It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

So goes the classic line from the song sung by Andy Williams.

It’s a special time of loving and giving, caring and sharing, family and friends, food and fun. Work stops and we get to rest and enjoy quality time with each other, often seeing people we haven’t for a while.

But the really special part of Christmas isn’t happening in the heart.

It’s occurring in the mind.

And for the mind, that can be absolute magic.

Come with me into the Christmas mind and experience it.

Do you hear what I hear?

Now that’s another famous line from a Christmas song (by Bing Crosby).

A line then followed by, ‘Do you see what I see’?

This typifies someone already sensing the magic and spirit of Christmas. A mind alive with possibility, with good imagination, with seeing and feeling and believing in positive expectation. For them they have nothing but great thoughts and happy emotions about what is about to unfold over the coming couple of weeks.

Not so most of us.

We fear everything going pear shaped. Horrors fill our head.

Family will be each other’s throats. Someone will be unhappy with their present or plain underwhelmed with what they were bought. The food won’t turn out right – the turkey all dry, the veg has been under or over cooked, fussy eaters turn their nose up at their plate. Add to that everyone gets sozzled, the party games become competitive, and guests outstay their welcome.

Oh the joys of Yuletide.

You see Christmas is a micro version of the rest of the year. We imagine issue after issue and act accordingly. We give no possibility for lovely surprises actually taking place. For family or food problems at Christmas, we continue on into the year making it work colleagues or the weather that represents our expected nightmare.

Christmas is the rest of the year shrunk into two weeks.

Merry Mindsets.

Christmas is more about the mindset than anything else.

Yes we give, and appreciate, and love, but only because we let our mind see and feel these in the first place. We awaken magic in our mind that we then use to light up other people’s lives, and our own as a result inside.

Before we buy a gift we have the vision of the person receiving it and their happy face beaming with the wonderful emotions it makes them feel. We activate a perceived future and make it real in living colour. We access key areas of our mind to fire up our creative field that we project onto the screen of our imagination like a Christmas tree light switch on. And we then go do day after day what is required to bring that into actual reality i.e. find those presents.

Now, we can do this any day of the week or time of the year. It’s not season or Santa dependent.

What we haven’t noticed is that it’s quicker to come true in our lives at Xmas.

You imagine Xmas morning and your loved ones smiling and joyous at what you presented them. You then use that believed outcome and found the gift to match that picture. Time from seeing it in your mind to it coming perfectly true? A few weeks to even a couple of days.

To you that’s Christmas magic only. In normal life that magic won’t or can’t work.

But, that magic is in your mind permanently and can work anytime you allow it to cast its spell.

Magic is real.

Magic isn’t some supernatural invisible energy.

It’s a real living power in your mind. A power you can use whether it’s a Spring day or Autumn evening as much as a Christmas season potion.

Christmas shows what can be created in no time by the mind can be formed with good time in the very same way.

Take out the vision of your family and their wish appearing on December 25th, and in its place add YOUR vision for what you wish coming to you in your life instead with the same sure faith and expected conclusion.

Remove it being a Christmas gift delivered for others, and make it a personal fulfilment brought to you sometime soon. BOTH envisioned, felt, acted upon, and made real by you. YOU and your mind are the magic that sees and delivers. The Santa for others and yourself.

In the film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy tells Glinda, The Good Witch of The West that she wishes to go back home to Kansas. Glinda reminds her, ‘You have always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself’.

And so do you my good friend reading this.

You have always had magic in your mind. Christmas helps you learn this.

Use your magic mind.

Christmas will soon be over, but the magic continues.

The key is to use that magic in your mind on an ongoing basis.

Start having more ideas – bigger ideas, ideas for yourself, business ideas, ideas for products, ideas of how you wish to live and who to be. They are like your family’s wish list for Christmas you went looking for. Now do the same for yourself and your future.

Hold the vision together with all the excited emotions that will happen when it all comes about.

THEY ARE MAGNETIC.

They pull it all together, the glue to the big plans. And they powerfully fuse it into your whole psyche so that you carry it with you day and night. Every single day you think about your wish. See it, lock into it, follow it. Just like you couldn’t let go of finding that doll or trainers for your kids.

Then keep taking action to get closer (like searching the internet or visiting store after store in December to get those wanted gifts – oh, yes, you couldn’t let go!!). Take some steps every day or week to get to that present. The gift to yourself for every day of every year to come. Be Santa for yourself.

Make the magic come to life.

Through using the magic of your mind that you always had.

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