keith’s new self

I made up a little thought experiment today, a kind of meditation that could be used as a lens through which to look at your life and your way of being.

“You are a powerful wizard. You have the ability to alter reality. Everything you say, do, or even think is magic and alters reality in some way. You have the ability to hurt and heal, with a word. Your words can cast a healing spell over someone, or can be poison and hurt them. Your magic comes from your life force, and is active in every moment.

You may be using your magic unconsciously, but even so you are still altering reality with your unconscious thoughts and actions. Unconscious magic is usually more random and unfocussed, and thus has the effect of making your life more random and unfocussed.

Your power is most effective at changing the reality closest to you: your mood, your body’s well-being, your life situation - but its effects always radiate outward, affecting change on a larger scale: your home, your community, your ecosystem, the planet.

Your magic is most powerful when directed consciously. Your power is at its peak when you focus your consciousness on something and use your words, thoughts, or actions in alignment with that focus and intent. Your ability to consciously direct your magic creates the most profound changes, and creates change that is most aligned with your conscious intent.

Everyone else is also a powerful wizard. They too are continuously using magic, consciously and unconsciously. They will consciously or unconsciously use their magic to hurt or help you. This is happening around you all the time. However, you have the ability to be immune to the hurtful magic of others’. Dark magic can only affect you if you let it, or if you forget that you are a powerful wizard.

So, knowing all this, start to notice right now how you use your magic. Where do you spend your life force? How much of it is caught up in unconsciousness or mental confusion, and is changing reality in ways you do not intend? How much is used to hurt yourself or others? How much is used to heal? How much magic do you direct towards things that don’t truly serve you, out of obligation, fear or habit? How much of your magic is scripted by memories of traumatic past experiences, or driven by nervousness about the future?

Also from this perspective, notice how others’ magic affects you. Notice what situations make you feel powerless, notice what words or actions of others you allow to hurt you. Notice how often you forget that you are a powerful wizard, forget your great power to alter reality, and thus feel trapped in your life situation.

Notice the wonderful things in your life you have already created with your magic. Notice how your magic can sow seeds of love in the world, and how your conscious use of magic can help the things you love prosper and grow.

You are a powerful wizard. With this power comes responsibility. What life do you want to create?”

tags: meditation, mindfulness, personal growth, spirituality

posted: 7:03 pm