314 ~ Cultivating a Magical Mindset

In this episode we're going to chat about what a magical mindset is . So if you've been following me for a little while you've been listening , you may have heard me use the term magical mindset . What is a magical mindset ?

Okay , I want to give you an idea of what that is and what I can help you start to see in your life , whether it's on the podcast or in deeper variations . So we're going to begin with a simple moment of pause here . If you were driving , obviously , do this with your eyes open and be safe .

But if you can , if you can , stop with me and close your eyes , I want you to do that for a moment .

Just stop what you're doing , be still , notice , listen to this present moment , take a deep breath , notice the lungs , notice the heartbeat , relax your shoulders , relax your jaw , lift the corners of your mouth and , coming back to this moment together , opening the eyes , noticing how you feel after that one moment of stillness , a magical mindset .

What I feel a magical mindset is has been adapted over the years and has been formed from many different places . So in yoga , the goal of yoga is creating a still and peaceful mind . Right , this is definitely a part of it being able to still your mind and bring peace to your mind . What does that do for you ?

It means your body's healthier , it means your day goes a lot smoother , you've got a lot more clarity and you have a lot more fun in your day because you're not having that mind running all over the place .

However , our mind has been conditioned to think , whatever our current values and beliefs are , wherever we pick them up , from a lot of them over our childhood , maybe from past lives , maybe from our line of ancestors or whatever it is .

You know , wherever it's come from , we're putting pause on all those thoughts and there's a beautiful sense of peace that comes from that , and that is where practicing yoga but specifically , more importantly , meditation is really essential for the mind and a big part of cultivating a magical mindset , because we have to be able to calm the mind down , to get it to

sit still , to enjoy a moment of peace where there's no thinking . You know the average human . I think it's something like 60,000 thoughts a day , and that number is only climbing with our declining attention spans , right ? So , really , the amount of thoughts you have per day , how many of them do you actually remember ?

Do you remember your 60,000 thoughts from yesterday ? Of course not , of course not . You might remember one or two , maybe a handful , but most of them were completely unimportant and not needed , and many of them were probably focused on the negative , the harder parts of life , because that's what our minds are wired to go towards . Okay .

On a deep level , on a survival instinct level , our brains are wired to notice the negative . Okay . So if your mind's bringing up a whole heap of negative stuff , it may not even be true , but the brain

will still look at it in terms of survival . Okay . So if your mind's bringing up a whole heap of negative stuff , it may not even be true , but the brain will still look at it in terms of survival . Okay . So a lot of our thoughts are just nonsense . It's ridiculous . It's a lot to process on every level .

Imagine having to process the physical sensations , the emotional sensations and the mental fluctuations of each individual thought 60,000 times in the day , no wonder we're tired , no wonder we're stressed , no wonder we're annoyed , no wonder we're cranky . Right , that's a lot , okay . So being able to slow the mind down and teaching it how to sit still is essential .

I mean , look at nature , see how still nature is , how peaceful nature is . That's what we're trying to bring ourselves back to . Okay , the human body is a nature made thing . It's made to be part of nature . But your mind makes us unique in the sense that we can project forwards and think about yesterday and think about possible outcomes and create .

So we've got this incredible intelligence and this creative tool that we can use . However , if we don't learn how to use it well , it tends to be more harmful than it is beneficial . So it's important to learn meditation , learn how to sit still , learn how to quiet the mind , learn meditation , learn how to sit still , learn how to quiet the mind .

Now , the meditation I'm specifically talking to is very much in the yoga world and even Buddhism very similar to that as well . There are many other philosophies that offer meditation in different styles . The way I've been trained and the philosophy behind the reason I've been trained that way is what has made a big difference in my life .

It's really brought a lot of peace and clarity to my mind , which is so nice to be able to experience . So if you I'm not sure if you know how to meditate or if you're still using apps to meditate or whatever it is guided meditations they're nice , but they're more like relaxation practices .

They're not really deep work with the mind , with trying to change the way the mind functions . So if you would like to learn a little bit more about that , I have actually just posted a workshop a live workshop on Patreon . So it's there for a one-time purchase . It's $88 USD , so you can jump on there and buy that workshop . It's 2.5 hours of audio .

It was a live workshop . It was recorded about a year ago and it's incredible . You know we go through all the things in meditation . You know the we're breaking down beliefs about meditation that aren't correct about it .

You know we're looking at where it comes from , why it started , why it's so old and the yoga philosophy behind meditation and how to do it and what we're looking for . We also go through a practice .

So if you would like to learn a little bit more about meditation so that you can practice it on your own , with your own autonomy , and actually take control of that , then that's a great workshop for you .

But you can always send me a DM as well with any questions or put comments in underneath the episode or on YouTube or whatever , and I'm happy to have a conversation with you . But , yeah , it is time that we take responsibility for the mind and , honestly , we should be taught meditation in school .

It should be done , and I believe the reason it's not whether this is true or not . I believe it's either been completely overlooked , which is ridiculous , or it's not profitable to have everyone in control of their minds and living a peaceful , joyful life .

So I really think it's important that you take the responsibility and go nope , my mind is causing all kinds of havoc , I've got crazy anxiety , I'm angry all the time , I'm stressed all the time , I'm not happy , I'm not enjoying my existence .

Then you need to do something about it , because your existence is very special and very short , so we've got to take responsibility for it . Jump over to that workshop , give it a listen , carve out 2.5 hours of your day you know that might be on a weekend or whatever early morning , sit down and listen and let's go through it together .

There is a worksheet on there as well . So that's the answer to the meditation side , but it's definitely a huge part of cultivating a magical mindset . The other thing

that is really important in this is connection to nature . We spend so much of our time in these concrete jungles or , even worse , in a screen land which is not real .

So when you spend so much time in these places , your body becomes so out of sync with what it's meant to be that it feels heavy , it feels yucky to be in , and then the mind responds to the body , the body responds to the mind and you keep creating this same yuck , heavy , lethargic , gross feeling within you .

Okay , so , getting outside and earthing regularly and touching the trees and walking around and you know whatever , talking to gum trees , you know if you're in Australia talking to any tree that you see , you know , and adventuring is really important doing things with your body . And the other thing this brings up is also doing things with your hands .

So I'm talking like creativity on the physical level . Whether you're going to make music or draw something , or knit something , crochet something , cook something , clean something , you know . Make something with your hands . Do gardening , do anything something with your hands .

Do gardening , do anything , anything physical with the hands , especially something that's something we used to do a long time ago , before all the technology and all of the nonsense came in something really organic , something beautiful . Create something that feels unbelievable .

Because you're a human being , you know you're meant to be using your mind and body to create in the physical world and to bring amazing ideas and thoughts into the physical realm , and that's part of what you are . You know you're a physical being , right , you're physical in the level of the body , but you're a magical being in the level of the soul .

When you put those two together , what do you think you're meant to be doing ? Right ? You're meant to be drawing the magic in to life . You're meant to be helping people and you know providing service to the world . Don't pick up rubbish along the highway .

Go and do something , you know , that makes you feel alive , that makes you connect with nature , that makes you feel incredible , that makes you lose time . Okay , that is really important , and we don't allow enough time for it . Another big part of our magical mindset is self-care

. Allow enough time for it . Another big part of our magical mindset is self-care . Okay , so actually taking care of ourselves on every level . Okay , I'm not talking go and get a massage every week , although , if you can , why not ? I'm talking remain mindful of what you're eating .

You're making sure you're getting yourself to bed on time , giving yourself enough water , nourishing , proper water without all the chemicals , right , actually taking care of your body , of yourself . Self-parenting I also call this as well . Would you let your child scroll on Instagram for five hours ? Probably not .

You probably tell them put that phone away and go to bed or go and read a book or go outside , right ? So do that for yourself . Parent yourself into healthier habits , into doing healthier things . That's a really important step of creating a magical mindset . The other big one self-love .

Learning to create this best friend relationship with yourself , learning how to really love yourself . When you can do that , you're sitting next to a best friend . All the time , You're sitting next to the closest person you'll ever be with and you'll love your own company , right , and you'll show up for yourself better when you're sitting next to a best friend .

If you've got a really dodgy relationship with yourself , if you're constantly judgmental of yourself , criticizing yourself , calling yourself names , just negative , just negative field . Of course you're miserable . You're sitting next to a miserable soul , right ? You've got to create a beautiful relationship with the person .

You're sitting next to , the person you're stuck with for the rest of your life , which would be you . So we create a really beautiful relationship with ourselves . Welcome all the love , and then life's not so bad , because , even if you're going through horrible things , you've got yourself . You've got this great connection with yourself .

You've got someone who you can laugh with . You know what's great about being your own best friend . I always laugh at my own jokes , right ? Often I'll tell jokes to people that don't laugh and I'm like you're kidding , it's hilarious . You know , I tell myself jokes all the time and it feels amazing .

You know , it feels incredible to laugh at your own jokes and to feel like you are , yeah , having fun with yourself . It's fantastic . You know we've got to do this stuff more . So self-love is another huge point in creating a magical mindset and the biggest one that I want to bring up with you today .

All of them are super relevant , super important , but and there's so much that goes into all of this you know your mindset , spirituality and connecting with life , connecting with yourself , and all the tools and techniques we can use .

There's so much that goes on here , but a big part of it is your perspective , adopting the belief that it's not anyone else's problem , it's not life's issue , it's not what's happening around you , it's how you're responding to it , how you're

reacting to it . For example , the last couple of days here has been freezing really cold . Right , we're right in the depths of winter over in Australia right now and people are often surprised that I'm sitting in Australia wearing a beanie . But yeah , it does get cold in Australia . Everyone . If you haven't been to Australia before , you may be shocked .

I've met quite a few travellers that didn't think to pack warm clothes . Australia does have winter , so keep that in mind . But people walk into the yoga studio where I'm sitting right now this is what you're looking at and they literally will be like oh , it's horrible out there . What a miserable day . Oh , it's terrible out there .

It's grey , it's dark , it's awful . How does that help ? Ask that question , okay , how does complaining about how miserable quote miserable it is outside ? How is that helping anybody ? How does that help you ? How does that help me ? You're telling me it's miserable outside ? Gee , thanks , thanks for that little bit of negativity you just chucked at me , right ?

There is absolutely no point in complaining about the cold because it doesn't help . It doesn't help you , it doesn't help me , it doesn't help anyone , it doesn't make you any warmer , it just makes you more negative , more heavy , more depressed . We don't want that . So instead , I've literally offered to people . It's not miserable out there .

I think it is a perfect representation of winter . Isn't this just an incredible winter's day ? When you think of winter , that's it right . That kind of that beautiful , how it's a little bit dark and it's cozy . You just want to snuggle in front of the fire . That's winter , right . That's the depths of a season .

Many people don't get to experience all four seasons in such depth as we do here . Isn't that incredible ?

And then they go oh yeah , and they kind of change their perspective and I've had many people this week go oh , that's heaps better , that's heaps better , it's way better to look at it that way , right , and people don't even think to think about it that way . They just go straight to complaining , straight to oh , how does that help ?

It doesn't help you , it brings you down , all right , and what you are thinking and what you're feeling in this moment is going to create your next moment . The reason you're thinking and feeling the way you are right now is because of what you did in the last moment . You're literally just creating the next moment for yourself .

If you're miserable now or you start going oh you know , I'm not dressed well today , or that girl looked me up and down , or the weather's miserable outside and oh , it's hard , it's Monday and oh , it's not fair how do you think you're going to feel in the next moment ? It's just logic , isn't it ? You're going to feel like shit . It's just logic , isn't it ?

You're going to feel heavy . You're going to feel like everything's miserable because you said it was because you're in that .

So instead we turn that around , we change our perspective , and there's many different parts of life we have to change our perspective around from our relationships to how we handle money , to how we handle our body and our health and our healing , to how we handle experiences of FOMO , fear of missing out on something or impatience that we've got , or creating success

or a business or anything you can think of . We've got to change our perspective . And as you start to do that , you start to dive into things and look under the rug and look a little bit deeper into things and figure out what's going on , and it really creates this amazing sense of self-awareness which is a huge part of our mindset , right ?

If you don't know , most people aren't out there right now walking around , going oh it's miserable , it's miserable , it's miserable . Most of them don't know that they're causing the misery to themselves , that they are the problem . It's not winter that's the problem , it's not snow that's the problem . Snow is beautiful , right .

Snow can be beautiful , snow can be terrible . When you think about snow , it doesn't have a like or dislike . Nature doesn't like or dislike snow , it just is . It has its purpose , right . It has its meaning .

When you look at snow and you put it in the center of the room and you get 10 people to give their perspective on snow , it'll differ depending on the person's previous experience , depending on where they're at , depending on their mood , right ?

So if I say , how do you feel about snow Today , you might say , oh , it's all right , as long as I'm in front of the cozy fire and I've got a book . It's cozy , it's beautiful , I love it . But on the next day you might say , oh , I had to go to work and it was slippery and miserable . It's horrible , it's cold . You know what I mean .

So the same thing . Snow can be perceived in so many different ways and it depends on not on the snow . The snow didn't change on you , and that's the same with every little thing in your life . So we have got to learn how to flip that around right , and this is not easy . It's not easy . It's taken me eight years to nine years .

We're getting up there , getting up towards a decade of mindset work , of rewiring the way my brain is functioning . It has taken a long time , and only in the last four or five years have I started to try and help other people with it , because I can see that life is magical . I've had the best day .

It's cold out there and I'm at work and I'm doing my stuff . I'm by myself the majority of the time . I've had a great time . I've danced , I've moved , I've had fun , I've laughed at myself , I've been outside a bit . It's great . I'm having a beautiful life . You know you can have a beautiful life . It doesn't have to be .

I'm dragging myself here , dragging myself there miserable , miserable . You can see it . The people are doing it to themselves .

So my work here is to help you create your own magical mindset , to help you use all of these techniques and more and understand them enough so that you can have your own beautiful experience of life , so that you can have a beautiful day . So that you can have a beautiful day , so that you can have a peaceful existence , so that you can have a peaceful

relationship with your partner and with your children and with your family and with yourself . So you can be healthier , mentally and physically right . So you can become more emotionally intelligent and in touch with life and connected to nature . You know , this is what living's all about , you know . So that's what a magical mindset means .

When you go onto my Patreon , you see the magical human support space . Right , we're talking about creating magical mindsets . We're talking about going a little bit deeper , right ?

All the workshops that I'm sharing , or the retreats , or the classes , all of it is to help you get a little bit closer , create a little bit more of a connection with that , to experience what it's like to have that magical mindset . So it's important . That's what we're creating here .

You know and I'm really excited before I go to share with you that I have opened for the first time in two years . Five coaching spots only five so that I can spend high quality time with each of these people . Two of those spots have already been filled , so there are three left three left as when I'm recording this .

What these coaching spots involve is you and me 90 minutes one-on-one , whether it's in person or over Zoom you can be anywhere in the world and we're going to have 90 minute session per month for seven months . So that's seven 90 minute sessions .

It's going to be based around the chakra system so we can build from the ground up , because that's really important to start with the ground , create a really strong foundation for your growth and then to evolve from there . You have full texting , whatsapp , whatever access to me If you need to chat .

If you've got something that came up , whatever , you can send it through to me . You get free access to Patreon , the magical human support space , and you get free workshops . Whatever workshops I'm hosting over the next seven months , they're yours , you've got them . You are my VIP , right ?

I want to start helping people move towards this magical mindset , to really make big shifts towards there , and if you're listening to the podcast and you're doing those kind of you know classes or little things with me , that's all going to help . But these are steps .

These are big , giant steps in the right direction and I'm going to hold your hand the whole way . So if this sounds like something that you're interested in and you'd like to have a chat about it or have a phone call with me and see how you feel , you can go below and click the link to schedule a call with me . Very short 15 , 20 minutes .

We'll have a chat , we'll see if it's right for you and if it's something that sounds like a good idea for you . So , yeah , I really encourage you to check that out . As I said , there's only three spots left and I've got you for seven months , which means I'm not going to open any more coaching spots .

Once the five are filled , there's going to be no more spots for another seven months . So we're talking March next year around that time .

So if you are ready , if you're like you know what , really sick of just coasting along , miserable most of the time , you know , not experiencing enough joy or enough peace and having a lot of discomfort and all these different things , then come and join me . Come and let me support you so that you can step up in your life .

Thank you so much for being here . Magical Human , I hope you enjoyed this episode . I hope it kind of cleared up what a magical mindset could be and I hope it inspires you to create your own magical mindset , to start to find more peace , more clarity of mind . And , of course , all the podcast episodes can help you . The practice episodes help .

You can jump onto patreon for five dollars usd a month . Come and join me over there . There's nearly a hundred videos and audios that you can explore and start to connect with those things , and you can also go check out the meditation workshop . If you're really keen on starting a meditation practice , that is for you , that is , yours . Highly recommend that one .

Whether you think you are all over meditation or if you're beginning the journey . It's going to deepen your awareness and really give you some support on your journey . Thank you for being here . I appreciate you so much and I'm wishing you the best rest of your day , love .