Most people who believe in some kind of magic, prayer, or other form of mystical power have at one point contemplated using it to get themselves out of a jam. Far be it from me to tell you otherwise. But don’t rely on it with nothing else to get you out of whatever jam you’re in. It won’t work. Okay, it might work, but the odds aren’t in your favor given everyone else’s stories.
Perhaps I’m a little late to the party, as The Secret is no longer the big thing everyone is talking about. But I still see plenty of people looking for help on forums in order to get intention-manifestation, magic, the law of attraction, or any other paranormal thing they can think of to get them out of whatever mess they’re in, usually some kind of money or relationship problem. Unfortunately, there’s something a lot of people don’t seem to be teaching anymore: that you shouldn’t rely only on the paranormal. It’s finicky, especially when it comes to magic and similar processes.
When I first became a part of a number of paranormal communities, their was one thing they all had in common. They recommended that one use magic, prayer, and the like as a way to bolster your efforts in the physical world. A good luck charm might not help you out, but it can’t hurt. Plus, keeping your goals in mind long enough to cast a spell or pray about them will at least give you direction for when you go work on them. The key phrase there is “work on them.”
See, that’s the thing about magic. It’s subtle. You don’t know if the results were from the magic you performed or if they were just your own effort. It blends in with what I’ll call normal reality, making it seem as though nothing unusual happened, other than a possible string of good luck being capitalized on. This means you have to provide a way for what you want to happen to actually happen. You can’t just sit back and let your own personal genie do everything… at least, no one I’ve met can do that, and neither can anyone I’ve heard of who hasn’t first put in the effort to create their own successful business.
Does that mean it’s impossible to make magic work without accompanying physical effort. Not necessarily, but I haven’t heard of anyone who’s done it. You aren’t likely to be the first. Instead of looking to magic as a universal way to solve your problems, look at it as a complementary action you can take, if you have time, in addition to the much more important part of going out and working towards the goal you wish to achieve. By actively working on what you want, you’ll be much more likely to get it. And if the magic works too, you’ll get what you’re aiming for all the faster.
The point is, as much as we’d like a quick fix to all our problems, that usually isn’t what we get. So go ahead and do a little ritual to help yourself out, whether it’s using candles and calling upon the elements, sending your intention to the universe, a short prayer, or any number of things people do. But once you’ve done that, stop sitting around, get up, and work on achieving what you want. We live in the physical world, so don’t ignore it, or the rules that govern it. Sometimes you might be able to bend them a bit, but they don’t break.
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