The Magical part of mindful living.

Why magical to mindful living?

I am not sure some may have wondered why there is "magical" to the mindful living. Mindful living is supposed to be about truth, reality and everything which is not abstract. But whenever I take this minful approach to life more and more I am convinced of the magical part of it. Life is a continous flow of abstract ideas, which have no name, but named after our ancestors. Do not believe me? I have just found the 100th example on the list ( rest of it, I have written all over the blog) which is the story of metaphors.

A magical tree https://unsplash.com/@merittthomas

Stingrays do not learn how to swim they are magical.

Kids are learning how to swim. Backstroke breast stroke butterfly stroke, it seems complex and complicated. How your arms move, how your ankles rotate, how the knees are kept while breathing every two kicks. They learn years, how to swim. This seems not natural. Humans are not built for swimming, but they do with effort and innovation.

What humans do with hard work effort and creativity stingrays inherit from birth. Never do they learn how to swim from professional stingray coaches. Neither do horses to gallop, or bees learn waggle dances from cousins.

Creative writing masterclass

I was reading a book on creative writing, just to find out importance of language features like metaphors similes idioms and puns. How to detect those in a paragraph and appreciate and comment, something often done in any literary class. But the problem I saw in myself was these things all were in retrospect. Nobody says what there is going inside the brain of a writer when he or she is involved in the creative project. I think there is something magical is going on in our brains when we do a creative task. And no book, no guru is able to capture this process other than saying it’s “magical”. Creative writing is not the only place such magic happens. If you’re looking for a solution to a math problem, or even trying to develop a new marketing strategy for your business, little bit of magic happens exactly moment you get a novel idea.

What are the elements of magic

So for ease of understanding I list out possible reasons for this magic, which I will exapand in future. They may not be appealing to you. As long as you provide these ideas into your brain and stirs it up like an alchemist, magic would do the rest.

A good rest, calm mind, silence.

Good observation, alertness and awareness on thoughts

Believing in magic and be receptive to it

Apply regular randomness to routine tasks

Hard work is tiring but magical work is tireless.