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explanation to 1
In this chapter you learned how I begun. Not exactly a stellar way to start I'll agree but through hard work and learning the harsh lessions of that night I was able to take my first steps into a larger world. Now these are the lessions that I think someone who is starting out should first pay close attention to.
1. Do not even begin to think that magic or magical secrets will suddenly make your life easier.
2. Explore and learn, but be cautious, when you study the mystical, the mystical studies you.
3. Fear is the most important thing to remove from your mind if you want to think clearly.
4. Inside all of us is the ability to be great, when you listeng to yourself is the first step.
Your turn:
The first few exercises I'm going to have you do are pretty minor but are very important. The form a foundation that you can build on and eventually use to your advantage.
1. Get a bowl with a reflective interior and fill it with water. Now this will take some time but what you need to do is look into the water and try to view just over your sholder. Now you need to focus, try not to move around much, relax, try to keep your mind focused on looking for a guide to help you. Then simply wait. Eventually something will appear it may take a while, and it may only be there for a second but you will remember it. You will know it was there. That is your spirit guide, that part of you that honestly wants to help you learn magic. After youve seen it whenever you want to talk to it (I sugest you do it often as talking to it makes it more real and thus more able to help you.) simply recal what it looked like in your minds eye and direct the words to that image.
2. Go out to the mall (sounds good so far right? hold on) find a nice place to sit (still good?) and watch, watch what? wtach the people walking by, look for commonalities in the peoples movment, mannerisms, the way they walk, the way they kinda blend into each other, take notes if you need to but record all of it. Then later pratice mimicking everything you noticed, with time this will help you blend into a crowd when you want to or stick out like a sore thumb when you want someones attention.
For example, lets say your trying to duck someone, by being one with the sea of people the person looking for you will have a hard time noticing you.
Conversly lets say you want to unnerve someone by letting them see you, by being slightly out of sync with the crowd the person will have trouble keeping his eyes off you, his mind will know something is wrong but he wont be able to quite place it.
3. Sit down and figure out what scares you the most. Your most primal, darkest fears. When you figure you have, say the top 3 then start writing down what you think are good safe stragities on how to beat them. When you have a few ideas run them by friends/family see if they appear smart/safe with them. Then when you are ready start eliminating your fears.
4. This one is easy, well kinda. First what you need to do is get a pen and some paper and start drawing lines, squiggles, and random stuff on it. Once the paper starts to look well covered in ink start to look at the paper, change the angles, try to find images or patterns, anything that seems to stand out to you. Then write down what you saw. This is one of the many ways your subconcious has to get a message to you. see if the images or patters have some reference to whats going on in your life and then focus on those things for a little whle. You'll find it to be oddly fufilling. |