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Forty Day Magic Challenge — Create Magical Tools

Day 38: When you were a child you played with toys. As a Magical Child, enchanted tools are your higher order play things. Do you remember as a child making toys from ordinary objects? Making a stick into a sword, or a broom into a flying ride? I remember using a woven little rug I used to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Activate Your Magical Child

Day 37: There is a part of you eternally playful and playfully magic. This magical child is the heart of wonderment. — You’ve heard of inner child work, the psychological process of healing the unmet emotional needs of our child self. I call this the wounded child, and while it can be useful to engage in […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Dare Greatly to be Shameless

hame is a cover-up. It hides perceived imperfection at the expense of revealing your true shameless glory. — Let’s be clear. Shame is not about having a healthy conscience or feeling guilty for a transgression. In fact, the role of guilt in its healthy emotional expression is the inner admission “I made a mistake.” Shame, […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Why Forgiveness Does Not Work

Day 33: What if abandonment, betrayal and shame are fictions? What then? You probably never stopped to think about what being psychologically wounded really means—what happens when we are shamed, betrayed or abandoned? At its core, each of these wounds is a dent in your sense of innocence. But how that dent impacts you precisely […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Three Archetypal Wounds that Block Wonderment

Day 32: A state of wonder is your natural state. But hidden wounds can be road blocks on the path of magic. I’ve had a lot of psychology training. I did an undergraduate degree in psychology and started on a graduate studies path years later in transpersonal psychology. You name it, I’ve tried it. From […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Enter the Spiritual Heart

Day: 28: There is a secret doorway to abiding magic. Here’s the Key. So far you’ve been playing with magic tools and learning to pay attention to the non-ordinary. And you’ve probably noticed the more you pay attention, the more synchronicity shows up in your life, along with precognition, deja-vu, telepathy and more. You are […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Recognize the Real Magician

Day 26: The thinking mind is not the creator of magic. It is simply the observer of it. When you are playing with the magic of your being, the temptation is to get caught up in desires and wants, expectations and hopes. Because after all, so much cool stuff is happening—the mind-blowing synchronicity, the entangled meeting […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Shift Your Perspective

Day 11: Perception shapes your reality. Today you are beginning what will be a repeating theme for much of the rest of this challenge — you are going to play with perception because perception shapes your reality. If a magical life of ease, flow and grace is your aim, then you will need to begin to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge: Enter the Flow

Day 10: The Joy of Flow. You’ve got your magic toolkit, you’ve playfully set an inspired intention and you are actively loving your life. The stage is set for the next phase of this magic challenge, which i am choosing to call Enter the Flow. It’s a bit like “going with the flow” except I […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge: Love Your Life Now

Day 9: The Gratitude Practice So far you have learned a few basic magic tricks (harnessing synchronicity, paying sacred attention, accessing dream wisdom, stocktaking as spell-making) and yesterday you set an inspired intention (or a soul-centric wish) for what you want to this 40 Day Challenge to support in your life. Now comes the key piece for […]