I Have Magical Powers
I have magical powers. I’m talking about bona fide powers that give me control over other people. I can control their blood pressure, make their bodies shake, cause them to sweat, and even regulate how well they breathe. Yes, just like in the Harry Potter books. I can direct my attention at someone, say a short incantation, and have almost complete control over them. I don’t need a wand like in the books, but I do think it would make the experience a lot more fun for me. I don’t even need to learn Latin for my incantations; I can use regular, everyday English to exert my powers. You too can become as powerful as I am.
Now, at this point, I’m sure you’re doubting me. You might think I’m “full of shit” or, worse yet, “delusional.” You’re probably telling yourself, “Magical powers aren’t real” or “Harry Potter is just make-believe.” Yes, Harry Potter is make-believe, but these powers are not.
I first noticed this powerful magic on the school playground. I was an elementary teacher for many years, and invariably, often on a daily basis, kids would come up to me and report that a classmate, with whom they were playing, called them a name. Now, in most cases, the name itself was irrelevant. It could be “stupid” or “dumb”—your garden-variety name-calling. Sometimes, the children would delight me with their creativity and use incantations like “smelly belly” or, one of my personal favorites, “peanut butter head.”
I always responded in the same way. I would ask the child, “Are you stupid?” or whatever the name was. The child would pause and say, “No, I’m not stupid.” Then I would respond, “So, Billy is wrong, isn’t he?” Ninety-nine percent of the time, the child would consider this, agree that Billy was wrong and become quickly and efficiently calmed. I would usually follow up with advice like, “If someone were calling me names like that, I wouldn’t want to play with them. But that’s your decision.”
Sure, later on, I’d have to pull Billy aside and talk to him about making friends and how name-calling is not an effective way to do so. But this approach usually resolved the conflict quickly, restoring playground equilibrium with minimal effort.
However, with adults, this kind of resolution is not as easy. We’ve all witnessed mundane disagreements devolve into a series of back-and-forth name-calling, like the combatants in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, where they throw glowing balls of energy at each other in an attempt to destroy their opponent, often exhausting themselves to the point of collapse. In real life, some of these interactions have even lead to permanent estrangement. Now that you know what the magic is and how it works, You may wonder, as many would, how to protect yourself from these attacks so they have no sway over you. I have good news: A few minor alterations in how you comport yourself can protect you from such onslaughts. First we we need to establish some psychological techniques that are very helpful with this.
The first technique is easy, The fact that someone calls you a name does not literally cause you to become that thing in real life. You must understand For example, if someone calls you a cow, you do not literally become a cow. The fact that someone called you a cow doesn’t make you literally become one. That’s just ridiculous. The same goes for other names, like “bitch” or “asshole.”
The second technique involves how you see yourself but for some this could take the better part of a lifetime to master. But know, the sooner you can master it the better off you will be in not only this kind of magic but other kinds of magic as well. The only way a name-caller can wield power over you is by your acceptance of their reality over your own. if you accept their assessment of your character then you become prey. You need to figure out who you are so that other people’s opinions of you are irrelevant to how you see yourself.
If you can accept and master these simple techniques, you will be able to safeguard yourself from these types of magical assaults in the future. Now that you know about these powers, I need to caution you a bit on their use. You might think, “Well, this magic is very powerful. Now that I know about it, I could use it to control others and bend them to my will.” well, Just like in Harry Potter some magicians are more powerful than others, I would say around 10 to 15 percent of the population, can elude and dismiss your attempts to use this power on them. Also, there’s a rule in magic, whether you’re a great or middling magician you know this to be true: Whatever spells you put out there will come back to you with the same intensity and form that you sent them. It’s kind of like the saying, “You reap what you sow.” also known in some circles as Karma. So, you’ll need to be very discerning about how you use it. You don’t want to be an evil magician—the evil ones never win. Think of Lord Voldemort: He succumbed to evil intentions and was thoroughly destroyed in the end.
So now that you know the magic and how to use it, practice the techniques until they become ingrained and remember nine times out of ten, a good defense is the best offense.
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