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IN THIS ISSUE: WHERE HAS THE MAGIC GONE?
WISDOM: "The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space." Coleridge
COACH'S CHALLENGE: Imagination is a form of emancipation but you must make "time" and create "space" in order to facilitate it. What can you do to make that happen this month?
SOUL TRAVEL: Trip into a Child's Imagination
RIVER TRIP - Space still available for gorgeous white water trip down the Green River - July 21-24. Treat yourself to an adventure. See website www.dancewitheagles.com for details.
WHERE HAS THE MAGIC GONE?
A group of business men and women sat politely sipping their morning coffee and waiting for me, their speaker for the month, to drop at least one or two words of wisdom or inspiration their way. The bane of the breakfast speaker --. an audience most of whom were not quite ready for their day to start and not particularly interested in much else except the networking possibilities the breakfast meeting offered them. Early morning combined with people in midlife -- what a daunting combination!
So why is it that so many of us leave behind the magic of the child in us in order to forge ahead so urgently to acquire what we think we need to manifest. Later (or now if we are wise enough), when the hysteria of success is not consuming our energy, will we be able to pursue what truly delights us -- if we haven't forgotten what that is? Even if we can, how much joy has been lost in the meantime?
How many of you feel as though life is running you rather than you running your life? How many of you want more for yourself and if so, do you know what that is? For the most part, yesterday was a manifestation of what you have created and was, in that context, "perfect". From that perspective, if any lessons have been learned, tomorrow can only get better. So, lighten up and ask yourself some powerful questions.
Can you still delight in the night sky, fresh powder on the mountain, a child's hand in yours, rainbows, your wife's or husband's touch, the first flowers of spring, the sound of a running stream or the pounding surf? Is today a great day b/c you are going to make it so? If something goes wrong, can you focus on what is right rather than what was wrong about that? Most all of us manage to overly complicate life at one time or another and then wonder why we aren't happy. What is missing? Is this all there is? Many of us have lost the magic because we have lost touch with the simple things that bring such joy. But the magic is only hidden, like the sun behind a cloud, and we can find it again once we understand what is missing AND allow it to bubble to the surface.
Most of our world operates from a paradigm of DOING, HAVING AND BEING - that is, if we do enough, then we will have what we want and then we can be what we want. Unfortunately, it is this order of priorities that gets us into trouble because "the magic" has to do with WHO we are, not what we are doing. What if we shifted that paradigm to BEING, DOING and HAVING? "I am going to decide what makes me happy, what my values are, what I truly care about (identify the "WHO"), then do those things that are in alignment with what those things." The "having" will follow either because we are pursuing something with passion and/or because we have changed our expectations, altered our needs and simplified our lives.
If this sounds too philosophical or too hard and impractical just now, try the following top ten list for adding a little magic: 1. Wake up tomorrow and think about all the things that are going to be right about your day. 2. Take at least a 30 minute walk 3. Notice nature. 4. Smile at three strangers. 5. Put some flowers into your environment. 6. Smile while talking on the phone. 7. Smile while not talking on the phone. 8. Take DELIGHT in something or someone (or everyone and everything)! 9. Take at least fifteen minutes some time during the day to Dream! 10. Giggle at least once! You don't have to have a reason.
"Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. . . . … it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief, it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul." Shelley (In the Dublin Review, July 1908)
THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH:
YOU STILL HAVE YOUR FAIRY GODMOTHER. JUST OPEN THE BOX AROUND YOUR SOUL!
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SOUL TRAVEL: A TRIP INTO A CHILD'S IMAGINATION
"Dear Tooth Fairy,
What is your name? Does every tooth fairy have a wand? Does every tooth fairy have a pair of wings? Who is your queen? Love, Sean"
Dear Sean,
The tooth fairy loved your letter. She could not think of a way to answer you for tooth fairies are forbidden to communicate with us mortals for fear of losing their magic. They exist in a world separate from ours and visit us only when a child or anyone else, even a grown up, loses a tooth and places it under his/her pillow. Of course, the person who loses the tooth must believe or no magic can happen. For most grown-ups there is no longer any magic so tooth fairies don't get to visit grown ups very often. Because your tooth fairy knows how much I love you, she (or he, I do not know which) appeared to me in a dream and asked me to answer your letter.
She said you will know her name when the next warm spring wind blows. Listen very hard to the sound that is carried by the wind, for it will sing to you your fairy's name.
As for wands, that is a more difficult subject. Wands must be earned. When a tooth fairy graduates from Tooth Fairy School, he or she is awarded a wand. Tooth Fairy School is not easy. Being a tooth fairy carries with it a great deal of responsibility, much more so than just being a general sort of fairy. Tooth fairies must learn to be gentle, yet strong; accurate yet swift, and most of all, they must practice leaving loving thoughts in the minds of all children (or grownups) who have faith in them. Do you remember what loving thoughts she left in your head?
Tooth Fairies are born with wings but, just as you need to learn to use your legs as a baby, they need to learn to use their wings. Tooth Fairies travel great distances and without strong wings, they could not travel to all the faraway places where there are children. Sometimes the younger, less experienced Tooth Fairies hitch rides on the backs of large moths or birds as their wings tire more easily.
Yes, there is a Queen of the Tooth Fairies. She is the Tooth Fairy with the most loving heart. All of the Tooth Fairies love her in return. She sleeps in a nest of eiderdown and drinks dew from the forest bluebells. Good spirits of the forest guard her and keep her safe from those who might wish to steal her magic. These spirits have been known to cast their own spell on such villains by chanting:
"You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen;
Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong;
Come not near our fairy queen."
William Shakespeare
I hope this answers your questions,
Love, Grandma Allie
NOTE: April 12 I leave for Thailand and Bhutan and will be returning May 5. My elves (actually I have only one) will hopefully get my May museletter out in a timely fashion. I hope to have many photo ops and wonderful experiences to share in the June museletter. Take care of yourselves and misbehave appropriately (ie. Have fun).
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WINGS Vol. 1, No. 3, April, 2002
