Your Life Story is telling you a story about yourself. It is already magical, but from some perspectives may seem anything but magical. You have the free will to choose the perspective from which you interpret Your Life Story. 

Viewed from our perspective, your story is filled with metaphors, symbols and analogies. Contained within each life experience is nourishment for your soul and spirit. Your digestive system presents a wonderful metaphor for digesting Your Life Story. When functioning properly your digestive system processes the food you eat. It breaks down the food, extracts the nutrients and eliminates the waste. As you break down your life experiences, you begin to see their nutritional value—the nourishment they have provided for you on your spiritual journey. When reading your life story from this healing perspective, you know that no experience is random. They all have value, they all have nutrients, and they all have been magnetized by your energy. 

The more you view life from this perspective, the more magical it becomes. You will understand that nothing begins as a crisis. The messages you fail to digest will eventually build to crisis proportions in an effort to get your attention. They are not taking you off course, they are indicating that you are already off course.

When you set an intention for something you desire, the Universe will provide you with all that you need in order to magnetize it. Sometimes it provides you with some direction toward inner work that must be done in order for you to align with your desire. You will eventually come to know and understand that if you are capable of attracting an abundance of less than desirable experiences, you are just as capable of attracting an abundance of desirable experiences—there just needs to be some healing in between. 

As you come to a place of compassion toward yourself for the times when you didn’t understand the workings of your energy and the frustration and pain that ignorance created, you will have compassion for those who are struggling because of their ignorance. It is part of the journey. Having compassion does not mean condoning hurtful behaviors, laying yourself out as a doormat, becoming involved in the dramas of others, or being on a mission to heal the world. Compassion on a truly spiritual journey means honoring what someone is going through and the means by which they choose to go through it without judgment, being sensitive to their struggles, and knowing that their experience is presenting them and you with an opportunity to grow in wisdom and compassion if either so chooses. You know that their experience is more up close and personal for them, but also has a message for you because they showed up on your stage.

When your body is not properly processing your food, it may eliminate everything, including the nutrients, or hold in everything, including the waste. When you are dysfunctionally processing your life experiences, you take the entire package with you or attempt to leave the entire package behind. Periodically you will attract situations to remind you that the old stuff is still there and the nutritional value has yet to be extracted. If your digestive system is not processing your food properly, when you take in more food, you become uncomfortable. Similarly, when you haven’t processed your life experiences and you take more on, you experience more discomfort. You feel not only the emotion that the current experience brings up, but also the emotion from your other unprocessed experiences. Each occurrence will be experienced with greater intensity when past occurrences with similar essence have not been processed. 

Living a more magical life requires a willingness to explore the depths of your emotions in order to find the nutritional value within your experiences. As the healing is done and the growth is integrated, your life becomes more optimally magical. The love for yourself that is necessary in order for you to prioritize time and create space for healing and growth will magnetize more love to you. And the more you are a magnet for love the more you are a magnet for your heart’s desires just because you desire them. That is magic.

In Need Of Direction

When venturing somewhere new it is natural to feel a little lost. When in unfamiliar territory, you might stop at a gas station or stop someone walking down the street to ask for directions. In both cases you are attempting to ask for direction from someone who is likely to be familiar with the territory. 

At times on your spiritual journey it is natural for you to feel a little lost. You may find yourself in new territory or on a different route to avoid the dead end you have come to in the past. When in new territory you may find yourself desiring a little assistance. There is nothing wrong with asking for directions. The only thing asking for direction indicates is that you have the courage to admit that you need a little help with your navigating. There is nothing shameful to admitting that you are a little bit lost. No one is expected to feel comfortable in unfamiliar territory and your fearful parts deserve a little support. 

Sometimes your spiritual journey will take you to new places and you may desire to facilitate your journey by asking for direction from someone who knows the territory. When you indicate to the Universe that you need some direction, you are asking the Universe to perform some magic. It will respond, magically presenting you with exactly the direction that you need: sometimes in the form of a book, a workshop or a spiritual teacher. Acknowledging your fearful parts and helping them feel supported is loving yourself, and will magnetize more demonstrations of love to you.

Living In The Magic

Living consciously in the magic does not mean that your life will be perfect. It does mean that you are choosing to live in the love, are willing to be real, accepting of yourself and others without judgment, and know that your capacity to love and be loved are most powerful. It’s not about shooing people off your stage so your experiences can be more magical, but about realizing that magic is what brought them there in the first place. 

When what may appear as a less than optimal experience is magnetized, it could be that there is some grief, anger or hurt that needed to be brought to awareness to be felt and released. When you understand that what may appear as less than desirable is necessary to your growth and healing, you spend less time in judgment and more time in acceptance, understanding and gratitude. 

Even when your life does not appear to be magical, it is actually very magical. Whatever you attract to play out on your stage is not random, it is magnetized. As Don Henley so eloquently said in his lyrics from The Heart Of The Matter, “The more I know, the less I understand. All the things I thought I figured out, I have to learn again.” We can continue to shoo people off of our stage, blame them for our experiences and how we are feeling, or we can learn to live in the magic. We can admit that we are a little bit lost and ask for direction or pretend we have it all together; it is our choice.

When living in the magic, emotions are felt deeply and completely, and direct you to where you need to go to do some healing. For example, when you magnetize an experience which makes you feel disrespected, it could be showing you that you have been putting your needs and desires on the back burner. When you feel the emotions the disrespectful experience has brought to your awareness, you can then inquire about the purpose of the experience and see that it was showing you what you were doing to yourself. As you begin to make your needs and desires a priority, you will magnetize those who will also treat them as such. You can choose to fight the magic by demanding respect from others or choose to live consciously in the magic, digest your experience, and magically change your reality to one that demonstrates respect. 

When the riches are extracted from your experiences, their light is what you move forward with and that which will illuminate your way. The rest is left behind. Enlightenment is about becoming lighter and brighter and wiser. And during the process of becoming lighter, brighter and wiser, you are loving yourself more and more. As you love yourself more and more, you magnetize more love to yourself and can more easily align with anything your heart desires purely because you desire it. This is magic. The more love you are able to allow in, the more magical your life becomes. 

Your Life Story is an awesome adventure; a spiritual journey that will lead you to a place of acceptance of All That Is without having to always understand exactly why. You will come to be at home in the mystery because you have an understanding of your ability to magnetize which is your magical power. You will come to realize that your magic, your energy, your power and your capacity to love and be loved are all one and the same. Living in the love is living in the magic.