Spiral Dragonfly Coaching
Mary's Magical Musings
Believe In Magic
I just returned from a magical week of becoming certified to offer the Dream Coach© process to groups as well as individuals. The majority of the week was spent with Tim Kelley in gaining more clarity on our purpose and how to assist our clients to do the same. One of the practices I am embracing is to believe.
It is easy to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy especially when we are young because we get rewarded for doing so. Santa brings presents. The Easter Bunny brings candy. The Tooth Fairy brings quarters. Why wouldn’t we believe? It becomes more difficult as we get older and our friends are trying to convince us that our parents are actually supplying the rewards. We play along for awhile looking for the catch, the trick. How is it REALLY done?
When we attend a magic show, we suspend disbelief. I freely admit that there is part of me that is fascinated with how it is done; a part that would dearly love to learn to perform the trick so I could amaze my friends and family. But there is another part of me that doesn’t want to know; that wants to believe that it is TRULY magic; that no “trick” is involved.
A few years ago we took our grandson to Disneyland. What better place to celebrate, enjoy, revel in magic? But, at the ripe old age of 5, he was already a disbeliever. He assured me before we ever arrived at the park that all the characters were merely people dressed in costumes. We went to the Aladdin stage show and watched the flying magic carpet. He pointed out the cables that made the magic carpet “fly”; no magic required. Here’s a definite switch from the adult telling the child that he or she is too old to continue believing such childish nonsense to the child telling the adult not to be so silly. Well, I LIKE being silly!
Belief in magic falls into the same category as belief in hope; the hope that Barack Obama spent a lot of time expressing in the 2008 presidential election campaign. The majority of us WANT to believe in hope, magic, in these difficult times. Marcia Wieder, America’s Dream Coach, asks if we can believe in something simply because it matters to us. I believe in magic because it matters to me. I believe in hope because it matters to me. I believe in my clients’ dreams because they matter to the client.
One of my favorite books is “eat, pray, love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. She goes on a truly magical journey to find balance. As part of that journey she talks to herself in a notebook. At one point she decides that she doesn’t believe in the internal voice of wisdom conversing with her in the notebook and tells it so. The response is classic. After being told, “I do not believe in you” the inner guide responds with “Who are you talking to, then?” Some things just require belief because they matter.
Identifying and living our dreams matters. Finding and living our purpose matters. Steps along these paths require suspending disbelief and going along for the journey with belief, faith, and hope. If you would like to join me on the journey, please contact me at mary@spiraldragonfly.com.
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