Barrie Dolnick - Simple Spells For Success: Ancient Practices for Creating Abundance and Prosperity

Every day there are many ways to increase prosperity and abundance in your life. At first you may think its just a matter of picking the right lottery numbers or getting that sweepstakes entry in on time. After you read this book youll be better versed in more hands-on, gratifying ways of making your life more abundant.

Dont be squeamish; you wont have to promise your firstborn or give up your personal indulgences. Sometimes getting what you want does require you to make room for it, so you may have to give up the old job to get the better one. With these spells, youll end up with much more than you started out with. While abundance is both a spiritual and a material state, it is not a Faustian process. You dont have to give up your goodness or your soul to live in the flow of prosperity.

With the right intention and a little magic, you can create abundance and pleasure in every part of your life.

There is only one successto
spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

I come to you with a true success story, one that was entirely based on a spell. A woman had worked in advertising for twelve years. She was successful in it, as her title of senior vice president implied, yet she was unhappy and didnt want to stay in that field any longer. Like most people, she worried that she was too old, that she wasnt trained in anything else, that she had no real talent to rely upon. In short, she worried whether it was even possible to make such a vast change. Taking advantage of some ancient wisdom, she cast a spell to change her career. She was a skeptic, but impulsive and hopeful. She didnt know what she wanted to do with her life, but she knew that she needed her work to be more in line with her creativity (whatever that was) and to bring her prosperity (she realized that she could easily be creative but starve). It took a while, longer than she liked, in fact, but her career did change. She is a writer and consultant specializing in spell casting. I am describing my own experience to you. I think it worked out well, so far.

Spells are all around you, if you take time to notice them. Preparing for a meeting, you may wear symbols of power or prestige, you may choose a time of day that works in your favor; some people wear a special fragrance or their lucky socks, even power suits. My mother used to boil cinnamon to make our house seem more welcoming; she was unconsciously casting an atmosphere of energy and warmth. You too are constantly casting spells unconsciously. When you really put awareness behind it, you can make success much more likely.

Success is a relative term, measured and defined differently for everyone. For one person, success can mean making a million dollars, while for another, success is just making ends meet in a crunch. Success is the meeting of a goal, in whatever form it takes. Generally, we are a goal-oriented culture, constantly setting ourselves up to achieve: start a new project, get that promotion, find the right people to work withthe list goes on indefinitely. This book is about using your own power in conjunction with the power of the universe to manifest those goals, whatever they may be.

For those of you who read my first book, Simple Spells for Love, this will be familiar territory. My personal definition is: A spell is an organized wish that carries with it energy to manifest in reality.

Its no good just wishing you had a better job and more moneywe wish for things every day and sometimes they come true, sometimes not. When you cast a spell, you are making your wish more like a round-trip request. You send it out to the universe with the power to come back to you, the energy to make it come true.