Hocus Pocus Magic Focus!
Welcome to Connection Coach Cindi's School of Wisdom Craft and Non Misery
Hi! Welcome to another edition of the Monthly Connection.
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Ah Magic! This month, let’s use our imaginations to explore the intersection of impossible meets possible. The place where both the person performing magic and the audience need to participate in the power of Belief. Where perceptual shift meets reality change. Where making thousands of mistakes while learning magic tricks meets growth. Where the concrete steps of science and logic meets fantasy and infinite possibility. Our stage is now set for Magical Science! Congratulations! You have all been accepted into the School of Wisdom Craft and Non Misery! I’m Professor C3 and together we will be exploring and breaking down the steps of magic, developing and honing our skills as practitioners of magic with an emphasis on building a deliberate practice. For it is through this deliberate practice we become skillful at our craft. Classes will demonstrate and verify that the magic we learn here at our School of Wisdom Craft and Non Misery connects to what the non magical world at their schools call science! Let’s begin!
Change your perspective, change your reality. Remember the brain can not tell the difference between the story we tell and the reality that is happening. Pick a story, any story. For example, “I am not enough, I am overwhelmed,” or on the flip side, “I can handle this.” Repeat and practice it enough times, it becomes a Belief. Then !Poof! The brain thinks, feels, and acts according to that Belief. This belief then, in turn, becomes reality! This powerful magic is so strong. It impacts the most astute, hard working and experienced of Practitioners! The trick is not to avoid this powerful magic because no one can.
The slight of hand
The real trick is to use this powerful magic by training our brains to see what does and doesn’t work, change when things are not working, and keep going when they are! The Magical Practitioner calls this skillset The Slight of Hand. Here the audience’s attention is skillfully and deliberately directed to see what the Practitioner only wants them to see. It doesn’t mean that anything has disappeared. It mean that our focus was deliberately and skillfully redirected to what they wanted us to see, changing our perception of what happened.
This difficult and advanced skillset of Slight of Hand is the culmination of everything we teach here at The School of Wisdom Craft and Non Misery! Commencement occurs when students demonstrate proficiency with development of their personalized Wisdom Craft…Craft means to produce something skillfully. Wisdom means to understand that to produce something skillful one must deliberately learn to perceive and believe, make mistakes, welcome and accept the owie, owie, owie, of growing and practice, practice practice! Non magical folks call this Growth Mind Set!
Umm Professor C3… So how do we deliberately and skillfully develop our slight of hand skill set?
Well, we start with Reframing 101 class and work towards the Slight of hand final exam. In our Reframing 101 class, we peek behind the curtain to see what steps we need to learn and master in order to perform the Slight of Hand .
Let’s see what magic we have up our sleeves, shall we?
Reframing 101: One of the greatest magical wisdom tricks that we have up our sleeves.
Welcome to Reframing 101 : Here at C3’s School of Wisdom Craft and Non Misery the Magic Syllabi for this class is as follows:
Perception: The magical top hats of infinite possibility *Provided in our class video*
Reframing: Wands out! Speak this very powerful incantation… Presto Change-o *Student responsibility *
Opportunities for growth and learning appear - Poof! *Witnessed in Class*
Ok, so Wands out! Let’s proceed with our magic lessons on Reframing!
Um..Professor C3, this lesson sounds great and we are all in for learning the magic of reframing. There is only one problem. We do not have a Wand!
Hmmm are you sure? What is that that sticking out of your sleeve?
Of coarse you have something up your sleeve! And believe it or not, it has and will always be with you! Yes! It’s your own personal Magic Wand!
We have heard that the Wand chooses the Wizard and what is proven to be true, beyond a shadow of a doubt, (non magic folk call it Science) is the Magic Practitioner always gets to CHOOSE where to point the wand! You carry something so powerful, it can change Disbelief and Misery to Belief and Joy. Like every skillful practitioner of magic this powerful tool resides right up your sleeve! You have heard a magician say, “Look, I have nothing up my sleeve! “ Nonsense! Welcome to your first lesson in Slight of hand! Magical Focus!
Ta dah! Hocus Pocus it’s our old friend, Magic Focus
In our second lesson of Slight of Hand, we peek behind the curtain to see how the Top Hats of Infinite Possibility are effected by our Magical Focus. We see that focus is a powerful grow light and that whatever we place our focus on, Connection or Disconnection, we grow it! We discovered that if we don’t like what we are growing, we can Reframe it, literally change the frame of where we put our magical focus. We do this by deliberately and skillfully stating our intention to change, presto change-o, sliding our hand to shift Hats and !Poof! We have deliberately changed what we are growing! Change your perception, change your reality!
Non magical people call !POOF!, !Proof!
Now that is some powerful magic!
Meditation… The way to build Wisdom craft
One of the coolest slights of hand in the non magical world is called… Meditation. The definition of Meditation is to become familiar with. Meditation allows a formal space to become Familiar with our Wisdom Craft. Here nonmagical people learn to deliberately practice focusing. Meditation allows the practitioner to focus, lose focus and refocus.
Think of Meditation as strength training for the hand that holds your wand. Some times you want your hand strong and steady, Sometimes you want the strength to slide and move your hand. Meditation is a just a fancy word for learning to deliberately and skillfully put our magical focus where we want it to go and when it doesn’t, to reframe and shift focus. The magic of Non Misery!
Until next time,
Wands out!
Connection Coach Cindi