Ostrow - Life Magic : How to Create Everything You Ever Wanted

Contents

PART I
The Power of Thought:
Love, Money, Health

PART II
That Ol Black Magic:
Disempowerment

PART III
Identifying your Beliefs

PART IV
White Life Magic:
Empowerment

PART V
Results:
Magic Happens

PART VI
Ten Tips to Happy Ever After

ITS NOT A SECRET

LIKE MILLIONS OF people around the world, I have enjoyed books like TheSecret, Deepak Chopras SynchroDestiny, films like What the Bleep Do We Know!? and other courses in self-determination.But like many I have been left wondering why, despite best efforts, I havent been able to manifest some of the important things I want. This little book is the missing link, explaining that its not until you have unearthed your deepest, hidden beliefs those sneaky demons that hang out in your unconscious mind and dealt with whats really blocking you, that you can go forward and create everything you ever desired.

And it makes perfect sense. Before planting healthy seeds, weeds have to be removed and the ground prepared.

This book will help you uncover your tired old beliefs, secret mind-codes and self-defeating habits that disempower you. And then using Life Magic as a potent magic wand you will learn how to become an alchemist in your own life, and quite literally change dust into gold.

PART I
The Power of
Thought

LOVE

WHEN WORKING AS a Sex & Relationships writer a few years ago, I heard two stories that rocked my world. In a period of a few days I met up with two very different women. One was exceptionally beautiful.

A former model and now celebrity beauty consultant with long blonde hair and even longer legs, she was the proverbial hot babe. She was nevertheless lamenting the breakdown of her marriage. Her partner, it seemed, had been cheating on her despite her beauty, wit and brains.

The other woman I met up with was the opposite to what we in this culture are taught to believe is desirable. Whilst still a pleasant looking woman, she was ten years older than the other and was short, voluptuous with greying hair and not into wearing make-up. She too had just broken up from her marriage. Except she was the one who had left.

I am a cheerful person. I love going out. I just got a bit bored, she sighed, and since the kids had recently graduated from school and moved into their own premises she had decided to do the same. Nothing lasts forever, was her flippant retort.

THE TWO WOMEN independently shared with me the difficulties of being single later in life the issues facing older single women, getting used to taking responsibility for things otherwise done by their partner, the awkwardness of dating after years of nesting. I watched the beautiful blonde with fascination. Well it wont be hard for you, just look at you. Youll have men coming on to you like bees to a honey pot, I thought to myself with a twinge of envy. The other elicited in me a feeling of great compassion. I did wonder what life had in store for a 50-something woman who looked middle-aged. I knew one would have a hard time finding love, and for the other, it would be ridiculously easy.

And I was right. A few months later, as I had predicted, there were men dancing around my friend. And in all the dating havoc, she met her dream man a handsome multi-millionaire from the States who had several overseas interests and who was just visiting an Australian investment when, in a chance encounter, they met and bonded. I actually felt myself turn green with jealousy as the story unfolded of plans for overseas travel and the millionaire being so kind and generous as to have won her heart. The other friend remained frustrated and alone and is still alone to this day.

But here is the punch-line. The friend who got her man wasnt the bombshell! It was the cheerful, middle-aged woman. This story has stumped me all these years. I keep going over and over it in my mind.

LIKE MOST WOMEN, I have always had issues with my body image. Despite the lovely compliments I have received all my life, the disempowering nature of our society and the competitive rivalry fostered between women by the media and glossy magazines has created in me as much as the next woman a sense of not being good enough not being pretty enough, slim enough, young enough. In short, not worthy of love.

So how could it be that someone, lovely and intelligent as she is, who does not fit societys prescriptions, had struck gold? And indeed it is not the only story like this I have heard. A dear friend, the mother of five dependent children, ended up with a handsome, sexy man who wanted to help raise her kids. Another acquaintance, who had such bad eczema on his body and face that he was often hospitalised, met a highly desirable woman in the same field of work as him, and they now travel the world living in exotic locations, earning fabulous money, with two lovely children, whilst others of my more gorgeous friends of either gender with their peachy skin, great personalities and high intelligence, find themselves alone, depressed and dateless. Meanwhile, who could ever forget the story of Camilla Parker Bowles stealing the Princes heart over the magnificent Princess Diana?

ALL OF WHICH lends itself to some deeper analysis. What is at the root of being so-called lucky in love? I began investigating stories of Happy Ever After and comparing them. And underneath the physical layers facelifts, make-up, beauty creams, tight butts, big breasts, money, charming personalities, and perfection lay a fundamentally important truth.

In one group of love seekers the successful ones there was a profound and unshakeable belief in the outcome they would eventually achieve. Not for one second, not even a nanosecond, did any of them doubt their ability to find love, and live a happy, healthy, successful life. They all acknowledged to me the difficulties of single life, but none had ever created a negative story around it:

I will never meet

It is difficult to find

I am not

For those friends of mine who have remained perpetually spurned by love there are stories galore.

I call them Disempowering Beliefs or DBs . These are self-sabotaging beliefs that prevent us from getting what we want. They are both conscious and unconscious and feel true for us. Because many of these mantras are indeed unconscious, I also refer to them as secret mind-codes:

I am not that attractive

Older women cant meet men

Relationships take away yourfreedom

It will all end in tears

No one will want me

Its hard to find a man