It’s that simple. It’s knowing how to let go of your “stuff”. If you are busy complaining, worrying about the future, and complaining about the past, it isn’t going to happen. You will not have the peace of mind to listen to everyone you encounter each and every day. If you can let go of your stuff and be at peace you can see what is in common with everyone you meet. You see how easily you can connect. You hear ideas that are perfect for you. I am sure you have heard stories about people hiring someone they encountered casually or finding the ideal partner in a casual setting or meeting the perfect mentor. Its the legend of so many famous success stories.

None of that can happen while you are complaining about politics, inflation, your boss, your wife, your husband. Most people are only listening to the 50,000 repetitive thoughts that are on an automatic loop of self talk, including regrets and worries, that is in their heads. There is no time for you to explore all the beautiful things around you, every day, while you are mired in your own thoughts. Dont feel bad. It is estimated that everyone does that.

So maybe magic has nothing to do with the universe, the cosmos, meditation, manifesting, or prayer. Its just you freeing yourself from being a slave to your negative thoughts.

Let’s play a game, OK? You can pray, visualize, and manifest all that you want. You can go for two weeks with Joe Dispenza and a week with Anthony Robbins. But if you are still stuck in your own worries and concerns, what would happen in this scenario.

You go to your best friend’s party and meet your friend’s cousin, who just flew in from Europe. You hit it off, with great rapport. You share more about your life, your disappointments, your fears about the next election, and climate change. And you feel you are becoming closer and are happy about that.

Scenario number 2: You are at peace for whatever reason. It could be the Sedona Method with David, 30 years of psychotherapy, or Joe Dispenza. Whatever method you. chose, you are at peace. You are happy. So instead, you ask this person all about their life, their children, and their marriage. You are so at peace, you listen intently to everything they say.

After listening peacefully for a long time, they mention their father is the largest importer of sports clothing in Italy. You actually have a warehouse of unsold sporting goods, from a failed venture. He introduces you, and you get an order for a million dollars. Was that synchronicity, or was it you at peace, listening and him and loving that you gave him the present of unconditional listening?

You merely have to be at peace to notice the world around you, what is in it, and what people do. Heck, in option number one, you might have been such a complainer that the conversation ended quickly. Are you starting to get my proposal here?

I propose that it is that simple. Perhaps you need to let go of your stuff to be open to seeing and hearing all of the opportunities that are teeming around you.

I think we underestimate how important it is to let go of our problems and issues and be at peace, no matter how you do it. Stop talking to yourself and start listening, and magic will happen. It’s not magic; it’s just you, keeping your mouth shut and stopping your brain from occupying your mind with its incessant chatter, that does not allow you to hear anything but your own self talk.

Are you talking now and not even being open-minded about what I am writing and what you are reading? The ability to really listen is so rare because of the combination of negative self-talk, endless mental masturbation, and constant chatter in the brain.

There is so much to notice when you “let go” and are quiet. When your brain’s incessant chatter is not occupying every second of your life.

Stop talking to yourself and start listening. Period. Magic will happen; call it what you will. I am not ruling out the possibility that great ideas come from the subconscious or the universe, but I am saying that its absolutely certain that whether it is supernaturally or pragmatically, the door is closed when you are occupied with your own self talk.