Magic for making yourself more successful?

[Butterfly Affect]

I thought of titling this as "Magic for Job Success" but honestly, I was wondering if I could go a step further. Changing yourself to make yourself more tolerant of hurdles, being able to seek out better jobs, more motivated and more productive, etc, as opposed to affecting a pool of job managers and making one come out.

I thought of doing this through hypnosis but I haven't tested it yet. I don't exactly know what prompts I'd use for it. Hypnosis already requires a huge amount of concentration, although I realize I can concentrate more on hypnosis than if I did with normal sigils.

The only thing I can think of backfiring is that if I mess something up, it would affect me more than it would if I had just done magick to affect another person.

Excuse the thought puke, I haven't been able to write down anything in a journal for a while.

 

[Anziel_Merkaba]

Road opener rituals are useful, especially ones that are multi-day workings to set up. With the right context they can not only clear the way but give you the boost you need to actually get going. Hypnosis can do it too but self-hypnosis can be a bit hit-or-miss in terms of actually sticking and getting results. Also external rituals do have a 'self-hypnosis' aspect to them in that going through the motions of the ritual adds weight to the intent behind the ritual, which sticks in your subconscious mind better than just telling yourself to be better.

 

[AlfrunGrima]

Hypnosis can do it too but self-hypnosis can be a bit hit-or-miss in terms of actually sticking and getting results. Also external rituals do have a 'self-hypnosis' aspect to them in that going through the motions of the ritual adds weight to the intent behind the ritual, which sticks in your subconscious mind better than just telling yourself to be better.

Every input has to reach your brain through your working memory (a cognitive system that can hold information temporary, but with a limited capacity of tiny little chunks or parts of information). If you add more ritual, you add more (sensory) information to process. More information to process gives more chances to reach your subconscious mind, literally because of more connections in the brains.... It is actually more complex than this, but for designing rituals this is a good thing to keep in mind. So, in one or another way, it is interesting for a magician/sorcerer to find out how much information in a ritual is needed for good results, to find that optimum. That is very personal and it is a process that can take years. And while the mind is trained more and more, it is possible that things are changing too because the optimum changes... For women, I noticed that my natural hormone cycle sometimes is messing with this. But that is a completely other topic.

(attention/focus is one of the other parts of the puzzle, like the OP noted)

(edited to make one sentence better)

 

[HoldAll]

You might want to take a look at Damon Brand's "Success Magick: The Hidden Power of Enochian Rituals". Working through the whole book will take about a year but then 'success' is a pretty vague term so Brand approaches the subject as well as any problems you might have with this concept (e.g. a conviction of being a born loser, a general feeling of unworthiness, etc.) from multiple angles. Personal success is influenced by many factors, and I think he deals with them quite thoroughly.

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I suspect Damon Brand uses the same strategy in "Financial Transformation Magick" - transformation takes time and patience and can be pretty multi-facted so maybe you should identify the main obsctacles for your success and then design a series of operations.

 

[MidnightProphet]

You must read Og Mandino.

 

[Butterfly Affect]

Thanks everyone. I have a spirit around me and I think she's going to help me. I don't know how she got around me, she's a bit mysterious. I think she gave me the inspiration to ask this.