Also I live in England so I'm far from where I'm from. I was just curious because a lot of people have no idea about where they're from (my grand-mother doesn't even know where her father was from, for instance, and now it's too late to ask) or don't have any unique customs.

NHP is a form of Paganism that's naturalistic and humanistic since I don't really know if I believe in gods, it's very much a work in progress. I just revere nature for now until I stumble on to something, if ever, or until I find something inspiring. I'm not really going anywhere much with it at the moment, by that I mean I don't really have rituals or an altar, depression and such makes it hard for someone to actually practice a religion. But small things, normal things, in my life I try to think of as being part of my path, my diet for example.