Are You Suffering from Magic Wand Syndrome(TM)?

Magic Wand Syndrome (TM).  An affliction where the patient doesn’t want to take any responsibility for their own healing.  They want a doctor / guru / priest / alternative practitioner / parent / shaman / spirit guide / fairy godmother or just anyone other than themselves to wave a magic wand over them and heal them instantly, without them having to exert any energy in changing or improving themselves.

OK, so I made the name up, but I know an awful lot of people who suffer from this.  A ex colleague of mine booked single appointments with lots of different types of practitioners: reflexologists, acupuncturists, hypnotists, energy healers anyone who she thought could help.  However if they didn’t make significant difference to her weight problem in a single session she described them as ‘rubbish’ and moved on.  Surprisingly the one thing she wasn’t prepared to do for her weight was eat more than 1 portion of fresh fruit or veg in a week or exercise. She wanted to put the responsibility for her weight onto someone else and have them fix it for her so the weight could magically melt off without any effort on her part.

You probably know of at least one person who moans a lot about how awful life is, but the minute you suggest something positive they could do to change it, they tell you that ‘it probably wouldn’t work’ or that it’s too expensive / time consuming / difficult / not part of their belief system.

Heck I suffered from Magic Wand Syndrome (TM) for a long time too, before I realised that change in my external life wasn’t going to happen unless I made the effort to change internal life.

I’d heard the concept of taking 100% responsibility and thought that I understood it and applied it to my own life.  What I couldn’t understand is why healing never held more than a few weeks for me.  And then one day I had an experience where I really experientially understood that concept.  I made a true connection from the thoughts that were in my head and the feelings they generated, to what was happening in my physical reality.  The understanding of it flooded through me. It felt like every cell in my body danced for joy in recognition at this essential truth.

I realised at that moment I didn’t need a magic wand to change my life.   I realised that I was capable of creating the changes I wanted.  That isn’t to say I didn’t receive help, support, guidance and teaching as I made those changes.  I received those things in abundance!  What it meant was I took responsibility for applying those things into my life and making sure I was supporting my own transformation.  The difference between understanding the theory of 100% responsibility and actually truly knowing and living it is like comparing a photograph of a glass of water, to a delicious thirst quenching ice-cold drink of water on a hot day.  You feel the knowledge.

The work I do now helps people make huge transformational shifts in their being and particularly their self-confidence.  Things that are restricting or blocking them expressing their divine self are lifted and removed.  Things that were standing in their way are now removed which is fantastic for my clients. But if they then don’t take the time to embed those changes into their lives they will eventually stop seeing the benefit of those blocks being lifted.  To make sure those changes create the results they want, they need to take inspired action towards their goals (NB that doesn’t mean hard work) now those blocks are gone.

Learning to take charge of your life and create what you really want is the best magic you can get.  And you really don’t need someone else with a magic wand to do that. You can do that for yourself right now.