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If you’re not sure what Conscious Mindsets are about, visit Conscious Mindsets, Part One.

Conscious Mindsets Part One, Intro and The World Temple

Conscious Mindsets Part Two, The Tourist

Conscious Mindsets Part Four, The Adventurer

Conscious Mindset #3 — The Magician’s Apprentice

Did you know that you can influence whether people are happy or unhappy? Try an experiment — take one day and walk around all day with a pleasant smile on your face. Be friendly to people, ask them about themselves, and go a little out of your way to be nice. Then notice whether you thought that most of the people around you were in good moods or bad moods. The next day, put on a perma-scowl, and just sort of trudge through the day. At the end of the day, note how the people around you acted.

This becomes more ‘magical’ when we become more subtle. If we’re just thinking warm, happy thoughts throughout the day, the people around us will tend to be in good moods; however,  if we’re in a foul mood, even if we try to put on a smile, most of the people around us will tend to be rather grumpy.

This isn’t really magic. It’s simply a matter of how we hold ourselves, our body language, and perhaps even the pheromones we produce when we’re in one mood or another. The important lesson is that our attitude makes a real and tangible difference in our ‘external’ environment.

This can be seen whenever someone who practices modern-day magic does a love spell. Invariably, the spell works, and people report that after the spell, they are approached more, asked on dates, and simply get more attention. Again, this might not be ‘magic’ so much as a subtly increased confidence delivered by the recipient thinking that they have magic on their side.

If you explore this, you can truly begin to work ‘magic’ in your life. Your attitude — as manifested in your body carriage, the amount of eye contact you make, your level of confidence, and the way that you approach each situation in life — is the ’secret’ behind working miracles in your life. Forget, for a moment, everything you know or think you know about the Law of Attraction and Intention-Manifestation, and do your own experimentation with the power of a smile or a positive thought.

In the Magician’s Apprentice mindset, you are an apprentice magician, and the world and people around you are your training-ground. Don’t expect any certain results at first — just experiment. Some methods of using this subtle magic work better for some than for others. I won’t get into any detailed instructions or advice at this time, but will simply suggest that you play with things yourself.

— Affirm each morning that you want to intentionally hold this mindset using the following thoughts —

I am an apprentice magician, and today my teacher has asked me to experiment with my budding powers. Results don’t matter — the only thing that matters is that I pay attention to my attitudes and thoughts, as well as any methods of manifestation that I attempt to use, and note what seems to work and what doesn’t. At the end of the day, I hope to have a better understanding of what methods of manifestation seem to have efficacy for me.

If you’ve ever experimented with Intention-Manifestation before, you likely ran into some pitfalls (if you didn’t, you’d probably be perfectly content right now and wouldn’t be reading this ) Many of those pitfalls evolve out of our own sense of fear and expectation. Using the Magician’s Apprentice mindset as outlined above removes us from fear and expectation — all that is important is experimentation, and when we’re experimenting, ‘failures’ are really successes, because they help us to understand what works and what doesn’t. Each of us has enormous potential to shape the world around us on scales that might seem unbelievable to us right now. This can be the beginning of your own experimentation and learning process as you discover your own ‘magic’.

Developing This Mindset

Keep a journal and note which techniques work for you and which don’t. There are many authors offering different techniques for manifestation, but your own inner wisdom can uncover your innate ability to shift and alter the world around you.

Even if you aren’t able to immediately create any ‘magic’ in your life, you’ll begin to get more in touch with the state of mind that you are currently in at any given moment, which is one of the first steps in the journey toward Awakening.