This short visualization exercise will help you see the power  that lies within you. It will fuel every cell of your body and  bring more awareness into how much you can accomplish  once you set your mind to it. This particular practice seems  deceptively simple but can be one of the toughest for those  with an undisciplined mind. You might find it helpful if you  record it into your phone and play it back as a self-guided  meditation.  

Here’s what you need to do: 

1. Go to a quiet place, either in your home or somewhere in  nature. Set your intention. What are you looking to create  for yourself?  

2. It’s best to do this ritual when you’re all alone, so you can  focus on it. Make it somewhere that you won’t be disturbed  or wait till everyone else in the house is asleep.  

3. Lie perfectly still in a position you feel most comfortable  in, such as flat on your back, or in your favorite chair. Use  caution lying down. It’s easy to fall asleep with an untrained  mind, and this won’t get you where you want to go. If you  want me to be real with you, I would say that you would want  to sit as close to full lotus as possible and elevate your tooshie  just a bit to release your knees down, aligning the chakric  49 centers into their highest geometric position. There is a  reason the highest yogis sit like this. But sit where you can be  comfortable and work your way to whatever your personal  yogi posture looks like to you.  

4. Close your eyes and bring your awareness to your breath.  Make your spine as tall as possible and work your breath  through the center.  

5. Try to push out any distracting thoughts. For this moment,  all you need to think about is how the air is entering and  exiting your body. The highest magic ALWAYS lives within  the breath.  

6. When you feel ready, start to imagine a bright goldenwhite light coming from just above your heart. 

7. The light is slowly growing until it covers your entire body. Beautiful, electric, white light. 

8. See it with your mind’s eye as it’s covering your chest,  neck, face, arms, legs, and every inch of your physical vessel.  Breathe it in and breathe it out.  

9. Then, imagine this light is expanding even more, and  covering your environment. Lift yourself into the sheer  pleasure and peace of the practice. Enjoy it and nurture the  feeling of happiness in the light, as the light.  50 10. This light is your Power. It starts from within, but it can  affect the world around you if you let it and as you work the  techniques to expand it.  

11. Stay with this golden-white light for a while and make a  note of what you are feeling as it moves in and through your  body. Remember your feelings are your barometer of the  success of the ritual.  

12. Focus on what your intention is and now breathe this  happiness-charged white light into your intention. See it  glow before your mind’s eye. Feel the vision charge with your  life force of White Light Sorcery. See it play out exactly as you  wish it and then release it to the Universe.  

13. Focus your awareness back into your body and breathe  in and out that happiness, the joy of the reward without  attachment to it. Let it go and bask in the feelings a bit.  

14. When you’re ready, gently stretch back into your body and  slowly open your eyes. Please remember to allow yourself 20  minutes of your mind wandering only within happiness and  peace, compassion and joy. Gently guide your subconscious  into the happiness of your completed intent. Continually  bring your awareness to peaceful things.  Give gratitude and spread the intention to all others who  would want to achieve it. Be happy.  51 You are now ready to experience the next chapter. 

We’re  going to get through some housekeeping in there, so be  patient. It isn’t uncommon to experience doubt when  performing your practice, and we need to address some of  the things that bounce around in our heads and distract us  from our intentions. It’s better to get it out of the way while  you’re relaxed and reading now so that when you’re in the  middle of a practice, you have the ammunition you may need  to hush the doubts that pop up like little demons of doubt at  very inopportune times.  What does it mean to have magical powers? 

“I am sure there is Magic in everything,  only we have not sensed it enough to get a  hold of it and make it do things for us.” 

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT