Just Do It!
But first, tune it in
I’ve always loved the idea of “just do it.” It’s become shorthand to many of us, for the notion that we’ll never accomplish our goals just by sitting around thinking about them. I’m really one to leap into action on impulse.
But then we start to study the basic non-physical physics we call the Law of Attraction, we wonder. According to LOA, we need only match our vibration to the vibration of what we want, and it will appear. According to the laws of natural magic, we need only match every element of a spell to the vibration of the spell’s goal, and it will manifest for us. (Smoke and sparkles optional.)
I hate to burst the mystical bubble, but we need to look a little bit closer. The energy we’re trying to match isn’t the energy of, oh pick something random—say a new car. A stunning, small-but-feels-big-all-electric-with-gas-backup-but-I-get-say-when-it uses-gas-and-that’s-only-in-extreme-emergencies SUV. With a sunroof. Without taking on debt or a car payment that eats into the income. You know, just a random thing I thought up just now for no reason.
But the path to that goal is not to take on the energy of the SUV. It’s not make oneself as much like the car as possible. (Although this video of the kids with the best Transformers costumes ever is so amazing, it just might work. Talk about sympathetic magic! Watch to the end, that’s the best part. It’s just over a minute.)
But no, while that’s fabulous and fascinating, and I dearly want to try it to quote a friend who never takes off his helmet, “that is not the way.”
I’m not trying to match the vibration of the car. I’m trying to match the vibration of the version of me who drives that car. The version of me who owns that car. The version of me who looks outside to see that car in her driveway. That’s the energy I have to match. Not the energy of the car. The energy of future me, who has the car.
And as soon as I match that energy, I am her. Me. Us. We.
The Old Ways
So we have several different instructions for achieving a goal, given to us throughout our lives. We have the old-school paradigm: Work hard, nose-to-grindstone, put off fun for later, save money, buy car.
Then we have the opposite extreme: Print up a picture of the car for your vision board, wear the colors of the car, imagine the car being yours, maybe even cast a full on formal car manifesting spell. Wait for car to come.
Hard work and sacrifice can result in a car or not. Projecting one’s will through visualization and spellwork can also work or not. In either method, success or failure seems random, the luck of the draw, a quirk of fate. But it’s not random at all. And it’s not how hard you worked, or how well you conjured.
In both cases, the wisher is forgetting the most crucial element: alignment. In the first example one, the worker is aligned with “If I want anything nice, I have to suffer for it. I have to work long hours and scrimp and save, and then collect the reward.” The main energy of that attitude is suffering and sacrifice. The results of this effort, then, must match the energy of suffering and sacrifice. Even if the car comes, it will not bring joy. It will bring more suffering and sacrifice, the energy that birthed it.
Worse, it will validate for the belief that suffering is necessary for gain, and because of that belief, their life will reflect that reality. They will live that very belief. They’ll never get anything without suffering for it. It cannot be otherwise.
Life is a mirror.
As for the other route, the visualization, meditation, and spell-casting methods sometimes work. When one’s will is very strong, it can sometimes lead one over, under, around, and through all one’s self-created obstacles to the goal. Also, the very act of trying to match the vibration of the goal with all the elements of magic can help to bring one into better alignement. As the colors, the scents, the oils, the herbs, the stones, even the timing are carefully chosen to create the spell, the alignment with the goal might well follow.
But mostly, that part is ignored as if one believes it’s the words and the herbs, not the vibration, that makes the magic happen. And so it often fails, and then one might start doubting one’s magical skills, or magic itself, and that spills over into every other act of magic one performs.
This is how a witch or mystic loses her power. She robs herself of it, by failing to do magic correctly, which seems to prove it’s not real, and the moment she believes magic is not real, her magic blinks out of existence. She snuffs it like wet fingers on a candle’s flame.
The Real Magic
It doesn’t matter if we want to get our new car through magic or through work. What matters is how closely we first align with our goal.
To become the version of us who has the cute EV or whatever our wish/goal/dream/desire might be, we first decide we’re going to have it. Once the decision is made, we can get on with the fun things like choosing the details, the extras, the color.
These can go on a vision board or in a spell box or you can just write them down in your planner or diary. They can be nowhere else but inside your head, but I like making a physical representation of them. It’s part of the manifesting. You take a thought, you write it down, and now it’s a thing. Words on a page. It’s a physical representation of your thought. It’s the first phase of manifestation of any goal.
That was a nugget right there. Write that down.
Then, go about the business of becoming the you who drives that car. To do that, we have to answer one important question.
Why do I want it?
When we shift from thinking about what we want to why we want it, we open floodgates, and are immediately awash in opportunities to align with our desire. Why do I want it? The answers are myriad, and if you do this part right, each answer will lead to more questions.
Why do I want the car?
Because it’s better on gas. So why do I want it to be better on gas?
Because it’ll be better for the planet. So, why do I want it to be better for the planet?
Because I want it to be nice for my grandkids and their grandkids.
Yes, but there are a million other paths to that outcome. Why do I want to do better for the planet here and now?
Because I want to feel as if I’m doing everything I can, as if I’m part of the solution.
And why do I want to feel as if I’m doing everything I can? What’s the alternative to that?
Feeling as if I’m not doing enough. Feeling as if I could be doing more.
So when I boil it all down, I want the car because I think I will feel better having the car than not having the car.
And that’s what every desire, goal, dream, hope, and wish boils down to. We think we’ll feel differently when we have the thing than we do right now.
And that right there—the way we feel right now, not having the thing—is the very vibration blocks it from coming. Or better said, it doesn’t match the energy of having the thing so the thing can’t come. You’re trying to listen to CNN while tuned to Fox. It doesn’t work that way. You can only receive the channel you’re tuning in.
Change the Feeling
This is the very first step: to recognize that the way you think you’ll feel with the goal, is different from the way you feel right now.
So that means that the way you feel right now is you without the goal. And the way you want to feel is you with the goal.
Now its’s getting clearer, yes? (Gosh, I hope my summer math class is this easy!)
To become the version of me who has the cute little EV, I have to find a way to feel like her now, today, in the present, with what I currently have. When I feel like the me who has the goal, I shimmer into that version of me. Though, from my perspective, it feels like the car shimmers into my life.
Okay, sounds great. But, how?
First, conjure the feeling of having the goal. If we stay with the car analogy, imagine driving it. Go test drive a few to hone your preferences. Really get familiar with the feeling of having the wish.
Now that it’s familiar, we just start looking for that feeling and similar feelings already existing in our life experience. When we begin looking for such feelings, we’ll find they’re right there where they’ve always been, just waiting for us to notice them. We can find little pockets of our desire all around us if we pay attention.
The comfort of the seats we desire are much like our favorite chair.
The colors we want are the same colors we see every day in a piece of art on our own wall, or in the colors of our handbag or a favorite blouse, or a sign or billboard on the street, or in a summer sunset.
The newness of it will feel much like pulling on a brand new pair of socks for the first wear. Or trying on new clothes, or buying new sunglasses.
All these things are miniatures—microcosmic components—of the feeling our goal will bring.
Notice every experience that elicits a feeling like the feeling of having that goal. Every little thrill. Every little indulgence. Every little pleasure. Every little point of pride. Every little goal. Celebrate each of them. Bask in them. Seek out more of them. Do more of everything that feels like that. Do less of everything that feels unlike that.
The Action Part
As we steadily align ourselves with that new and improved version of us with our wish in hand, all other things in our lives are gently being attuned and aligned as well, in preparation for this next evolution. All the elements are lining up, creating the path to our goals. Everything in our now is shifting, behind the scenes, to accommodate its arrival.
We will begin to see our magical goal everywhere. It’s like everyplace we stop, there’s a car that might be the one. Every time we drive, we pass one in traffic. Turn on the TV, there’s a commercial for the car. It’s stalking you on the internet, which be law or attraction or marketing or law of attraction working through marketing. It’s everywhere.
And somewhere around that point, we will usually feel inspired and compelled to take some action. This is aligned action. We are acting from a place where are aligned and attuned to the version of ourselves who has the goal. When we act on this inspiration, it will be easy, enjoyable, and effective. Things will seem to fall into place.
We might feel inspired to apply for a job or promotion. We might feel inspired to apply for a car loan. We might feel inspired to cast a car spell. We might feel inspired to check the Swap Sheet. We might feel inspired to enter a sweepstakes.
We might feel inspired to get something fixed around the house, which leads to meeting a repair man who knows a guy who’s selling his nearly new, perfect for you E SUV for cheap. You never know where the connection will be made.
Being aligned with our goals, whatever they are, really means feeling good now—without the goal, fully content where we are and knowing for sure that the goal is in progress. When we’re in that state, any ideas or inspirations that come to us are also in line with our goals and should be trusted and acted upon.
But it’s the alignment, the tuning in, that must come before action.
It’s a little bit counter-intuitive. When I hit a financial challenge, my first instinct is to immediately find a way to make more money. If I knee-jerk react by creating a new service, a new business, or sending out resumés, the results will match the energy of financial challenge, panic, knee-jerk, hurry, aaaah!
Instead, I must pause and realize my vibration has matched this energy in some way or it could not have come. It might be obvious where it came from or not, and it doesn’t matter. We only move forward, after all.
So I must adjusting my energy. I must feel and appreciate every hint of abundance in my life, and celebrate it. I must give to those less fortunate to remind myself what a blessing it is to be able to give at all. I must adjust my energy, before I take action.
Then, the action I am inspired to take will match the energy of well-being, acceptance, deep inner peace, and most of all, awareness of and alignment with the unceasing flow of abundance.
Real Magic…
is the deliberate evolution of self.
We change from one who desires the experience,
into one who lives the experience.
We bend and shape “reality”
by bending and shaping ourselves
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