The Strong Within Affirmation Podcast
Education:Self-Improvement
412 I Believe In Myself February 2018 Friday Week 3
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I Believe In Myself
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
~Thomas Edison
A salesman heard a story about a powerful magician being able to grant people their wishes. And as of late his miracle health products weren’t selling like they used to. So the salesman decided to find this magician to see if he could help him change his luck as of late.
The salesman traveled many days until he finally came to a medium sized home that the locals told him where a great magician lived. As he entered the building, the gentleman inside asked what he had come for. And so the salesman told him his dilemma of not being able to sell his products anymore. And the salesman asked if he could help him.
The magician said, “ I am Merlyn the Great. I can help anyone who has a desire to be helped.”
Merlyn asked to see one of the salesman’s products and asked him to sell him a bottle. And so the salesman did his normal routine. Merlyn took the bottle after the salesman finished his speel and put his eye close to examine the yellow/golden liquid inside more carefully. He made a few hmms and ahhs after looking at it and then downed the contents of the bottle in one gulp.
Merlyn began squinting his eyes and made a smacking noise with his tongue on the roof of his mouth. He put his hand on his chin and looked up as was silent for a few minutes after tasting the product…and finally he said “Ahhhh, I know what your product is missing. I have just the magic ingredient in the back that when mixed with your product will grant anyone their truest desire.” And so he asked the salesman to give him all his bottles so he could fill them with a drop of his magic elixir to make the salesman’s current product more powerful. Merlyn told the salesman to make himself comfortable while he took all the bottles into the back room to work his magic.
After about 10 minutes the magician came back with all the bottles filled as the golden/yellow elixir before was now a clear liquid.
Merlyn said to the salesman, say this incantation to anyone who takes this potion:
“A powerful potion this be here,
As it will make what ails you disappear,
Say out loud your truest desire,
But before you drink to acquire,
You must feel that truth within your heart,
Before the magic can start.”
And so the salesman left. And about a month later he came back and told the magician his potion had worked.
Curious, Merlyn asked the salesman what was his wish? And the man told Merlyn he had two wishes. The first was to be a great salesman like he used to be, and the second was that he could help people reach their truest desires like Merlyn had done for him with this new magic potion.
Merlyn smiled, and said “I am glad you found your wishes within that potion.”
The salesman asked what the secret was, but Merlyn only said, “a magician never reveals his secrets.”
The salesman asked for double the amount of potion this time. So the magician took all the bottles of the old product of yellowish/golden liquid, and went into the back room like before as he told the salesman to make himself comfortable so he could put a drop of magic potion in again. And after about 20 minutes Merlyn came back with an even more beautiful clear liquid that glistened like nothing else the salesman had seen before.
This exchange happened between the salesman and the magician for many years as the salesman became wealthy in all avenues of his life. He had all the money he could ever want, he was blessed with more happiness and joy he could ever have wished for, he had helped many people reach their goals with this magic potion, and he felt successful in whatever he put his efforts into.
The salesman felt himself nearing the end of his life, and so he made one final trip to thank the Magician and to ask one more time if he would reveal his secret.
Curious, Merlyn asked the man how the potion helped him? And the salesman replied that before he gave a bottle to anyone who had purchased it he repeated the incantation Merlyn had taught him years ago. And he recited it back to Merlyn…
“A powerful potion this be here,
As it will make what ails you disappear,
Say out loud your truest desire,
But before you drink to acquire,
You must feel that truth within your heart,
Before the magic can start.”
And the salesman asked one more time, “Merlyn I can’t go to my grave not knowing what was in that potion.” And so the magician told the salesman that every time he went in the back to mix a potion, he actually went out the back door. He dumped out all of the old contents in the bottle and filled it with normal drinking water from his well.”
And the salesman said, “so you had blessed your drinking water and that’s what made it magic?” And the magician chuckled and said, “no, the only thing magic that I gave you, was the belief that you could do whatever your heart desired. And by waiting to drink the water until you could feel that belief in your heart was the power. There was no magic in that bottle, the magic was always in you, and the magic was in helping people believe the magic was in them too. The bottle was only the vessel to help you begin thinking differently about your desires—less as dreams, and more as certainties.”
The greatest lies ever told, are the ones we tell ourselves every day. They are the stories we make up about why we can’t, why it would be too hard, why it’s not worth it, why we aren’t worth it, how we don’t have enough money, how we aren’t lovable enough, how we could never be strong enough…and I could list, as you could as well, all the reasons we can’t have what we want in our lives.
The small so-called seemingly truths start out subtly with how it would be nice to have or to be able to do something…while inside we believe we could never make it happen. It’s too far out of our reach. We say that it’s meant for other people and not for us. We say that those lucky people have a magic potion, and they have special talents and skills that we don’t have. And we finish those lies off by saying we weren’t meant to have that one thing we desire in our lives. And so that subtle lie we tell ourselves over and over again becomes a huge cloud looming over us…darkening our lives with shadows of stories telling us why, what we want would be impossible.
We look for magic, for the easy answer outside of ourselves—never realizing the magic has always been within us.
The greatest reason I’ve been held back from what I wanted in my life was not because I couldn’t do it, but because I believed I couldn’t do it. And business has been my arch nemesis as I told stories to myself of how I wasn’t good with money, how I’m not a good businessman, how some people have those skills of entrepreneurship and I don’t. And so I not only created resistance and that actual outcome in my life…but I attracted those outcomes into my life as well. I was a magician in my life, but I was a magician of negativity bringing darkness and powerlessness into my life…instead of seeing that I could create positive magic. And that magic wasn’t in a potion, or something outside of myself…it was always within me.
And it was what Merlyn had told the salesman to say before taking the potion …
“A powerful potion this be here,
As it will make what ails you disappear,
Say out loud your truest desire,
But before you drink to acquire,
You must feel that truth within your heart,
Before the magic can start.”
The bottle is us. The old bottle held a murky impure liquid of doubt, lies, and pain from not seeing our true potential, but by purging those things, and making your beliefs crystal clear and pure again…you will realize that you aren’t drinking magic from outside of yourself, but you are drinking the power already within yourself.
Today’s Personal Commitment:
Ok I made that story up tonight, on the fly..so if it was pretty lame, I hope you’ll forgive me as I want to get better at coming up with good stories in these podcasts. I hope to get better at making analogies besides always telling my normal day to day activities…I mean who wouldn’t want to know the secrets of a magician, right???
So, what if you were to think of yourself as a magician. Ask yourself if you’re spreading black magic, darkness and negativity into your life and into the world? Or are you using white magic? Are you spreading positivity of belief in yourself out into the world, and are you helping others to believe in themselves with the magic you’re sharing?
We all are magicians in our lives. We are making our wishes come true when we understand that the bottle is us, and we just need to purge the old contents that are keeping us trapped, and to fill ourselves up with a better belief within our hearts.
Now I know some people might have issues with me talking about magic and magicians and say I am talking about the satanic things, I hope that’s not how you take it… and some will say this message is too touchy-feely, and that I’m claiming that all you have to do is believe. And that’s half true. Because we do have to believe to change our outcome, but our belief has to turn more into a knowing that what we set our mind to we will make happen. Magic is happening every day in our lives…it’s just whether you are going to decide to be a creator of powerful positive empowering energy…or whether you are going to do what you’ve always been doing—continually spreading negative dark energy into the world—as you continue to lie to yourself about how you can never be or have what you truly desire.
I Believe In Myself
Thanks for listening. I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn
Contact info- email: chris@strongwithin.com phone:865-219-3247
Music by:
- Zest by basematic (c) copyright 2011 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
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