YOU are the magic.
Not the millions of things that try to sell you the magic.
You are the guide.
Not the people who sell you their insight.
You are the teacher and the student of your own life.
Not the guru sitting atop the mountain.
An interesting thing about becoming a nationally certified integrative life coach is I am not being trained to be the expert at all. I am not there to assume, provide advice, diagnose, or even encourage clients.
The most critical belief a successful coach can have is that their clients, in an ideal world, wouldn’t even need them at all. It is not because we aren’t skilled, trained, and smart people, it is because, if the world were different and people had the space and security to spend more time bored and with themselves, they would all come to realize, just as a coach already knows, that every single thing they need in order to live a full, magical, memorable, and aligned life is fully and inescapably already within them.
Every belief that needs tending, shadow that needs illuminating, motivation that needs initiation, it’s all there.
So when the ads keep flashing telling you to buy more, spend more, be more, do more, the invitation should rather be, spend nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
That is yoga, that is presence, that is meditation. That is where your magic lives.
It feels so abstract to “be nothing".” What does being nothing mean?!
You are a human made of flesh and bone and matter.
You have a brain and a heart and even a liver!
HOW CAN YOU BE NOTHING IF YOU ARE SOMETHING?!
You are alive, that is true. But think for a moment of all the things that you “are.”
A mother? A friend? A boss? A procrastinator? A slow thinker? A quick talker?
Think about what all of that means for you.
To be a mother, you care for LITERALLY other humans with your entire heart and soul.
A friend, to be attentive, present, and communicative with your actions.
A boss, timely, clear, direct, and constantly evolving.
A procrastinator, apologetic, anxious, catching up on sleep.
You get the idea.
You are so many things - what if, for just a moment, you were nothing?
Not a person who takes care of other people.
Not a person who worries about when the next thing will inevitably come.
Not anything.
Sitting in the nothingness. No need to rush, to complete, to compete, to analyze.
What if, for just a moment, you allowed yourself to spend nothing, do nothing,
be nothing?
Then the idea becomes less abstract.
It becomes more tangible.
And all of a sudden, you have tapped into a part of you that is clear of all programming, all shame, all expectation, and all burden.
You find yourself in a place within yourself that has room to create, dream, rest, and reshape. That is where the magic lives.
That is where you will know with full certainty that you are the magic.