Magic is a Verb!

The other day I told some people about my blog and referred to 'magic' as the action of bringing good things into one's life.  Today I was feeling kind of blah, therefore in need of magic, but hadn't decided on any action I could do.  Then I read an e-mail from Rick Hansen about 'taking in the good'.  That is when you focus on a good fact then bring it into your psyche by feeling good about the good fact.  That brought me to several good thoughts and I discovered that the appreciation of the magic around me, in opening up my being to it, had worked magic.  I was feeling pretty good.  Suddenly the thought occurred that 'magic' was both action and being, as is a verb.  I work as a tutor for Community College of Denver.  I prepare applicants to the practical nursing program for the TEAS (test of essential academic skills).  Therefore I often have to point out the functions of different parts of speech, including verbs.  I am now feeling delighted to have a bigger definition of magic.  It is the actions you do to bring good into your life.  Magic is also found when you go into a state of being, when you appreciate that which is around you.  Sometimes, before you are able to act you have to become free of the blahs.  Gratitude and appreciation is a wonderful way to free up your spirit.  So I suggest to all wise magicians: If you are feeling the blahs and don't know how to act to bring good energy into your life, don't act right now.  Pause and open up to the glory and good that is around you.  When Joey, our dog, wanted to go out just before daybreak, I was a bit put out at first, but as I sat in my office chair, waiting for him to come back inside, I saw the eastern sky start to get some color.  I realized Joey had given me a gift.  I really do love to watch the sun rise.  But I almost missed it this morning.  Magic is all around us if we let it in.  May you be able to act to bring magic into you life.  May you be able to be to let magic into your life.  May the spark be with you.

The Magic Cloak

A magic cloak is part of the tool kit for the hero in many stories.  The cloak protects, nurtures, comforts, and gives extra powers to the hero.  Happiness does the same thing for a person.  I have recently read that being happy will make your brain work 30% better.  Here is where a Wise Magician will consider how to develop a magic cloak for them self.  But first let us explore a little more this idea of mind set as a magic cloak.  Famous people like Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln have said that people have the choice of their thoughts and can choose to be happy.  Now researchers in Positive Psychology are saying the same thing.  When you have a choice between judging a fact as positive or negative it is beneficial to see the blessings involved.  For example, I read an item in a newsletter this morning noting that you could groan about the size of your credit card bill or you could be thankful for all the abundance in the grocery store.  You could moan about the price of gas or be thankful that you had a car and that gas stations were easy to find.  If you have now accepted that it is possible to develop an aura of the feeling of home and happiness, let us move on to ways to do this for yourself.  You can do this through combining memories of the feeling of secure happiness and visualizing your cloak.  Wrap yourself in soft velvet, or red suede, or anything of your choice.  Then feel safe, protected, able to be creative.  Anchor this feeling in various ways.  Touch your wrist.  Stroke your sleeve.  Create an anchor to link this memory of that feeling to your body.  Now leave this feeling.  Then try the anchor to see if it helps you achieve it again.  Sometimes an anchor can be a word instead of a touch.  It is just something that helps you wrap yourself in your wonderful magic cloak.  It is good to be able to go to a haven, a shelter, a feeling of loving arms at times.  Sometimes you just want a better mood for your creativity. Perhaps you want to make sure you are starting your day off right. Other times you may be fighting anxiety.  When you are in a storm of anxiety the first thing to do is get out of the storm.  That is a good time to figuratively wrap up in your magic cloak.  Then you can deal with the changes in thoughts or actions you need to make to get free of the anxiety.  Even if you are strictly a jeans and tee shirt kind of person it will not hurt to have a wonderful magic cloak in your idea or resource closet.  Reach out and create one then throw it around your shoulders with magical flair when it is needed.  May the spark be with you.