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Magic Practice Number 12

Magical People Who Made a Difference

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten blessings. Write
   why
   you’re grateful. Reread your list, and at the end of each blessing say
   thank you, thank you, thank you,
   and feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.
   
2. Find a quiet place alone sometime during today, and make a list of
   three
   people who made a difference in your life.
   
3. Work through the list one person at a time, and while talking out loud tell each person the reason why you’re grateful for them, and exactly how they affected the course of your life.
   
4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the magic words,
   thank you,
   for the
   best
   thing that happened during the day.
   

Day 13

Make All Your Wishes Come True

“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993)
WRITER

If you have been following the magical practices day by day, you have now built an amazing foundation by practicing gratitude for everything you have received and continue to receive in your life. But today is an exciting day, because you’re going to begin to use gratitude’s magical power for your dreams and desires!

Hundreds of native cultures through the centuries have traditionally given thanks for what they want
before
they receive it, creating elaborate ceremonies to put as much energy as they could into giving thanks. The Egyptians have celebrated the flooding of the Nile River since ancient times to ensure the continual flow of water in the river, American Indians and Australian Aborigines perform rain dances, various African tribes perform ceremonies for their food before they hunt for it, and the very nature of prayer in every culture and religion is giving thanks
before
having received what is desired.

The law of attraction says that like attracts like, which means you must form in your mind a likeness, or an image, of what you want. Then, to attract your desire to you, you have to feel as though it’s yours, so that how you feel is also
like
how you would feel when you had what you wanted. The easiest way to do that is to be grateful for what you want –
before
you’ve received it. If it never occurred to you before to use gratitude to receive what you want, you have now discovered another of its magical powers. The very words in the Holy Scriptures promise exactly that:

“Whoever has
gratitude
(now) will be given more (in the future), and he or she will have an abundance.”

Gratitude is something you must have
before
you can receive, not something that you simply do
after
something good has happened. Most people are grateful after they receive something good, but to make all your wishes come true and change your entire life by filling it with riches in every area, you must be grateful before
and
after.

Through the act of being sincerely grateful for receiving your desire
beforehand,
you immediately form an image in your mind that you have it, you feel as though you have it, and you’re fulfilling your part. If you continue to hold to that image and feeling, you will magically receive your desire. You won’t know how you’ll receive it, and it is not your job to figure it out. You don’t try to figure out how gravity is going to keep you on the ground when you go for a walk, do you? You trust and know that when you go for a walk the law of gravity will keep you firmly on the ground. Likewise, you must trust and know that when you’re grateful for what you want, what you want will be magically moved to you, because it is the law of the Universe.

What Do You Most Want Right Now?

At the beginning of this book I asked you to get really clear about what you want in every area of your life. (If you didn’t do that earlier, now is the time to do it.) Go to the lists you created now, and choose your top ten desires for this magical practice. You can select ten desires from different areas of your life, such as money, health, home, and relationships, or you might want to choose ten desires in one area you really want to change, such as work or success. Be very clear and specific about what you most want, so that you can see the changes magically happen from this practice. Imagine you are putting in a magic order with the Universe for your top ten desires, because in truth, by using the law of attraction, that’s exactly what you are doing.

Sit down at a computer or with a pen and journal, and create a separate list of your top ten desires in the following way,
as though you’ve received them:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for
              
, and fill in the blank with your desire as though you’ve received it. For example:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the high marks in my exam results, which got me into the exact college I wanted!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the great news that we are having a baby!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for our dream home, which has everything we wanted it to have down to the last detail!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the amazing phone call with my dad that has improved our relationship!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the medical results that show I am all clear, and healthy again!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the unexpected money I received, which is the exact amount I needed for my European trip!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the doubling of our sales figures this month!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the ideas that won us our biggest client yet!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for my perfect partner!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for how easy and effortless our move was!

Writing thank you three times in a row is a powerful thing to do because it prevents you from throwing the words away, and increases your focus of gratitude. Saying
thank you
three times is also a magic formula, because it is the mathematical number of all new creation in the Universe. For example, it takes one male and one female to create a baby. The male, female, and baby total three, completing a new creation. The same rule of three applies to the creation of everything in the Universe, including the creation of your desires, and so when you say
thank you
three times in a row, you are using the magic number of creation, and a secret magic formula!

The second step of Make All Your Wishes Come True involves saturating your desires with even more gratitude. You can complete the second step at any time during the day today, either at the same time as listing your top ten desires, or intermittently throughout the day.

To saturate each of your desires with gratitude’s magical power, begin with the first desire on your list and using your imagination mentally answer the following questions, as though you’ve received your desire:

1. What emotions did you feel when you received your desire?
   
2. Who was the first person you told when you received your desire, and how did you tell them?
   
3. What is the first great thing you did when you received your desire? Include as much detail as you can in your mind.
   

Finally, reread each desire, and really emphasize the magic words,
thank you,
so that you feel them as much as you can.

Move on to the second desire on your list, and follow the same steps with each desire, until you’ve completed all ten desires. Spend at least one minute on each desire.

If you want to do something that’s really powerful and a lot of fun, you can also create a Magic Board, where you attach pictures of your desires. Cut out the pictures and attach them to a board that’s in a place where you will see it often. Place the magic words
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
in big bold letters on your Magic Board. Or you can use your refrigerator as your Magic Board. If you have a family, you can create a Magic Board as a family project, because children love it! Imagine that your Magic Board is truly magical, and that whatever you place a picture of on your board is instantly being moved toward you. Your continued gratitude for it will magnetize it all the way into your life.

Magic Practice Number 13

Make All Your Wishes Come True

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten blessings. Write
   why
   you’re grateful. Reread your list, and at the end of each blessing say
   thank you, thank you, thank you,
   and feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.
   
2. Sit down at a computer or with a pen and journal, and list your top
   ten
   desires. Write
   thank you
   three times before each one,
   as though you’ve already received it.
   For example:
   Thank you, thank you, thank you for
          your desire       
   .
   
3. Using your imagination, answer the following questions in your mind, as though you’ve received each of your ten desires:
   
   1. What emotions did you feel when you received your desire?
      
   2. Who was the first person you told when you received your desire, and how did you tell them?
      
   3. What is the first great thing you did when you received your desire? Include as much detail as you can in your mind.
      
4. Finally, reread the sentence listing your desire, and really emphasize the magic words,
   thank you,
   so that you feel them as much as you can.
   
5. If you like, create a Magic Board. Cut out pictures and attach them to your Magic Board, and put it in a place you see often. Title the board with
   THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
   in big bold letters across the top.
   
6. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the magic words,
   thank you,
   for the
   best
   thing that happened during the day.
   

Day 14

Have a Magical Day

“Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.”

Deepak Chopra (B. 1946)
MEDICAL DOCTOR AND WRITER

To see and experience the most magical day of your life, you can be grateful for your whole day
before
you live it! To Have A Magical Day, you simply think through your plans for the day and say the magic words,
thank you,
for each one going well,
before
you’ve lived it. It’s the easiest thing to do, it only takes a few minutes, but the difference it can make in your day is incredible. Being grateful for your day beforehand creates a magical day through the law of attraction; when you
give
thanks for the experiences in your day going well, you must
receive
back experiences going well!

If you don’t believe you have the power to affect the circumstances of your day so dramatically, think about a time when you woke up grumpy or in a bad mood. You went off into your day, and one thing after another went wrong, until by the end of the day you were exclaiming that you had a heck of a bad day – as though the bad day happened by accident. Well, the only reason you had a bad day was because you took your bad mood from the morning with you, and it was your bad mood that was the cause of one thing after another going wrong.

Even waking up in a bad mood doesn’t happen by accident, because it means that you went to sleep thinking negatively about something, perhaps without realizing it. It’s the very reason why you are doing the Magic Rock practice last thing at night, to ensure that you go to sleep thinking good thoughts. The Magic Rock practice at night combined with Count Your Blessings every morning sets your good mood at night and in the morning, and they guarantee that you are feeling good
before
you go off into your day.