How to experience magic in three steps

Are you wanting to feel a little magic in your life? Do you wish you could be anyone and do anything? Do you wish for a sense of wonder?

Try these three steps and you might be surprised at the results. Or not… it depends how weird and wonderful you allow yourself to be.

Step One. Quiet your mind.

Easier said than done? Try this… Take a deep breath in. Breathe out. Now think about the space in between your thoughts. Very Zen. Seems difficult or impossible, right? Simply pondering the fact that there is a space between your thoughts should be enough to make you realise you’re a weird creature. We all are.

Step Two. Look at something.

What can you see? A tree? The sky? A metal pole? A building? Look around and find something small… like a brick in the wall, a leaf on a tree, a letter on a keyboard, a cloud in the sky. Think about how it got there. Really think about it. How was it designed? Is it alive? Does it think for itself? Where did the idea for it first begin? How long has it been here? What has it seen? What has it heard? Is it looking at you? Right now? Has it seen you before?

Step Three. Zoom out.

Now, step back. In your mind imagine zooming out. Way out. Keep the interaction between the two of you in your mind and then think about how small you are in relation to the globe you’re standing on. The whole Earth. Now how is it that you came to be standing here, right now, thinking about this one thing? The whole world is busy with other things and you are here having a thought about a beetle or a brick or a bobcat.

You can do anything. Do good things. Do that.

Take time to remember how small you really are and how if you get something wrong, it doesn’t really matter in the end. You will be dead some day.