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Title: You have the magic : harness the power of your mind to transform your reality / Haley Hoffman Smith.

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CONTENTS

COVER

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COPYRIGHT

INTRODUCTION

Part 1: You Are the Magic

CHAPTER 1: Today Is Open to Interpretation

CHAPTER 2: I Envision, Then I See

CHAPTER 3: Into the Depths of the Subconscious Mind

Part 2: The Magic Toolbox: Rewire and Uplevel

CHAPTER 4: The Subconscious Breakthrough Formula

CHAPTER 5: The Tool That Changed My Life: EFT Tapping

CHAPTER 6: How to Use EFT to Rewire

CHAPTER 7: Building New Neural Pathways

Part 3: Magic Ever After

CHAPTER 8: Unseen Magic and Trusting the Timing of Your Life

CHAPTER 9: Daily Routine for Magic

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

DISCOVER MORE

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INTRODUCTION

Golden sunlight poured through the cracks between the blinds, and I felt the warmth on my skin, eyes still closed. I took a moment, lingering in the velvety darkness behind my eyelids, taking in the sparkly newness that filled the air and energy around me.

My eyes slowly opened, and I took in the most delightful, half-blurred sight: a cute little studio apartment, scattered boxes and suitcases, and a half-inflated mattress underneath me. I leapt out of bed, yanked the blinds up, and scurried to the bathroom to put in my contacts. As the world came into full clarity (thanks, Acuvue), I faced myself in the mirror and saw a glow within me that I’d never seen before. A glow of promise. Evidence that something irrevocable had changed within me, that in a way, everything over the preceding months and years had been leading me to this moment. The cityscape and a sliver of the Hudson River reflected in the mirror behind me seemed to wink in the sunlight, and I felt completely and utterly alive.

This was the first morning in my first New York City apartment. I had finally arrived from my hometown in Colorado, ready to follow my long-held dreams. But more importantly, my surroundings—the entire apartment, my new apartment, with its floor-to-ceiling windows, sunbeams dancing across the hardwoods, white kitchen, and even that tiny sliver of the Hudson River—formed the exact scene I had constructed in my mind’s eye months prior. It was uncanny, otherworldly. And the story of how I had arrived there was even more glorious than I could have fathomed.

Now, if you had shown this image to the version of me just one year or even six months prior, I would never have believed it could be real. It had been every type of impossible to me; a pipe dream that MAYBE I could have seen myself achieving in a decade if I was lucky. That version of me was living in my hometown, an unemployed college graduate who was capital-M Miserable. I had tried to take the leap to start my own business after bravely quitting my first postgrad job, and that leap ended up being more like a freefall. Without a parachute. Into a dark abyss of resistance, stagnation, procrastination, and compromised self-esteem.

We’ll get into the gory details later, but the truth is, I am beyond grateful for my looooong swim in that swampy abyss because without it, I never would have discovered the tools that would one day take me to higher ground. I never would have addressed what was REALLY going on beneath the surface and taken steps to validate the dreams I’d had my entire life. Even the most trying and difficult times in our lives have the potential to be the soil in which our new beginnings sprout, if we choose to see their potential. Although part of me still cringes when I see photos from that time in my life, I also worship at the altar of that swampy year because it shaped the most amazing expansion, the blooming that would happen next.

Maybe you’re feeling the same way right now: lost in the abyss. You can usually tell you’re there when hope feels low and everything that could thrill you feels impossible, or like there’s a block between you and it. Maybe it seems so easy for others, but never for you. Maybe you get really great ideas and bursts of energy at inopportune times like right before bed, and you promise you’ll start on them tomorrow, only to feel like you picked up a backpack filled with twenty-seven dumbbells when the next day comes. Heavy. Icky. Stuck.

Maybe you’ve been wanting something for your life for so long, but it just hasn’t been happening, and so now you’re almost expecting discouragement. Maybe you get close every time, but always seem to fall short.

Put simply, maybe one part—or even every part—of your life has made you believe magic is only found in children’s books about mystical realms. I get it.

I’m here to change that misconception.

To me, magic is not (necessarily) pulling bunnies out of hats or trailing pixie dust wherever you walk. It’s how I like to think about the incredible energetic creative power we have to transform our lives when we clear the barriers in the way.

The truth is, this time next week, your life could look completely different. TOMORROW, your life could look completely different.Even a micro-shift in your energy can steer your life onto a whole new track. A life-changing idea that arrives out of the blue. A chance encounter with someone who opens a door for you (literally or metaphorically). A new way of viewing the world and your place in it. A shift in your belief that creates a shift in your external reality.

This book is many things, but at the core it is a handbook to tap into the magic that you have within you, and the magic that always surrounds you, and use it to absolutely change your life.

But I want to be clear. This book isn’t just about fulfilling vision board items and manifesting them into your reality, like how I did with my New York City apartment. And it isn’t about abstract, airy-fairy concepts, even if its concepts do feel pretty magical.

This book is rooted in neuroscience and the proven ways our brains actually control what shows up in our reality.

And my goal is to share this information in the most accessible, easy-to-understand way possible. You will grasp how your brain’s neural pathways and your subconscious beliefs have shaped your life with incredible precision. This insight is so satisfying and illuminating that as you read, I bet you’ll find yourself calculating your own subconscious breakthroughs all the time. (You may even help some click together for friends and family members, something I have way too much fun doing.)

The Subconscious Breakthrough Formula presented in this book is basically a new lens through which you’ll learn to see the world—one that will clear up so many mysteries. Like a pattern emerging out of the fog. And it’s my promise to you that you’ll never see the world—or yourself—in the same way after reading it and following the exercises.

I know something led you to this book. You’ve suspected for a long time—your whole life, maybe—that there is more available to you than what meets the eye. Maybe you, too, tried wishing on stars and fireflies growing up, or you’ve had awe-inspiring moments that made you suspect life has wonderful secrets in store for you. Or maybe you’ve just seen miracles happen for others, and curiosity got the best of you. Maybe this is your last-ditch effort at believing in something beyond, or maybe it’s an exciting next step of a journey that’s already been so expansive and fulfilling.

Whatever brought you here is magic, too. We are guided to what we need at the right time. When something piques our curiosity, it’s our soul saying, “Yes! THAT! That’s what I need for the next step.” As you navigate the book, you’ll feel your life begin to change because your awareness has changed. You’ll see how what you focus on and what you do with your energy has an immediate and undeniable effect on your reality. You’ll uncover deeper layers within you than ever before, creating a self-awareness that feels like coming home to yourself. And you’ll learn all the tools you need to radically shift everything.

I promise, if I could be totally stuck with no motivation, wasting my days snacking on granola on the couch and scrolling social media in my hometown, then suddenly skyrocket to my dream apartment, my dream city, and the success and career fulfillment I’d always dreamed of within a year… you can, too. But you don’t just have to take it from me. This book is full of stories from my coaching clients and those in my community who have experienced the same radical shifts in their own lives, in their own ways. They had their own subconscious breakthroughs with their own unique beliefs, memories, and self-concepts. And it helped each of them catapult into their own custom version of THEIR highest success and fulfillment.

In this book, you’ll learn the exact steps and processes that I took and that I now teach in my Dreamaway membership community. The truth is, I stumbled into this work because it works. I started seeing such incredible shifts and changes, and when people would ask me how it was all happening, the answer was that I’d started subconscious breakthrough work utilizing a modality called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping to release emotional blockages and limiting beliefs. I was actively rewiring my brain—and as within, so without. The internal shifts to my self-concept and what I believed was possible for myself resulted in rapid consequent changes in my external reality.

In this book, you’ll learn what a subconscious breakthrough is, how to give yourself one, and how to play detective to understand why you’ve been stuck or you’re not yet where you want to be in your life. This, to me, is the most exciting part. I call these answers “No wonder!”s because once you identify the core memory or belief behind a repeated pattern or stuckness, it doesn’t seem so random anymore. And then you know how to release it and step into a more empowering story and self-concept.

You’ll then learn about EFT Tapping in its entirety: the exact technique I teach, which has resulted in massive shifts and changes for thousands of people, helping them get significant raises at work, unlock dream opportunities, meet their soulmates, start their businesses, scale on social media, and just generally enjoy life more. I’ll show you how to use the process on yourself to achieve shifts in real time.

Mindset is a journey. Before we get into the subconscious and tapping magic, you’ll first learn how much your beliefs, thoughts, expectations, and daily actions create the sum total of your life experience. You’ll learn how to utilize visualization to create new experiences. You’ll learn hacks for rewiring your mind while you sleep at night and the best way to vision board. You’ll expand your innate power in every chapter, truly understand how much magic is already within you, and wake it up from its dormant state so you can experience real-life miracles.

And then, of course, there’s the magic beyond us. This book will also help you deepen your partnership with the Universe, Source, God—whatever you want to call it, whatever you believe in. Whatever your relationship with your faith is, goose bumps are inbound. When we connect to something beyond us and realize we are constantly receiving signs and guidance, we open to the truth that EVERYTHING is guiding our highest evolution.

I’m so glad you’re here. Wherever you currently are in life, however you’re currently feeling, this book will create energetic ripple effects throughout your existence. You’ll be able to point back one day and say, “That? That’s where everything changed for me.” That one day might even be tomorrow.

Reconnecting—or connecting for the first time—with the part of you that is aware of your magical gift to transform your entire life will do just that.

Because maybe, just maybe…

you have always been the magic.

AUTHOR’S NOTE ON SAFETY

The techniques presented in this book are supported by phenomenally exciting research for their efficacy. Although still being researched, EFT Tapping in particular has a growing body of studies and testimonials behind it. That said, some investigations into memories that involve significant trauma require the utmost care, and in these cases, I would advise that readers follow the techniques presented in part 2 only while working one-on-one with a licensed therapist or mental health professional.

The techniques presented in this book are not a substitute for therapy or any form of counseling, and they should not be used to contend with significant trauma. The intention of You Have the Magic is to help you discover and release subconscious blocks to uplevel in many areas of your life, but this is not a book written for or about trauma or psychotherapy. Many licensed therapists utilize EFT Tapping and other forms of subconscious discovery, and I wholeheartedly recommend booking sessions with them if you suspect that any content in this book or in your journaling might lead to emotionally challenging depths.

You are supported, and great peace awaits you, no matter which way you choose to utilize this powerful process and modality.