Navigating Life with Ease – What Magic Means from a 3 Principles Perspective

Welcome. This podcast is a series of candid conversations exploring the human experience from a completely new perspective. In it, we will be diving deeply into the meaning of commonly used words and pointing you away from that old, stressful way of looking at life towards a new paradigm. This will help you find a sense of calm, cultivate meaningful relationships, and create harmony in every aspect of your life. Here is Navigating Life With Ease with Michaela Ellis and Claire Downer.

Hello. How are you?

Well, how are you?

Very well, thank you. Good. And I have got a very lovely word for you. The word is magic.

I love that word. It brings a smile up from way down deep inside. To me, magic is what's present all the time. When I remember, it is. The only time that the moments that we have in our everyday life do not have some kind of. I'm going to say spark or sparkle, because sometimes it's just like a. Oh, interesting or intriguing or wonder or. And then other times it's just downright delightful and magical and then it's sparklier. How I see that because I use that word and it's like, oh, you know, people might get confused and think about magic and dark magic and white magic and all that kind of whatever, and it's just like. No, I think everyone understands a feeling of something being magical. What comes to mind just when I said the word in that moment, I saw a winter scene with lights lit up. We have some near where I am. Well, outdoor Christmas time, going for walks at night when all the Christmas lights are out and watching it reflect and glisten on the snow. And there's something magical about it. There's something magical about anything that sort.

Of.

Lights something up in a way that is. That may seem. Not every day, but how I see it now is that it's not Christmas lights. It's not lights at all. It's. Or at least it's not a light that's coming from outside. It's a light from inside. Like a presence, an attention. It's the. Yeah, attention is kind of a good word because it's like how you come to something can really light it up, even if it's in the dark, even if it's a dim back alley. So this is really lovely. Yeah, I see that. The magic that we created ourselves because we can both be looking at a magnificently lit up Christmas tree and one of us could feel the magic of the moment. And what of like, looking and, you know, being present to that? And one can have a lot on their mind, an argument or Something that just happened, and they're like, yeah, lights, Christmas, whatever. I got this stuff going on. So I really see, like, really see it. Interestingly, this feels different this week. And really seeing that. The presence or the. I was on a call and we were talking about listening, and maybe that's why there's been more sparkle again this week, because it's like, ah, I'm. I've been reminded of how I can listen and how that brings something magical to the. Whether it. I mean, it's just me. I'm the only one experiencing what I'm experiencing. But to the whole engagement, whether it's with a dog that I met new. His name is Whiskey. On my walk this morning or run this morning or whether it's my husband who I hear every day.

Yeah.

I'm just really seeing that this magic is. It's present, it's ready. It's ready to. I was gonna say show itself, but it's not anything outside of us.

Yeah.

What. Be aware what magic is for you in this moment.

Well, just. I mean, what's coming to mind right now is just the way you've responded to that word is beautiful. Because just before this, I was on a little group call. It's that we have a reconnect session from the VIVA conference I been to in Spain the last couple of years, and every couple. Every month or so, we have a. It's called Aviva Reconnect, and there weren't many of us on the call. And I said, I've got to go now. I need to let saloon. Then I'm making my podcast and. Okay. And I explained how it works, and I said, oh, no, it's my word, and I haven't thought of a word. And Sheila, who is one of the people who organizes viva, said, magic. And so what's magic about that? Is the way, you know that word just. She said, oh, I don't know where that came from. I'm going with it. I'm gonna go with that word. And. And then the way you've lit up, you've. I can see your magic within you as you. As you're talking about it. It's just so. That's so cool, isn't it? The. The little. I'd like to say this flies magic, but it's like, just landed on my head.

How rude.

I'm busy here. It's quite a large one.

It came right at me.

I saw it. Yeah. It's like everything is magic, really, isn't it? Our thinking says it isn't you know, it, it's all that stuff that Byron Casey says about, you know, resistance to what is maybe everything that's happening in our lives is magic really. And I loved when you use the word presence because presence, I think allows us to see it, to see the magic, to connect to it. We spend so much time in our heads chatting to ourselves about things and with, you know, not the most helpful of thoughts often about the past or the future. But when that falls away, then there only is magic. That's what's left. When all that thinking falls away. It's like the diamond metaphor, which I really like. You know, the, the diamond inside. Seeing that we are magical, magical beings really. And, and that that can therefore be in anything. Like I, I've noticed since I've been on this journey that everything or many more things seem to be magical. Many things still annoy the heck out. Like that fly right now. For those of you this evening, there is an annoying fly buzzing around my office. Looked like it was dive bombing macaron. But yeah, that, that I just notice really little things that I find I can sit and look at for longer than I would have been like, oh yeah, that's all right. But I'm on, I'm off now doing my busy, busy st stuff. And we went to a garden a few weeks ago where there just was so many wildflowers and so many butterflies and bees. It was just like, it was like shimmery, it's like shaking with the amount of stuff that was buzzing around it. And we've just, we've got, wow. We've had some of these, they're called bee bombs. They're just like little balls with seeds in that you can, they're just wildflower. You put them in your garden, you just see what comes up. We've had these beautiful purple flowers and there again they're just covered in bees and little thing, littler things that are, they are just magic. You know, there's so much of that about when we are caught up in our minds, we, we miss, we miss it, don't we? When we're doing thinking. I've been making a lot of content about overthinking this week and last week and yeah, that can really take us away from peace, can't it? Just thinking and thinking and thinking. Yeah, I guess when things are difficult, that's when it's hardest to see. I think, you know, when I burnt out, if you'd have told me this is actually magic and probably wrong. Your neck, I mean punch on the nose like, what are you talking. If I'd had the energy for that. What are you talking about? It's magic, you fool. What the heck? Now I can really see that it was. I was going through some kind of. Well, I've been through some magical transformation really be that's been sparked by becoming so exhausted that I couldn't work anymore. There's even magic in those things, isn't there, that we often can't see till afterwards. And that's human too. Like we're not saying, you know, let's spiritually bypass all your horrible experiences and pretend they're all magic. We're not saying that. But I think what is important to see is that our suffering is, you know, is. Is coming from resistance to what is. And when we're not in that resistance, things do seem more magical. That perspective can just shift, can't it? Like really quite profoundly when the resistance drops away.

And it can in just like that. You couldn't hear my snap. I couldn't get my snap going. But it's amazing, yeah, how it can happen so quickly. And it does. Because I'm betting even, even in the time period when you were experiencing burnout that there was moments where you weren't present to being burnt out, where you were being present to whatever of the myriad of things that happen throughout our everyday day to day life. But we don't catch them, we don't necessarily see them because we're so distracted. And when we come, when we become present to ourselves again after being distracted, when we weren't feeling the ickiness that we were feeling, we just remember that.

What?

Right. So it fee. It seems that whenever we're present to ourselves, this is how I'm feeling and it's not good. Or I've got all this trouble in my life or I'm feeling overwhelmed or whatever it is that I'm experiencing. Yet when you were present to something else and you forgot about the things that were not to your liking going on in your life, you're okay. That is magic. That is magical. When you really start to catch more and more of those of how that's true and the only way is to like see it, to, to just notice it, to test it out to. And however, just even listening to this conversation, at least for today, someone like me for sure, because we're talking about it, I'm going to be more present to the magic. I'm going to see it as magic. Before this call, I wasn't calling it magic. But now when I see the delights that are happening in my day. My cat that I just found curled up in my bed, she has different spots that she'll go to and she hasn't been up here for a while. She slept curled behind. Well first in between my legs and then behind my knees. And I was surprised to see her on my bed. Just it's like, oh, I haven't seen you up here for a few weeks. Like curling up here and there was like a. Oh, I was happy to have her there. You can see when you look at that it lit me up. I don't know why I don't especially like her on my bed because you know, she drops hair there. But there was something about it. It's like oh, that lit me up. There was a feeling of oh, surprise. And then.

Huh.

Hi bj. We have these little moments. I never thought anymore about it until just this moment that it's like I was lit up. There was something sparkling from inside. Magic is every day.

It is in those little synchronicities and just the little things that happen that if we're busy and going very fast, we can so easily miss it, can't we? And I would have said that's probably what I was doing. I think at one point I did a gratitude journal every day and. Excuse me. And I, I would like to sit there at the end of the day trying to, you know, get myself to remember things to be grateful for. Like you know, bits of magic I suppose you might call. I wouldn't have called them that then but I would now more. And now it, it's. It's there all the time. You don't even have to look very far for it. For things just you. Things that just work out time wise little things like we went for a walk today and I found a pound coin on the floor. You know, like oh look, a magical little pound coin. You know. You know it's little. Little things like that that are just. Yeah. Little gifts from the universe of magic. You know. I know when I've done. I think you've done the same you've done living miraculously, haven't you with Dominic and Grace. Yeah. That they, you know, he invites you to, to start just writing some of those things down where those little. Yeah. Those little magical things have happened. But I think if I, when I do that now sometimes jot them down, I, I find I don't need. Feel the need so much to jot them down as just to be present to them and enjoy them in the moment.

And it brings more like Being with that in the. More in the moment. It bring, you know, the idea being like, yeah, when your eyes are open to magic, you're going to see more magic, you're going to see more delight. When your eyes are open to the things that are not right in the world or in your life, then you're going to see more to that, because that's what your eyes are open to. That's what your energy, your being is open to. And it. It is. It's, you know, it's. It's not that you have to. Then, okay, eyes open for all that's good. All that's good. All that's good. You know, you don't have to be like a vigilant. Although at times I have been. I kind of needed to because I knew that I was focusing on some. On things that were not right. And I had to help myself remember because I kept forgetting and I. It was like a rut, you know, so. But you'll know what makes sense to you. You'll know if you need to, like, write yourself a sticky note to remind yourself that's what I. That's what I did. And then after a number of days, I didn't see the sticky note anymore. I could. It's like, you know, I. Either I didn't need it or I forgot or, you know, whatever, but you'll know moment to moment, if there's something to do, you'll be guided to it. You don't have to then put a bunch of rules and regulate schedule and write out the to do list of every morning. I just thought about this because I went to. I have some stiffness going on, and I admitted to my art guy that, yeah, I kind of stopped doing the things that I was doing. That was helpful in keeping me loose and limber. And. And that's what happens. That's human. It happens all the time. You know, we will remember these things. When things are like, not going. It's like, oh, yeah, there's magic everywhere. And then you'll go down that track, right? You'll create momentum in a different direction. And just as easily we can create momentum in a direction of seeing the very unmagical things. That's just part of being human. There's nothing wrong. It's just something really helpful to notice what kind of incredibly powerful, creative beings we are, that we can have a magical experience in the middle of what seems to be utter freaking chaos in your life. That's amazing. Truly magical.

And I think there's a. There's a felt sense to it as well. You know, spending our day focusing on what's, like you said, not what's not going well, what, you know, being in that resist, that place of resistance, going to feel that. We're probably going to be exhausted. We're probably going to feel off. You know, our emotions are going to be all over the place. Excuse me.

That was a magic, magical yawn.

Big magical yawn. And. And then. Yeah, I've lost my complete train of thought. What was I talking about? Yeah, when we, when we're focusing, you know, that has a felt sense to it. If we're focusing on all the things that are not going well, we're going to feel. Feel that in our bodies because those, those resistive thoughts are uncomfortable. You know, the more we kind of focus on the joy of the moment, the magic of the moment, we just feel better and then it becomes like that game, I don't know, of hotter, colder. You know, we want to move more towards those good feelings and not so much get bogged down in the not very good ones.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

This episode to her when it comes. Thank you, Sheila. This is.

Very good.

Your magical word, the magical magic. Thank you.

Lovely.

Yeah, indeed. See you next time.

Have a great one.

You too. Bye. Bye.

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