More Random Thoughts

I haven't seen the movie The Secret yet. I intend to soon. But the more I hear my friends rave about it, the more certain I become that perhaps the 'secret' behind the Secret is something a teacher of mine once told me way back in my beginning sessions learning Ceremonial Magic. I had complained that since I started word-for-word memorizing a highly technical Ritual, I wasn't feeling the joy and closeness with the Spirit that I had been accustomed to in my more informal, spontaneous Rituals. He told me to "Fake it til you feel it"! And he was right! As I learned more and more of the Ritual, I became comfortable with it and was able once again to feel the joy. By 'pretending' that I have what I want, the vibrations I put out for that will be so strong that they attract the very thing I am pretending I have. I think this works whether the desired thing is an emotion or feeling or if it actually is a mundane thing. I have long believed that if I can create a thing in my mind, then I can cause it to be in life outside my mind.
I think the problem is, most people are not completely convinced of the power of their mind. They think this is something only particularly gifted people can do. The truth of it is that we are all gifted, some of us are just more finely attuned to the ability to tap into that gift. We are all given this gift as a birthright. But after early childhood, we begin to feel the need to 'fit in'. And so, along with our ability to see our 'invisible friend', we slowly lose our ability to believe that all is possible. Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy aren't 'real' - so maybe nothing else that our minds create is real. And so, we put away our childish things. Sadly, that often includes our ability to tap into our the Higher Realms. Only later in life, (and in some cases never), do we become aware that we need some of those 'childish things' back! Then we have to re-learn the very things that came naturally to us. In order to make Magic happen in our lives, we must truly believe that we are each very special. We must regain confidence in our intuitive selves.What we accepted without pause in early childhood, now is a lesson to be learned.
Just another early morning random thought.