Life is Magical, How to Inspire your Inner Magician

"In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard." - Billy Joel

Life is indeed a magic show; a circus of performers each creating their own experience and inspiring an experience for others. As I was thinking about this, I found this poem by Jane Roberts, written in 1979. In it, she reminds us that we have the power to create any experience we want to have in life. We are given the tools and talent to express our full creative potential. Yet, many people live a life of quiet desperation. Their story is left untold; their song unsung. Why is that? They've forgotten their gift of magic; they've forgotten who they are.

Magic Show
- Jane Roberts

What magicians we all are,
turning darkness into light,
transforming invisible atoms
into dazzling theater
of the world,
pulling objects,
(people as well
as rabbits)
out of secret
microscopic closets,
turning winter into summer,
making a palmful of moments
disappear through time's trap door.

We learned the methods
so long ago
that they're unconscious,
and we've hypnotized ourselves
into believing
that we're the audience,
so I wonder where we served
our apprenticeship.
Under what master magicians did we learn
to form reality
so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves
the secret?

"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness––I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.’" — Aaron Copeland

Many artists - actors, musicians, writers, painters, etc. - will tell you that their art is delivered though them, not of them. I saw a documentary about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers where Tom Petty was asked how he wrote hit song after hit song. He paused and slowly replied that he didn't know how he wrote hit song after hit song. I'm paraphrasing; he continued to say that he didn't want to know the how of it. Knowing how might jinx the process. He said that he sits down to write and the song just spills out onto the page; he is merely the facilitator of the creation.

Think of a child playing alone or with friends. They use their creative and wild imagination to fill their time with great adventure and make-believe experiences. As the child grows older he is taught to act "like an adult". Adults have tuck away much of their imaginative adventures and make-believe dreams to fit into an expectation of who they should be, what they should do, and what they must have. If children play then adults must work and work cannot be play. This is the thinking of the woefully misguided Inner Critic.

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. "- Carl Gustav Jung

When you get out of your own way, let go of expectations, fear of judgment and self-doubt of your own abilities you open yourself up for the magical moments of your life. You are willing and ready to receive the inner inspiration and guidance that, when acted upon, create your miracles. I encourage you to give yourself permission to play, to dream, to act silly or a bit wonky. I mean, really, haven't you often just wanted to let loose and act like a joyful playful child again? Respond to your innermost desires and calling with renewed enthusiasm. Do something you've never done before yet wanted to. You'll be ok. If you skin your knee, you'll heal - as you've healed many times before. Who knows, you may create a Magic Kingdom!

"When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?" - Robin Williams

Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mentor who specializes in empowering people to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Learn how to trust your intuition, acknowledge your truth, and disarm your fear and self-doubt. Valery developed a proven unique "Inner Wizard" methodology to empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. Join now at http://www.InnerWizard.com. Get Free "Inner Wizard Empowerment tips" too!