You Are the Center of Your Universe
As I am the center of mine
As above, so below. As within, so without.
When we recognize a pattern in one part of existence, we’ll find it reflected in all parts of existence.
With this in mind, think about the patterns of stars and planets. Each star is an individual. It provides warmth and light, life really, to all the planets and rocks and dust and debris in its orbit.
The star pulls and holds these objects in their orbit by the force of gravity, which is a direct result of their mass. What they are determines what they can pull into their system.
I think we humans could gain a lot by thinking of ourselves as the centers of our own little systems. We are each the sun, and all the people and events and experiences of our lives are objects in our orbit. We give them light and life when we give them our attention. We draw them and keep them there as a direct result of our vibration, which is very much like gravity.
“That which is like unto itself is drawn,” is a widely known statement for like attracts like. Put more simply, like attracts like.
We acknowledge this in Witchcraft when we choose herbs and colors and stones and even timing that match the vibration of our magical goal. Like attracts like. We must match the vibration.
But what we’re really doing is adjusting our own energy to match that of the goal. More specifically, to match the energy of the goal. Even more specifically, to match the energy of the version of us who has achieved and is living the goal. And when we match her, we become her. From our perspective, our goal shimmers into existence and feels as if it was always there, and that we just couldn’t see it, somehow.
All Witchcraft ever truly changes is theWitch.
Center of the Universe
Picture yourself as a star, like our sun, and imagine all the people and events of your life as the objects in your orbit.
What if the gravity that holds each of them in place is directed by you, in the form of your attention?
When we stop paying attention to something, it falls out of our orbit. Our wavelength no longer matches it. When we pay attention to something new, it comes into our orbit. Attention is gravity.
Now, it’s not attention alone, nothing’s quite that simple. It’s a whole mishmash of things including our deepest beliefs, our self-set limitations, our truest expectations, our mood and attitude. All of which are tied up in our childhood and history and culture. They all combine to create the signal we beam out into the cosmos, the signal we send, and therefore the wavelength we tune in.
Knowing this secret, knowing how specifically we can choose to target our attention while we work to steadily change our beliefs and expectations, puts us more in control of our lives than we were before.
Tuning in, Tuning out
Adjusting our vibe to match what we want is a good way to get what we want. But not paying attention to the bad stuff is a far bigger challenge.
How to shift focus
It’s impossible to not think about something by telling ourselves not to think about it. That method makes us think about it even more, and then we think about the fact that we thought about it, which takes more of our focus, still.
To release a planet from our orbit, it’s easiest to replace it with a different planet. Shift attention onto something that takes its place, maybe the solution to or the opposite of the thing we need to release.
Like with computer, you can’t delete a file from your brain. It’s never really gone until you overwrite it with new and improved file.
Replace smoking with jogging. Replace sitting with yoga. Replace unhealthy foods with healthy foods. Shift the focus to the new thing. Get into it, read about it, explore the net about it, talk to friends about it. Get the outfit or buy the cookbook or join the class. Every time you start to think about the old thing, remind yourself that was then, and this is now, and shift your thoughts to the new thing, the better thing, the answer and solution and replacement for the old thing. Or the old thing’s new and improved version, the old thing 2.0.
This mental exercise is really the process of tuning something better in. We don’t really tune the old thing out so much as just gently release it by removing our attention from it. The new thing provides an improved target for our attention. It’s a tool, really, but it’s also our next evolution, our own new and improved version.
With great power…
You know the rest. If this is real, and we’re not using it… what a waste of our own, inborn power.
I suggest you pretend it is, even if you’re skeptical. Just pretend it’s a well-known fact that like attacks like, and give yourself a good trial period. A week or ten days should do. Pick something you want to let go of, and something better that could replace it. It can be a habit, a focus, too much news or doomscrolling, or a breaking-down car.
Once you’ve identified what you want to release form your orbit, figure out its opposite or solution. A new habit, a new focus, an activity like yoga to take the place of doomscrolling and news, a reliable car.
Then start working to shift from noticing you don’t have the new thing, to imagining how cool it will be when you do. Shift from thinking about the thing you want to be rid of, to looking for signs of the thing that will solve it, end it, replace it.
Feel the delight of having it now. Look for other things in life (in your orbit) that also feel that way, and really relish them and bask in them.
For the following ten days, whenever you catch yourself focused on the thing you want to let go, gently shift your attention to its solution or opposite. Imagine clearly having that instead. Or imagine having your desire, whatever it is. Feel the way you’ll feel when you are experiencing it. Feel that way now. Conjure those emotions, practice them, write them out like a script for a play, experience them in relation to other events. Do you feel how it will build in you?
Try to do this each time you think of the old thing.
Keep notes in your journal, and notice every sign that your magical goals are beginning to manifest in your life.
And for every one that does, no matter how small, let it be validation to you that you are in fact, the center of your universe.
Yes, things happen beyond our control, things we don’t like, things we might want to push against. But we must always remember to put more emphasis on what we are pushing FOR. The solutions, the opposites, the replacements for the big bad experience.
And remember the big bad experience, like all bad experiences, only came to force us to move, to grow, to evolve in ways long needed, and too long resisted.
