A Year of Mystical Thinking Quotes

“Just like the moon, your greatest magic will come in times of darkness when you have no choice but to trust your own power.’ Jill Wintersteen”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“This isn’t about creating something perfect and impervious so you never have to feel sadness ever again. And it isn’t about ripping it all up and starting again (unless that’s what you want to do). It’s about putting a shine on what you already have and finding a way to make your spirits soar.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.’ Marcus Aurelius”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Try writing a gratitude list or repeating affirmations.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“And then we wrote down everything we wanted to let go of or release from our lives and burnt the lists to ash – the perfect ceremony to mark 10 mystical months and two more left to go.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Sometimes, empaths absorb other people’s feelings to the extent that those feelings manifest all over again within their own body. And sometimes that manifestation physically hurts.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“The more I tuned in to my inner voice with meditation and journalling, the more confidence I had in it. The more I trusted myself, the easier it was to make decisions. And the more I surprised myself with the kind of thinking I would previously have dismissed in a heartbeat.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“I thought about the voice I kept hearing now, on repeat – the one that was squeezing the joy out of everything with its incessant chatter. Deep down, I guess I knew that the voice that was shouting the loudest was the one coming from a place of fear.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“The easiest way to achieve that is to get out of your head and into your body. If you learn to observe both your anxious, critical voice and your intuitive voice without judgement, and tune in to how they make you feel, you’ll be able to tell which is which – and work out which of the options you’re deciding between feels most right for you.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Tuning in to our inner voice should be easy, right? People say ‘just listen to your gut’ or ‘trust your instincts’, but that can be difficult when your gut is on high alert for impending doom.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Try to be brave enough to admit that you need space or time alone, or for someone to stop using you as a sounding board for all their problems.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Don’t think that you need to have a national beauty spot on your doorstep to benefit, either. Simply shutting the front door behind you and breathing in and out for five minutes can be enough of a reset when times get tough in empath world.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Empaths are emotional sponges. They get people. They read rooms. They care too much. They feel too much. They’re easily overwhelmed.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“It’s said that an empath is someone who is so attuned to other people’s perspectives that they can feel others’ feelings as if they were their own. I’d write that off as self-indulgent rubbish if I didn’t know in my oversensitive bones that it’s true.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Do you ever get the sense that some of the feelings you have don’t really belong to you – as if you’re carrying someone else’s burden around?”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Of course I feel too much. I am a universe of exploding stars.’ Sara Ajna”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“You have the power to heal your life.’ Louise Hay”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“started actively trying to find ways I could make a difference to the world outside my window. And I started thinking about what else I could do to make the world a better place. It felt like a step in the right direction.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“I’d seen for myself what can happen if you tune in, slow down and open up to the powers of the universe. Turning some of that attention outwards was the obvious next step.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“to help you connect with your spirit guide. Gabrielle Bernstein has a dreamy 16-minute meditation that’s easy to do and YouTube”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Binaural beats Binaural beats therapy makes use of the fact that when you present the left and right ear with two tones of slightly different frequency, the brain perceives a third, different sound: a ‘binaural beat’. Depending on their frequency, binaural beats are said to help reduce anxiety and induce sleep. All you need to check them out for yourself is a set of headphones and access to YouTube, where there are many samples available. The Synctuition meditation app also has some brilliantly relaxing examples to try.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“began posting yoga pictures on Instagram in 2012 and published her first book, Every Body Yoga, in 2017. Her ‘The Underbelly’ online courses aim to be as inclusive as they are inspiring. There are plenty of other teachers doing their bit for inclusivity, too. Canada-based Dianne Bondy, author of Yoga for Everyone, is on a mission to ensure that everyone feels they can practise yoga, regardless of their shape, size, age, ethnicity or ability. In the UK, Nahid de Belgeonne, creator of The Human Method, has made waves with her mindful, restorative, somatic take on the practice.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“A couple of classes in and I felt less stressed, less anxious and way less chaotic. The short meditations at the beginning and end of the class tapped into a sense of stillness I rarely experienced in my day-to-day life. I began to notice the return of a grounded feeling that I’d long forgotten existed.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Instead I attempted to fit in by following the Joneses into hardcore HIIT classes and fancy lunches and endless conversations about shopping and home improvements and Range Rovers. None of which made me feel any better about my new life situation. It also meant that when the shit hit the fan in 2017, I had no regular yoga class to soothe my stressed-out soul.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“For me, the best thing about yoga is the way it enables me to quieten the noise of my overthinking mind.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“I wrote down everything I wanted to invite into my life on one half of the card and everything I was ready to let go of on the other.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“Everything that exists was once only imagined.’ Dr Wayne W. Dyer”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“inner peace is an inside job.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“It felt like too much and not enough at the same time. I slipped back into habits I’d long since left behind – I was mainlining biscuits one day then juice fasting the next – and I was living for wine o’clock.”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again

“my two daughters were living on microwaved spaghetti hoops,”
― Emma Howarth, A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again