balancing daily life with magical practice

[qwzxas]

How do you balance your everyday mundane life with your magical practice?

 

[Morell]

How do you balance your everyday mundane life with your magical practice?

I do my best to merge them into one whole: my life.

 

[A.Nox]

I don t separate the two. My “mundane life” is where the results of my work manifest. Magic is not something I step into — it s something I operate through

 

[Robert Ramsay]

To quote Vila from Blake's 7: "A thief isn't what I do; it's what I am"

 

[stalkinghyena]

Routine. I was always told that this was bad from the beginning, because "routine" can be associated with something taken for granted (99.999... % of the "mundane"). Nevertheless, daily observance of certain rites, a regular schedule based on symbolic actions and an observance of cyclic time as opposed to flat linear time adds a magical purpose to the "mundane". Gradually, the mundane can be recognized as part of the ritual, even if it is boring, plain and a pain in the ass.

 

[Dènye Patwon]

Magic is life. Life is a event of rituals. Rituals is practice.

You are using magic everyday unknowingly.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Magic is life. Life is a event of rituals. Rituals is practice.

You are using magic everyday unknowingly.

I see magic as an unexpected consequence of normal human consciousness; one that everyone has, but few harness, like many human abilities. It becomes part of your life because it has (unknowingly as you say) always been part of your life.

 

[Janus]

Concentrate on basic magical practices which will then affect mundane life in more ways than one, and in my experience, my mundane life just got thrown all over the place, from work to friends as my life started to change.

 

[nargile57]

They are one and the same, one should not be concentrated upon at the expense of the other.
Spiritual life is a blend of ingredients. If you are the correct path for you, then all will fall into place naturally.

 

[OberonFromTheHills]

There are many angles to answer that question.

If you talk about hard practice, i can't imagine going through my day without visualisation, blessings, breathing....

When it comes to life philosophy, i just not to lose myself in delusions.

 

[GGold]

I have specific practises that I have integrated into my day over time.
It would feel weird now if I did not do them. I have practises to start my day and some to end the day. The end ones especially actually help my sleep routine. So they are practically beneficial too.

 

[PedroM]

But in dreams...

 

[Diamond-otherkin]

I think there are sub-subjects in your question.

First, like everyone else, I try to include my practice in my 'mundane' life, or more accurately try to blend them so that it's impossible to distinguish one from the other. For example: eating could be mundane but taking 3seconds to do a mini ritual of thankfulness or even a healing visualization before eating makes it magical. Same for cleaning the floor or anything else you do during your day.

Second point is the physicality of things/ tools/ movements that can or can not be accepted in certain situations. As a professional closeted witch I have come up with several strategies to disguise tools as other tools, replace them, or simply use my mind's eye only when necessary. The key here is training and creativity + some testing.
You can do a lot with next to nothing, actually you can do anything, it's just a question of preference (and a little bit of training let's be honest).
I would recommend an e-book reader (with password), paper and pen, and a spoon or an otherwise acceptable metallic tool for scraping/ banishing/ cutting through as starters. Lighters and candles are usually viewed as quite neutral but again I don't know which context you are in.

So to come back to your question you can also use mundane objects for your magic where the goals are to impact your 'mundane' life. One day you may wake up, or more likely realize during a meditation that nothing is mundane anymore in your life. You're a magus Qwzxas.

 

[smegvig]

I don’t really separate it from daily life anymore. I keep it simple: setting intentions, staying mindful, maybe pulling a quick tarot card here and there.

That way it feels natural instead of something I have to make extra time for.