Labyrinth Pilgrimage

http://www.gratefulness.org/labyrinth/index.htm

This is a wonderful tool for self-reflection which can be used to come out of a problem, crises or depression. Here, one goes on a journey to the center through a lot of twists, stopping in-between and then one traces back to the outside. There can be different interpretations on this tool. This is what I have experienced...

The labyrinth is a model of how our soul gets deep into the worldly life and then again comes out. One can say that the center is when we are totally immersed and helpless in the worldly life. Going through this practice helps in realizing that there are no short-cuts in life but there is steady progress.

Another interpretation is this...the center can be viewed as when we have solved our core problem on our recovery from worldly life crises but still need to come out.of the remains of the problem...like how someone after destroying a demon in a castle has to come out safely when the castle starts crumbling in the absence of the demon. Hence it's important to complete everything that one has started not just for peace but also for happiness. In the Mahabharatha war, Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna, knew how to penetrate the Padmavyuha but did not know how to come out of it. This led to his death, although heroic.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmavyuha

Note the similarity between the labyrinth in the 2 links.