Magic

The title of this book caught my eye, which I know is no surprise. This book has just been hanging around the house for most of the month since I borrowed it from the library. Last night I finally picked it up because I needed to weed through my library books and see what was worth reading and what wasn’t. I have a tendency to overload on books!

Remember The Secret? That was a pretty big phenomenon, I think, and I got totally into it and my Law of Attraction mojo was in full force. I lived a spring with a bounce in my step and a smile on my face as things just came together. Total attraction mojo. Then I lost it when the things I had my mind set on had been fulfilled and I got freaked out. What if this was it for me? What if now that I’d gotten the things I set my mind to that my ‘luck’ was out?

Positive thinking is a great challenge. Through the years I’ve gotten better at it as I can feel the energy of the universe stirring around me, tingling in my hands when I do reiki and other energy work, burning a spot in my third eye and crown chakra. Groovy stuff and all too real. I’ve read a lot of books since The Secret and have changed a lot of the way I think. There have been challenges through those times which evolved into depression, major depression, a very dark world. It took a while but I managed to claw my way out of the darkness, mostly on my own, without drugs but life changes instead, with the knowledge that the only thing keeping me from letting the dark envelop me was my two boys and my husband. Thinking of the gaping whole I’d leave as a mother and partner, was enough to give me strength to look up and find a way out.

Last night I opened up Rhonda Byrne’s The Magic. I scanned a lot of pages as it was all info I’d read before. Yada yada yada, Law of Attraction. Got it. Then a voice inside of me said, ‘Hey, let’s just see what this has to offer from a new perspective. There’s got to be a nugget in this somewhere’.

The whole book is about gratitude and for 28 days you practice with little prompts and exercises. So I read a bit of the book each day and do an exercise. Baby steps.

The first morning write down ten things you are grateful for and why. Then you say, Thank you. Sounds pretty basic but it works. And it’s easy: the sparkle of those distant planets is pretty amazing, the warm air blowing on my toes from the heater when it’s -10 Celsius outside (like this morning), the sun shining. I could feel the energy of the universe starting to build up in me again.

Today I find a magic rock and before bed I hold it in my hand and think of the thing I am most thankful for from that day. That means I go through my day and all of the wonderful things that happened and choose one thing. That is a soul booster right there. You practice the first two steps each day while going onto the next.

I can totally do this.

With the new year just around the corner I know that this is going to help those plans I have in my head come for fruition. Events in my life are leading me in a new direction.

We all have things to be grateful for. Even things as simple as the nice warm cup of tea in the morning.

Do you feel like you need a mojo boost? Rhonda Byrne, The Magic.

Happy creating the life you want to live!

I’m off to find a magic rock!

xx