In my introduction to the forum, I wrote about not getting myself organized or being consistent with my magickal practice. I’ve decided to journal my daily practice here in the form of what I get up to concerning magick. The whole point of me joining was to engage more with the wider community.
Cheers!
Adapted belly breathing (two short breaths in through the nose and one long exhale out through the mouth) 5-10 times
LBRP
Ritual to eat more healthily
I would like to add that I have struggled with my weight going up and down for years, but since I moved to another country, I’ve ballooned 20 kg. Over the last few months I’ve gotten control of my weight, stabilized, and it’s finally going down, albeit slowly. The diet is holding me back though. Since enlisting magick, it’s as if all these little support networks that never existed before just appeared!
A couple very basic principles I’ve learned about magic over the past couple years:
With that in mind, my little bit of effort after my ritual seems to have literally thrown up a diamond amongst all the rough on YouTube. Dr. Mike Diamond: licensed doctor, champion bodybuilder, self experimenter. It’s early days so I won’t go on but maybe this can form part of my journal.
Since my last post I’ve done the LBRP a couple times, but I should be doing it every day.
TY 
Long post alert!
TL DR: Need to start afresh; too many rituals/spells/lust for results while not keeping track of work has led to getting completely mixed up; going to do some simple protection and cleansing work for a month or so before moving forward.
I’ve decided that I need a bit of a clear-out. I was skimming through a range of different magick books I’ve purchased over the years, some beginner texts that I have used extensively, some with varied rituals like Demons of Magick also from GoM which I have used sparingly, and other more advanced grimoires which I have read but not used. I realized that I highlighted, took notes, wrote down which rituals/spells I completed but these notes are all over the place and most are lost. I have a slight memory of some of the work I have done but my book keeping - or is it called a shadow book? - is quite frankly missing. I’m annoyed with myself.
I reckon that in order to get something of a clean slate I need to cleanse myself of any fuck ups, entanglements, interferences, or problems I may have caused myself due to not keeping track of my work, throwing out a multitude of rituals at one issue (lusting after results) and just being a general klutz who has gotten himself in a proper muddle.
I read through the GoM’s Magickal Protection book, and the parts I was looking for were already highlighted, which reminded me that I had gone through this process a couple of years back when I first became interested in magick.
The GoM’s rituals are simple but effective - I can attest to that. Last year, I received a call for a job offer out of the blue for a position that rarely opens up in my field in my area. About 5 weeks ago, the exact same thing happened but now with a different company who offered better terms, so I am now leaving the company that offered the job last year. However, I digress…
At the very least. I will work on the Sword Banishing Ritual in addition to their 33 day Master Protection Ritual. I remember working on these in the past, but I don’t remember if I reached the full 33 days due to not keeping proper notes! My intuition tells me that I should also perform the Ritual to Banish Parasites. Also as my family and I are moving home, I will perform the Ritual to Cleanse any Space.
That’s a lot of rituals, but I think it best to reset and start afresh as best I can before moving forward.
TY 
I’m still losing weight which is good. I’ve been moving house this past week so I haven’t been as consistent with the Master Protection Ritual.
I feel there are moments when I could steal the time to complete those rituals, but those are usually when I end up getting disturbed. Still, there are easily 10 minutes in a day when I’m messing about on my phone, but I like to be alone when doing magick.
Last year, I had some unfinished business with an old buddy of mine and I wanted to clear the air face-to-face; however, any ritual I completed with regards to making that happen just seemed to not work, or I thought they lived too far away so they could easily avoid catching up. I did one last ritual using Lucifer and the Hidden Demons by Theodore Rose to try and push the issue towards a conclusion.
I met a family member of my old friend’s, and they told me he might be visiting soon due to a family event, so I will find out in due course. Things are finally moving!
Cheers
Just a quick update to say that things moved fast in terms of the ritual. I bumped into my old friend’s family again and they had called him to see if he was visiting but unfortunately he was already going on holiday. In that sense, the ritual worked but I was asking for too much. Things moved fast because all of a sudden there was this potential for him to come and visit, but it was too soon to make things come together. Maybe I have to manufacture a bunch of coincidences to get it going properly.
I revived an old thread regarding Damon Brand’s Magickal Destiny, but it was a book I felt drawn to, and I am mighty glad I started reading it. I’ve been making the mistake of looking for quick results in magick, but I think this book has shifted my perspective of what I should be doing and how I should be learning.
Another member wrote a great post about Gordon Winterfeld’s Demon’s of Magick text, and they hammered home the same thing, but I wasn’t listening until I started reading Magickal Destiny. Let’s see if I am still practicing it in two weeks. I am confident that I will be because it’s opened me to a totally new realm of existence.
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If you can, buy a daily journal and Israel Regardie’s One Year Manual. Working with those two together will allow you to lay out a consistent daily practice over long periods of time.
Also, if you can, get Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine. Preceding the Regardie work with Donna’s exercises will open up your energy centres. Donna lays out an 8 week timetable for doing her daily drills and her stuff is absolute gold, i’m very impressed with her and her husband’s esoteric knowledge.
Some mages don’t like dancing, i get it. Ok. If Donna’s exercises are too feminine for you and you want something more masculine-oriented, look up Peter Kelder’s Five Rites from his book Eye of Revelation, which do the same thing Donna’s work does, but in a tighter form befitting the male body. There is no special timetable for the Five Rites, they’re free weight exercises meant to maintain youthful vigor.
Doing your breathing exercises with either Donna or Peter’s drills can really help you as long as you persist in doing the drills over time. Same with Dr. Regardie’s OYM, it builds in effect over time.
Once you’ve completed Dr. Regardie’s OYM, Peteonthebeat has a Hexagram Ritual book that is very well-written that can kick your magick into a higher gear. Hexagram magick is the next step after you’ve used the Pentagram work to prepare your mind for miracles.
Read The Cure To All Diseases by Hulda Clark. If you understand electronics, build one of her zappers; she provides the schematic and describes the exact parts you need to buy. If not, buy one online with copper terminals.
Dr. Clark believed obesity was an inflammatory disease caused by parasites. Her zapper has been successfully used by multiple people for weight loss. Whether her zapper cures other disease is not my concern, but it works for weight loss in a way similar to use TENS units, but for internal organs and energetic pathways rather than muscles and nerves…
Thank you for the reply. I’m grateful that you took the time.
I owned a copy of Israel Regardie’s One Year Manual and stuck to it for a few months. I’d like to say that raising a family and the general business of life was the reason I dropped out of practicing, but truth be told, I rarely stick to anything. Magick is the one thing outside of family life that the penny has dropped, and if I’m serious, I should go back and order another copy of the One Year Manual. It’s crossed my mind several times.
Luckily for me my wife is a dance teacher, so I think that may well be an opportunity to get a few lessons from her!
I’ll stop there because I always overcommit which tricks me into feeling like I’ve already accomplished something. I’ve got to think long road + consistency = better results.
Thank you once again. I really appreciate it.
Since your wife is a dancer, show her Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine. She’ll take to it like a fish to water. Let her use that as a warmup to her dancing or a warmdown after; it’ll keep her healthy and help her avoid injuries.
Even if you drift off, she’ll stick to it and she’ll become more psychic. At that point you’ll have a reason to join her in the exercises and a reason to stick to them. At that point you can either join her with Donna’s exercises, or do the Tibetan Rituals to maintain your own vitality.
Having a compelling reason to do things will get rid of procrastination or lack of focus.