Mind Magic, Techniques for Transforming Your Life, by Dr. Marta Hiatt, provides several methods to improve and enrich your life.
We all determine the direction of our lives, but most of us do it unconsciously, and the consequence is often chaos. Although we don't have control over everything that happens in our lives, to a very great extent we create our own reality through our persistent thinking patterns. Thus, if you want to know what you've been asking for, look at what you've got.
"Mind Magic, Techniques for Transforming Your Life," not only provides a variety of methods for creating the type of life you want to have, but also explains exactly why and how these techniques work. Unlike many self-help books which simply tell you to "do this" or "do that," Dr. Hiatt's book outlines in simple, non-technical language the rationale behind the various techniques and whythey will work in your life.
The book is divided into two parts. Part One is a study of the nature of consciousness, and how our minds work. This section explains why the power of the mind is so effective in producing change in one's life. Rather than ask you to rely on faith alone in using these methods, data is presented from psychology, philosophy and parapsychology to demonstrate how the mind functions, and how consciousness expresses itself in mankind as the life force behind all thought and action.
Part II is a practical handbook on how to apply the theory explained in Part One, and includes guided visualizations, self-healing techniques, affirmations to attract love and prosperity, and methods of inducing self-hypnosis.
Excerpt
From Ch. 5 - Imagination: Your Key to the Kingdom
“The art of visualization is a transformation technique you can use to obtain anything you want in life: love, prosperity, self-confidence, weight loss, a new job or car—whatever you wish. Imaging is a very precise methodology that can transform your life, but there are certain rules governing it. First, find a quiet place where you will be totally undisturbed and can completely relax. As studies in hypnosis demonstrate, the subconscious mind is very suggestible when we are in a relaxed state, thus, the more deeply you can relax, the more effective your visualization.”
From Ch. 6 – How to Achieve Prosperity Consciousness
“Once you start actively reprogramming your subconscious, thereby becoming totally committed and emotionally involved in creating your own prosperity, you are sure to succeed. It’s best to write a page of affirmations every day. Don’t just do it by rote, but really think about and visualize in your mind’s eye the meaning of the words you write.”
From Ch. 7 – Attracting Love into Your Life
“People will treat you the way you treat yourself, so begin to examine carefully the way you have been acting toward yourself. For example, think of someone you regard as a very good friend. When you are with this person, you probably tend to be solicitous, interested, respectful, protective and loving toward him or her. You have the other person’s best interests at heart and you care about them. Now ask yourself: “Do I give myself the same tender considered? Do I treat myself as kindly and respectfully as I treat my friend?” On the basis of your self-evaluation, you may have to answer truthfully: “No, I don’t!” If this is your answer, ask yourself “why?” Aren’t you as important as your friend? Then treat yourself that way! Observe the messages you constantly give yourself. Do you call yourself names, bark orders at yourself, chastise and berate yourself when you have said or done something you consider inappropriate? If so, you undermining yourself and decreasing your self-esteem.”
From Ch. 7 – Attracting Love into Your Life
“Love, like other things in life, can be consciously produced. Just as you can make affirmations to increase your prosperity, so can you attract into your life the type of person you desire, using the same procedure. Here again, the laws of the universe apply. You must be careful not to violate cosmic law by manipulating the will of another. Therefore, make affirmations for the type of person you want, but never specify a particular individual. Leave that to Spirit and, if it is cosmologically right for you to have a certain person, that will surely happen. On the other hand, if you try to force it through the power of your thought, you may succeed in attracting a particular individual, but there will always be some backlash, in accordance with the cosmic law of cause and effect.”
From Ch. 7 – Attracting Love into Your Life
“The first thing to do before making affirmations for love is to get a clear picture in your mind of exactly the type of person you desire. This seems self-evident but, believe it or not, many people never consciously think about the specific characteristics of the person who would be most harmonious with their personality. It’s a good idea to get out a piece of paper and write these down. If you have difficulty, begin by thinking of your own qualities and make a list of those. Would you like your mate to have similar qualities, or would you prefer the opposite to counterbalance yours? For example, if you tend to be a spendthrift, you may want someone who is good at handling money, who can help curb your excessive habits. If you like classical music, you would probably prefer someone who also does; otherwise, his or her love of hard rock could drive you crazy. If you’re athletic, it’s best to specify someone who shares this interest, rather than a person who wants to stay home and read a book or watch television.”
From Ch. 9 – Self-Healing Through Visualization
“The human body, unlike a machine, has the ability to heal itself, and the source of its healing power is under the control of your mind, which can cause disease or create health. The great majority of diseases are psychosomatic, meaning that the origin is in the mind, and the result is in the body. If we can be psychosomatically ill, why can’t we be psychosomatically healthy?”
From Ch. 1 - The Great Power Within You
Spirit is all-pervasive in the universe. There is something beyond our little ego-self, and the effect of discovering it is to transform and elevate and recreate the life of the one who knows it. Using this knowledge is the means by which a person becomes their true self. When the realization fully dawns upon a person that Spirit, the Creative Power of the Universe, resides within their own being, they become sublimely able to handle any problems and transform their life and relationships, because this Power is an active, dynamic force that can be consciously directed, and it will do whatever we ask of it.”
This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst
