“What am I getting myself into?”
No one. None of us. Not one of us knows what we are getting ourselves into when we begin.
“Begin what?”
Your life, duh.
“Haven’t I already been living?”
Yes, but have you been feeling truly alive?
To the degree that the answer is no not really or a shaky iffy yes, you aren’t (yet) witnessing the simple, everyday magic of your life unfold.
“What do I need to do to experience everyday magic?”
Cauldrons are fun but entirely unnecessary. You don’t even need a pot to piss in, technically. If the rules of magic required wealth or status or fame, they would not be universal rules. If a poor girl from Arkansas or any other backwater can’t do this magic, well then it’s not the real deal.
Real magic is very simple and we can all do it. Magic comes from luck, and luck comes from deciding to do a very specific kind of thing. This:
Do *The Thing* that scares you in a good way.
Decide to do it no matter what. Don’t let your excuses and fears get the best of you.
None of us know what it means to say yes to our deepest hell yeses. By definition, they scare a few parts of us to death and delight the rest of us. I have yet to meet anyone whose hell yes didn’t freak them out – and not just a little bit.
That’s fine.
When we get really specific, The Thing is really just one thing. The ego distracts us with an endless list of self-improvement projects (go to the gym, take a cooking class, clean out the sock drawer.) The to-do list stretches to infinity.
However.
However.
However.
These are excuses. There really is only one thing in your life at this precise moment that’s The Thing.
Doing that thing will change in ways its hard to explain. Doing that thing represents walking through a portal so that you can feel alive as yourself. Doing that thing catylyzes you to become more you.
For me, The Thing turns out to be practicing music for an hour every morning.
Your The Thing doesn’t have to be some fancy-sounding huge big deal. It usually isn’t.
How do you know if you’ve found *THE THING?*
Your egoic fears will say, “what the eff am I getting myself into?” at the same time as another part of you jumps up and down inside like a kid with a pile of birthday presents that are EXACTLY what they were hoping for (plus some excellent surprises they didn’t even know they wanted.)
Good. That’s a good sign. This is what we’re looking for.
Tenacious Magic
Here’s where tenacious magic comes in. Most of us can’t hear the voice of that kid who knows exactly what they want.
Exercise: Cultivate the voice inside you that knows EXACTLY what it wants
Get out a piece of paper and ask the kid to fill it with their wish list. Go crazy. Don’t try to be fair, or interesting, or clever or any of the “adult” things the kid couldn't care less about.
Let the kid write whatever they want, however they want. That’s it. Just fill the damn page. No excuses.
Then forget about it. Let your subconscious do the magic.
The only tenacity needed is getting yourself to start and not stop until you fill the page. Do this so that you start to build connection you to the magical heart of your creativity.
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.
The list of excuses will never end. The only question is – when will you start living your holy hell yes?
Speaking of hell yeses:
Here’s my ooey gooey cream cheese GF gingerbread birfffffday cake that had the BEST cosmic moon sphere sprinkles and glitter hearts. They turned out to be filled with choco malt crunch, much to everyone’s delight.
Every two weeks we gather the humans who are a holy hell yes to finding our holy hell yeses (in a safe and consensual way, of course). We do a one-hour Relational Alchemy call where we engage in a kind of meditative practice where you speak from the heart of the present moment.
It’s fun and a little weird but also, fun.
If you imagine doing this particular The Thing and part of you says “what am I getting myself into” but the rest of you wants to rip the rainbow wrapping paper to see what present is inside, then you’re our kind of multi-dimensionalist… whether you know it or not.
Every other Thursday
9am Pacific / noon Eastern US / 5pm London
Next one: June 8th
Free and open to all.