Trying to explain magic is like trying to explaing the Tao. Can't be done. Magic can only be defined by your heart, your soul, your feeling responses. It's what lifts your spirits and your mind, what causes your thoughts to expand, to see past the limitations of your current reality.
Magic or manifesting is commonly thought of as the process that's used to change physical reality. But there is no process that can do that—it's a state of being that changes reality. That state of being can be focused and channeled through a given process, (such as visualization or affirmations), but the vibration precedes the process; the state of energy is the key, and how it's channeled is secondary.
Based on beliefs that many mystics hold to be true, changing physical form is merely mechanical. If you visualize, affirm, pray, do magical spells, or whatever it is you feel guided to do to create an aspect of reality you desire, as long as your intention is clear and your efforts consistent, you will likely create what you want. But that is not magic. Magic cannot be created. It can only be allowed, absorbed, surrendered to. It is the true nature of our beings, but cultural conditioning tends to create a disconnect so that we no longer seek it or even recognize it when it's present. We don't desire and long for it, and instead settle for the crumbs of material comforts.
But nothing in the physical world can make our spirits soar or empower and illuminate us the way that allowing the awareness and reality of magic can. It is what our souls hunger for. It fills our deepest needs. And when the magical state is allowed in, it informs our lives, breaking down mental barriers that limit our physical realities.
Each person's path is completely unique and no one can tell another exactly how to be in and live in a magical state. It's only by listening to and honoring your own soul's impulses, by caring enough for your Self to follow them, and by being courageous enough to live from your heart rather than other peoples' expectations, that your particular brand of magic can be found. It is by honoring who you really are, that you will be guided onto your magical path, and things that never before seemed possible, will seem begin to seem very normal.
It may seem worthwile to focus on manifesting one thing or another into physical reality. And at some points in your life, that may be what's needed. But in the long run, it's the flow that brings blessings without any effort at all—where you begin to naturally attract what you want and need, where the state of your being is wide open to the Universal Love that is always present, and always available.
Neither human beings nor magic are static. We find our magic at certain points only to later feel we've lost it. We hit roadblocks and assume we've lost the connection. But in reality it can never be lost. It can only appear to be, as we move through layers of cultural conditioning and limiting perspectives. But life always moves forward, and as long as we're willing to move with it, to grow and learn and increase awareness, we will always reconnect, and come back to spirit, and to the spiritual reality of home.
http://balbed.com/mystic/hpmagic.html
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