Magic Words and How to Use Them Quotes

“This means that you should never implicitly trust what your thinking mind is telling you. Because, if your thinking mind doesn’t know what’s true, it will always simply make something up.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“When I make changes to me and the way I show up in the world, the world changes too.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“In these despairing depths, I had a sudden insight. No one was coming to save me. It was time to save myself.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“The thinking mind interprets, judges, commentates and tries to explain things, but the words, judgements and beliefs it uses are more or less arbitrary. At best, they bear a passing resemblance to reality. At worst, they are completely untrue. This means that you should never implicitly trust what your thinking mind is telling you. Because, if your thinking mind doesn’t know what’s true, it will always simply make something up. Think about this for a moment. For your whole life, it feels as though you have been experiencing reality, the ‘truth’, the world as it is, but this isn’t actually the case. In fact, you have not been experiencing direct reality, but an interpretation of reality, a story created by your thinking mind.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“Complaining is creating. Complaining is just creating stuff you don’t like. In the very moment you complain, you create the situation you’re complaining about.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“complaining about the way things are is no more useful that running into a wall over and over saying, ‘this wall isn’t supposed to be here’.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“By realising you are the instrument of power, you will see that by making a change to you and the way you present yourself to the world, you are able to transform that world.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“When I first met my long-term partner, Mike, he was suffering with an incurable disease. (No need for specifics). He was taking a concoction of pills and was facing a prospect of steroid medication and perhaps surgery to keep his condition in remission. I was somewhat surprised that on our first date, he told me, not just the full story of his own disease, but also all about his father and sister, who were both suffering with separate incurable illnesses. As I got to know Mike and his family, I was struck by how much they talked about illness. Mike gave an almost daily commentary about his various aches, pains, twinges and physical state. Where some families talk about politics or sport, or celebrities, or current affairs (it’s dogs, cats and kids in my family), Mike’s family would chat around the dinner table about conditions, consultants, tests, medical procedures, drugs and treatments. I found this quite bewildering, because these subjects rarely enter my mind. It was like being in a room full of people talking about a book you haven’t read or a film you haven’t seen. I found myself with nothing to add to this conversation, having no story about illness to tell. But here’s where it gets interesting. When I mentioned my observations to Mike, he became aware of how much he and his family spoke about illness for the first time ever. With my prompting, he began to change his story. And as he did so, not only did his aches and pains begin to disappear, but his chronic disease also started, almost miraculously, to improve. After a few months, he felt well enough to come off all his medication. At some point, he even stopped his regular visits to the doctor. There was just no point in seeing a doctor when he felt so well. Of course, we aren’t allowed to say ‘cured’ (because only doctors are allowed to claim a cure), but all these years later, his ‘incurable’ illness is not simply better, it’s gone. Now, please don’t take this as a prescription to ditch your meds and stop seeing your doctor. I’m not saying you can or should replace proper medical advice or treatment with words. This is just one anecdote about one man who chose to tell a different story. Take from it what you will.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them

“This is exactly why you’ll often hear me say that magic is not something you do, magic is something you are, it is something you become.”
― Genevieve Davis, Magic Words and How to Use Them