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My Work with Magic by Glen Martin
Enjoying the structure of love
I began working with William Whitecloud and the Creative Orientation 4 years ago at a time in my life when I was feeling very much at the “receiving end” of a whole set of circumstances that were, from my perspective, far from optimum. I was running, with my business partner, a business which, although highly profitable, was also in danger of collapse due to the inept and unethical behaviour of our sole supplier. I had become obsessed with the struggle to make it rich by “making it right”, and was mentally and emotionally exhausted. I had gotten massively sidetracked from my career as a performing artist, and I lived with a constant sense of angst and frustration.
If I was to try and describe my thinking at that time, I would say that I was still following that wonderful Protestant work ethic that was a big part of my family culture, epitomized by the saying that “the secret to a happy life is hard work”. It certainly hadn’t “worked” for me – not for years – and yet, old habits die hard, don’t they?? Overcoming the struggle had become as important as any of the “real” goals in my life. A millionaire friend of mine had in fact remarked to me in the mid-nineties, “Boy Glen, I’ve never seen anyone so ambitious work so hard and have such little money.”
I had also, over the years, unwittingly become a master manipulator, spending a huge amount of my life force each day trying to “look good”, be “all things to all people” and most of all to think my way out of my problems (hard work at the best of times). But the effort required to pull this off was exhausting, leaving me with limited energy to actually pursue my dreams! My thoughts and feelings had indeed proved to be unreliable allies.
And so in 2001 I embarked on the journey to discover – or should I say “rediscover” the ability to create. I had always believed that this virtue (creativity) was a much more important attribute than to be only expressed in music, painting and other arts. My heart somehow knew that this was a fundamental life skill that could transform my ability to achieve happiness and contentment, but for all practical purposes it was just a vague, nebulous ideal. What I now understand is that what I lacked was a structure that would support my idealism.
The first tangible benefit of the creative orientation was that I started to detach from the desperate “try hard” part of me. My days began to assume, right from the beginning, a peacefulness that had escaped me my whole life. I realized that I had been addicted to “fixing” my problems, and I leapt at the opportunity to abandon that strategy once and for all. In its place was a serene “knowing” that I didn’t have to make things happen any more. I now knew there were far more powerful forces within me of which I could avail myself. All I had to do was choose.
I have always considered myself a loving person, and it was thrilling to be given a premise where I could move through life not obsessed with problems and their solutions, but rather focusing on what I loved to do and giving that love all of my energy instead. And it worked! As I got clear about what my heart wanted, and concentrated on those things, I started moving toward my dreams faster than I could remember ever happening before. It is amazing to me just how fast that one can progress when love, not fear, is the dominant force. And yet this premise is so elegant and so simple that most people remain completely oblivious to it.
Through William’s work I began to learn that that I was not, in fact a victim of my circumstances, but was (and always had been) the creator of them. If I could create misery and struggle for myself, then according to the premise, I could just as easily create beauty, order and ease if I so desired. Boy did my old self argue with that one! Yet the evidence of my progress on this path is to me unmistakable. Little by little I have been internalizing this and other allied principles for just on four years now. And the results, for me, have been spectacular. Since I met William, my income has increased several fold, my artistic life is flourishing, and I am genuinely as happy as I have ever been.
Every day I realize more deeply that the ability to perform magic and to create is the birthright of every human being. God has given us all this ability – without exception. And in that sense, maybe it isn’t really magic at all! More and more it just seems like….common sense.
Glen Martin
Glen Martin is a very talented actor and musician who also happens to be one of Australia’s most experienced network marketing professionals.
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