April 2007 Newsletter
Online Issue # 15
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Let The Magic Come
At the bottom of each page on my web site you'll find the line “Bless the time spent here... seeking, listening, dreaming. Let the magic come.” I offer these words as an invitation to my web site and my work. The words articulate a powerful, collaborative process that takes place between my clients / students, myself and a magic for which there is no name: it happens in the time set aside to focus on an emerging inner knowing that is ready to be made real.
I'm using the words “made real” in the way a morning glory flower is the seed made real. It's not that the seed itself isn't already a real thing, it is; but the seed's potential is made real in the climbing twisting vine with heavenly blue flowers. Beyond that, the potential within each morning glory blossom is made real as the flower withers and returns to seed. The cycle has come full circle. For us, this work, this making real, is an ongoing circle, a process of possibility, remembering, longing, risk, ending, beginning, transformation and manifestation. In one word, it is magic.
We are a seeking people, always in search of something: safety, freedom, respect, belonging, love, romance, confidence, change, satisfaction, security, peace, meaning, recognition, comfort, challenge, health; the list is long. At first it may seem to us that the things we lack or desire, and therefore seek, need to be found outside of ourselves. Yet the heart of magic lies in discovering the potential and power already within us to make real what we seek.
Until we uncover within ourselves the very seed of what we desire, we are powerless to make it real and authentic in our lives. I cannot, for example, duplicate the joy I imagine in your life and transplant it into my own life to satisfy my longing for joy. However, in noticing and resonating with the joy in your life, I can awaken to my own potential for joy; and ultimately discover for myself how I can cultivate my own variety of joy with my very own life.
This process of inviting and welcoming the “magic of you” more fully into your own life requires you to practice conscious allowing, as in allowing the process to transform you as much as, or more than, it transforms your outer circumstances. Fortunately or not, depending upon how you look at it, you will not be in complete control of deciding precisely how to bring about change in your life. That doesn't mean you aren't responsible for making decisions and acting on them. It simply means that there is more to the process than you or anyone can fathom. You need to do what you know to do and allow the results, even when they are not what you hoped for or expected, especially then.
In allowing, you are opening your life to magic. Your decision to enter this process is an act of faith because you can never truly know in advance all that you are allowing. You know your longing is true and there seems to be no other way to make it real, so you choose to trust the “magic of you.”
The WHAT may or may not be clear; the HOW probably remains a mystery. Still, you commit with “yes.” In that moment and the hours and days that follow, you might feel anything from elation to terror and cycle through them repeatedly like a predictable sine wave. In these moments all you need to do is allow: allow the moment to be what it is, allow the process to unfold as it will, allow yourself to breathe in and out.
A perfect question to ask during times of allowing is: “Will I allow more magic to flow into my life?” Not, How will I? But, Will I? You don't have to know how; you only need to say yes. The question has many forms and all may be worth asking. Listen for one that leaps for your attention.
“Will I allow more possibility to flow into my life?”
“Will I allow more energy to flow into my life?”
“Will I allow more passion (or compassion) to flow into my life?”
“Will I allow more money to flow into my life?”
“Will I allow more knowing to flow into my life?”
“Will I allow more help to flow into my life?”
“Will I allow more (you fill in the blank) to flow into my life?”
Regardless of your question, this flowing in and out and through process is vital. It is not a stagnant process, nor an emptying process, nor an overfilling process. What you need will be there at the needed time, as if by magic.
As you allow more of your own magic to flourish in your life, change happens. It happens within you and in your outer circumstances. What you are seeking is being found and it's been with you all along. The magic of the seed—is the magic of you—is the magic of the universe.
“It is said that all that you are seeking is also seeking you, that if you be still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes
With gratitude,
Laurie Mattila
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