Lessons in intentional magic.
Introduction.
Welcome.
I'm so glad you're here.
Have you ever felt dissatisfied,
Restless,
Sure that there's more out there but not sure what more is and generally just a little lost with who you actually are?
You have?
Great.
You're not alone and this is for you.
In 2014 I was lost too.
March of 2014 was particularly awful.
A friend I'd known since high school had passed away,
I'd been turned down for a job I desperately wanted and I'd been assured was mine and that the interview was a formality.
And I was burned out physically and emotionally by the job that I was in.
When I look back now I can see that this was the turning point.
But I kept going for a few months in that job,
Fighting off chest infections and sinus infections until I eventually burst into tears at a visit to my doctor.
I'd gone to ask for another round of antibiotics and when she said yes okay but what else is going on here I started to cry.
I left with the bottle of antibiotics,
Liquid codeine to suppress my cough and a note signing me off work for three weeks with emotional and physical exhaustion.
In the years that followed that note my life has changed so much that it is now unrecognisable.
I have a new full-time career,
I have two part-time businesses and I rediscovered hobbies and practices that I hadn't enjoyed for years.
During that three week period of being at home I decided to make a change.
I looked for job adverts in fields completely unrelated to what I'd been doing and came across one that was a perfect mix of the skills I had.
The only downside was that it was a one year fixed term contract.
Although I lived alone and didn't have anyone to support except myself,
I still had a mortgage and bills to pay and I was worried I'd end up job hunting again in a few months.
I had friends who already worked for the company so I chatted to them and they both agreed that I could be a perfect fit for the role.
So I took a chance.
I went for the interview a week or so later and before I'd even gotten home afterwards they called me to offer me the job.
I went back to my old job for less than a month.
I see now that taking that chance and that one little moment of being intentional about making a change sparked a series of events,
Not all of them easy,
That led me to the place that I'm in today and that's what I want to share here.
The practices I rediscovered and came to rely on,
The ways I changed my thought patterns and the way I thought and talked about myself and how I started to work on calling everything into my life that I wanted to experience.
That is intentional magic.
Lesson one.
Where are you right now?
Is where I am perfect?
Do I have everything I want?
No.
Do I try every day to work on myself and continually improve the way I feel and the way my life looks?
Absolutely.
What led me to make that first change was realising how bad my current situation was.
I'd gotten out of a relationship about 18 months prior and I vividly remember trying to have Sunday dinner with my then partner.
My work mobile phone was ringing as we sat down and he was so sick of the sound that he picked it up before I could and switched it off.
He told me that nothing was so urgent and I couldn't wait 20 minutes on a Sunday for us to eat together.
The relationship ended not long afterwards in one of those split second moments where one of you realise it's over and there's no going back.
We'd been talking on the phone about his living situation and I told him he could always just live with me full time because he practically did anyway and he was silent.
He told me afterward that was the moment he realised because his immediate thought was I don't want to.
He came back once more to collect his things and that was it.
And I remember looking in the mirror one morning not long afterward and thinking that I didn't know who I was.
I couldn't think of any of the things I liked to do for fun or hobbies that interested me.
My job took up most of my time and my free time had been spent with him.
Lost.
In the months that followed I kept asking myself the same question.
Who are you?
I couldn't see.
I'd spent so many years surrounded by the same group of people and trying to fit in with their lifestyle and their milestones and feeling lost and sad when I didn't.
But I didn't remember what my opinions were or what I liked to do in my free time.
I was desperate to fit in and be what I perceived as normal.
I'd made mistakes in relationships choosing the wrong people because I had a warped idea about the person I should be dating and not ever communicating what I wanted or needed to the person I was with out of some deep fear that if we did disagree or argue that they'd leave me.
I had some pretty toxic friends in my life too.
People who lived for drama and couldn't stand to see anyone grow and change.
More on them later.
One thing that kept coming back to me when I thought about what I enjoyed was dancing.
I'd been a dancer as a child and teenager but by this point I was almost 34 and completely unfit.
I joined my local gym and very nervously started to go to dance fitness classes.
In one of those classes I had one of those encounters that can only be divine,
Written in the stars or sent by the universe.
I saw an advert for a new type of dance class and went along to the first one on the timetable.
I fell in love with the class immediately and over the next few weeks the instructor became a lifelong friend.
He's still my friend today and now I teach that dance class.
That class led me to get my teaching qualification which led me to that job interview.
Teaching was one of the skills I knew that I had that would make me a good fit for it and to a whole new life.
Divine.
So before we begin our journey about the magic of living intentionally ask yourself one question.
Where are you now?
Think about all the areas of your life,
Your home life,
Work,
Friends,
Relationships,
Hobbies,
Interests and ask yourself where you are right now with all of them.
That's our starting point.
I'll wait while you write it down so you can pause and then we'll begin.
Lesson two.
Who are you really?
Have you written down where you are now?
Good.
Don't panic.
If it says £10,
000 in debt,
Unhappy,
Lonely,
Sad,
Stressed,
Emotionally exhausted,
Burnt out,
Ashamed,
Embarrassed,
Jealous or any other combination of all those negative words we use to describe ourselves,
That's okay.
You're not alone and these are our catalyst for change.
Now grab your journal again and tell me who you are.
Strip away all the titles and the roles you've created for yourself.
The family roles,
The job roles and just tell me who you are.
Not the you that is mother or father or friend or partner or carer or your job title.
Who are you?
What do you like?
What do you enjoy doing?
What type of person are you?
What did you want to be when you were a child?
What did you love doing as a child?
What makes you laugh?
What are you passionate about?
What drives you?
Think about all these questions and just write down all the words that come to mind.
Without all the structures we've built for ourselves and the identities we have created for ourselves.
Who are you really?
Pause now and write that all down.
Lesson three.
What do you think of yourself?
If I asked you to tell me one thing you like about yourself,
How easy would you find that?
Would you feel uncomfortable or embarrassed?
We're conditioned to feel that communicating what we love about ourselves or talking about our achievements is boasting and we feel almost ashamed for doing it.
We should be humble,
We should be quiet.
If we're confident we might be seen as too much.
We've made it very easy to list our faults and our failures or describe ourselves as stupid.
We apologise for asking questions.
When I first trained to teach fitness and dance I had to get very comfortable very quickly with feedback,
Self reflection and self assessment.
I had to watch and hear myself on video and it was excruciating at first.
I could list twenty things that I hadn't done well but I couldn't list a single thing that I had done well.
I cringed at my voice and my technique.
The thing is though,
I knew the very first time that I stood up in front of a room of people to teach group exercise that I was good at.
I made mistakes sure and I continued to make them as a new instructor but I knew right away in that first assessment I was comfortable,
Confident and could connect with my participants so why couldn't I write that in my self assessment?
I felt like I would come across as over confident or arrogant and deep down I was worried I was deluded.
I thought the assessor might read it and laugh.
It turns out I was right.
I am a good teacher.
My biggest strength is connection and bringing emotion to my classes.
I'm a performer at heart and I bring that energy and also relatability to every class that I teach.
I'm confident in my teaching ability and my ability to take feedback as it is intended and use it as a tool to improve but it took me a long time to be able to say that.
When we tell ourselves these things over and over again,
The I'm not good enough,
I could never do that or the I'm going to be found out stories,
We believe them.
When we repeat them over and over they become our default position and our reality.
Our limiting beliefs are what hold us back from reaching our true potential as the highest version of ourselves.
Let's change them.
Take some time now to write down some positive statements about yourself.
What you like about yourself,
What you're good at,
Your best qualities.
Push through any discomfort that you feel and get it down on paper right now.
Pause here and then come back.
What did you write down?
How did it make you feel?
Let's commit together to end in the practice of negative self-talk and instead practice self-love and appreciation from now on.
Lesson four.
How are you holding yourself back?
In the same way the stories we tell ourselves become our reality,
So too do the habits,
Behaviours and patterns that we repeat.
We keep ourselves in that never-ending cycle of situations,
People and patterns that don't serve our highest potential that we find hard to break.
Why?
Because we feel safe there.
We're comfortable.
We know what to expect.
We know what the outcome will be and even if it's negative we repeat it over and over again.
I've kept myself stuck in many of those repeating cycles over the years particularly in relationships.
I've chosen people who are emotionally unavailable,
Unable to communicate and lucky me I seem to have an invisible beacon above my head that attracts the troubled ones.
I spent way too long in relationships with people like that.
I spent hours listening to self-pity at 3am and hours waiting late at night for them to call on the way home because they knew if I did I'd let them come over.
It took me a long time to be able to look back on this and other situations and be able to reflect on my part in them.
It's easy to blame our lack of growth and success on others,
Right?
So before we start to make magic let's be honest about the ways in which we keep ourselves stuck.
Consider here all of the habits,
People,
Patterns and situations that you repeat.
The ones that deep down you know aren't good for you.
Maybe it's a toxic friendship or relationship.
Maybe it's scrolling social media and feeling envy or jealousy.
Do you numb out with food or alcohol instead of experiencing feelings?
Perhaps it's your self-talk or how you communicate.
Are you able to say what you feel or do you expect others to know and then feel resent and when they don't?
Think now about all the ways in all areas of your life that you limit yourself and write them down.
If you like you can make this practice into a ritual by taking the piece of paper you've written everything down on and safely burning it.
Pause now and go do that.
Section 2 Lesson 5 How do you want to feel?
Let's get started with the magic shall we?
When we read about setting goals or new year resolutions there's so much focus on what we're going to achieve.
It's all by this day I have made £10,
000 in passive income from my side hustle,
Bought my dream home and have gotten married to my dream partner.
There's never anything about how we want to feel.
When we live more intentionally we do everything based on how we want to feel.
Every goal we set or everything we think we want really comes from thinking how it will make us feel in a certain way.
If I have money I'll feel secure.
If I have my dream home I will no longer feel envious of other people's lifestyles.
If I'm married or in a relationship I'll feel loved and no longer lonely.
News flash none of those feelings comes from anyone but ourselves.
We need to take a deep dive into how we want to feel and then make a plan to get there.
One that includes self-discovery,
Self-awareness and self-acceptance rather than unrealistic goals that we'll never achieve which only make us feel like even more of a failure.
Take some time now to get clear on how you want to feel.
Pause here,
Pop a playlist on in the background and just journal it out.
Use single words or sentences or draw pictures whatever works.
Do you want to feel secure,
Abundant,
Loved,
Confident,
Happy,
Fulfilled,
Connected?
Take whatever words come to mind first when you ask yourself how you want to feel and then just let them flow onto the paper.
Maybe you'll be surprised at what comes up.
Think about home life,
Relationships,
Work,
Social life,
Friendships,
Your emotional well-being and your physical well-being.
Give yourself time and space to do this.
Lesson six,
Vision.
Visualising is a wonderful tool in living intentionally because it helps us understand how we'll feel when we're living in alignment with our intentions and that's where the magic is.
When we can really feel all of those words we wrote down and if you struggle with visualisation that's okay.
It can be hard to get the movie of your life to play in your head or see yourself in your dream job so let's look at two ways that we can use visualisation to get really clear about the life we want to create.
Using your list of words that describe the way you want to feel.
You can create something that represents that.
Vision boards are more than just pretty pictures.
A good vision board should be able to conjure up a feeling just by looking at it.
If you're creative and I promise you're more creative than you think you are then this is for you.
Grab a large piece of paper or card and then start looking through magazines,
Newspapers,
Books for images that represent your feeling words or if you like take coloured pens and pencils and draw them.
Use colours that represent your feelings or draw it as a mind map.
Maybe you'd like to draw it as a journey towards your highest potential with a start and a finish line.
There are no rules here and it's about being as creative as you like.
If you feel like you aren't a creative person I promise you you are.
If I've learned anything in teaching five years of workshops that it is adults love crafts.
Be playful and see if you can create something that really embodies all of your feeling words.
Don't worry yet about how to get there.
You can also create a digital vision board.
Make it in Pinterest or a photo collage app and save it as your phone or laptop background.
The possibilities really are endless.
If being creative really isn't for you then try this exercise.
Find a quiet space to sit comfortably and if it feels right close your eyes.
Take a few minutes just to breathe and settle down and let go of all the thoughts and the worries of the day and just let them fade into the background.
It might help to focus on your breathing or maybe to have some calming music in the background.
You can then visualize yourself walking towards a door and as you walk you know that the highest and best version of you will answer when you knock.
Walk slowly and steadily forward until you reach that door and really see and hear yourself knocking on it.
Who opens the door?
What do they look like?
Where do they live?
What is their home like?
Is anyone with them?
Stay with them.
Ask them questions about their work,
Their relationships,
Their hobbies.
What are they wearing?
Who are their friends?
If you feel able to talk to them and ask them for their guidance,
See if you can feel,
Smell,
Touch and experience their life.
Spend as much time as you like with them before saying goodbye and walking back through the door.
When it feels right,
Open your eyes and write down everything you experienced and any guidance that your highest self gave you.
Take time to pause now and do one of those exercises.
Keep your vision board or your journal notes from the exercise close by and then let's start to make this vision a reality.
Lesson 7.
Get intentional.
Resolutions or goals can be difficult for us to stick to.
Think about the word resolve.
How does it make you feel?
It feels to me like something we need to resign ourselves to doing,
Something that will be tough to stick to and take lots of hard work and willpower to achieve.
Maybe it even feels like we have to give something up to get it.
When we live intentionally,
We create a list of guiding principles for ourselves.
We use everything we've written down in the first lessons on our vision board and condense it into a few sentences that describe what we want to feel and experience.
These sentences become our code for living and our daily work becomes living in alignment with them.
Living intentionally is really everyday magic and for that reason we begin our intentions with the most powerful spell that we can speak.
I am.
Those little words hold so much power in them and everything we say after them becomes reality whether we realise it or not.
We've talked already about the stories we tell ourselves and the labels we attach to ourselves and how we make them real by repeating them.
Every single one of those stories starts with I am.
So look back now over your list of feeling words,
Your vision board or your journal notes and start to arrange them into phrases.
Use positive language in the present tense as if it has already happened.
If your vision includes feeling energised and healthy with a picture of a smiling person working out,
Then your intention might be I am full of energy or it might be I am taking care of my mind and body.
Remember that these will be your guiding principles so think of them as values that you'll live your life by.
There's no need to be specific with actions or timescales yet,
Just write your spell.
You can make your journal page look beautiful,
You can write them on a separate piece of paper or write them onto your vision board,
Just whatever feels good.
Treat them like the magic that they are.
Pause and go do that now.
Lesson 8,
Inspired Action.
Here's where we start to get specific.
Getting clear on the lives we want to create and the feelings we want to experience is just the first step in our journey.
We now need to make our intentions a reality by taking action to live fully in alignment with them.
This is a step that so many people leave out and it's a mistake I made at the beginning.
There's so much written about manifesting and yes that is what we're doing and using the law of attraction that suggests that all we need to do is ask and it will become reality.
I used to write down what I thought were what I wanted and thought were intentions every month at the new moon and then just sit back and wait for them to appear and I got frustrated and disheartened that this magic didn't seem to be available to me.
As I read and studied more I realised that we need to actually take action steps and that when we do that's when more doors begin to open for us.
So take my story about the dance class I walked into.
I'd wanted to be a dancer since I was a little girl but I'd fallen out of it in my teens.
After I identified that dance was something I wanted to bring back into my life I took that one action step whether I realised it was an action step or not of joining a class.
Walking into that room brought me friendship,
The chance to rediscover the joy that dance brought to me and it led me down a path to sharing that joy with others through the classes that I now teach.
It's a perfect example of taking that first step and having the universe deliver the map to navigate the rest of the journey.
Look back now over your intentions and start to think about inspired action that you could take towards living fully in alignment with them.
Maybe you've written I am and then written your dream job title.
Think about the skills and experience you need to get that job.
Do you need more training?
Could you study part time or online?
If it's experience that you need is there a company you can reach out to?
If your intentions are around love and relationships consider how you'll actually get out there and date.
It could be as simple as updating your online dating profile and adding some new photos.
For each intention you have made make a list of inspired action steps that you can take right now and be specific about how you'll do them.
Pause and go do that now.
Lesson nine,
Time.
In most goal setting methods one of the key steps is being time specific.
We're encouraged to give ourselves deadlines and set out time scales for achievement.
Do you need to do that?
It's up to you.
If you feel enthusiastic and motivated to get started right now then it's the right time.
There's no doubt that giving ourselves deadlines works but it might feel easier to set our intentions around the natural rhythms that we take cues from every day.
Whether we realise it or not we're influenced by the cycles of day into night and the lunar cycles and the seasonal cycles.
Have you noticed that you are more outgoing and adventurous in the summer months when the light is brightest and more focused on being at home and reflective in the darker months?
Maybe like me you love that crisp fresh autumn energy and feel like you need to make plans then.
All we're doing there is taking our cues from nature to prepare for the long winter ahead.
When I'm working intentionally I like to work in alignment with the cycles of the moon.
Each new moon is a new beginning and the opportunity for a fresh start so if it feels right to you look up the next new moon and tap into the beginning of a new lunar cycle by setting your intentions for the coming month then.
In the new moon phase we're much more quiet and inward focused so it's a wonderful time to do the exercises above and listen to your inner higher self for guidance on what it is that you want to call into your life.
As the moon moves further through its cycle each phase is a check-in point on your intentional living journey for the month.
The first check-in point we reach is the first quarter moon.
Here the moon is halfway toward being full and the energy is starting to rise.
This is when we might encounter obstacles and challenges in our path to living in alignment with our intentions and it's our job to remind ourselves why those guiding principles matter to us so much and find inspired ways to overcome any obstacles in our way.
The first quarter is an excellent time for your inspired action steps and to start to make those a reality.
So send an email,
Reach out to that person or take that first step and wait for the doors to open.
As we reach the full moon we're at the highest energy point of the cycle.
This is our phase of completion and the manifestation of our intentions.
It's our job here to be fully open to receive in whichever way our intentions start to show up in our lives and to practice gratitude for them.
As the full moon is the release point it's also the time for us to let go of any of those limiting beliefs,
Thoughts,
Patterns and behaviours that are holding us back.
It would be a wonderful time to do the exercise on where we're holding ourselves back and burn that list of ways.
You can ask the full moon to assist you in releasing all that no longer serves you on your journey.
As the energy starts to dip after the full moon we become less energetic too and with the last quarter phase we're called to rest,
Reflect on the cycle and surrender in order to make way for new intentions with the new cycle.
Here you can journal on your experience throughout the month and use your insights to inform your intentions for the coming weeks.
Whichever way you choose to do it take your vision board,
Your intentions and your list of inspired action steps and get creating.
Section three.
Picture this.
It's January 1st and you are super enthusiastic and motivated about a fresh start.
You make your list of intentions,
You come up with action steps and you're ready to go.
It all goes well for a couple of weeks but then slowly you start to slip back into old habits and your journal with your intention list goes unopened.
By mid-February they're all but forgotten about.
Keeping up the motivation to move forward with living intentionally can be tough,
Particularly if you don't know anyone else on that journey or as you come up against challenges.
So in this section we'll look at ways to integrate living in alignment with your intentions into daily life.
Lesson ten.
Affirmations.
Affirmations are fantastic for keeping our intentions in mind through repetition and as we know the more we tell ourselves something the more it comes into our reality.
Reciting affirmations doesn't have to mean looking in a mirror every morning and telling yourself how much you love yourself,
Although that would not be a bad thing to do at all.
It can be as simple as just a few phrases that you repeat at a certain point each day or when you're coming up against self-doubt or against challenges.
They're a way to remind ourselves of those guiding principles and firmly place them into our consciousness over time.
Take your list of intentions and see which ones might make good affirmations.
As we did before we're going to use our most powerful words here,
I am,
And speak them aloud as an incantation.
You might not need to make any changes to your intention to turn it into an affirmation,
It might sound great as it is,
Or maybe you can shorten it into a more concise phrase that feels good.
Choose whatever you'd like to write your affirmations into a short list that you can keep with you and revisit whenever you need to,
Or whether you'd prefer to set aside a specific time each day and read them aloud to yourself.
Maybe you'd like to do both.
Whichever way you choose,
Remember to use positive language in the present tense as if your intention has already happened and begin with the words,
I am.
If it's helpful,
See if you can really think of these as a spell that you're speaking aloud.
You really are a powerful creator calling magic into your life by living in alignment,
So why not embody that?
Lesson 11,
Routine.
What does your morning routine look like?
Do you snooze 10 times then leap out of bed at the last minute?
Maybe you're a morning person who wakes up before your alarm ready to embrace a new day.
Whichever you are,
Do you take time to think about how you want your day to go before you begin?
I find it can be really easy to get overwhelmed and anxious in the morning if I wake up and immediately start thinking about all the things I need to do or the places I need to be that day.
It's even worse if I check my email or social media first thing.
Maybe I see an email with a complaint or a last minute deadline or I see a social media post that makes me feel angry and suddenly my day is off to a negative start with a negative mindset.
I learned that taking time to check in with my intentions in the morning and visualising how I want my day to go is a huge help in keeping me in alignment with my highest and best version of myself.
If I have a meeting to go to I know might be difficult.
I spend time thinking about how my highest self will show up,
Interact,
Communicate and what my ideal outcome would be.
I mentally want myself to go through the meeting or the presentation or the conversation and visualise it going well.
I think about how I want to show up and how I want to be seen.
I find it difficult to sit still and meditate in the morning but the practice of starting my day by checking in with my intentions and any inspired action I plan to take that day is something I can easily incorporate into my morning and that is hugely beneficial.
Make a plan now for your morning routine.
What would be helpful to you?
Is it incorporating movements or yoga,
A walk,
A workout?
Is that a good way to start your day?
Will you read your intentions and affirmations aloud or read over them?
Is your vision board somewhere that you can see it first thing?
Will taking some time to do a visualisation of your day work with you?
What do you listen to in the morning?
Can you make a motivational playlist to start your day off or start with a dance party in your bedroom?
Choose whichever of these appeal to you and feel free to add your own elements and create your morning ritual.
Lesson 12,
Challenges.
Staying motivated is tough but what do we do when we come up against challenges?
What if we are doing all the work,
Repeating our affirmations,
Taking our inspired action and still nothing seems to be happening or obstacles seem to be getting in our way?
Instead of pushing forward or giving up out of frustration,
Take some time out to sit back and reflect.
Revisit your list of feeling words and remind yourself why you want to feel that way.
Then look to your list of ways that you got in your own way and held yourself back.
Have those limiting beliefs,
Doubts and fears started to creep back in?
Are you listening to that inner critic that tells you you are not good enough or worthy enough?
I thought so.
It's easy to do.
When I first realised that I wanted to share the practices I was using,
I was so worried that people would laugh.
I worried that I would be called out as a fake or an imposter or that someone was going to come along and ask me for a piece of paper to prove that I was qualified.
Looking back I was afraid to share my thoughts,
Feelings and opinions for fear of ridicule or rejection and I think that we can all relate to that.
I quietly kept going with the practice of intentional living that I knew was helping me to grow so much.
Revisit your intentions and remind yourself how important they are to you.
Journal about what they mean to you and how your life will look when you are fully living in alignment with them.
Look over your inspired action steps and see if you can refine them a little.
Think at which ones work and which don't.
Journal what you have learned from your experiences so far and think about what you can do differently.
Do you need to revise the final outcome?
What we are passionate about doesn't always have to become our full time job or our main source of income despite what we might read.
It's perfectly ok to want to call something into your life as a hobby.
Something that brings you joy and pleasure without the added pressure of making money that might ultimately reduce it to a job.
When we are faced with disappointment or doubt or frustration it's always ok to take time to reflect,
Revise,
Regroup and restart.
Just go through the steps again,
Redefine your intentions,
Repeat your affirmations and off you go.
Just keep showing up and trust that the doors will always open and that the path will be clear before you when it is the right one.
As my granny always said,
What's for you won't go by you.
Lesson 13,
Connections.
Who are your support network?
Beginning this journey of living intentionally in alignment with our values can feel lonely and isolated if we don't know anyone else who is on the same path.
We might worry that friends and family will think we are crazy if we talk about spirituality or consciously creating our lives and want to hide it.
What happens when friends really don't understand?
For me it meant losing some of them.
Back when I started to make changes to my life and to grow past the lifestyle and the patterns I'd been stuck in for many years some people close to me didn't like it and they didn't like that.
My circle was expanding,
I was trying new things and becoming more confident to speak up and show up is who I am.
Instead of supporting me and cheering me on these people chose to try to tear me down.
They commented how much I had changed and eventually those comments became accusations and for a while I believed them.
I constantly second guessed myself and tried to understand if I had really behaved as badly as they said I had.
I was worried that it was my fault and eventually I thought I was crazy.
I don't think I've ever been so angry in my life as during some of those conversations.
Here's what I learned.
Not everyone will want to see you do well.
They'll be threatened and jealous when they see you succeed,
Heal and outgrow them and instead of celebrating you they will try to convince you that you are wrong.
Don't let them,
You aren't.
Some people will never understand the power of self-discovery and self-awareness work and they won't be able to stand it when you step into the power of who you are.
You don't need them.
Will you be sad?
Will you be angry?
Yes,
Absolutely.
Sit with all of those feelings and let them move through you and away.
Your circle will show up.
Minded.
Where do I find that circle?
Start online.
Follow some hashtags and join some groups related to your interests to connect with like-minded people.
Go to workshops,
Events,
Meetups,
Chats,
People there.
Try using the friends function on dating apps or join an online event.
You are unique,
Beautiful,
Interesting and wonderful and the right people will find you if you shine your light out there for them to see.
I promise.
And if the people decide to try to come back who left,
You get to decide if you open the door.
Section four.
So here we are.
Now we have a plan,
A set of steps to follow and ideas on how we can incorporate all of the practices into daily life.
All that's left to do now is begin.
I know that can be the toughest part.
I know we all read the articles about manifesting and the law of attraction and think that they are either nonsense or not available to us.
I know that sometimes you believe that although we're sure deep down there must be something more out there that it's not for us.
I'm here to tell you that it is.
Whether you realise it or not,
You are a powerful witch,
Magician,
Sorcerer and creator who has the ability to create the life you want to live and call in the feelings and experiences that you want to have.
You can cast spells with your words and turn your wishes into reality.
I'm challenging you now to believe in yourself and your abilities,
To love yourself and the flaws that make you unique.
If it feels right,
Stand up right now and say aloud,
I am a powerful creator.
And then just begin.
Follow the steps.
Where are you right now?
Who are you really?
What do you think of yourself?
How are you holding yourself back?
How do you want to feel?
Visualise.
Create that list of guiding principles to live by.
Take inspired action.
Work out a timescale that feels right for you.
Turn your intentions into incantations and affirmations.
Find magic in the everyday.
Know your strategy.
Work through challenges.
Reach out and know that your tribe will show up.
Declare aloud that you will begin today the practice of calling into your life everything that you desire for your highest good.
Finish with a thank you and say it is done.
And so it is.
Thank you so much for listening.
Much love.
