The Magic by Rhonda Byrne
When you are grateful to be you, you will only attract circumstances that make you feel even better about yourself. You have to be rich with good feelings about yourself to bring the riches of life to you. Gratitude for yourself enriches you!
“Whoever has gratitude (for themselves) will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude (for themselves), even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.”
To do the Magic Mirror practice, go to a mirror right now. Look directly at the person in the mirror, and out loud say the magic words, thank you, with all your heart. Mean it more than you ever have before. Say thank you for being you! Say thank you for everything that you are! Say thank you with at least the same amount of feeling you’ve used for everything and everyone else! Be grateful for you just as you are!
Continue with the Magic Mirror practice by being grateful to that beautiful person in the mirror for the rest of the day today, and say the magic words, thank you, every time you look at yourself in a mirror. If you’re not in a position to say the magic words out loud at any particular time, then you can say them in your mind. And if you’re really brave, you can look in the Magic Mirror and say three things about yourself that you’re grateful for.
If for any reason in the future you are not being kind to yourself, you will know to give to the one person who deserves your gratitude more than anyone else – the person in the mirror!
When you’re grateful, you don’t blame yourself when you make a mistake. When you’re grateful, you don’t criticize yourself when you’re not perfect. When you’re grateful for being you, you are happy, and you will become a magnet to happy people, happy situations, and magical circumstances, which will surround you wherever you go and in whatever you do. When you can see the magic in that person in the mirror, your whole world will change!
Magic Practice Number 27
The Magic Mirror
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.
Each time you look at yourself in a mirror today, say thank you, and mean it more than you ever have before.
If you’re really brave, while looking in the mirror say three things you’re grateful for about yourself.
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 28
Remember The Magic
“That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.”
Charles de Lint (B. 1951)
WRITER AND CELTIC FOLK MUSICIAN
Every day is unique; there is no day like any other day. The good things that happen each day are forever different and forever changing, and so when you Remember The Magic by counting yesterday’s blessings, no matter how many times you do it, it will be different every time. It’s just one of the reasons why Remember The Magic is the most powerful ongoing practice to maintain the magic of gratitude in your life. No matter what your desires are now, or what desires you will have in the future, this magical practice will remain the most powerful practice for your entire life.
The easiest way to remember the blessings of yesterday is to start by remembering the beginning of the day when you woke up, and go back over the day in your mind, recollecting the major events of the morning, afternoon, and evening, until you reach the time when you went to bed. When you recall yesterday’s blessings it should be effortless; you are just scanning the surface of yesterday, and as you scan, the blessings will bubble to the surface of your mind.
You can start this magical practice by asking the question:
What are the good things that happened yesterday?
Whenever you ask a question, your mind will immediately look for the answer. Did you receive any great news? Did you magically receive or accomplish one of your desires? Did you magically receive unexpected money? Did you feel especially happy? Did you hear from a friend who you haven’t heard from in a long time? Did something go magnificently well for you? Did you receive a great phone call or email? Did you receive a compliment, or did someone express his or her appreciation for you? Did someone help you to solve a problem? Did you help somebody? Did you finish a project or start something new you’re excited about? Did you eat your favorite food, or watch a great movie? Did you receive a gift, resolve a situation, have a stimulating meeting, quality time with someone, a great conversation, or make plans for something you really want to do?
Remember The Magic and list yesterday’s blessings on a computer, or write them out in a journal. Scan over the surface of yesterday until you feel satisfied that you’ve recalled the blessings of the day. They can be small things or big things, because it’s not about the size of the blessings; it’s about how many blessings you find, and how much gratitude you feel for each one. As you remember and notate each one, simply be grateful and say the magic words for it – thank you.
When you want to do this magical practice after today, you can mix it up, so that some days you write out the blessings and other days you remember the blessings and say them out loud or in your mind. You can make a quick list of the blessings, or you can make a more detailed list saying why you’re grateful for each one.
There is no set number of blessings to find from yesterday, because every day is different. But I can assure you that every single day of your life is full of blessings, and when you have opened your eyes to see the truth of this, you will have opened your heart to the magic of life, and your life will be abundant and magnificent.
“Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.”
Remember The Magic – it was created for you!
Magic Practice Number 28
Remember The Magic
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. You have written 280 blessings over the course of this book!
Remember The Magic by counting the blessings of yesterday, and writing them down. Ask yourself the question: What are the good things that happened yesterday? Scan the surface of yesterday until you feel satisfied that you’ve remembered and written down all the blessings of the day.
As you remember each one, simply say the magic words, thank you, for it in your mind.
After today you can do this practice as a written list, or out loud or in your mind. You can make a quick list of the things you’re grateful for about yesterday, or make a shorter and more detailed list and say why you’re grateful for them.
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.
Your Magical Future
You are the builder of your life, and gratitude is your magical tool to build the most incredible life. You have now laid a foundation through these magical practices, and with the tool of gratitude, you are adding more floors to the building of your life. Your life will climb higher and higher, until you touch the stars. There is no end to the heights you can reach with gratitude, and there’s no end to the magic you can experience. Like the stars in the Universe, it’s infinite!
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
Johannes A. Gaertner (1912–1996)
PROFESSOR, THEOLOGIAN, POET
The ideal way to move forward from here is to maintain the foundation of gratitude you’ve built, and gradually keep building on it through increasing your depth of feeling. The more you practice gratitude, the deeper you will be
Three days a week of Remember The Magic, or combining it with two other magical practices of your choosing, should maintain your current foundation of gratitude, and keep building the magic in your life so that your life continues to get better and better. For example, you might choose to do Remember The Magic on one day, Magical Relationships on the second, and Magic Money on the third day.
Four days a week of Remember The Magic, or incorporating it with three other magical practices of your choosing, will maintain your gratitude and accelerate the magic.
Five days a week of Remember The Magic, or incorporating it with four other magical practices of your choosing, will dramatically increase your happiness and the magic in every area and circumstance of your life.
Six or seven days a week of Remember The Magic, or incorporating it with any other magical practices of your choosing, and you will become the true alchemist, who can turn everything into gold!
Magic Practice Recommendations
To keep the magic continuing in the important areas of your life, like your happiness, health, relationships, career, money, and the material things you own, you could do the specific practices for each area once a week. However, if you want to increase the magic in any area of your life, you should give more through an increased practice of gratitude for that area, several days a week. If you are unwell, you will want to do the magical practices for your health every day, if not multiple times in a day.
The following recommendations will easily guide you toward the magical practices that will have the strongest and fastest effect in that area. Follow the recommendations in the relevant area for three weeks minimum, doing each recommended practice once a week:
RELATIONSHIPS
Magical Relationships
Magic Dust Everyone
Magically Heal Your Relationships
The Magic Wand – (The Magic Wand practice can be used on people you know using photographs, or on people you don’t know without photographs.)
The Magic Mirror
Remember The Magic
HEALTH
Magical Health
Magic Dust Everyone
Magic And Miracles In Health
The Magical Air That You Breathe
The Magic Wand – (The Magic Wand practice can be used on people you know using photographs, or on people you don't know without photographs.)
Remember The Magic
MONEY
Magic Money
The Money Magnet – (If you haven’t done the Money Magnet magical practice before, make sure you complete all steps at least once. If you’re repeating this practice, you can jump to step 4.)
The Magic Check
The Magic Wand – (The Magic Wand practice can be used on people you know using photographs, or on people you don’t know without photographs.)
The Magic Mirror
Remember The Magic
CAREER
Works Like Magic
Magic Dust Everyone
The Magic Wand – (When using The Magic Wand practice for your career, you can also send success to people. Wishing success for others will accelerate the success in your own life.
The Magic Wand practice can be used on people you know using photographs, or on people you don’t know without photographs.)
The Magic Mirror
Remember The Magic
YOUR DESIRES
Magic Dust Everyone
Make All Your Wishes Come True – (If you haven’t done the practice of Make All Your Wishes Come True before, make sure you complete all the steps at least once. If you’re repeating this practice, you can jump to step 3.)
Before Your Very Eyes
The Magic Wand – (The Magic Wand practice can be used on people you know using photographs, or on people you don’t know without photographs.)
The Magic Mirror
Remember The Magic
Your Magic Rock
You can make The Magic Rock practice a part of your daily life, by continuing to keep your Magic Rock by your bedside, and using the time you get into bed as your reminder to be grateful for the best thing that happened that day. You can also carry your Magic Rock with you in your pocket, and every time you touch it, use it as your reminder to think of something you’re grateful for.
Your Magic Dust
You can also make The Magic Dust Everyone practice a part of your daily life. Other than sprinkling magic dust over the people who serve you, there are many more ways to continue using this practice. You can sprinkle magic dust over everyone and everything! If your boss is a bit grumpy, you can secretly sprinkle magic dust over him or her. You can sprinkle magic dust over a family member or loved one if they’re in a bad mood, or anyone you come across who needs some magic in their life. You can also add magic wherever you go, and sprinkle magic dust over babies and children, over your plants or garden, your food and drinks, your computer or your mail before you open them, your wallet, car, your phone before you take or make a phone call, or over any circumstance that you want to improve. The many applications of magic dust are limited only by your imagination!
The Magic Never Ends
I practice gratitude every day of my life, and it’s inconceivable to me now that I could have lived days, months, and years without practicing gratitude in some way every day. Gratitude has become a part of my personality, it is in my cells, and it’s a pattern in my subconscious mind.
But if we get caught up in life and forget to practice gratitude, over a period of time, the magic will evaporate. I use the magic in my life as my guide to let me know if I’m practicing gratitude enough, or if I need to practice more. I watch my life carefully, and if I find that I’m not feeling as happy, I increase my practice of gratitude. If a few little problems start appearing in a particular area of my life, immediately I increase the magical practices of gratitude in that area.
I’m not blinded by false appearances anymore. Instead I look for the goodness to be grateful for in every circumstance, knowing that it’s there. And then, like a puff of smoke, what was unwanted magically disappears!
“I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.”
Oprah Winfrey (B. 1954)
MEDIA PERSONALITY AND BUSINESSWOMAN
Through the practice of gratitude you are using an infallible law of the Universe; it is a gift from the Universe to you, and it exists in order for you to use it and advance your life.
The Universe and You
There is a level that you can reach with gratitude that causes unlimited abundance in your life. The way that this level of gratitude is reached is through your relationship with the Universe, or, if you prefer, Spirit or God.
You can tend to think of the Universe as separate from you, and when you think of it, look up above yourself and toward the sky. While the Universe most certainly is above you, it is also below you, and behind you, and beside you, and it is within every single thing and every single person. That means the Universe is within you.
“As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles.”
THE EMERALD TABLET (circa 5,000–3,000 BC)
When you understand that the Universe is within you, and by it’s very nature it is for you, wanting you to have more life, more health, more love, more beauty, and more of everything you want, then you will feel genuine gratitude to the Universe for everything you receive in your life. And you will have established a personal relationship between you and the Universe.
The more genuine gratitude you feel toward the Universe for everything you receive, the closer your relationship becomes with the Universe – and
You will have opened your heart and mind completely to the magic of gratitude, and with it you will touch the lives of everyone you come into contact with. You will become a friend of the Universe. You will become a channel for unlimited blessings on Earth. When you get up close and personal with the Universe, when you feel that closeness of the Universe within you, from that moment on, the world will belong to you, and there will be nothing that you cannot be, have, or do!
Gratitude Is the Answer
Gratitude is the cure for broken or difficult relationships, for lack of health or money, and for unhappiness. Gratitude eliminates fear, worry, grief, and depression, and brings happiness, clarity, patience, kindness, compassion, understanding, and peace of mind. Gratitude brings solutions to problems, and the opportunities and wherewithal to realize your dreams.
Gratitude is behind every success, and it opens the door to new ideas and discoveries, as the great scientists Newton and Einstein proved. Imagine if every scientist followed in their footsteps; the world would be propelled into new territories of understanding, growth, and advancement. Current limits would be broken, and life-altering discoveries would be made in technology, physics, medicine, psychology, astronomy, and every scientific field.