As the Sages, Gurus, and Master Teachers of the past have known, all permanent outside change must start from the inside, that special place where you really know yourself. You are more powerful than you think, you have magic!
This book and the practice within can help facilitate this beautiful inner change. You will be able to do this with little effort, and with no more than your desire to grow and be a more beautiful, loving, and accepting person.
You will find your relationships improving, the stresses that come every day are not so important, and your wherewithal an absolute abundance of positivity and generosity.
Here, you will find a user-friendly, self-directed, personal practice that has the power to dissolve psychological and emotional pain while dissolving the underlying cause of that pain!
Written by a retired psychologist with 30+ years’ experience in addressing past trauma and proven results to heal, grow, enjoy, and start loving life again. Relax while you learn a simple practice to improve your life, become more insightful, and let go of that difficult past that has been holding you back.
As we change what is occurring in our thoughts, feelings, and underlying beliefs, we change the world. As it is the world has changed and suddenly, listening to Thich Nhat Hanh or Jon Kabat-Zinn, subscribing to Mindvalley, attending Gabrielle Bernstein, Eckhart Tolle, or Tony Robbins rallies, or practicing Yoga in the park may not be quite enough. The world is thinking differently, feeling differently, and behaving differently. Many have learned to ignore the feelings of fear and uncertainty by replacing them with distractions, medications, social drugs, and power-control thinking. Combining scientific research, teachings from the masters, practical examples, and down-to-earth guidance, I Am Made for M.A.G.I.C. provides the reader with a personal practice to be used anywhere, and anytime. Each practice brings powerful results. Combining the five practices provides an exponential effect.
M.A.G.I.C. is an acronym for five practices - meditation, appreciation, grounding, insight, and connection.
M is for meditation. Mindfulness meditation is engaged here to calm the mind, relax the body, and excite the spirit. By dissolving any resistance, we open to the flow of abundance in life.
A is for appreciation. Appreciation floods your heart with the energy of joy, in acceptance with thanks. It allows us to find value in everything, even when we cannot explain it, or we do not want it.
G is for grounding. Grounding connects the energetic system of your body with the energy system of Mother Earth. This connection with our planet is a connection between living, breathing, and conscious entities.
I is for insight. Insight opens you to your higher guidance. It is intuition, inner knowing, and guidance all in one. It allows the voice of your inner being to be heard by you, even if it is via someone else’s lips.
C is for connection. Connection recognizes and appreciates the trillions of cells that make you a living, breathing, conscious being along with the wisdom of your heart. The practice of connection is your unseen relationship with all the people in your life, all of life on this planet, and, the Spirit that is all of life.
M.A.G.I.C. as a practice integrates these five practices into one and it can be done in 30 seconds.
Along with an explanation and demonstration for each of the five practices, there are hundreds of gems to nurture any reader’s thirst for deepened spirituality. With little extra effort, in fact, with less effort than you are now expending, you can engage five practices, the same five practices the self-growth industry and the global spirituality movements are based upon. Being able to do this in 30 seconds allows you to use it many times every day and especially in times of crisis
After surrendering his registration to practice as a psychologist, it was now time to have a consultation with himself. Like most people, this practitioner knew about meditation in different forms and shared it with clients. He knew about self-reflection and journaling, and he tested and used a variety of techniques for personal healing, including many that come under the umbrella of spiritual psychology and what is termed energy psychology. More broadly, he knew about the benefits of exercise, diet, good sleep, and avoiding stress. These seemed somewhat obvious, if not a little too obvious. Nothing appeared to be enough, as this seemingly liberated practitioner grappled with stifling questions about life and purpose. How was he going to support young people, young people engaging in self-harm or taking their own lives? All while an industry built on evidence-based mental health practices, ignorance, and pharmaceuticals looked on.Maybe not the best psychologist in town, and certainly not the worst. He rationalized that number 42 was the best answer, but it would not serve as an answer in this case. Following a personal consultation with himself, and many discussions with his spirit team, a gentle flow of information and creativity appeared. This practice is called M.A.G.I.C., and subsequently, this book is one outcome of that flow of inspiration. The thought is, there were many other inspirations, but a sense of urgency caused them to be missed. Paul had worked in and around the youth sector, providing face-to-face counseling for children, young people, carers, and workers with young people. There have been times when he worked only with young people and then there were times he worked only in aged care. From the very beginning, he adopted a holistic and global perspective to include the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the client within his or her community. This book is a collection of teachings from many masters across time, combined with personal insights or messages, and the results of years of searching for questions and choosing answers. Answers came from insights after sitting on a tractor for thousands of hours. Insights came while sitting with the many clients on the beach, in the bush, riding horses, sitting in coffee shops, and at times in an office. And insights that flowed onto paper while sitting with the ocean, watching the waves in meditation. These insights have been enhanced by the answers that came from the journals of university study, molded into shape by a lifetime of practicing to become an awakened being. Documenting this was, in many ways, about taking responsibility for being on this planet, finding the gems, and choosing to serve the collective.
