{"id":116,"date":"2020-12-07T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/meghanvictoria\/?p=116"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:50:49","slug":"how-to-release-your-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/meghanvictoria\/how-to-release-your-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Release Your Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To release your magic, follow these instructions exactly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Do not falter, do not hesitate. Do not look back from where you\u2019ve come, or forward to where you\u2019re going. Be here, in this moment, right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe out, let your shoulders release away from your ears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe out, clear your mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select your instruments. Parchment, paper, stationary. A quill, a pencil, a pen. The right surface, the perfect writing tool \u2013 these things are art in themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write \u201cMAGIC\u201d at the top of your page. Take your time. Feel each letter as you etch its shape. Words have power; letters fuel the fire.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underline \u201cMAGIC\u201d twice, as deep or as shallow as feels right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gift yourself five minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write every word that seeps into your mind when you think MAGIC. <\/em>Do not censor. Do not steer. Let yourself fall into stream of thought, far and deep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heavy drapes. Incense. Whispered secrets. The feel of velvet. Old keys. Forest depths. The smell of old pine. Locked boxes. Curling wood smoke. Full moon howl. Dancing. Midnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe out, let your shoulders release away from your ears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe out, clear your mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Examine your list. Do not think too hard. Instead, breathe it, meditate upon it, muse and deliberate and reflect. These processes are profound in their nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magic has a feel, as unique to each of us as a fingerprint. It calls to the deepest, most secret parts of ourselves. A place of yearning, of forgotten pieces and half-remembered lifetimes, of beauty and darkness and longing. <\/p>MEGHAN VICTORIA<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To know your magic is to know yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are the words that curl across your page part of your life? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How often do you find yourself in the depths of the forest, howling at the full moon? Listening to the secrets of the universe? Dancing at midnight? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How often do you wrap yourself in velvet and draw the drapes and burn the incense and unlock the box that contains your soul? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How often do you set your magic free? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a list that calls to your blood, to the secrets that lives deep in your bones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take it. Live it. Set your magic free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To release your magic, follow these instructions exactly. Do not falter, do not hesitate. Do not look back from where you\u2019ve come, or forward to where you\u2019re going. 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