Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) DEC 2016 / JAN 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue A Miracl | Page 49
Guess what? All that wishing … it didn’t
work.
The more I wished for change, the more I
found myself facing the same problems I’d
always faced, and getting the same results
I’d always gotten. The more I wished, the
more frustrated I became, and the more I
began to believe that creative visualization―
and all the other tools of the metaphysical
trade―simply wouldn’t work for me.
Wishes―whether
they take the form of
creative visualization,
prayers, magic spells,
intentions, mantras,
or something else―
do not work without
inspired action to
back them up.
WISDOM & SELF-GROWTH
In particular, I wished that I could be a better
writer. I wished for that “magic touch” that
other writers seemed to have; that special
something that makes words jump off the
page and into readers’ hearts and minds.
I prayed for inspirational lightning to strike
me out of the blue, and transform the coarse
sand of my mediocrity into the sculpted
glass form of a divinely blessed creatrix.
In fact, I almost gave up on writing because
I couldn’t magically create the change I
desired in my own creative process. “I
guess I’m just not a good writer,” I told
myself. “Maybe it’s time to give up and try
something else.”
And then, one day, the Universe did take
pity on me. Lightning finally did strike―
and what it illuminated was not my wildest
dreams made real, but rather the giant flaw
in my thinking process.
You see, wishing didn’t help me learn. It
didn’t acknowledge the change that needed
to happen within me in order for my dreams
to come true. In fact, my belief that wishing,
praying, and visualizing were all that was
necessary to create a brand new reality
kept me locked in an unhealthy cycle of
victimhood. “If I only pray hard enough,” I
told myself, “the benevolent Universe will
hear me and take pity on me.”
Wishes―whether they take the form of
creative visualization, prayers, magic spells,
intentions, mantras, or something else―do
not work without inspired action to back
them up. Wishing without taking action is
like sitting in your car with the engine off,
or standing at the foot of a mountain trail
waiting for an invisible ski lift to sweep you
to the top: you can imagine where you’re
going, but unless you actually do something,
you’re never going to get there.
It sounds silly, now. But for years, this
struggle was real for me.
In real life, of course, things are never that
simple. The actions we must take if we are
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