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Self-Improvement And Improving Your Psychic Talents By Nita Hickok (c)2006 I believe that one of the hardest things in life and magic is the ability to work on your shortcomings or problems. In this lesson I intend to discuss and suggest some ideas on doing this in regular life and when we do magic. Magic works best when the conscious and subconscious can communicate easily. It doesn't mean that we will remember everything shown to us because some things would affect our ability of free choice. Free choice is considered important because our decisions are the root cause of any karmic lessons that we learn. Our life has certain lessons that must be learned before this lifetime is over. I am sure that everyone has experienced times in their life when the same things keep happening. Everyone normally says to themselves but why me? I just went through this problem with someone else. I do not know why this keeps happening to me. It can make you feel like you are running in circles in one of those hamster wheels and going no where fast. It can be really painful repeating some of these lessons until you find the correct solution. I always think that it helps when you list how many times problems have occurred. You can then list what solution you applied each time. You should then try to apply a different solution until one of the methods works for you. You quit repeating the lesson once you do the correct thing to resolve the problem. The solution can be different for every person and depends upon their internal makeup and the things they have done in their lives. Karmic lessons are always over the decisions that we make in our lives. It isn't some uncaring force deciding what happens to us for doing right or wrong. We punish ourselves for most of our karmic lessons. The subconscious says this is wrong for you and makes sure that we know it. If we listen to ourselves and how we feel a lot of problems can be resolved before they happen. It is what keeps our life moving forward and brings the experiences we need to grow as a person. This now brings us to ways to communicate with our subconscious. Insight meditation or most of the other types of meditation can be used for this. Meditation breaks down the barriers between our conscious and subconscious. I always try to take the time to think and just clear my mind before any decisions. I try to think before I react to a problem. I have seen that some of the worse decisions I have ever made have been when I reacted to a problem. Upset thinking that isn't calm is normally a reaction. Calming the mind before making a decision is important. Patterns of thought are the next important thing to look at and work upon when we want to improve ourselves. Everyone has a built in pattern to deal with problems. Coping mechanisms are the methods we have developed to deal with life, and a lot of times they are not successful. Coping with a problem or decision is always better when your mind is calm. You have to ask yourself what will work to make things better. You should be able to think without reacting and try to find a resolution that works. I have noticed that most people do not know how to deal with things and panic so if you find this happening it is better to do what is necessary to stop the problem. You should then go to a place where you can think and work out what to do. You may be asking yourself what this has to do with magic. The same patterns that help us make decisions in life can also show what sort of magician we will be. The result of the wrong decision in magic carries a lot of repercussions. The same thing happens in magic that happens in regular life. Our right or wrong choices bring about decisions. We have to cope and learn how to deal with the effects our choices can have in our lives. Hermetic magic has a system developed by Franz Bardon and taught in Initiation into Hermetics called soul mirrors. We split up our good and bad traits into two mirrors. The black mirror is used to store the problems and the white mirror is used to have the good abilities and habits. This system organizes everything so that it may be worked upon properly. The person then tries to transmute the bad problems into good through practice and a variety of methods. Studying and using magic speeds up the bad and good karma of a person. This happens because most people use all types of energy. No one is perfect and no one makes all of the right decisions. If they did they wouldn't be a human being and on this plane of existence. The point is to make the right decisions to have our lives to move forward upon the proper Path for us in magic. Everyone should know what they will do and what they will not do. They should never do a type of magic that is wrong for them. It will cause disharmonies and imbalances that can have physical and mental repercussions if a magician makes the wrong choice. We have to learn what is correct for us by being able to communicate with our subconscious and higher self. One of my favorite exercises to improve communications between both parts of the mind is a visualization and meditation. I visualize both parts of my mind as different colored. I see little blips of light moving along a freeway system in my mind. These are the neural pathways. I enlarge and break down any blockages and barriers between the different sides of my brain. I like to use pink and blue so a pretty pastel purple happens when both parts of the brains energies mix together. You should practice this exercise for the rest of your life. It makes it so there are clear lines of communication between the two sides. Once your brain has blended to one color all of the time you will be successful at this exercise.. Your intuitive mind can tell you when something is wrong for you. It also increases your abilities and makes your mind work better. It is easier to see different realms and the complex energy work to help others when your mind is working well. The force and ability of magic to influence conditions depends on how much energy you can handle. I have seen in most of the ceremonial magicians that I know the capability to draw energy in through every part of their energy system. They can draw energy in through the crown energy chakra that would fry a normal human being. The neural pathway being strengthened allows this to happen when they do magic. They are also capable of seeing the chi or energy systems that go on around us all of the time. Everything that is alive has an energy system. It is what I call the energy signature which is the vibration, pitch, tune, notes and colors in our aura and energy network. Trees, plants, animals, insects and people all have an energy signature. Magicians have to be able to control these forces and focus on the point they need to influence. The ability of doing this is again working with the neural pathways. They have to be able to join their visualizations and shaping of energies to the outside forces. Magic does not work properly without the ability to concentrate and control your mind. You have to be able to see or sense what the energies are doing and how they are applying themselves to the problems that you are trying to correct in yourself or others. You have to have the constancy and control to generate the power, visualizations, and results needed. It is creative and practical at the same time. To add more power and be able to do more complex rituals you will need to know how to store energy. There are a great many ways to store energy and use energy that doesn't depend upon the energy networks in the normal human body. You can draw the energies of the sun or life in a moments notice into yourself. Magicians are able to store energy reserves in jewelry or rocks. You can also store energy in roots and herbs or statues. It is just developing the skill that you need to do this. The main way to develop these skills is to know yourself and your energy system. You know your energy signature and have worked upon yourself enough to know how to apply energy in your life. One easy way is to ask that your good be restored to you. Visualize every part of the day as good with yourself being full of energy. It can be done in many simple ways. Affirmations help and other chants and meditations all help to bring you into tune with your higher self. A good exercise is to find an object you want to store energy in such as a rock. You can then do your energy exercises and store energy in it. A good example is a bloodstone because it is used for grounding and defense. You can store a limitless amount of energy in it and be able to access it when it is needed. The best way to do this is to send the energy into it just like a battery charger charges a battery. You'll be able to tell when it is full. You can add more energy to your reserves by drawing a symbol on the rock or stone that is compatible with you and what you want to accomplish. It means that you have endless energy to do whatever needs to be done in your life. You can do this on the different planes from the energy that is present. You can store it in certain places in the ether by using symbols that are considered power symbols. You can also store it in items that use elemental energy but this is very tricky. There is an unlimited amount of ways to get energy and be able to use it to help yourself and others in this life. It depends on how advanced you are and whether you can access the different alternative planes of existence. You are only limited by your experience and ingenuity. The best way to do this is plan out how to use the energy. You then plan out the best way to release and store the energy according to your purpose. You ground the energy source and decide what to draw upon. You should never use any energy besides your own in any way to do this. You decide the result you want to achieve and plug the spell into the energy. The energy source is not your energy but it is keyed to your energy signature. It makes things possible that you would not be able to accomplish otherwise and you will never be drained. This can be very important in matters of defense and in being able to do magic whenever you need to do it. You need to have the stores of energy to use when necessary. A lot of magicians have to take rests and relax all of the time. Every one that uses this method will not have to do this. You will be able to do more rituals and do them when you need them. You will have better effects on anything that you do in magic. You will just not have to take on so much work that you exhaust yourself. You also have to realize that this is not personal power but the power that has been created by Divine Providence or God. You should praise the results and thank whatever being or power helped you with any of these methods. You will be helped and you will be aided as long as you remember it is not you doing this but your conduit to a greater force and energy. I would suggest that each of you decide upon a project and practice doing this for yourself. Work upon your inner-self and how to communicate with it better. They are lifelong skills that are very important. You will discover you path to yourself and how to become a real person. Energy works will aide you in whatever you decide to do. The skills you work upon to better yourself for magic will also better anything else you do in your life.
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