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Leo Babauta frames a helpful way of connecting to the big picture in his book Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change. He talks about making a vow that’s connected to serving others. Leo gave up smoking as a commitment to his wife and newborn daughter. So think less about what your habit can do for you, and more about how this new habit will help a person or people you care about.
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
If all you need to do is act on a belief to make it true, then if you want to live in a happy, wonderful world, all you need to do is act like you live in a happy, wonderful world. This can be anything from a full-blown ritual act to something as simple as telling yourself the world is a fun, good place to be. Of course, just saying this once won’t change much—try it, and see how fast you revert back to thinking and acting as if the world isn’t a happy, wonderful place. In order to work magick on the self effectively you must replace the habitual magick that you do everyday with new habitual magick. This means repetition.
Advanced Magick for Beginners
Alan Chapman
The extent to which we are able to return to a low-entropy liminal passage is determined by the extent to which we are able to make sense of the impact (or lack thereof) of our post-separation actions. If the separation event is successful (a successful dissertation defense, a great opening weekend for a movie), the cheap trick that drove the deep story is validated, and we extend it to explain and organize the new realities it has weathered. If the separation fails, we face an existential crisis. We must search for new meaning amongst the ashes, deny and isolate ourselves from the aftermath, or simply remain in a high entropy state, mourning over the corpse of our failed efforts.
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