Rhonda Byrne

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens

Magic Practice Number 2

The Magic Rock

1. Repeat steps one to three of Magic Practice Number 1 – Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread your list, and at the end of each blessing say thank you, thank you, thank you, and feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Find a Magic Rock and put it by your bedside.

3. Before going to sleep tonight, hold your Magic Rock in your hand and think of the best thing that happened today.

4. Say the magic words, thank you, for the best thing that happened today.

5. Repeat the Magic Rock practice every night for the next 26 days.

6. Read tomorrow’s magical practice today.

Day 3

Magical Relationships

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

Thornton Wilder

You could be grateful for their patience, ability to listen, talents, strength, good judgment, wisdom, laugh, sense of humor, eyes, smile, or kind heart. You could be grateful for the things you enjoy doing with the person, or you can recall a time when the person was there for you, cared for, or supported you

choose the five things you are the most grateful for

three times during the day, following the same procedure

Magic Practice Number 3

Magical Relationships

1. Repeat steps one to three of Magic Practice Number 1 – Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread your list, and at the end of each blessing say thank you, thank you, thank you, and feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Choose three of your closest relationships and collect a photograph of each person.

3. With the photo in front of you, write five things you are most grateful for about each person, in your journal or on your computer.

4. Begin each sentence with the magic words, thank you, include their name, and what you’re specifically grateful for.

5. Carry the three photographs with you today, or put them in a place where you will see them often. Look at the photographs on at least three occasions, speak to the person’s face in the photograph, and thank them by saying the magic words, thank you, and their name. Thank you, Hayley.

6. Before you go to sleep, take your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the magic words, thank you, for the best thing that happened during the day

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”

John Henry Jowet

“The greatest wealth is health.”