How To Do Magic That Works: The Ultimate

Technique for Making Things Happen

Genevieve Davis
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Contents

1. HOW TO DO MAGIC THAT WORKS

2. WHY ARE YOU HERE?

3. THE TWO WORLDS

4. MY FAVOURITE PARADOX

5. MY (PREVIOUS) MOST POWERFUL TECHNIQUE

6. BELIEFS CREATE THE WORLD

7. WHAT IS BELIEF?

8. NOT EVERYONE LOVES WORDS

9. WHERE THE ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE CAME FROM

10. CORRECT VISUALISATION

11. THE NITTY-GRITTY - HOW TO DO THE ULTIMATE

TECHNIQUE

12. NO NEED TO SEPARATE THE SENSES

13. IT WON’T BE INSTANT

14. THE REVAMPED EVIDENCE JOURNAL

15. LET’S GO DEEP

16. COMPLAINING AS CREATION

17. TAKING IT ONE STEP FURTHER

18. IT’S TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH

THE GENEVIEVE DAVIS ACADEMY OF MAGIC

About Genevieve
Chapter One
HOW TO DO MAGIC THAT WORKS

Let me show you how to do magic that works.

I’m going to teach you a simple, magical way to change your day-to-day
experience of the world. A way to affect your life for the better, moment by
moment. A way to get things to go your way. A ridiculously simple way to
make things happen.
I call it ‘The Ultimate Technique’.
Are you looking for better finances, great relationships, resolution of old
problems, luck and good fortune, fun, adventure or just a generally happier
experience of life? There is no reason why these good things cannot be
yours. All that is needed is a little effort to nudge things in the direction you
want them to go. This is where The Ultimate Technique comes in. It is the
easiest and most effective way I know to shift direction, get the magic
working and cause massive changes as a result.
This is the sixth book I’ve written on the subject of using magic to create a
better life. But this magic is not witchcraft. It does not involve energies or
candles or raising spirits. It is simply a way of doing things a little
differently. And in a way that leads to an exceptionally fun and effortless
life.
I’ve been working with magic for over ten years and I like to think I’ve
become pretty good at it. But just occasionally, a flash of insight will still
come along and stop me in my tracks. I’ll slap my forehead and wonder,
‘why didn’t I think of that before?’
The Ultimate Technique is the result of one of those insights.
There is a sense of ‘obviousness’ about The Ultimate Technique. You may
find yourself thinking, ‘Of course it works this way!’ or even wondering
why you didn’t think of it yourself. The technique can be learnt quickly and
started instantly. You could begin using it before you’ve even finished
reading the book.
This is an advanced technique, but in many ways, it’s just an extension of
what I have taught before. It is a direct development of my ‘Magic Words’
technique from the book, Magic Words and How to Use Them. Those
familiar with my work should find it easy. But even those new to my work
should be able to get the hang of it. Anyone can do it, and results tend to
come rapidly.
But why the ‘ultimate’ technique?
And at some point on this spiritual path, often only after we’ve created all
that we could ever want, we get to the stage of no longer needing to change
the outside world.
We start to realise we never needed to change the outside world. At this
point, the need for techniques, tools and methods for making things better
drops away.
So there’s a lot more to this short book than a manifestation technique for
changing our physical world. There are also tantalising glimpses of what
lies beneath this physical world, to what’s really here, what’s really true.
This is where the Law of Attraction meets nonduality. At the juncture of
this place, I offer this, my ultimate technique for making things happen. I
hope you love it as much as I do.
Chapter Two
WHY ARE YOU HERE?

Why do we start the spiritual journey? Why do we begin looking towards

self-help, or spirituality or ‘another way’ of doing things? For me, it was
simple.
Suffering.
Ten years ago, my life was in the pits. I was in debt, I was hopeless, I was
lonely, and I was chronically depressed. When at my lowest point, I took
my first step on this long, astonishing spiritual journey. For one reason—to
fix my broken life. I wanted bigger, I wanted more, I wanted things and
circumstances that I believed would make everything better.
At the time, it seemed obvious to me that the only way to improve my
experience of life would be to improve my external circumstances. I needed
money, a different job, a better home, friends, and a nice partner—all things
I didn’t have. And because I didn’t have them, I deduced that simply having
these missing things would complete my life and make me happy.
Unsurprisingly, in those early days, my focus was entirely on getting stuff,
changing stuff and making stuff happen. I needed control, so I thought. I
needed power over my life and the events that took place in it. And so I
threw myself into studying, and mastering the art of ‘manifestation’.
Like a lot of people, I began this journey by reading books. My early
reading included The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, Think and Grow Rich by
Napoleon Hill and other books on the law of attraction.
A few years later, I’d become pretty good with manifestation, and my life
was unrecognisable. I now had the money, the house, the car, the friends,
and the man. My first books on magic were even subtitled A course in
manifesting an exceptional life, because that’s what I appeared to have
done. I really did seem to have manifested an exceptional life using magic.
As time has passed, my understanding has deepened. I’ve come to the same
conclusion of so many others before me: the true source of happiness is not
in things or stuff. I’ve come to see that the desire to manifest or create
particular things is nothing more than a misunderstanding of how
experience and reality work. And as this realisation has deepened, my
obsession with obtaining things and creating the right circumstances has
gradually ebbed away.
And, as a result, something strange and fascinating has happened.
As my insistence on getting things right has lessened, things have only got
‘better’. By not being concerned with ‘the way everything turns out’, my
life has become more effortless, more peaceful, and more fun. I also have
considerably less fear, and I experience a lot less suffering.
As I’ve stopped trying to force the material world to be a certain way, the
material world has improved. I’ve stopped wanting more money, and have
simply become richer. I’ve stopped needing my businesses to be successful
and they’ve become ridiculously so. I’ve stopped being desperate to find
friends and my social life has become perfect. In other words, I’ve
‘manifested more stuff’. And the really interesting part is that these material
results have not come about because I have consciously tried to make things
happen, but largely because I have stopped trying to do so.
As it turns out, our striving to change the world, our demands that it be a
certain way are not a route to happiness, but what stands in the way of it.
Most bizarrely, we receive more of what we want by not requiring the
world to be a certain way.
The technique I offer in this book comes directly from a workshop I held in
2022 as part of my membership program, The Academy of Magic. (If you’d
like to watch a free Academy masterclass session, you can find details at
the back of the book.) However, I have made a great effort to make this
book totally worthwhile and effective in its own right, even without the full
Academy teachings. You should be able to go away from this book with a
perfect working understanding of how to make The Ultimate Technique
work for you.
At the end of this book, I’m going to reveal a secret. An admission. A
confession of sorts. But I implore you not to jump forward to the end. The
secret really won’t make any sense at all without first reading all that comes
before.
This is a short book with a surprise at the end. I sincerely hope you enjoy it.
Chapter Three
THE TWO WORLDS

This is a preliminary chapter that will set the scene for what’s to come. It
may feel like a detour, but please stick with it. There’s gold in this chapter.
Take this on board and it could make the difference between your success
or failure with the technique itself.
In my writing and teaching, I have often used the metaphor that we seem to
exist in two distinct worlds or realms. One is the everyday world of things
and stuff, of people and jobs and responsibilities, of past and future, and of
problems and solutions.
The other is the magical world of intuition, feeling, timelessness and
insight.
Of course, I’m speaking completely metaphorically here. There aren’t really
two different worlds at all. It’s the same world in both cases, just viewed
differently, described differently and ultimately, experienced differently. I
find this metaphor particularly helpful in explaining things, so I hope you’ll
be open to it.
Ironically enough, it’s the magical world that is more ‘real’. The everyday
world of things and stuff exists only as a sort of conceptual overlay, an
illusion. And if this is all starting to sound too spooky and esoteric for you,
there’s a really straightforward way to understand this:
The everyday relative world is made up of what we think about
what’s here.
The magical world is what’s actually here.

Without realising it, most of us spend almost our entire lives bewitched by
an illusion. We think we are seeing what’s actually here, when in fact we
spend all our time thinking about what’s here. We live in a world consisting
of judgements, hopes for the future, worries about the past, and obsessing
over how to make the next moment better than this moment. In other words,
we spend almost all our lives concerned with things that aren’t even here.
And because we’ve been doing it for so long, we don’t even notice we’re
doing it.
All the time we’re lost in thinking about what’s here, we deflect our
attention away from what’s really here. And as a result, we spend our entire
lives not noticing that quieter, truer, more magical world sitting beneath all
that conceptual noise and clutter. We don’t see the magic right in front of
us.
We only find happiness and contentment in the magical world. But because
most of us don’t even know it’s there, we spend all our lives looking at and
trying to change the wrong part. It’s hard to accept that we are living in an
illusion because this illusion is so convincing, so bewitching, so seemingly
important. If you’re particularly rational or scientifically-minded, you might
even deem it as a non-existent, woo-woo, fantasy world for the weak
minded.
But even if we do have an inkling that there might be more to reality than
meets the eye, we can’t help but see the relative, illusory world of things
and stuff, of hopes and dreams, of problems and solutions as being more
important. At the same, time, we are likely to view the spiritual realm as
airy-fairy, unimportant, or maybe just as a luxury we can’t afford to indulge
in. After all, we must still go to work and look after our kids and pay our
bills and clean our houses. We still need to deal with the trials and
tribulations of ordinary life. Perhaps you’d love to spend more time looking
at magic and spiritual growth, but you simply must sort out your material
life first.
This is a mistake, but it’s one we all make.
It’s actually a mistake we must make. We must work through our seeming
real world issues before we can see the truth. We have no choice. We must
sort out our problems and fix our lives. This is the deal. This is the game.
This is the path. And for the vast majority of people there is no shortcut. We
must crawl through the mud to reach the gold.
I often explain our journey along the spiritual path as requiring us to have a
‘foot in both worlds’. I teach people about magic and intuition and the truth
beneath the illusion. However, at the same time, we cannot and should not
ignore or deny our apparently real-world lives. In my teachings, I usually
try to keep one foot in the everyday world of things and stuff, and of
problems and solutions, and the other foot firmly planted in the magical
realm.
As a result of my attempts to keep a foot in both worlds, I’ll sometimes say
contradictory things. You’ll sometimes hear me talk in what sounds like
totally rational, scientific, everyday real-world terms. And at other times,
I’ll fall into using the most far-out and esoteric notions. Whenever we
straddle these two worlds, we come across infuriating paradoxes. Please try
not to be unnerved by paradoxes, inconsistencies or contradictions in what I
say. In fact, I’d urge you to be supremely unbothered by paradoxes.
Allow paradoxes to exist. Don’t try to work them out. Just feel your way
through them. Experience them. If you live through them, they will
eventually reveal what they mean.
Paradoxes are not mistakes.
Remember, the two realms I speak of are not separate places. They are not
different things. They are simply different ways of describing the same
thing. When we are faced with a paradox, it means is that we are using
language to describe things that cannot easily be described with words.
Paradoxes do not exist in reality, they exist only in thoughts, in words, and
in language. The two irresolvable sides of a paradox don’t refer to
independently-existing real things. So worrying about a paradox is like
worrying about the argument you had in last night’s dream.
The appearance of a paradox just means that one concept is bashing up
against another. Trying to resolve the situation is impossible because you’re
trying to reconcile two ultimately non-existent things. You’re trying to find
the most accurate way of placing language on top of what’s truly here. But
because language is completely unsuited for the job, you’ll never make it fit
well enough to avoid paradoxes, confusion, and misunderstanding.
Anyone who teaches from a place of real integrity ends up trying to
describe the indescribable with words. Attempting to describe truth with
illusion. Placing concepts on top of something that has none. Dividing
reality up into convenient parcels with words—words that don’t ultimately
refer to anything.
So there is no need to solve a paradox. In fact, you shouldn’t even try…
Throughout this book, I’m going to say things that don’t make rational
sense. But I don’t want you to see this as a problem because there is usually
no need to understand what I’m saying intellectually. The understanding we
are looking for is a subtle experience—an in-the-moment sense or feeling
for what I’m talking about. An insight. An ‘aha’ moment. Thinking deeply
and trying hard will never get you to this subtle, intuitive understanding.
And I know this can be hard to accept.
It can be hard to come to terms with some of the ideas in this book. And
there’s a reason for that. It’s hard to get your head around these ideas
because you can’t think your way to the sort of understanding we are
looking for. But that doesn’t stop your thinking mind having a go.
Let’s take an example. What happens when you hear something like, ‘the
universe is one’ or ‘your fundamental essence is love’, or ‘we generate the
reality we see’?
Almost certainly, you won’t fully understand these statements. But your
thinking mind can’t help but immediately kick into gear, trying to work out
what these statements mean, and passing judgement when it can’t. It might
say ‘yes, I know that’, ‘I can’t understand that’, or ‘what a load of rubbish’.
But it will always say something. And we tend to accept what our thinking
mind says as meaningful and important, without question.
In a future section, I will explain the way that we all create our own reality
in every moment. As such, human beings are basically ‘reality-generators’.
And I warn you now, that your thinking mind is going to be all over this
statement, you are a reality generator. It’s going to muscle its way into the
middle of things, trying to work out what this could possibly mean, using
all the things it thinks it already knows. And it will fail, by necessity,
because it doesn’t know this.
Your thinking mind only works with what it’s seen before. It takes old,
familiar thoughts and concepts and rehashes them into different
combinations to create something that passes for knowledge.
So when it hears about something new and different, something it’s never
experienced, it essentially has nothing to work with. But that doesn’t stop it.
It creates something. And because it doesn’t really know what it’s doing,
that particular something never really hits the mark. A picture, a concept
appears in your head of how it must look, or a concept appears in your head
of ‘reality generation’ that doesn’t look right, or doesn’t make sense, and
you feel frustrated and demand an explanation. Remember this. When you
feel frustrated that you don’t understand something, all it means is that your
thinking mind has jumped in to interfere, but it has no business here. The
thinking mind deals in certainty, reason and logic and it finds paradox
intolerable. And what we are trying to describe isn’t concerned with
certainty, reason or logic. Those notions have no place in what we are
talking about. They are completely inappropriate and unsuited for the
purpose. Once you let go of logic, reason and certainty, the apparent
paradoxes disappear.
It sounds intolerable to the thinking mind to let go of logic, rationality, and
certainty. And if your intellect is strong, it takes a real act of courage and
trust to take that step into the unknown. This is one reason why I find the
notion of magic so, so powerful. You can’t understand magic because
you’re not supposed to. Magic involves giving up trying to work things out.
And therein lies its power. In throwing your hands into the air and saying,
‘it’s just magic’ your overactive thinking mind rests, just for a moment.
When the constant conceptualising and categorising, judging and criticising
stops, you see a chink of something else, something truer. You start to see
what’s actually here, not what you think about what is here.
When this happens, all the crazy things I say in this book will suddenly
make total sense. And you’ll see the truth laid bare— You really do create
your own reality. But until then, you’re unlikely to understand. You won’t
have any knowledge of this until you see it for yourself. Not until you have
an in-the-moment experience of the truth of it.
Because the truth isn’t found by your thinking mind. The truth is what is
revealed when you get your mind out of the way.
Chapter Four
MY FAVOURITE PARADOX

In the previous chapter, I suggested that you be unbothered by paradox.

And there’s one paradox that comes up again and again in my work. One
apparent conflict that I’m asked to explain again and again. When you
accept this paradox, when you embrace it fully and live through it, it has the
ability to ‘superpower’ your spiritual growth and your attempts to change
your life. But when you fight the paradox, when you worry about it, and try
to solve it, it will stop you in your tracks and scupper all your attempts to
make progress.
Here is the paradox in question
The way to make stuff happen in the everyday illusory world is to
do things, work hard, master techniques and take a lot of action.
The way to effect change in the magical true world is to do nothing
to change it. It is to let everything be okay, just as it is.

When you can do both—taking action, doing stuff, making change, while at
the same time letting everything be okay and being totally unattached to the
results of your efforts—the results are phenomenal.
Of course, this makes no rational sense. I mean, how do we find the balance
between doing things to create change, and letting everything be just fine as
it is? How do we manage the paradox between trying to make something
happen on the one hand, and not wanting to change a thing on the other?
The question I’m asked probably more than any other is, how to do this?
How can you not want something you want? Why bother taking action if
everything is okay just as it is?
This paradox has been in my writing since my very first books on magic.
The business of letting everything be okay while also taking action has been
there in my material life, my emotional life, and my spiritual life. My
tolerance of the paradox, my willingness to work with it, to experience it,
and my acceptance that I can’t explain it rationally has made me successful
in all these areas of my life.
I have, in effect, kept a foot in both worlds no matter what I’m doing. I’ve
been walking a metaphorical tightrope, keeping the balance between magic
and everyday reality. One eye on the illusion, the other eye on truth.
If you accept that this paradox—acting to change things while letting
everything be okay (like all paradoxes)—exists only in thought, you will
find it easier to see that understanding of how to ‘do’ this cannot be worked
out with the thinking mind.
That specific understanding can only come from experience.
It’s actually very similar to learning to walk along a real-world actual
tightrope. You can think about tightropes until the cows come home. You
can ask as many questions as you like, you can read all the books about
walking on tightropes, you can try to understand rationally, intellectually
just how to walk the tightrope. However, the knowledge of exactly how to
walk a tightrope, comes only through doing it. You have to get up onto the
tightrope and try to walk. It is the same with this business of ‘making things
happen while letting everything be okay’. You only really get it when you
do it. And somehow, we find we can do it. We can take action to change
things while letting everything be okay, even though we don’t fully
understand how or why.
I made most of the big material changes to my life using magic, but before I
had any real understanding of how it worked. These days, I think I have a
better understanding of what’s going on when I ‘do magic’, but it hasn’t
stopped the paradoxes from coming. Far from it. One of the strangest
paradoxes of all is that I can now see that everything actually is okay, and
that it always has been okay. I didn’t need to make any of that stuff or do
any of those things for it to be okay. It has been okay all along.
But I couldn’t see that at first. I had to do and do and do. I had to make
things happen. I needed to create stuff to teach me I didn’t need it. I needed
techniques that would eventually show me that techniques were never
necessary. I never needed to create all that stuff in the first place, but I
needed to create it in order to see that.
Paradox? Yeah, just a bit.
And if your journey is anything like mine, you’ll need to make stuff happen
too. You’ll need to create stuff. You’ll need to do a whole lot of creation
before you can see the truth. And just perhaps, through this process of
creation and discovery, you might get a wee glimpse of the true prize.
This is why I offer you this, my ultimate manifestation technique. Use it,
master it. Create all the stuff and get all the things.
Make your world perfect so that you can come to see the truth—that it has
been perfect all along.
So let’s now turn to that. Let’s make this world as perfect as we can.
Chapter Five
MY (PREVIOUS) MOST POWERFUL TECHNIQUE

Until very recently, the most successful technique I knew for ‘making stuff
happen’ was what I call ‘Magic Words’ or ‘Telling a New Story’. It was the
most successful technique I’d ever used, taught, or written about. It is the
subject of my book, Magic Words and How to Use Them.
The Ultimate Technique presented in this current book is an extension of the
original Magic Words technique. A revamp of sorts. It is like Magic Words
but with more oomph.
In How to Do Magic that Works, I will refer to the Magic Words technique
often, and a working knowledge of that method is most definitely going to
make this book easier to follow. If you haven’t already done so, you might
consider reading Magic Words and How to Use Them, or, you could just do
the free five-day video course I created to accompany that book. (You can
sign up for the free course here.)
But, hey. You’re here now. Reading this book, and to prevent you having to
go and read another book or complete another course, I’m going to give a
brief recap of the Magic Words technique now, just to lay the groundwork.
If you’re already very familiar with using Magic Words, you could skip this
chapter, but I recommend you do take the time read it no matter how
familiar you are with the Magic Words technique. Read it and refresh your
memory. You might hear something totally new this time.
The Magic Words Technique
The Magic Words technique or ‘telling a new story’ starts with the premise
that you are a ‘reality generator’.
You create our own reality in every moment.
How many times have you heard this before in the law of attraction
literature? How many times have you wished it were true but never really
believed it?
I want to prove to you that you create our own reality isn’t wishful thinking
or spiritual woo. It’s just the way things are. Let me help you believe it.
Okay, here goes.
As human beings, we do not see, hear or experience a true, objective,
independent world. We don’t even experience a representation of an
objective, external world. What we do experience, most of the time, is a sort
of conceptual overlay made of thought.
This is not just spooky spiritual stuff. When you look closely, you realise it
can’t be any other way.
Stop for a few moments and take a quick look around the area in which
you’re currently sitting. What do you see? Do you see furniture, rugs,
tables, a television set, walls, floor? Do you see cloth, wool, wood, plastic?
Do you see a mess, or do you see beauty? Do you see shapes or colours? Do
you look on the view with annoyance, delight, or complete indifference?
Whatever you see, you see concepts. Even if you think you see solid
objects, without your mind to separate the world into separate chunks, all
you’d really see is different areas of colour, light and dark. So even the
solid objects you see are concepts, beliefs, a story about what’s here, not
what’s actually here. And that conceptual overlay is of your own making.
You make it. You create it.
All you see is of your own creation.
What do you hear? You might not have noticed a sound at all until I asked
you to consider it. But now that you have tuned in to sound, what do you
hear? Do you hear a buzz of electrics, traffic noise, other people’s voices? If
you get really quiet, you’ll notice other noises too, a hiss or hum in your
ears or inside your head.
Stay like that for a bit and you might notice something odd happening.
All sounds will begin to blur into one, and there will be no sense of whether
the sounds are inside or outside your head. It all just becomes one sound,
everywhere.
But we almost never do this. Instead, we hear things, sound shapes that our
mind has formed. Voices, cars, wind, the sounds of machinery, traffic,
nature, and people. We hear a story about what’s here, not what’s actually
here. We hear concepts.
All we hear is of our own creation.
If you’re finding it hard to grasp this, just imagine how your dog or cat sees
this same reality? What do they hear? Do they even notice the pictures on
the walls or the softness of the curtains? One thing is for sure, your dog
certainly smells the room differently to you. (It’s unlikely you noticed any
smell at all). Now, imagine how a fly experiences the room.
If your dog, cat, or a fly sees this room differently, smells it differently,
hears it differently, who experiences the ‘correct’ reality? If none of them
does then what is the correct objective reality? Do we have the correct view
just because we consider ourselves the most intelligent? We certainly don’t
have the best sight, hearing, or sense of smell in the animal kingdom. So it’s
simply wrong to assume we have the most accurate experience of reality. In
fact, in terms of pure sense experience, compared to a dog, ours is really
rather inaccurate.
And that’s not the only way in which our experience is less accurate than
many other animals. Our clever minds, the things we believe make us so
superior to the rest of nature, only act to grotesquely distort our experience
of reality.
The thoughts that run through our heads make up a set of beliefs, a sort of
story. And this story is what we experience. We live in the story prominent
in our thoughts at any given time. When that story is very fearful or
negative, we suffer terribly. Some of us suffer so badly we take our own
lives, over such things as broken relationships or failed businesses—things
that might appear trivial to those around us. This is how horrifically
inaccurate that story often is.
But what’s under the story? What is actually ‘out there’ without these
conceptual descriptions, underneath what we think about what’s here? Have
you ever stopped to wonder?
What is actually here?
Can we even be sure anything really exists, independent of our looking at
it?
You may have heard the very famous story of the 16th century explorer,
Magellan, and his first arrival on the shores of the New World. The
indigenous people standing on the shore watching the arrival reportedly
couldn’t see Magellan’s ships. They had no expectation, no belief, no way
of conceptualising what was in front of their eyes. And because of this, they
simply didn’t see anything.
This story could be a mere myth, a legend. I did some research and could
find little real evidence to back it up, but there may be some truth in it. I say
this because I experienced something very similar myself.
A couple of year ago, I visited my friends, Jenny Anderson and Dave
Elleray at Jenny’s parents house. Jenny’s parents live in a small English
village and the satnav we were using didn’t seem to understand the quaint
and narrow country lanes around where they lived. My partner, Mike, and I
found it quite hard to navigate. After a lot of driving around, we finally
found the road, the right house, and they were there waiting for us, and all
was well.
‘How was the trip,’ Jenny asked. So we told them how hard it had been to
find them, how the satnav didn’t understand the country roads.
‘Oh, it’s easy,’ Jenny said. ‘In future, just remember to drive along the main
road and turn right opposite the big church.’
‘What church?’ I said, ‘I didn’t see any church’. Jenny and Dave both
laughed.
‘What do you mean ‘didn’t see the church?’ The huge one – the massive
church right opposite the junction of our road.’
I hadn’t seen it. As far as I was concerned it didn’t exist. If I’d been
required to give evidence to the police, or to a court of law, I’d have said
there was no church. I mean, I had been looking everywhere intently,
looking, looking, looking and I didn’t see any bloody church.
Later that day, we took a walk down Jenny’s road and out onto the main
street. And there it was—the biggest bloody church I have ever seen!
Almost a cathedral sitting there on its own, right opposite the turning to her
road. We must have driven past it half a dozen times. It must have been in
my sphere of vision, the light from it must have entered my eyes, but I just
didn’t ‘see’ it. Now that I could see it, it existed. But earlier on that day, it
didn’t.
I find this fascinating because it demonstrates that we don’t see a true pure
representation of reality, not ever. Can you appreciate that we are always
seeing through the veil, the conceptual framework of objects, colours,
shapes with all their uses and significance, spatial and temporal dimensions
thrown in at the same time. We only ever see the bit we create ourselves,
not the bit that’s ‘really there’. In fact, the reality we see is 100% generated
by us. We truly are reality-generators.
The world is what we think it is. And what we don’t see can’t be said, in
any worthwhile sense, to exist for us. All we can say with confidence is that
there appears to be ‘something’ in front of our eyes, but we cannot know
what that something is.
And if this sounds far-fetched then let’s put all ‘spirituality’ aside for a
moment and consider things in purely in scientific terms.
According to science, what we see is not reality itself, but an image created
in the brain after processing the light that comes from reality. When light
from an object hits the retina, it is turned into information in the form of
nerve impulses. ‘Seeing’ happens when that information from the retina is
processed by the visual cortex and reproduced as an image. And that means
we never actually see objects. What we ‘see’ is something akin to a
photograph produced inside our brain, by us.
When we touch something, that object becomes once again turned into
nerve impulses that travel up our arms, eventually being reproduced into a
feeling, a texture, a physical sensation created in us, by us. And the same
goes for all other senses. Whatever we see, touch, smell, taste and hear…is
created in us and by us.
So even according to physics, we only ever see a representation of reality,
and that representation is 100% constructed by us. We can’t even ever know
if what we experience is what others experience. Do I see red in the same
way that you see red? Does my voice sound the same to you as it does to
me? It is simply impossible for us to ever know.
Given this, we can see that the independent world is something we can only
guess at, something we can only ever infer. We cannot know with our
senses what is actually there.
But what we can know is that this apparently cruel and unforgiving outside
world is absolutely generated by us. This is the only reality we can ever see.
And even if we are sure the world exists independently of us, we can have
no idea of its actual real independent nature. If something is ‘really there’ it
must remain a mystery to us … for now.
Even the most rigorous scientific experiment depends upon the same
perceptual apparatus of the scientists who create the experiment, do the
observations, take the readings and even design the equipment used to carry
it out. And this is true whether we are looking at the macro or the subatomic
level. This means that none of us, not even our most advanced scientists
have a clear and true understanding of an independent reality.
And if you want to get really sciencey about it, why not take a look at
quantum physics. At the subatomic level, matter itself cannot really be said
to exist at all until it is ‘seen’ by an observer. Until that point, it exists only
as a sort of potential. A swirling mass of all possibilities. We turn that
swirling mass of potentialities into matter. We make the possible actual. We
put the objectivity into objects, the thing-ness into things. This means that,
putting all the woo in the world aside for a moment, according to science,
the objects we see in front of our faces at this second are 100% generated
by our looking at this second. We see what we generate.
So, you really are a reality-generator. Not just metaphorically, not just
spiritually-speaking, but literally.
Even science says so.
Chapter Six
BELIEFS CREATE THE WORLD

So what determines how reality appears to us?

I’ve been using magic longer than I’ve fully understood it. Thes days, I feel
I have a much better understanding of what underlies all I have done to
change my life. As a result, my message and teachings have ‘matured’ over
the years. But there are plenty of things about my understanding that have
remained unchanged since I first started writing about magic. One of these
ideas is that the experience we generate is determined by the beliefs we
hold. We don’t believe what we see. We see what we believe.
In other words, it’s not mere thoughts that become things, but beliefs.
Beliefs dictate how we experience things. If I believed people were out to
get me, that’s largely how I’d see people. If I believed people were
generally good, I’d tend to experience people that way.
What I had never realised until very recently is that beliefs don’t just dictate
how I see the outside world, they create the world in the first place. They
don’t just determine the way I see people, they determine that there are
people at all. Beliefs create the whole lot.
Beliefs dictate what we see.
These are things we believe so strongly that we don’t realise that they are
beliefs at all. We believe our memories, and stories told by people we trust.
We believe the sun is a burning ball of gas, that cushions are soft and tables
are solid. These sorts of beliefs are just taken as facts, as ‘what is’, as ‘what
exists’, as ‘what’s true’.
In the last chapter I attempted to give a scientific explanation for the idea
that you are a reality generator. That wasn’t just a fun diversion, it was all
part of the magic. Because the truth is my inclusion of this scientific
explanation may actually make the magic work better.
How so?
Well, the great thing about dipping your toe into science is that it could just
have the effect of allowing you to believe in The Ultimate Technique,
particularly if you consider yourself a very rational person. If you
understand how the technique works, you are more likely to believe that it
will work. And in a delightfully twisty turny circular manoeuvre, we have a
situation where our belief in the effectiveness of the technique actually
makes it more effective.
Put simply, if we believe it works, that is exactly what we will experience.
And the more we believe it, the better it will work.
So beliefs are kind of a big deal. Because it’s through the veil of beliefs that
we experience the world. Or, perhaps more accurately, it’s via the veil of
beliefs that we create the world. Indeed, our belief that there even is an
‘outside world’ makes it appear as though there is one.
Once again, consider what you see in this very moment.
Stop and just take a quick look around the room. What do you see? A table,
walls, chairs, other furniture, pictures on the wall, perhaps other people. All
of these perceptions depend on our belief in tables, walls, chairs and so
forth. If we see a person, that person is seen through the lens of our belief
that there are things called other people with lives and histories and
relationships and points of view and selves of their own. But we don’t
actually perceive those things. We construct those notions with thought.
Chairs and tables and people are not what’s there. Chairs and tables and
people are things we think about what’s there.
So it never crosses our mind that we need a belief in people in order to see
people. We just take it as read that there are people in the room.
But that’s ridiculous. Of course, there are other people. The other people in
the room are my husband and children. I married one of them and gave
birth to the others!
Okay now let’s get very quiet and very honest here. Consider what you
actually see in this moment. You don’t see people that you gave birth to.
You don’t see a person you married. That information is not in this room.
To come to that conclusion, you had to add in an interpretation of what you
see. You had to refer to thoughts and beliefs about where these so-called
‘other people’ came from, of being a mother and a wife, of the past and to a
memory of getting married and having given birth. In short, you had to refer
to something that isn’t actually ‘in’ that room.
Without those thoughts, beliefs and interpretations, all you would see, at
most, would be a couple of skin-coloured blobs that appear to move and
sometimes makes sounds. If we take away the belief we have in people, in
what they are and what they do, and what they mean to us, we would be left
with mere shapes and sounds. The ‘person-ness’, the ‘my husband-ness’,
the ‘my children-ness’ of what you see in front of you is an overlay of
beliefs.
The same is true of the objects like chairs and tables. Without thought, all
you see is shapes and colours. The ‘solid-objectness’ is added in by you.
It’s all being added in by us. All of it. All we see is conceptual overlay. All
we see, hear, and touch is nothing but a veil of beliefs. Without belief,
what’s there is really very mysterious.
When you get very quiet and very still, you’ll start to notice that even the
different shapes, colours and sounds become indistinct and start to blur into
one. Don’t worry if you can’t get a feel for this just yet. It’s something that
tends to dawn on you when you’ve been looking in this direction for a little
while.
Chapter Seven
WHAT IS BELIEF?

So what is belief? What does it mean when we say we believe something?

Once upon a time, I thought ‘belief’ was deeply mysterious. Beliefs seemed
to come from somewhere fundamental, somewhere real, going way deeper
than mere thoughts. Beliefs were tied up with truth and knowledge and
something inherent in my very identity. For a time, I almost felt as though I
was my beliefs because they felt so much an essential part of me. And
because they were so special, so fundamental, so determining, I imagined
beliefs must be very, very hard to change.
Over the years, beliefs have become far less mysterious and spooky to me.
Beliefs are thoughts we deem to have gravity, importance, they come with
relevance, with significance. In this sense, they are somewhat different to
the sorts of random nonsense or fantasy thoughts that pop in and out of our
heads throughout the day.
But a belief is basically still a thought. All that makes a belief ‘special’, all
that sets it apart from any old thought, is that we think it over and over to
the extent that we deem it to be true.
This means that a belief, any belief has no particular foundation in truth. We
may think certain thoughts are true, but that doesn’t mean they are true in
any objective way. They are still just thoughts.
And just like any thought, a belief can change in an instant. Even
fundamental beliefs held for a lifetime can come crashing down and reveal
themselves to be untrue. Just ask anyone who’s found out their apparently
loyal and devoted spouse has been cheating on them for the past three
years. Just ask anyone who’s met and liked their enemy. Just ask anyone
who’s lost or found God.
And this immediately begs the question: if we are generating our own
reality in every moment with belief, why does this reality often cause us to
suffer? And if beliefs are just thoughts that can change in an instant, why
don’t we change them? Why do we create frightening, painful, or
uncomfortable realities? Why don’t we create a heaven to enjoy?
Well, here’s the problem. Most of the time, we have little to no control over
the beliefs we hold and thus the reality we generate.
We may have beliefs like, I’m not good at maths, life is unfair, it’s too late
for me to change, I’m a weak/clever/capable/useless/strong-
minded/independent/person. Some are tied up with our values and morals.
I’m talking about such things as it’s important to do the right thing, women
need to stand up for themselves, men need to grow up, criminals need
understanding, not punishment, black lives matter. Since such beliefs are
tied up with our very identity as a good person, we might deem it wrong
even to question them.
Then there are those that seem to be so fundamental they seem almost to be
who we are. I’m talking about such beliefs as I’m a woman, I’m a man, I’m
black, I’m white, I’m gay, I’m straight. I was abandoned as a child, so I’ve
always had a problem with trusting people. I’m a shy person so I’m better
in a small group than a crowd. These are things we would never stop to
question.
Some beliefs are things that appear so true, that we don’t even know they
are beliefs. I’m talking about things like, believing in a separate world,
believing in time and space, believing there are solid objects, believing
there are separate people. These are things we don’t question. We don’t
consider them beliefs, but ‘facts’. We consider these as just things that are
true.
And even if we do decide to question our most fundamental beliefs, we
have no obvious way to consciously change them. I mean, have you tried to
change your belief that time is real? Have you tried not to believe in solid
objects?
But there’s another difficulty in trying to change a belief. As you have
certainly noticed, human beings tend to have very busy minds. We have
words and pictures and complete stories running through our heads at all
times. Most of these thoughts are spontaneous and pop in whether we want
them to or not. Thinking happens all on its own.
But it’s not all hopeless. It turns out that there are also thoughts we do have
some control over. This can be illustrated easily if you stop reading right
this second and…
… think of your absolute favourite restaurant.
What happened? I can guarantee that some images popped into your mind,
and it happened spontaneously without your being able to do anything
about it. But if I now ask you to describe this restaurant, or tell me about the
food you enjoy there, you can do so. You can decide to think about the
restaurant in a certain way. You can choose to think about your favourite
meal. In doing so, you can take control of some of the thoughts that run
through your mind. And this is where the Magic Words technique is so very
helpful. Telling a new story with magic words rests on the assumption that
by taking control of the thoughts we can control we can influence those we
can’t. The Magic Words technique or ‘telling a new story’ involves telling
the story you would like to be true until you start to believe it. Because
when you start to believe it, you will start to see it.
It probably appears that you are merely describing a life that happens in
front of you. Life happens—then you tell a story. But if you become very
quiet and honest and look very closely at your own life and the stories you
tell, you might just notice something quite astonishing—life doesn’t happen
to you, and you then tell a story. Life is created by the story you tell in the
moment you tell it.
So all you need do to change your life is to pick a story you would like to
be true and start speaking only in terms of that story, both aloud to others
and privately to yourself. Speak only as if that story were actually true. Just
pick a future and talk it into existence. Command the universe with the
story you tell. Literally, talk yourself into the existence you want. By doing
no more than this, you can make astonishing things happen.
By taking deliberate charge of the thoughts you can control, in time, the
random, uncontrollable thoughts will eventually begin to follow suit.
There’s no need to worry about uncontrollable spontaneous thoughts,
because as long as you stick to a certain story when you can, all the
thoughts you generate will begin to change in line with this new story.
In the mini video course I created to accompany the book, Magic Words and
How to Use Them, I advise people to pick a small niggling, everyday
unwanted situation to work on. An irritating or annoying situation—an
event or relationship in your life that you have trouble with, something that
winds you up. Changing a personal gripe with Magic Words often seems to
work faster than anything else, because when something has been bothering
you constantly, it’s very apparent when it stops. Changing a small personal
niggle allows you to see the change very quickly. Consequently, this is a
great way of demonstrating the power of this technique very quickly
indeed.
All you need do is to start telling a completely positive story about the
niggling situation while point-blank refusing to say anything bad about it.
Whether you’re speaking out loud or to others, you must keep to a positive
story. The specific words don’t matter, and they don’t need to sound 100%
true at this stage. But it does help if you’re not telling a blatant lie. Rather,
choose to say something that seems as though it could be true.
So if you’re trying to meet the man of your dreams, don’t say I am married
to a wonderful man. No part of you is going to believe that. Instead, you
might say, there are so many wonderful men I haven’t yet met. I’m so
looking forward to meeting the right one for me.
Don’t say, I am a millionaire if you’re overdrawn at the bank. Instead, you
might say, I managed to save fifty pounds this month. What a great start to
my plan for financial freedom. I already feel richer.
Don’t say, my children always tidy their room if they haven’t tidied it in
months. Instead, you might say, my children are doing their best. If I
appreciate them for what they do, they’ll do more of it.
In other words, don’t tell a pack of lies. Look for a little positive, true-ish
thing to say about what is going on. This is not always easy at first,
particularly if this is a real button-pushing situation for you. But that’s kind
of the point. When you can find something truly positive to say about
something you really don’t like, you’ll be causing massive change.
So look for the gold. There will always be a little there if you look hard
enough. Look for the most positive story you can tell and keep doing it.
Keep steering the thoughts in the direction of a better future. Choose
something that feels just true enough to help nudge your thoughts in a more
positive direction.
So don’t lie, nudge.
If we tell a story often enough and consistently enough, that story will
become habitual, will become ‘the norm’. And when you tell a particular
story consistently and for a long time, something amazing happens. When
you begin consciously, deliberately to take control of the voice in your
head, to use it to tell only a positive story, the spontaneous thoughts begin
to follow suit, and we begin to think in terms of the new story. We start to
believe it’s true.
And when we begin to believe the new story is true, we will begin to see it
as true in our lives. We will begin to see the world through the conceptual
overlay of the new story and the corresponding reality we see will begin to
change.
This is how telling a new story with Magic Words works. And work, it does,
often spectacularly. I’ve transformed my sleep, my finances, my
relationships and much of my life by carefully considering the words I use.
And it’s the technique my readers and followers most often report as the
most effective for creating change. Tens of thousands of people have
changed their entire experience of life just by telling a different story.
Chapter Eight
NOT EVERYONE LOVES WORDS

Despite everything, not everyone has had success with the Magic Words
technique. For some, it simply hasn’t resonated. They haven’t been able to
‘grasp’ quite how this works or how to use it effectively.
I suspect I know the reason why the very language-based technique of
Magic Words hasn’t resonated with certain people. After all, I am a writer
and words are big in my world. I love language, and I write for fun. I write
to help me think. I write when I’m happy and I write when I’m sad. I write
when I’m feeling particularly insightful and I write when I feel thick-
headed and dopy. I doubt there’s been a day since about the age of ten that I
haven’t written something, if only a diary or journal entry. So I’m more just
a little fond of words. And I think sometimes I have underestimated the
effect this ‘wordiness’ has had on my view of the world and how it works.
In the same way that a devout Christian can’t help but see truth through the
eyes of Christianity, and the way that Einstein couldn’t help but see truth
through the eyes of physics, I can’t help but see things in terms of words.
But maybe it’s not like that for you. Maybe you’re more of a feeling-based
person. Maybe you’re visual. I’ve come to realise there are those of us who
are less verbal, less word-based, and tend to think more in pictures or
feelings. So if the whole business of Magic Words never particularly
resonated with you, keep reading—everything might be about to get far
more interesting for you.
In the previous chapter, we saw the way that beliefs create your world.
Because this is something I have been aware of for a very long time, I am
very familiar with examining my beliefs, changing my beliefs, and not
necessarily trusting my beliefs. I have become open to the idea that
everything I believe in is basically up for argument. But, perhaps like most
people, I had always imagined beliefs to be purely thought-based things.
And when I say thought-based, I mean I thought they lived in my head, as a
sort of configuration in my brain, like some kind of data set.
But just recently I had a spectacular new insight into the nature of reality
that blew everything wide open…
A belief is a thought we take to be true, yes. But they are a little more
complex than that. I have come to realise that beliefs are not contained only
within the brain. Beliefs extend out and seep into other parts of our lives.
Beliefs are in our conversations, the relationships we have, the jobs we do
and the whole way we conduct our lives. In fact, every conscious action and
everything we choose to do is imbued with absolute and utter belief of some
sort or another.
We go to work because we believe we must earn money

We earn money because we believe it’s necessary for a better life

We strive for a good life because we believe it will make us happy.

Even just walking down the road, we are the embodiment of a whole host of
beliefs for example:
That we should wear clothes in public

That it’s dangerous to walk in the middle of the road

That it’s rude to stare at strangers

That we are a human individual having an individual experience within an

objective world.
Our entire experience is made up of different beliefs. So beliefs are not just
thought-based things. We could say that we see through the eyes of belief,
and we hear through the ears of belief, we feel through the feelings of belief
and the emotion of belief.
A belief is also in our deeds, our decisions and our actions. In fact, our
actions may be a better indicator of our beliefs than our thoughts alone.
Beliefs are not one-dimensional. They do not reside only in the world of
words or the world of thoughts. They are in sights, sounds, feelings,
emotions and action. They are, in a sense, multisensory.
And this changes everything, because if beliefs are multisensory, we don’t
have to limit ourselves to using words or verbal thought to change them.
Chapter Nine
WHERE THE ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE CAME
FROM

I’ve been at this game for nearly twenty years. Ever since I picked up a
copy of The Power of Now, I’ve been resolutely ‘onis something of ae path
has led me from the law of attraction, through Zen Buddhism,
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), nonduality, and myriad different
methods and techniques. I’ve found almost everything helpful to some
degree, and I’ve that discovered almost everything ‘spiritual’, has at least a
grain of truth in it—as long as it’s written from a place of integrity.
But there was always one technique that left me cold. One method that no
matter how well-documented or highly recommended, I just couldn’t
master. In all my history with magic, manifesting and the law of attraction,
I’ve always had a massive resistance to using visualisation as a tool for
change and creation. I know loads of people get great results with it—
people I trust and respect. Even sportspeople, musicians and non-spiritual
types recommend visualisation as an excellent tool for personal
development and change.
But not me.
You’ll find very little reference to visualisation in any of my books on
magic, because I only write from my own direct experience. And in my
direct experience, I’ve always found visualisation boring, frustrating, and
ultimately useless.
And now I know the reason for this.
I can create with words effortlessly but when it comes to my visual sense,
it’s a different story. When it comes to sight, I have no real creative instinct
or imagination. I can barely even manage to work out what colour to paint
my bathroom or what dress looks good on me. And skills that involve real
visual imagination like architecture or graphic design are utterly mysterious
to me. Little wonder I found visualisation such a chore.
And if this lack of visual creativity was preventing me from using
visualisation techniques effectively, then might a lack of wordiness prevent
others from using my magic words technique effectively?
But my lack of visual creativity is not the only reason I couldn’t get
visualisation to work for me. It was also that I had been doing visualisation
all wrong.
If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ll know I have often
warned against treating magical techniques as if they are somehow
independent of you. Techniques are not like magic wands that contain
power in themselves. You cannot just pick them up and use them like
waving a wand or pressing a button and watching things change. In
themselves, techniques, methods, and even magic words, are completely
powerless in making things happen. Techniques only work because of their
effect on you.
You are the instrument of power. You are the source of the change. The
magic comes only from you.
And telling a new story is perfect illustration of this.
In Magic Words and How to Use Them, I go to some lengths to point out the
difference between telling a new story with Magic Words and doing plain
old affirmations. To be effective, Magic Words must:
1. be chosen only by you,
2. be spoken ‘in that moment’, and
3. tell a story you want to be true.

Magic Words are powerful only because they have an effect on you, and
only in turn, on the reality you produce. The creation, the conceptualisation
happens instantly. So the words you use can’t be predetermined ahead of
time. They must be chosen according to what makes sense to you at that
moment. And the only one who can choose them is you. Done ‘correctly’,
affirmations can be tremendously powerful. I have had a lot of success in
the past with affirmations, particularly where they concerned ‘bodily’ things
such as pain, illness and my ability to sleep well. But I never had any luck
changing the apparently outside world or other people using affirmations.
For example, I remember following Napoleon Hill’s instructions in Think
and Grow Rich. I wrote down my goal on index cards and post it notes and
repeated it verbatim, for months.
And it had no effect whatsoever. Nothing.
I also repeated some of the most famous recommended affirmations about a
billion times without any discernible effect. I moved from guru to guru,
author to author, using different recommended affirmations every time. Just
to see which guru had the ‘best’ one.
Given what I now know about how Magic Words really work, it’s little
wonder that my pathetic attempts at manifestation through affirmation had
no effect.
I remember continually repeated these statements. I had taken them directly
from others
I am succeeding in life

I know I can achieve anything I want in life

Prosperity flows to and through me

I will succeed by attracting people who can help me

I know a positive attitude can bring me abundance

I am full of vitality
By repeating these words mindlessly, robotically, I was treating them as if
they themselves contained power. Not only that, these words weren’t mine.
They were someone else’s. They were pre-planned, predetermined and not
chosen ‘in the moment’ according to the story I wanted to be true. I don’t
even use the words ‘prosperity’ or ‘abundance’ in my normal speech. Yet
here I was, repeating them like a parrot.
No wonder nothing happened.
In Magic Words and How to Use Them, I explained that mindless repetition
of someone else’s words is likely to have little to no effect on you and hence
little to no effect on the reality you generate. And despite everything I said
in that book, it turned out this was exactly the mistake I had been making
with visualisation. I had been performing visualisation robotically,
mindlessly, just like repeating empty affirmations. Not only that, I’d been
using other people’s guided suggestions, treating the technique as a chore to
be got out of the way, as if the pictures in my head contained power in
themselves. And as if someone else’s guided visualisation could ever work.
I was viewing visualisation like a tool in itself, something to be used,
picked up and put down when finished with. It was as if all I needed to do
was visualise a million pounds and it would appear (something I have
always warned against). It became obvious. Correct visualisation is as far
away from my half-arsed attempt at visualisation as my Magic Words
technique is away from dead affirmations.
Chapter Ten
CORRECT VISUALISATION

So what is the ‘correct’ way to do visualisation? This is where it might help

if you are already proficient with using the Magic Words technique because
it’s a fairly straightforward and easy step to shift that practise to the visual
sense. In other words, it’s not difficult to consider what you do with Magic
Words and apply it to visualisation too.
Telling a new story with magic words depends on your being able to
‘nudge’ the thoughts you can’t control by using the thoughts you can
control. In this way, you can influence your spontaneous thoughts, guiding
them in the direction you would like them to go with the story you choose
to tell. It’s very important that the words you use are chosen ‘now’
according to what feels more in keeping with the new story at that moment.
They should not be decided ahead of time and formulated into a perfectly-
worded statement, but should rather be flowing and natural—just like the
words you would normally use. Only this time, we tell only the story we
want to be true.
When it comes to doing correct visualisation, we do exactly the same thing,
only using a purely visual sense rather than words. Correct visualisation is
performed by imagining, in the moment, whatever fits more in keeping with
the reality we wish to see true. By visualising situations and images we
want to occur in the moment, we can begin to affect the things we see in the
actual world.
Once again, it is of utmost importance that this is done ‘in the moment’,
rather than worked out ahead of time. The point of power is always now
because all creation happens now. This means that using a pre-made pre-
prepared visualisation script will always be less effective, and even less so
if that pre-prepared visualisation script has been created by someone else.
So just like with Magic Words, visualised magic images should:
1. be chosen only by you
2. be visualised ‘in that moment’, and
3. tell a story you want to be true.

And here’s the exciting bit you may not have considered before. The visual
sense isn’t confined to imagination ‘in your mind’s eye’, daydreams and
formal eyes-closed practices. You can also ‘choose’ to see certain things
with your eyes open.
This has become the way I prefer to use the visual sense. It is incredibly
powerful. For example, if you’re wanting to be slimmer and healthier, look
in the mirror and choose to see health, youth, and a slim, fit body. Look past
the bits you don’t like and focus only on the parts you do. A good tip for
this is to see yourself as if through the eyes of someone who loves you. For
example, does a doting mother look at her son or daughter and see a fat,
wrinkly, tired old sack of lard? Does she see stretch marks and love handles,
flab, and dry skin? No, she sees her perfect child, no matter what. Try this.
Look at yourself through the eyes of love and notice the difference.
In time, you will start to see it. In time, you will see yourself as perfect.
If you choose to focus on only your partner’s good points, he or she will
appear beautiful to you. If you look through the eyes of someone who loves
life and sees nothing but good, those things you once consciously chose to
see start appearing spontaneously in your visual field. You will believe it.
And when you believe it, you can’t help but see it.
So what would you like to see happen? All you need do is visualise
everything turning out in a positive way, seeing outcomes you want to
happen. Not in a dead, robotic way, and not in a yearning, longing, lacking
way, but in a more energetic, optimistic, commanding way, just like we do
with words.
Visualise a new story with your eyes closed, and see a new story with your
eyes open. In time, that story will start to come true.
But hang on a minute!
We know what incredible things can be achieved by telling a new story. We
know that by taking control of the thoughts we can control, we can
influence the ones we can’t, so that the spontaneous thoughts, and
eventually the beliefs, end up being more like the ones we want. And we
also now know that the visual sense can be used to tell a new story in
exactly the same way as we can do with words.
But why stop there?
Why not use the whole gamut of senses we have?
I’ve told you the amazing changes that take place when you tell a more
positive story. You can transform every part of your life in this same way.
But by focusing only on telling a new story with words, it’s like we’ve only
been using a fraction of the power! It’s like we’ve been trying to run a race
using only one leg.
What might be achieved if you also saw and heard a new story (in your
mind and in reality), sensed a new story with your body, and felt a new
story with your emotions?
After all, belief extends into the other senses too. Imagine if we used every
sense the way we do words—imagining wonderful things, hearing, and
seeing them in our mind’s eye, and looking out for them in reality too,
feeling the feelings we’d have if those wonderful things were already here
and telling a story that they are ours for the taking?
By taking control of the sights we can control, we can influence the sights
we can’t. By taking control of the feelings we can control, we influence the
feelings we can’t! By taking control of the emotions we can control, we
influence the emotions we can’t.
We do it with words
Why wouldn’t we also do it with the images and sounds in our heads?
Why wouldn’t we also do it with feelings and emotions?
We could even try doing it with smell and taste.
Anyone who’s read Magic Words and put the technique into practise already
knows just how effective words can be in making actual, solid, real-world
change. The Ultimate Technique is even more powerful because this time,
we aren’t using just words. We are using all our senses.
In many ways, this is a more natural and obvious method for telling a new
story than just using words. After all, we may be reality generators, but we
don’t just think reality into existence. We speak it into existence. We feel it
into existence. We see it into existence. We emote it into existence. That’s
why the reality we generate is so convincing—because this whole big 3D
simulation is created by all our senses. No wonder we believe it.
And here’s another thing. You may never have stopped to consider this, but
if you become quiet and try to separate each sense out from the others, it’s
almost impossible to do. Food looks and smells delicious. Sound is often
felt as much as heard. It’s not always easy to tell where words end and
sound begins, or where sight ends and thought begins. And thought appears
all tied up and intermingled with the totality of experience. Our senses
blend into each other without clear cut edges or boundaries. And if you look
very closely, it’s almost as if they all become part of one whole
homogenous experience.
So let’s use the lot. Not just Magic Words. Not just visualisations. Let’s talk,
think, imagine, and feel the experience we want into existence.
And even that’s not all we can do.
There’s more. There’s something we can do so powerful it might just be the
turbo-boost that takes our dreams from wishful thinking to being right there
in our experience.
Because we can also begin telling a new story with our actions.
And this might be the most powerful aspect of all. If in every moment we
begin acting very slightly more in the direction of where we want to go,
acting very slightly as if it were true, telling a new story with the actions we
take, just think of the changes that would result…
Imagine acting like a confident, powerful, accomplished, and talented
person. Just think how your world would change if you did only this.
Imagine acting like the world is a wonderful playground full of fun and
adventure, and that each experience was a brand-new delight. Just think
how your world would change if you did only this.
Imagine acting as though people are all basically good, kind, and loving.
Imagine acting as though people can’t help but like you, and that you can’t
help but like them in return. Just think how your world would change if you
did only this.
It becomes as if every step we take, every movement, every breath is in
keeping with the new story. We act, not as if the story is some dim and
distant place we wish we could reach, but as if it’s already here.
So rather than just nudging thoughts, let’s nudge beliefs, let’s nudge action,
let’s nudge the whole darned package. See success everywhere. Feel
success everywhere. Act as though success is everywhere. Feel the feelings
you want to feel. Visualise the things you want to see. Use every faculty to
tell the new story, not just words. Use sight, sound, words, even smells, and
tastes if you like. And act as if it’s true.
This is about a sureness, a trust, a faith that allows you to command how
things appear to you. This is about you moving through life with a surety of
action, a conviction in the strength of your own intentions.
This is about an in-the-moment trust in the enormity of your own power.
In the beginning, it may feel as though the only part we are changing is our
positive and negative judgement about things that appear in front of us,
‘putting a positive spin on things’ or ‘looking for silver linings’. But as we
become more proficient with this, we will come to realise the conceptual
veil is way deeper and way more comprehensive than a positive or negative
interpretation. We don’t just ‘add in’ a veil of good or bad. It’s not just the
judgement of things we generate. It’s the very existence of the things
themselves. Objects, people, time and space, are all a product of belief.
And if we’re generating the whole experience (which even science agrees
we are), why wouldn’t we do whatever we could to try make that
experience a good one? Why wouldn’t we attempt to alter that conceptual
overlay, to alter those beliefs so that the reality we see is more like the one
we want?
Chapter Eleven
THE NITTY-GRITTY - HOW TO DO THE
ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE

Let’s tell a new story, change our beliefs, and experience a brand-new
world.
The mechanism of The Ultimate Technique allows us to simply tell a new
story in order to change the beliefs we hold, and ultimately the reality we
experience. And because we can now tell a story with all our senses, this
story-telling need not be limited to words. To create a different experience,
we need to influence the parts we can’t control with the parts we can. And
this means using our words, our imagination, our emotions and to a lesser
extent, our sense of touch, smell, and taste.
So first of all, just ask yourself, what do you want to see?
Out of all the million billion things they could see, what do you want your
eyes to show you? How do you want your conceptual overlay to appear?
What visual reality do you want to generate? Riches, your children being
happy and successful, better living conditions, more confidence, looking
younger, being slim and healthy, maybe even being more attractive to other
people?
Or do you just want to see yourself as happy?
So what’s next? How do we tell a story with sight? Obviously, we can sit
down and visualise these things a structured way. In our mind’s eye, we can
see the future we would like to be true.
I don’t recommend using a pre-recorded script or guided meditation for this
process, even if you have created it yourself. Instead, I suggest you try
sitting down in a quiet space with no preconceptions, no prearranged ideas
about what to think, and with only a rough basic intention of what you want
to create.
Then visualise in the moment, how you want things to go. If you want
money, close your eyes, and visualise money flowing to you, not silly
banknotes fluttering their way to you—that’s just pure fantasy and you’ll
never influence belief that way.
Instead, imagine properly receiving money for services rendered in a
believable way. Imagine what people will say to you. Imagine the steps
you’ll take or the things you’ll do to make people want to give you money.
Treat it as though you’re planning the way the money will come to you in a
fair, believable exchange. Remember, belief is truly powerful, and if your
story is already believable—rather than pure fantasy—you’ll get better
results.
Personally, I prefer to visualise a general sense of ‘everything being
brilliant’, rather than anything too specific. I’ve always found it more
difficult to create a particular belief or a particular outcome than to create a
belief that things are just going to be generally brilliant. So I don’t tend to
focus on the specific thing I want to happen. I find that tends to act as a sort
of restriction on what’s possible, cutting off my access to even better or
alternative outcomes.
So, instead of visualising one specific outcome, I imagine life being perfect.
And I don’t tend to separate the visual sense from the auditory sense but
rather I bring in sounds at this point too. We can begin imagining sounds,
for example, the sounds of joy in our children’s reaction to receiving good
news or birthday presents, or the sound of someone telling us we’ve got a
dream job. I imagine jumping for joy, elation, relief, and everyone around
me smiling, congratulating me, thanking me, and being as joyful and
thrilled as I am. I might imagine myself taking steps towards what I want,
but in a general way, feeling how good it would be to be going about my
day with everything slotting into place.
That’s how it works for me. Your mileage may vary. So if you want to
experiment with visualising very specific outcomes, please do try that.
Formal eyes-closed visualisation isn’t the only way we can use sight and
sound. When images and sounds pop into your head, you can attempt steer
them in a direction you’d like them to go. When you think of your children,
always imagine that they are happy. When a worry arises, tell a more
positive story, see and hear a different future.
We can also, to some extent, take control of what we see with our eyes open
and what we hear in the environment. To get a sense of this, just look
around the room or the area in which you are currently sitting.
Can you see:
Shapes, colours, blobs of light and dark

Wood, metal, wool, plastic

Chairs, tables, carpets, sofas

Home, café, train, bedroom

Dump, haven, home, ‘my special place’

My crappy life, my incredible life, my pure existence

In any given moment, there aren’t a million billion different sights to see,
there are also a million billion different sounds to hear—words spoken by
others, buzzes, hums, rumbles, clicks, crashes, beeps and shushes. But we
are the ones who turn this random sea of noise into cars, television sets,
radios, people, microwave ovens, clocks.
It can be really effective to use our senses to look for things we want to see,
listen for things we want to hear. To do this, look around in the space where
you are and see what you like best about this room. If it’s the rug on the
floor, next look and see what you like best about the rug. When you look in
the mirror, decide to see only your good points.
You can also choose to interpret the noises you hear in a positive way. If
there’s music playing, don’t judge it as ‘modern tuneless racket’, ‘irritating
jazz’ or ‘boring classical’. Instead, we can think about what we like best
about it. Find something good to say, to think, listen to the sounds as pure
sound, with as little judgement as possible. Let it be okay.
Do the same with voices. If someone says, ‘I feel very disappointed by the
way you acted’, you can choose to hear that in all sorts of different ways.
You could choose to hear it very negatively. Or you can choose to see it as
honesty, bravery and as a desire to improve a relationship. See it as a sign of
a true friendship.
Of course, for those of you who have a particularly strong sense of smell or
taste, you could also do the same with those senses. Pick up your asparagus,
okra, or shellfish (three things I happen to detest!), and try to smell and
taste something delicious when you smell and taste them. It might be
helpful if you would like to develop a taste for a particular healthy food.
Just ask yourself what do I like best about what I’m experiencing? What’s
good here?
If you’re trying to lose a taste for chocolate, put it in your mouth and
consider the clawing, sticky over-sweetness. Really try and dislike what you
taste.
You really can tell a new story with all your senses. You can:
use the thoughts you can control to influence the ones you can’t
influence the images you can’t control by using the images you can
influence the sounds you can’t control using the sounds you can,
and
influence the tastes and smells too.

But there’s one sense we haven’t mentioned yet. And that’s the sense of
touch and feeling. I’m going to include emotional feeling here, because it
can be very difficult to separate emotion from physical bodily sensation.
The sense of feeling is possibly the most fun, most effective and most
powerful sense in your arsenal. Just like with all the other senses, you can
influence the feelings you can’t control by manipulating the feelings you
can. But feeling is far easier to control than sight or sound. Not only that,
feeling is the sense with the power to dictate the course of all the other
senses. We could say that feeling is primary or fundamental. Take control of
the feelings alone, and everything else may fall into place.
So let’s try this
Right in this moment, what do you want to feel? If you’re not sure, just ask
yourself:
What do I want to experience? How would that feel?
Feel that.
Feel how it would feel to be rich. Feel how it would be to be slim. Imagine
yourself happy and really feel that in the moment. Imagine how you would
feel if all your dreams came true, and feel that. Get an in-the-body-right-
now sensation of how it might feel to have everything you ever wanted.
What do you want most in the world? Think of something real-world, as in,
something form-based. I want a big house with my family living nearby.
How would that feel?
I don’t know.
Just try. You can’t get it wrong. Let the smile spread across your face
knowing it’s yours. In this moment, feel it. Blankly ignore the voice in your
head telling you that you can’t have it. That negative voice has nothing
useful to add here. Sink into the place where the feeling resides. Drop into
the space that always feels good.
No matter where we are and what is going on for us right now, we can
always choose to feel a little different. Even in the worst possible scenarios
and during the most upsetting events, we can choose to feel a little different.
We all can. We know how to do this. We know where the better feels are.
Go there now. Don’t think about it. Don’t try and work it out. Trying will
get in the way. This is utterly instinctive and non-intellectual. Ignore
whatever thoughts and just go to the place inside that’s always at rest. Go to
the place inside where everything is okay. Go to the place inside you that’s
content and at rest in this moment. Don’t think. Just go there. Go to that
place. You won’t get it wrong.
Feel the Magic.
Chapter Twelve
NO NEED TO SEPARATE THE SENSES

It can get a bit confusing when we suddenly have five senses to deal with.
In light of this, I encourage you not to get too contrived or specific about
working on each of the individual senses. Don’t stop to work out what to
hear or what precisely to feel or what precisely to see. Don’t worry about
whether you should be using sight rather than sound or that you’ve left one
sense out. Certainly, don’t imagine you should be working on sight, then
working on sound, or that you should be ignoring or pushing away one
sense when working on another.
It’s actually somewhat artificial to separate these senses into sound, sight,
feeling, thought in the first place. The more attention you pay to what you
see, hear, and feel in the moment, the more you’ll realise that these senses
don’t come in discrete packets. Sights come with feeling, words come with
pictures, and sights almost always come with sounds.
But never fear because I’m going to make the whole thing far easier for
you. There’s a much easier way of mastering The Ultimate Technique. A
method that eradicates the confusion of working out what to think, say, see
or feel.
We access the right feelings, sights and sounds by means of questions. By
asking questions of ourselves, we can let our senses do the work. Ask the
right questions and our thoughts, feelings, ears, and eyes will fill in the
blanks for us.
The Questions
Here are some brilliant questions to ask yourself when using the Ultimate
Technique.
What if you knew everything was really, really okay right now?
How would that look? How would that sound? How would that feel? Feel
that.
What if you were blissfully happy right now? How would that feel? Feel
that.
If you feel a sense of lack and longing when you think of what you want,
just ask yourself:
How would feel if that feeling of lack was gone. How would it feel if that
longing wasn’t there? Feel that.
What if everything was shockingly more simple than you ever realised?
How would that look, sound, feel?
What if everything you’re already doing is exactly what you need to do to
get your perfect house or partner or situation or job? How would that look,
sound, feel?
What if you knew exactly what to do from this point on? How would that
look, sound, feel.
And here’s a big one:
What if every action you took from now on was 100% correct? How would
that look, sound, feel?
And allow your actions to follow suit. If you don’t like what’s going on, do
something, take action, take steps to move you in the direction of your new
story. Walk the way you think a rich person would walk, move your body
like a slim person, hold yourself the way a happy and confident person
would.
Act differently, do things in accordance with your new story. Take steps as
if the story were true or coming true.
Visualise it, feel it, hear it, do it, see it, have it.
If you don’t like what you feel, feel something different
If you don’t like what you see, see something different
If you don’t like what you experience, describe it differently
Whatever it is you want to experience, consider how that would feel, how
that would look, how that would sound.
Imagine it… and you’ll come to see it.
Speak that way… and you’ll come to believe it.
Feel that way…. and you’ll come to experience it.
Act that way… and you’ll eventually have it.
Can you grasp this concept?
It’s like a command to the universe to slot into place according to your will.
It’s a decision:
This is just how things are now.
You’re beginning to see, feel and experience, what you believe.
Chapter Thirteen
IT WON’T BE INSTANT

Now, just like with words, the first few times you try and see or feel a
different reality, it’s going to feel like one big lie. You’re going to look at
your bank balance and it’s going to look just as crappy as it ever did. You’re
going to get on the scales and not see the weight you want to be. You’re
going to look at your poky little home and not see the big house. So don’t
start with trying to change bank balances by looking at them, or weighing
120 pounds or by picking lottery numbers correctly.
Start with, for example, seeing yourself as a little thinner, seeing yourself as
a little younger, start feeling a little richer. Start with feeling yourself as
happy and confident. See and feel yourself as getting this right, as being
powerful and competent with magic.
Speak, imagine, and feel according to the story you would like to be true,
and do it in the moment. Do it according to what feels, looks, or sounds
nicer in that moment.
And I cannot emphasise this enough:
Start seeing the good aspects of your current situation.
Complain about your current situation and you’ll create more to complain
about. See the good in your current situation and you’ll see more good stuff.
It’s by feeling, acting, and thinking as if what you want is already here that
you will create the fastest results. And that means being 100% okay with
what you already have.
Don’t expect instant results, and don’t let a setback stop you. Keep going.
And remember, we are doing magic here. Magic makes life effortless, easy,
light, and free. But it takes bloody hard work to master. It takes effort to
reach that place of effortlessness.
This will be much easier if you bear the following in mind:
It’s when you’re challenged that you have the greatest opportunity for
magic. It’s when things are apparently going wrong that you have the
greatest opportunity to put them right. It’s when things apparently need
changing that you can best take action to change them.
After all, any fool can tell a positive story when things are going well.
Anyone can give a favourable interpretation when everything is favourable.
Anyone can take action when action is obvious and easy. But when things
are challenging… that’s when the invitation presents itself—to do
something different, something magical. This is when the men and women
step away from the boys and girls. This is when the magically powerful
come into their own. This is when you have a choice to buck the trend, go
against the grain, and do something so different to the norm that reality
can’t help but move with you.
Still look fat? Then keep seeing yourself as thinner. Overdrawn at the bank?
Then keep feeling yourself as richer. Had an argument with your partner?
Then keep seeing their good points. Explain everything that happens in
terms of the new story. And act accordingly.
Sooner or later, there will be a halt in the old way. A staging post. A pause
in the fabric of space and time. A tipping point. And from there, you’ll start
down the road to a new future. The new story just starts looking truer.
Things start to change. Everything gets easier. It starts to snowball. The
momentum kicks in.
And a new reality comes into being.
Chapter Fourteen
THE REVAMPED EVIDENCE JOURNAL

Here’s just one last little thing you may want to add to your reality-creation
endeavours.
Consider keeping an evidence journal. In the past for me, this has proved to
be an amazingly powerful technique for creating specific results. It consists
of keeping a written record of all the evidence I see that proves my intended
results are happening.
The evidence journal technique is based on the assumption that if you look
around for evidence that something is true you will see it. The more you see
evidence, the more you will believe it. And when you believe something, it
will become true in your experience.
This is how I have successfully used an evidence journal:
I use a small notebook for this, around the size of a mobile phone. Each
day, I simply decide on the state of affairs I wish to happen and write a
statement to that effect at the top of a new page. I’ve then looked around for
evidence that this is true, and in my evidence journal, I’ve written
statements to support the new belief in that state of affairs.
Under that statement of intent, I write at least three pieces of evidence per
day. I find that if I really hunt around or think hard, I can always find
evidence. And that evidence doesn’t need to sound convincing or solid to
anyone but me. Sometimes the evidence can be very flimsy, contrived even.
For example:
My shampoo was way cheaper than usual. That’s definitely a sign that I’m
on my way to becoming a millionaire.
I completed all my emails in record time. This is turning out to be a very
powerful day.
I have a small feeling of optimism today. I’m definitely beating this
depression.
I’ve had a really good idea for some new marketing, a sure sign that my
business is on the up.
I felt a real sense of determination to travel today. I am definitely
overcoming this fear of flying.
An evidence journal is a great way to formalise what we are doing in telling
a new story. The practice of writing things down like this really keeps that
story at the forefront of our mind and helps us to remember to keep on
telling it, feeling it, seeing it.
And this evidence journal need not be limited to a formal technique
completed three times a day. You can get into the habit of doing this all the
time, looking for evidence all the time, noting the evidence, speaking it out
loud, feeling it in your body, feeling the sense of delight and satisfaction
when a new bit of evidence is found.
If you think about it, looking for evidence is just another form of telling a
story.
Now think how powerful this would be if you also wrote down feelings, if
you wrote down things you’d seen and heard. If you hate writing, you could
speak your evidence into a note-taking app or device.
And think how much faster things would change if you didn’t just do this
formally as practice, but did it in every moment of the day—mentally
noting evidence all the time.
Just think how different your life would be if you did all we’ve talked
about.
How fast would your belief change if you visualised what you want to see,
if you felt what you want to feel, if you saw evidence all the time, all over
the place that it’s already here? How different a reality would you create?
The reality generator is faithful, and it is reliable. It will do as you
command. It does not make mistakes. It will create exactly whatever you
believe, as it is doing so right in this very second. Whatever you see, hear,
and feel in this moment… you are creating it. Grasp that. Get quiet until
you reach the acute intimacy of this point. Come to now.
Realise that in this now, you are seeing exactly… what... you… believe.
Chapter Fifteen
LET’S GO DEEP

The Ultimate Technique is not about imagining stuff we want and expecting
those thoughts to attract that stuff to you in a separate, external world. This
is about changing you and your beliefs so that the world you create with
those beliefs is more like the one you want. This is about upgrading your
reality generator using all your faculties rather than just words in order to
powerfully affect the reality you generate.
We’ve already heard of the importance of telling your new story, ‘In the
moment’. That means now. This now. Simply put, if it’s not there now in
our experience, it’s because we haven’t generated it. The world does not
move independently of us.
This is a point that is easily misunderstood. I have noticed that when a
person can’t get manifestation techniques to work for them, it’s very often
because of this misunderstanding. The misunderstanding may arise just
because we’ve never slowed down enough to notice ‘the now’—that silent
still place at the heart of every moment.
So let’s do that, now.
Let’s just slow down for a moment or two, and notice what’s actually here.
It’s a quiet place, and it can even feel a little dull at first. Neutral. Like a
nothingness. But that silent still place is one of bursting, infinite potential.
This silence at the heart of every moment is akin to the nucleus of an atom
ready to be split. Like the moment before the big bang. It is literally the
moment before an entire universe comes into being. The infinite nature of
this space means that the fate of the next second is entirely open, free. From
here, from now, literally anything could appear, anything could come next.
The possibilities for what the next second will be are literally infinite.
And the coolest thing of all? You are the one who collapses those infinite
possibilities into one actuality. You turn possible to actual. Again, and again
and again, the universe is created from nothing. By you. Without you, there
is no universe. You create the entire universe in every moment, from
nothing.
Not woo. Science.
Ever wondered why:
things keep turning out the same way?
your train always turns up three minutes late?
it’s always the same barista serving you coffee in the café you
always visit before going into the job you’ve hated for the past eight
years?

It’s because you keep creating the universe in exactly the same way. It’s
because the beliefs you see through and the story you tell dictate how your
next second will be. And you keep telling the same story. Same story, same
world. Different story, different world.
Now, what makes this difficult is that much of this story unconsciously told.
The story is in the expectations we have, the beliefs we hold and the
concepts we see through.
You go out in the morning with a fully worked out idea of that job, that
train, that journey to work, the barista who serves your coffee. You expect
to see the same thing every day to such an extent that you don’t even know
that concepts and belief are involved.
Some of these beliefs (such as the belief in space, time, solid objects, and
other people) are so convincing it seems impossible that they could ever not
be true. As far as you are concerned, you aren’t seeing beliefs and concepts,
you are seeing reality, people, real objects moving in real time.
Beliefs and concepts are the reason you see solid objects instead of colours
and shapes, or even just energy. Beliefs and concepts are the reason you see
a train rather than metal and glass. Beliefs and concepts are the reason you
hear traffic rather than a random rushing sound, the reason you see and hear
anything at all. What is actually there is deeply mysterious. We may never
know what is there prior to our conceptualising it. But one thing is certain,
we are the ones who add the ‘thingness’ to things, the ‘train-ness’ to trains,
the ‘objectivity’ to objects.
So what do we do? We are in this moment. Perhaps feeling stuck, feeling
lost, feeling trapped in a life we want desperately to change, but each
moment feels just like the one before. We know these objects, these sights
and sounds, this reality will never substantially change unless we change.
We know there is infinite potentiality in this moment. The future, the next
moment, is essentially up for grabs. And the question everyone wants the
answer to is:
How can I make the next moment turn out the way I want? How can I
change the future?
Now, let’s slow things down even more. Let’s look exquisitely close at this
‘now’ thing.
If you get quiet enough, you’ll notice something odd. The past is nowhere,
and the future never comes. There is only now. One now. It is always now.
It starts to feel as though life is not actually a series of moments in time, but
just one single moment. And if this is true, there is no point in trying to
change the future. None. Because that future never comes.
‘Now’ is timeless and it’s always here. It’s always ‘now’.
So the answer is this:
Act, speak, think, and feel, as if what we want to experience is already here.
Not in the future. Not somewhere else. But already here. Now!
Because, in a very literal way, it is already here. Every possibility is already
here. It’s your job to turn it from potentiality to actuality. It’s your job to
collapse the waveform of energy into matter and you do so now. The only
point of power is always now. This now. Right now.
So this, guys, is the real law of attraction. This is how we really manifest
things. Forget all that nonsense involving thinking about things you haven’t
got in the hope that you will somehow ‘attract’ them to you in future. By
thinking about something you want, all you’re doing is creating a situation
where you’re thinking about something you want (and, by definition, not
having it).
What I’m talking about is far more ‘immediate’ than that. This is about
your power of conceptualisation in the moment. In every moment, you have
the power to create a whole universe out of nothing. And you’re doing
exactly that, now and now and now.
You are that powerful.
Chapter Sixteen
COMPLAINING AS CREATION

The fact is, we’re creating reality whether we like it or not. Constantly. We
are creating the whole bloody lot of it. All the time.
When we fully appreciate this fact, it tends to have a profound effect on the
way we conduct our lives. Let’s see one example of that now.
If you’ve read any of my books, you’ll know the big deal I make about the
business of not complaining. The simple act of refusing to complain makes
life easier, happier, more successful, and more fun. Many of us have an
experience of the way that life seems to pick up and become more
enjoyable when we take steps to stop complaining. And when this is done
consistently and with commitment, not complaining gives you a life where
there is simply nothing to complain about.
Refusing to complain can sound like a way of sugar-coating the world,
turning a blind eye to the genuinely bad things that occur. It seems like a
wilful refusal to face reality. From what we’ve learned so far, we can now
see this as nonsensical. We don’t refuse to complain because we can’t face
the horrible reality of a situation. We don’t complain because by doing so
we create that horrible reality in the first place.
This can get rather provoking because can seem to imply that we are
blaming the unfortunate for their misfortune. That we are blaming the
victims for their victimhood.
What I’ve said here suggests the reason you see a life of misery, difficulty,
hardship, and disappointment is because you have made it that way.
Conversely, the reason you see a life of love, riches, happiness, and fun is
because you made it that way. And it may sound disrespectful, insulting, or
uncaring to suggest this.
Here’s the thing. If you fully accept that you are creating your own life, it
means the only one with the power to change it is you. That means it can be
changed! If you have created everything you have experienced until now, it
means everything you will experience in future you will also create. And
now you know this, you can do something about it. How exciting is that?
A keystone of my work since the very beginning has been the idea of taking
responsibility for your entire life. Indeed, the belief that I am entirely
responsible for my life and always have been is possibly the first great
insight I ever had. This insight helped me begin the long slow journey out
of the blackness of poverty and despair into magic.
When I believed my life wasn’t my responsibility, I suffered terribly. This is
because I believed it was for someone else to fix things, change things and
make everything better. I believed there were myriad negative causes for
my misfortune over which I had no control. When I believed this, I was a
victim. Once I saw that I could take responsibility for all of it, all
victimhood evaporated, and I became empowered.
But I digress.
I’ve actually brought up this business of taking responsibility for another
reason. There is something very interesting to be learned here. If you view
the suggestion that we create our own reality in every second as
disrespectful, hurtful, or plain false, that’s how it will sound to you. That’s
how the situation will appear to you. And that’s the reality you will create.
‘Genevieve is disrespectful, insulting and hurtful’ will be true for you.
Someone else, reading these same words may judge them as empowering,
uplifting, motivating, truthful. This is how the situation will appear to them.
This is the reality they will create. ‘Genevieve is inspiring, she speaks the
truth’ will be true for them.
Insulting, false and hurtful, or empowering, uplifting, and true? Which is
correct? Can you see there is no objective truth to the matter? How you hear
the statement ‘you have created your own experience of life’ is determined
only by your own beliefs? So the question of which view is more correct
doesn’t really make sense. This is not a question of who’s right or wrong,
because there is no external yardstick to measure against. No independent
judge is possible. No objective authority exists. All there is to experience is
the way it appears to you.
This is only ever a question of what works best. What gives you a nicer
experience of life? So wherever possible, why not choose to see things in a
positive way?
Perhaps you feel the nicer experience of life comes from believing, I’m a
disrespectful idiot. If so, that’s absolutely fine. But it would probably be
best to put this book down and read another. But if you find what I’ve said
motivating and uplifting, let’s continue, because there’s something very
significant to be noticed here.
Any act of complaining, even the complaint, Genevieve is a disrespectful
idiot, is a judgement. It’s a form of conceptualisation. It’s an act of creation
itself. It’s the collapsing of potential and possibility into actuality—a
contraction of fluid, pure reality into a thing. In this case, a complaint-
worthy thing. Something bad, something wrong, something hateful.
Hating something is really no different to calling something a table or a
chair. When you call something a chair, you collapse the waveform into a
neutral object of utility. But when you call something hateful, you collapse
the waveform into something hateful. When you complain, you collapse
reality into parts. And that to which you apply your complaint collapses into
something you can’t help but see as bad, as a problem, as negative.
So the truth is this. Every judgement, positive or negative, is nothing more
than a new creation. When you complain, you create something to complain
about. When you hate, you create something hateful.
And the almost bewilderingly significant upshot is this:
If you don’t conceptualise things as problems, you will have no problems. If
you don’t complain, you will have nothing to complain about.
And if you let everything be okay, then it will all be okay.
Boom!
Chapter Seventeen
TAKING IT ONE STEP FURTHER

Why don’t you have all you want? Why are you always searching? There is
actually only one reason. The only reason you don’t have everything you
want right in this second is because you have placed a condition on having
it.
You believe you will be happy when you buy your own house/have
children/cure your depression/find a girlfriend/get over your
problems/become spiritually enlightened/pay off your debts.
And while you believe any version of ‘I’ll be happy when…’ you will
remain unhappy. Why? Because placing a condition in the first place stops
everything you want being available to you in this moment. So you keep
searching, and while you keep searching, you keep looking right past
everything that’s right in front of you. Everything you’ve ever wanted is
here now, this now. And the reason you don’t see it is because you don’t
believe it’s here. You don’t believe it, so you don’t see it.
All those conditions you’ve placed on happiness are standing in the way of
actual happiness—not the content of the conditions but the fact there are
conditions at all. If you don’t think in terms of conditions that must be
fulfilled before you can achieve everything you’ve ever wanted, there will
be nothing in the way of you having everything you’ve ever wanted.
But I don’t have any of those sorts of conditions. Right here in this moment,
there are no conditions, but the life I want is still not here.
And there it is: the judgement, the life I want is still not here.
That specific judgement is making this so tricky for you. You have judged
happiness as ‘not here’, therefore you don’t experience it as being here.
That judgement creates the condition of happiness ‘not being here’.
You’re judging this moment as ‘not okay’ and so ‘not okay’ is how you’re
experiencing it. Do you see? Your conceptualisation in this moment actually
collapses the waveform. You’re creating the whole thing in every second.
So when you assume ‘what I want is not here’, you place an artificial
boundary around reality, and you create a situation where what you want
isn’t here yet.
Drop the judgement, I’ll be happy when…
Drop the judgement, the life I want is still not here.
Drop the judgement, this isn’t it.
And what happens? Something amazing.
Literally anything and everything is up for grabs. Everything is open to you.
Every possibility. Ultimate infinite potential. Good, bad, wanted, unwanted,
the lot. They are all here now. And to see what you want, all you need do is
conceptualise what is here into something wanted.
So every time we tell a story that you don’t yet have what you want, how
you’re going to get what you want, and why you don’t have it yet, you make
a judgement—‘it’s not here yet’, ‘this is not okay’, ‘I still haven’t found
what I’m looking for’. And in doing this, you effectively keep what you’re
looking for from you. When you stop telling that story, you’ll be astonished
at what you find.
Everything you want is automatically here.
Let everything here be okay, and it all will be okay.
Stop searching, and you’ll find everything you’re looking for.
Pure Magic.
Chapter Eighteen
IT’S TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH

This is the sixth book I’ve written on the subject of creating a better
experience of life using magic, and it may well be the last. I’ll almost
certainly write more books that result in generating nicer experiences of
life, more joy and less suffering. This won’t be the last book I write about
magic, but I doubt I’ll write another that deals with how to use magic to
make specific things happen. This book may well be my ‘last hurrah’ in
terms of manifestation.
And here, at the end of the book, I have an admission. A secret to tell. This
secret might not be easy to stomach, understand or accept. But for the sake
of my own integrity and peace of mind, and for the sake of anyone who
might already be ‘seeing through’ what I have written so far, I offer this.
The contents of this book reflect the pinnacle of my current understanding.
I say current because understanding is not a fixed or static thing. In the past,
I always thought I had a pretty good grasp of what was going on. But even
so, I’ve often found myself looking back to a past time and finding I’ve
written things that just don’t look so true anymore.
And the chances are, it’s going to happen again. What I think and say and
write today in this book will all be replaced in a few years, by a newer,
more ‘mature’ view of what I think is really going on. In fact, it’s already
happening.
I’m in a strange and unique position at the moment of almost being able to
watch as one view of the world is gradually being replaced by something
new—something very different. And everything I’ve said in this book has
already almost been superseded by a newer understanding.
That’s not to say you won’t find the concepts in this book immensely
helpful and effective, it’s just not an accurate representation of how things
actually work. On the one hand, The Ultimate Technique I describe here
‘works’. But on the other, it’s not ‘correct’ or ‘true’. It’s a good and
effective way of doing things, but it’s perhaps not the best way of doing
things.
So why on earth don’t I give you that best way of doing things?
It’s because the absolute best way of doing things isn’t easy, doesn’t make a
lot of sense and probably doesn’t sound very attractive to many people.
Here’s the thing about this business of making stuff happen, fixing the
world, changing things, and generating a better reality. We make stuff
happen in order to fix problems, get the outcomes we want, change the
world for the better so that we can be happy, content, fulfilled, peaceful. But
no matter how much we change the external circumstances of our life, no
matter how perfect we get our finances, our relationships, our living
conditions and even our mental health, it will never be enough.
Despite having created all your wildest dreams, you could still have many,
many moments of bleak misery. You could marry the perfect person, have
the perfect children, all the money in the world and there would still be that
nagging sense that something was missing.
And this is true, without exception.
We constantly continue trying to get things right so that we can feel good,
but we never quite succeed. As soon as we get one thing we want, that
wanting engine just fires up once more and we’re off again, fixing the
world. But it takes a long, long time to realise and fully accept this. And
until we see the truth, we will continue to work on fixing the wrong bit.
Most of us spend our entire lives in a state of wanting, looking to a future
moment, when the world is fixed, when our problems are solved, our kids
are happy, our bank accounts are full, and our relationships are harmonious
—an elusive time when everything will be okay.
And so, we never get to rest, to finish, to reach that elusive end point.
Instead, as Thoreau famously put it, we spend almost all our time on this
planet living lives of quiet desperation.
One day, we think, will we rest. One day, we will stop. One day, our work
to fix the world will be done. And finally, then we will be happy. But that
time never comes. It can’t. Because that’s just not where happiness comes
from.
Happiness isn’t in the external world. Happiness doesn’t come from fixing
or changing the external world. Happiness isn’t even affected by the
external world.
Happiness is what we feel automatically when we stop trying to fix the
external world.
Happiness does not come from getting what we want.
Happiness comes from the stopping of wanting.
And the only reason we feel happy when we get something we want is that
this almost continual, exhausting discomfort of wanting suddenly, briefly,
stops.
At some point, this becomes blindingly obvious. But we can’t see it until
we see it. And until we see it, it will look absolutely and obviously true that
the world needs to be changed, that things need to improve and that we can
and should take steps to make our lives better. We will continue to try to
create a better life, we will continue striving for more, for different. And, if
we’re fans of self-help, we’ll look for techniques to help us make that world
just right. What I’ve offered in this book is, in my experience, the very best
of those techniques.
And in doing so, I’m really straddling that paradoxical tightrope now. I
really do have a foot in both worlds. Because on the one hand, I’m showing
you how to get what you want, and on the other, I know that’s not going to
fix things.
Getting what you want is, at best, a sticking plaster, a temporary ‘high’. At
worst, it’s a dangerous trap.
You see, in our attempts to ‘fix’ the apparently external world in order to
feel better, perhaps by using the technique in this book, we stay pointed in
completely the wrong direction—towards the world. And these ‘real-world
activities’ take us deeper and deeper into the story-based thought world. So,
while we think we’re making our lives better, all we’re really doing is
effectively playing around in an illusion. We’re using thought to fix thought
with thought.
And I’ll stop there…
This is a rabbit hole that goes on for miles. And the purpose of this book
won’t be served by travelling much further down it. For now, I’ll just offer
this:
There is an alternative. There is an alternative to manifesting things and
getting our lives just so, and making stuff happen and changing the world.
There is a truth to replace the lie I have described in this book.
There is another, very different way to create a life of real happiness, lasting
joy, peace and ease in a way that doesn’t feed into the illusion. There is a
way that points you slightly more in the direction of genuine, lasting
happiness.
This is the ‘better’ way I didn’t feel able to tell you about earlier in the
book. And even now, at the end of the book, you still might not like the
sound of it much. Because what I’m talking about does not involve making
things better. The truth is that attempting to create certain specific things or
particular outcomes is not the best way to go about getting a better life.
In all my books and all my courses and pretty much whenever I speak,
you’ll hear me make a big deal of the business I call ‘letting everything be
okay’. The way to get a better life is 100% to allow everything to be okay,
to allow things to turn out however they will. And here’s the amazing,
magical thing—the more you can do this, the better your reality will be.
So maybe it’s just time to accept the world itself and all its things and
events. Maybe the way to change the world for the better is to stop trying to
change it! To see it’s already perfect. To let it all be okay, just as it is.
Maybe the secret to getting everything you want is to be okay with
everything you have.
And the answer to the question, how do we change the illusion we create
for the better has to be, we stop trying to create a better one. We don’t push
any of it away. We live every second, fully. We see what’s here, without any
attempt to change it. We let it all be, just as it is.
Now, the ultimate version of this has to be letting everything be totally
okay, like totally okay, just as it is. Right now. The more you can accept this
moment as perfect, the more perfect the next one will be.
So stop. Get quiet.
In this moment, all possibilities exist.
The only way to ensure the next moment is perfect is to recognise that this
moment is already perfect.
And this has to be true because this moment and the next moment are really
one. There is only this moment. It’s all one moment. Stop trying to change
it. Let the innate perfection of reality show itself. Notice that things are
perfectly capable of turning out well without our trying to make them turn
out our way.
Why does this happen? It’s because if left to its own devices, everything
always does turn out well. If not judged negatively, everything
fundamentally is okay. It is okay by default. The fundamental nature of
reality is utter perfection. Only our judgement makes it appear otherwise.
Everything we want—all the good feelings and all the good stuff—is here
waiting for us in this very minute. It’s already here. We just have to let it in.
We let it in by:
Stopping the search

Stopping wanting

Surrendering

Letting everything be okay

Leaving everything be, just as it is

And then, the whole thing will reveal itself to us.
This is how manifestation works. It’s not about thinking of the stuff you
want, or getting an energetic match with money or any such thing. It’s about
‘aligning’ yourself with the present moment—the moment where anything
can and does happen, where everything you want is already there waiting
for you.
This is why we get what we want or better when we let everything be okay.
What we actually get is just general ‘good stuff’ and not always specifically
what we asked for. This is why other bits of our lives pick up while the
thing we are working on may remain elusive.
So methods and techniques like the one I’ve described in this book can and
do work, but they only really work because they make this moment feel
better. They can only work because they can help to get you closer to that
magical potential-state, that perfect ‘now’ where everything you’re looking
for truly lives.
Telling a new story must be told in the moment because it only works in the
moment. When ‘the moment’ feels okay, we release our desperate attempts
to control and change it. Let it all be okay, and it all is okay. It’s more than
okay. It’s perfect.
The whole shebang, the whole spiritual journey has always only been about
one thing. Something so fundamental, it eventually eclipses, replaces, and
takes over everything else we try to do along the way. And the truth is, I’ve
written an entire book telling you how to carry out a particular technique,
how to manipulate your world to make it more like one you want, but you
could get just as good or better results by doing none of this at all. You
could do one simple thing instead.
Let everything be okay.
So why didn’t I just say that in the first place? Why did I write this stupid
book telling you how to fix your life if it was never going to fix your life?
Why not just tell you to let everything be okay and be done with it?
No reason at all other than, as I’ve already said, it’s not easy, it’s not
appealing, and you almost certainly wouldn’t believe it.
I mean, I ask you: If I had just said from the outset, let it all be okay. Would
you have been happy with that advice? Would you have known ‘how’ to do
it?
This warrants a book of its own or even several books. The difficulty of
constantly or repeatedly letting everything be okay is the one reason I
created my Academy of Magic—to provide a year-long reminder of this
truth.
Hence The Ultimate Technique. Because techniques like this will always be
necessary… until they’re not.
And I’ll just explain this paradox as best I can.
At the beginning of the book, I mentioned a tightrope that we must walk—
between trying to make things happen on the one hand, and letting
everything be okay on the other. Keeping one foot in the everyday world of
things and stuff and one foot in the magical realm.
But there’s a funny thing about this tightrope that I’ve only realised fairly
recently:
As we walk further along this path, the tightrope becomes more difficult to
see and the two sides that seemed so paradoxical—the conflict between
changing things while letting them be okay—become more indistinct.
Eventually, the two sides seem almost to fuzz over… until they blur into
one. And then you realise. There never was a path, nor a conflict, nor a
paradox. The tightrope has disappeared. The paradox has disappeared. And
in its place is just this. How things are. Everything, every possibility
existing there in potential for you to enjoy, to create, to experience. And
rather than decisions about what to do or attempts to ‘let things be okay’,
there is just you taking action in the moment without the slightest bit of
resistance or confusion. Everything simply is okay, profoundly okay. The
tightrope is now long gone, and you are dancing with life. And the whole
world suddenly opens up before you, complete wisdom, complete okayness,
complete perfection—all for you. Everything you have ever wanted.
But here’s the thing: you can’t make the tightrope disappear. You can’t
decide to place yourself in this perfect now-world. You can’t just choose to
plunge wholeheartedly into the magical realm and stay there.
Understanding and knowledge of the perfection of this world is all there for
the taking, but I cannot give it to you, nor can you think your way there. It
only comes from your own direct experience.
The knowledge only comes from the doing.
Now, I’ve written this book because when it came to my own ‘path’, my
own learning, my own journey, I had to do and do and do. I had to make
things and create things. I had to learn to manipulate my reality in every
possible way. I had to master ‘manifesting’. I had to learn how to use magic
to create stuff, effect change and get my life just right (or just as I thought it
should be).
I needed to make stuff happen, I needed the law of attraction and
manifesting. I needed to get my world ‘just right’, just so that I could come
to realise that I never needed to do that in the first place. I couldn’t get to
the end of the pathless path without taking the steps.
And so, I offer you this final, ultimate technique. Make your world perfect
so that you can come to see that it was already perfect all along.
I offer you this technique as a rung on a ladder you will eventually kick
away.
To master The Ultimate Technique, we simply:
Decide something is so.Tell a new story that fits it.See, hear, sense, and feel
the new story.Act 100% in accordance with the new story, as though it were
true.Cast all evidence to the contrary as fluke or otherwise to be explained
away.Keep going until you believe it.
Or,
Let everything, every tiny thing be profoundly okay in this moment.
Surrender completely to the flow of life.
Or, best of all, we do both!
We use all our capacities and sensibilities to create a ‘better’ world, while
letting this one be absolutely and completely fine as it is. We recognise the
perfection of this moment, while also moving in the direction of better
things. We keep a foot in both worlds, until they reveal themselves to be
one. We walk along the tightrope until it disappears. We climb that ladder
until we can kick it away. We climb a ladder we will eventually see as
completely necessary and completely nonsensical. We climb a ladder of
illusion that points to truth.
And at some point, we will come to the end of playing around in,
describing, or manipulating this illusion. We will, in a sense, step outside it,
kick away the ladder, and move on to the next stage.
But until that stage, use The Ultimate Technique. Keep a foot in both
worlds. Walk the tightrope until it starts to disappear. Make all the things
and get all the stuff and enjoy every single footstep on this incredible
journey.
THE GENEVIEVE DAVIS ACADEMY OF MAGIC

The Academy of Magic is the central hub for all my magical teaching. To
find out more, do watch the free Academy Masterclass Training, The
Unbelievable Truth About Happiness. This video is a great example of the
teaching you’ll receive in the Academy. Just visit this link to watch
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The Academy offers a full magical education covering everything from
basic manifestation, to overcoming anxiety and depression, right up to
spiritual awakening and discovering the truth about who you really are. As
a member, you’ll enjoy an exciting, year-long magical learning program
designed to keep you immersed in magic, fully supported, inspired and
accountable in achieving your goals.
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See you there!

About Genevieve

Genevieve Davis (real name, Sasha Stephens) is the author of over twenty
books, including five others on the subject of using magic to create a better
life.
Becoming Magic

Doing Magic

Advanced Magic

Becoming Rich

Magic Words and How to Use Them

Her memoir, Becoming Genevieve, details the spiritual journey that led her
to discover magic.
Genevieve lives in the south of England with her partner, Mike and their
two cats. For all inquiries, and to find out more about Genevieve and her
teachings, do visit the main website.
www.becomingmagic.com