Magical thinking is the belief that one's ideas, thoughts, wishes, or actions can influence the course of events in the physical world.
If you look at Google - there are not many kind words said about 'magical thinking'.
In a nutshell, we are told that, well...we are delusional if we think that we can change the course of our life by thinking it into existence.
Psychology Today says:"Magical thinking is defined as believing that one event happens as a result of another without a plausible link of causation. For example: "I got up on the left side of the bed today; therefore it will rain."
The problem with this definition, however, is that exactly what constitutes "a plausible link of causation" can be difficult to pin down. If we were to take this phrase to its logical extreme, we'd have to consider a belief in anything that hasn't been scientifically proven to represent magical thinking.
On the other hand, rejecting the use of any and all criteria with which to judge cause and effect leaves us vulnerable to believing that anything can cause anything—or even worse, that an effect can occur without a cause at all."
If we are faced with this type of objection to believing that magic can be of substance in our world and our life, how can we allow ourselves to believe that it can actually work.
Does it also mean that our core beliefs must first shift before we have any real results?
We might think we are thinking magically - but are we really?
Maybe we just are going through the motions, but deep down what we truly believe is that we are just 'having ourselves on'?
True belief in magickal thinking (yes, I've added a 'k') means that we have to believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is a force that we can harness to make the world do what we want it to.
It means that we must also believe that we have some amount of power and control over what happens to us and what we can make happen.
Magical thinking must also include magickal manifesting and magickal believing to create a magical outcome.
It's simply no good to just think magickally if we do not act upon it in a way that can positively add to our lives.
We need proof.
We want to know that it works.
This means an all encompassing belief that our thoughts can create and manifest changes in the world around us. I know I have just said that - but I need to really allow it to sink is as the very base point of beginning.
For magickal thinking to be effective we have to challenge our core beliefs and our sceptical mind.
Our mind must be clear of guilt and shame in what we are doing.
We have to understand what has come before - our family, our religious beliefs, our circumstances, and make amends with all of that.
We begin again.
This is the first step in creating magick - it's giving ourselves permission in spite of everything that has come before.
Even though.
In spite of.
Our untapped abilities are there to be harnessed and used for our betterment and for the opportunity to make this world a better place and to have a place in it for ourselves.
Are you ready?
Do you want to?
We may have already been trying our whole lives at this point.
But, let's try again shall we.
What is there to lose.
Dig deeper than ever before.
I hope you can look more deeply into magickal thinking as a positive, not a negative, and think outside your assigned or limiting 'box'.
There you will find yourself and your way.
Let your intuition guide you to your teachers and to your study.
We can change anytime we wish to make it so.
Deeply and profoundly.
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