Posts Tagged magician

Meet A Magician

March 4th, 2010 by Elizabeth

Meet Mike Dooley. I just met him for the first time today when a friend of mine shared his website. Perhaps you know him and have seen him and this video. If you haven’t, you are in for a treat. If you have, how lucky are you to have the opportunity again!  He is a bestselling author with the book “Infinite Possibilities” and was featured in “The Secret”.

Mike Dooley speaks the language of a wizard; a magician. He speaks this language simply and neatly and brings an understandable explanation of being an alchemist.  And it is not as though he is different than you or I. You and I have the same tools and abilities. He has simply discovered some keys to wielding his wand in a way to produce magic consistently in his life and it is inspiring.

One of the most powerful things that he shares is that it is best to visualize the end without attaching to how’s or specifics. Define the end; not how you are going to get there.  Incorporate his ideas into your regimin for discovering your personal alchemy.

Your mind may tell you that you’ve heard all of this before. But listen with new ears and open to new possibilities and perspectives. You may surprise yourself!

7 Steps To Reconnect With Your Inner Magic

November 15th, 2009 by Elizabeth

Feeling lackluster? Out of touch? Not present in your life? Perhaps you have forgotten about your inner magician; your wizardry; your inner magic. Want to be able to pick the fruit from your own Magic Garden? This magic of yours, your personal alchemy, is simply a breath, a thought, a remembrance away.

A couple of days ago I wrote a post at Elizabeth Channels based on an amazing quote by Eckhart Tolle. In it I wrote “When you find that you have forgotten Truth and fall into fear or mistrust or doubt, breathe in the moment you are in and let everything else completlely go. Then watch yourself gently glide into that magical space that is YOU.” Hhhmmm. There’s that talk about MAGIC again. Some of you, upon reading that may think, “Yeah. Easier said than done.” Well if that is your response, I truly understand. Sometimes I say that too! But that is why I continually find ways to build up my arsenal of recentering tactics. The crazy world we live in can throw us out of balance in a blink of an eye. So it is up to us to learn ways to bring ourselves back to center, back to our Truth, back to our Inner Magic.

So in the next few days, I will be sharing 7 avenues to reclaiming your Inner Magic and remembering that you are indeed a  magician. I am excited to share with you some of my tools and perhaps I will stimulate you to create your own; whatever helps you to stop buying into the negative mind chatter and the doom-and-gloom that the outer world sometimes presents to us– especially when we are not ready for it!

Let’s begin to exercise our Magic Muscles…

The Discovery Of Your Personal Alchemy: Avenue #1

October 28th, 2009 by Elizabeth

What we see with our physical eyes is such a small fraction of what is present for us. There is a whole other world of multidimensional existence that we forget about. Our own magic lies in the connections we have to those other dimensions. And it is not really about re-connection but about simple awareness that we are already connected. As we get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and the personal stories and dramas that we create, we forget that the key to ease, grace, and joy in our lives is right there for the taking. When we are aware of our inner magic, our personal alchemy, we can bring back the balance we need and the clear focus that helps us create what we want in our lives and helps us flow and roll with the punches that life can bring.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are: INFINITE ~William Blake

This words come from a true alchemist. He understands that our  personal alchemy, our inner magic, can be reached and tapped into when we clear out the years and layers of “stuff” that has been piled on top of it and has buried it from our sight. So today I offer a powerful tool to help you to begin to clear away some of those layers.

The technique I am going to share with you is based on the teaching of Julia Cameron from her fabulous book “The Artist’s Way”.  She created a very powerful technique that she calls “Morning Pages”.  The “Morning Pages” are a way to clear out our minds; the thoughts that are just floating there; the emotions that are just waiting to be expressed. I have come to think of them as “Anytime Pages” because I use her technique any time of the day. The principle is to use stream-of-consciousness writing and pen out, without pausing, three pages in long hand. Just write whatever comes to your mind. WHATEVER! Know that no one will be reading these pages and that you are free and safe to write whatever comes up for you. I use them in the morning, but also any time of day that I feel a sense of overwhelm in my brain or when I feel myself not present in the moment because my mind is flooded with thoughts or emotions that  are taking me out of the now. If done on a daily basis, you will begin to feel lighter and clearer. I feel a difference after one sitting. You will begin to feel more connected to the Source of all Magic. It is truly magical!

I will warn you that there may be mornings or days that your inner mind chatter will tell you that you don’t need to write anything. It will tell you that you are wasting your time or you will suddenly feel the urge to do ANYTHING but write.  But when you push through that fighting ego and just do it, the rewards will  be immense!

As the layers are slowly cleared away, you will begin to feel you inner magician awaken and come to life–just like magic!

The Discovery Of Your Personal Alchemy: Avenue #2

October 16th, 2009 by Elizabeth

“We are all wizards. Breathe in this glorious fact. Feel it. Know it. The magic is there all around you. Just when you least expect it you will see a beautiful wand in your hand and your desires and dreams will have materialized at your feet. Merlin is all of us and we are all Merlin.”

I wrote those words to you all back in February and they still stand true. You are Merlin and Merlin is you. It is just a matter of continually using the right formulas–the formulas that work for you– to find and open up your treasure chest of Magic. And just so you know, you were born with this treasure chest. Maybe you are now just finding the map or perhaps you’ve been sidelined a bit with some adventures and have rekindled your hunt for your buried treasure. No matter what your circumstance may be, these tools I am sharing will help you to find that buried treasure.  It just takes a little practice and a little patience. I will give you the shovel. It is simply up to you to pick it up and break ground.

The technique I present to you here is a meditation based on the Buddhist meditation called vipissana. It is all about the amazing art of being present with whatever arises.  What I share with you I call B.L.I.S.S. meditation.  Here I will break it down for you:

1. Breathe
2. Look
3. Inside
4. See
5. Separate

Simple. Straight forward. Direct to the point. And you may ask, what IS the point? The point, the bottom line, is to get to #5 and see that you are SEPARATE from all that is arising, whether it be a thought or an emotion. Thoughts and emotions come and go with the wind. The trouble comes when we follow their track.

So  find yourself a comfortable place where you will not be disturbed. Close your eyes. Breathe, just normally. Focus on your breathe as long as you can. Be patient. Even if you can only focus on a half of a breath; that is perfect. When something pulls you away from your breathe then Look Inside. This means simply to look at what comes or is coming up. There will be thoughts or perhaps emotions that will arise.

See these thoughts or emotions. You can perhaps see the words themselves. Or if it is an emotion, label it. For example, if it is sadness, say to your self “sadness”. Observe everything in this way. And as you do this labeling and observing, it will become magically Separate from you. When you become the observer, that thought or emotion is no longer felt as to be you or part of you. Once it is all separate, then comes the Magic. All of this can happen in a matter of seconds. As you arrive at the bottom line of becoming Separate from what you are seeing or observing, then go back to the first step which is to Breathe and focus on your breathe. You have come full circle in the process.

BREATHE –> LOOK INSIDE –> SEE –> SEPARATE

The  minute you begin to honor and observe that which has arisen, it will fall away and dissolve into that which it came from. And when you continually do that, you will begin to see glimpses of your inner magic; your treasure chest. This practice will help to unveil your personal alchemy.

Ever find yourself on a treadmill in your head, running the same thought over and over and over again? If you feel yourself caught in this trap, take in a deep Breathe, Look Inside, and See the thought. This action will then magically Separate you from it so you can jump off of the treadmill. It relieves the overwhelm, the distraction from the Now. And in the Now is the only place we will ever discover our Magic. This tool can be used anywhere anytime to bring you back to focus and back to life.

If you practice this BLISS meditation diligently, you will uncover your inner magician more and more. It takes persistence and patience to dust off that Magic Wand of yours. But isn’t it worth it???