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  • Focused Meditation

    Hello everyone!  Very often clients tell me that they have trouble focusing when doing the "reflection" part of their love spell work.  They find that their mind wanders and they don’t feel that they are focused enough on what they are trying to do. 

    The article below by Kathy Glass, M.S. instructs on how to do focused meditation. I have added some notes here and there to illustrate how one might use this to focus on their petitions for spell work.  Additionally, using this exercise just to learn to focus, without involving your spell work at all, will help you when you DO go back to your spell work. 

    FOCUSED MEDITATION

    This type of meditation involves focusing on something intently as a way of staying in the present moment and turning off your internal dialogue. Many people find this type of meditation easier to practice than classic meditation where you focus on nothing to quiet your mind. With focused meditation, you can choose to focus on almost anything that involves the senses, including sounds, visual pieces, tactile sensations, tastes and smells, and even the your own breathing! Here’s how:

    Here’s How:

    Choose a target for your focus. The sound of a metronome, the smell of incense, or a pleasing picture are all popular choices.  Get into a comfortable position, and relax your body. Turn your attention to your chosen target, and take in the sensation it provides. Focus on the sound, smell, sight, etc. and simply experience what it has to offer. The idea is not to think about it, but simply to experience it, being fully present in the moment.   Mambo’s Note:  If you are doing spell work and using this exercise to focus on your petition or goal for the spell work, you could use either a picture that represents the successful outcome of your spell work to you.  You could also use the product you are using as the focal point – candle, doll, talisman, etc.  In this way you can allow yourself to relax into the meditation and simply focus on the outcome.  This is not to say that this replaces the rest of what you do in the spell work, but is a way to help you focus on the outcome.

    1. If your internal voice starts to analyze it, or begins to rehash stressful situations of the day, worry about the future, make a list for grocery shopping, or anything else, gently turn your attention back to your chosen target and the sensation it provides. Let your mind stay quiet and clear.
    2. If you find your mind engaging you and realize that you’re not being fully present with the sensations of your chosen target, don’t let your inner perfectionist beat you up for ‘doing it wrong’; simply congratulate yourself for noticing, and return back to the present moment and the sensations it has to offer.
    3. That’s it. It may sound a little strange or difficult to understand as you’re reading this, but as you practice this type of meditation, it will become easier and make more sense. The more you practice, the more benefits you will experience. Enjoy!

    Tips:

    1. Give it time. Meditation often takes practice. If you’re expecting to do it ‘perfectly’, you may actually create more stress for yourself than you relieve, and you won’t want to stick with it.
    2. Start with shorter sessions—like five minutes—and work your way up to longer sessions—like 30. With practice, this type of meditation becomes easier and more effective.
    3. If the experience is frustrating for you and you don’t really want to continue, you may find more success with other types of meditation.

    What You Need:

    • Some quiet, private time.
    • Comfortable clothes.
    • A willing attitude and an open mind.

    End of Article

    Focusing on a goal, petition, or reflection during spell work is often the biggest challenge that my clients have to overcome.  Doing this exercise will definitely help you if lack of focus is a challenge that you have.

    Love, Mambo

  • The Za Za Zsu – In the Pink!

    Hello everyone!  Well, with the new Sex and the City movie in the theatres now, I am reminded of how many letters I used to receive referencing different themes and characters on the television show.  Whether you loved, hated, or could have cared less about the show, many of our clients often saw themselves or their relationships correlated in the episodes of the show.  I definitely had a love-hate relationship with the show as I wearied of otherwise intelligent women telling me that they were "so Carrie."  😉

    At any rate, there was an episode talking about the "za za zsu" in a successful relationship; that crazy, romantic, fabulous time period when intimacy between a couple was warm, exciting, and extremely close and loving.  🙂   In other words, romantic sex appeal – not just the instinct and desire to have sex with someone, but the desire to have that sex with the person who was special to you.

    I started thinking about this the other day when I was preparing candle magick kits for shipping.  Red male candle magick kits were flying out the door!   Passionate love!  And believe me there is nothing wrong with that.  But it got me to thinking, what about the romance?

    What about those pink male candle magick kits?  😉  I wanted to share with you part of a letter I received a couple of months ago from a client.  Here it is:

    "…and even though Teddy and I have been doing okay after I finished my spell kits, I really felt like we were missing romance in our life.  He is a scientist and spends his day proving and disproving scientific theory for a lab.  He can sometimes be very unromantic simply because he is someone who is very practical.  Anyway, I went ahead and got the BMS pink male candle magick kits.  When I was doing them I put some Abre Camino oil on the candle too and paid some special attention to the genital area (sorry for being so graphic).  I petitioned that the next time we were making love that he would feel warm and romantic.  I pictured us melting into each other just like the candle was melting.  About a week after I finished up the trio we were being intimate when he suddenly looked at me and said, "I feel like I am melting into you."  I was so shocked that I almost started laughing and crying at the same time.  Luckily we were so busy that he didn’t notice…"

    I thought that was a pretty amazing letter!  Just the idea of even using the petition to be melting into each other just like the candle was melting was pretty innovative, I thought.  Sometimes we get so wrapped up in trying to bring someone’s love to us, we forget that most of us want something warm and fuzzy in that love, too.   Although this particular client was already with her HD, I don’t see any reason that a person couldn’t do the pink candle magick kits in this way even if you aren’t already with them.   Bringing up romantic images of you in your HD’s mind can only help your case! 

    There is a pretty fine distinction when we are talking about love and romance.  Of course we want our partner to love us!  But I am sure plenty of you know both men and women who may love quite well, but have missed the mark in the romance department.  If you are a person who also wants to make sure that romance stays alive in the relationship you are working on, I would suggest throwing a little pink candle magick into it!  Maybe soon you will be melting in his arms, too, and feeling that za za zsu!  😉

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Because You Needed to Know… That’s Why!

    Hello everyone!  Quite often many of our clients, at some point during their love spell casting, find out things regarding the person they are working on.  A great deal of the time these things may seem like "bad" or "undesirable" things.  However, most of the time these things are found out because you need to know.

    In some cases you find out that there is another person involved that you didn’t know about, sometimes it is something about the person’s past that may be what is keeping them from you; there can be many, many things that one finds out.

    For most people, finding out these things sends them into a tailspin.  Suddenly there is a lot of negative thinking and worry that the spells aren’t working, or that they aren’t going to get what they want, etc., etc., etc.  But the truth is that most often you NEED to know these things.  Our spell work is not meant to sweep problems under the rug and give you the illusion that everything is okay and you are getting together with the person.  Our spell work is meant to seek out and bring to light what the REAL problems are so that you can deal with them and stand a real chance of being with the person.

    Many of you have often heard me say that "spell work brings the truth to light whether you want it to or not."  It is the absolute truth.  Of course none of us wants to hear bad news or negative things, especially in regards to our relationships.  But if we are working on a difficult relationship with our spell work, then it is imperative to know what the real problems and challenges are.  How you deal with the knowledge is most important.

    What seems like "negative news" is often Les Lois (the spirits of the Vodou religion) letting you know that "this" is something you need to work on; they are showing you the heart of the challenges of your relationship and letting you know that you still need to work on this subject.  Going downhill and getting depressed and freaking out at these things really isn’t going to help.  Figuring them into your spell work and adjunct work such as candle magick work, love doll work, etc. IS the thing to do with any kind of information that you get.  So when information is brought to you about the person you are working your magick on, think about why you are getting it!

    Now don’t misunderstand me, I am completely empathetic to the fact that sometimes it just plain old hurts to find out things that you didn’t know about your intended partner.  I am not saying that you aren’t going to sad or upset.  But unless it is something horrible like he is a serial killer or pedophile (in which case you are being brought that information so that you can RUN AWAY as fast as you can), then you should use that information to properly configure your spell work to account for what you have learned.  Try as best you can to channel all that hurt and upset into something positive such as working on the situation.

    Nobody likes to hear bad news, but just try to remember that sometimes it isn’t bad news, it is just information that you need to get your case on track.  🙂

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Father’s Day!

    Greetings everyone – and a Happy Father’s Day to all the good Dads out there.  🙂

    I cannot help by remember my own father on this special day.  He has been gone for many years, but his memory and spirit are with me always.  He is the reason for many things in my life:  My ability to cook like a professional chef (he was one, I am not!), my sense of humor, my work ethic, the way I treat people, and so much more.

    Even though my Dad never met a bottle of Chivas Regal that he didn’t like, he never sacrificed his family for a drink.  He was a hard working, hard drinking, hard playing man – an old salty dog from the Navy and a straight shooter.  He didn’t believe in lying, even though there were times would that would have been easier.   He believed in treating his employees with fairness and dignity even though most of them were Black at a time in the South where most Black employees weren’t treated well at all.   He took being called by racist names from his friends with aplomb and pragmatism simply saying they were "ignorant" and leaving it at that. 

    My Dad drove me and my friends anywhere we wanted to go; picking up a gang of pre-teen and then teen girls and putting us in his van and dropping us off at the mall, the lake, and anywhere else we wanted to go.  I almost regretted learning to drive because then Daddy didn’t need to take us anywhere anymore!

    He played poker with Mafia guys and I sat on his knee while he did it!  I ran into one of those fellas a couple of years ago in New Orleans.  He was just as old as he could be, but he still remembered me and my father!

    My Dad was, by his own admission, far from perfect as a man, but he was absolutely perfect as a father.  Thank you, Daddy!!!

    So blessings out there to all the Good Dads!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • How Do You Get Along with You?

    Greetings everyone!   Every day I am blessed to communicate with my clients, friends, and family from Spellmaker!  Many times I am privileged to do a consultation with you or in some other way hear your story and offer you guidance and advice.

    More and more lately I find that so many of you have lost sight of who you are.  There are those of you who seem to question your choices so much that you end up not making a choice.  There are others of you who seem to have fallen into self-hate, self-criticism, and general self-loathing.  🙁   It makes me so sad to see this happening!

    So that brings up the question that is the title of this post:  How Do You Get Along with You?  Something that I believe happens, especially when you have been working on something such as a relationship case for a long time, is that you tend to lose sight of yourself!  We get so focused on working on the person we wish to have as our love that we forget that we, too, have the role of "self" to play in our own lives!

    I find this especially true of my female clients – you end up having such an earnest desire to be loved, that you forget to love the most important person – YOU!  I cannot help but think sometimes that if you put as much effort into loving yourself as you do to your love spell work then that work would come to fruition a heck of a lot faster.

    So remember, just take some time today to remember who you are, love yourself, and try to get along with YOU!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • FREE SHIPPING and 15% off right now!

    Hello everyone!  I know a lot of us are really feeling the crunch of the high gas prices and resulting high prices for food and everything else in our lives.  Obviously, because of the high fuel prices, shipping costs have gone up and up and up! 

    However, to try to help out a little bit, we are right now offering not only 15% off all products on the website (www.spellmaker.com), but we are also offering FREE SHIPPING.  We are only able to offer this for our customers in the USA. 

    So do take advantage!  No matter how much you buy or the weight, your shipping will be absolutely free right now.

    Stay cool!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Products to help you grow your Intuition.

    OK, so now that I have spammed you all with articles about Intuition for the past 2 weeks, here are some recommendations of items that can help you build that intuitive muscle:

    1. This one is MY personal favorite : the LaSiren Aquamarine Shoals Blue Bath Kit. LOVE IT ! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!

    2. White Image Candle Magick kits  especially wonderful to mix a few drops of Abre Camino Oil in the Anointing Oil that comes with the candle kit and ask for any blocks there might be to your intuition to be removed.

    3. Discover Hidden Secrets Charm

    4. New Orleans Voodoo Self Improvement Doll

    5. Cosmic Voodoo Power Gris Gris Bag I actually have this bag right on hand when I do my tarot card readings 🙂 Wont read without it!

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

    Cball

  • Intuition — Your Inner Guide

    What I loved about this article was the last paragraph! (#4)! I mean, sometimes we can get one little piece of information that just doesnt fit anywhere else …. and its possible to worry it to death or make a mountain out of a mole hill 😉 Sometimes, its just a red herring.

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

    Intuition – Your Inner Guide

    by: Anne Walsh

    Have you ever thought about someone out of the blue?and then they 
    called you. Have you ever made a decision that everyone else thought 
    was crazy, but you knew was right for you..and it worked out 
    perfectly? Have you ever followed your gut instinct on something and 
    was proved gloriously RIGHT! If any of these have happened to you, you 
    have experienced the power of intuition. Most of us at some stage wish 
    we could have an inner guide that would tell us the right thing to do. 
    The good news is that we do have an inner guide, the bad news is that 
    the message can be fuzzy!

    Benefits of being guided by intuition

    So what are the benefits of following your intuition as opposed to 
    listening to the promptings of parents, partners and others? First of 
    all, this begins to give you confidence in your own judgment. It helps 
    you judge whether this person or opportunity is the right one for 
    you?even if it may not seem so on paper. Secondly I have never met 
    anyone who regretted following their intuition. Yes it may have meant 
    making a difficult decision but it WAS the right ultimate decision for 
    them. Many great business deals have been gone through on a hunch?or 
    intuition?

    Developing your intuition

    1. Recognition: I have relied on intuition for making most of my major 
    decisions but I still have difficulty sometimes distinguishing between 
    it and just a passing thought, so here are some guidelines I use?

    a. Feeling: What’s the feeling around it? If it’s gentle that’s 
    usually a sign of intuition. Something that is fear-based and urgent 
    is not intuition.

    b. Persistent: You find that you keep having the same thought about 
    something, check it out.

    c. Messages: You find that the issue crops up again in all sorts of 
    ways..it gets mentioned on the news, you hear it in passing 
    conversation.

    2. Trust. So after you have got these messages and confirmation, if 
    you wish to use this, you actually need to do something about it. You 
    must learn to trust this feeling. Follow promptings and see where they 
    lead you?

    3. Openness: Be open to where intuition can lead you. One thing I can 
    promise you..is that you will be surprised and delighted by where it 
    leads you..

    4. Sometimes it doesn’t mean anything. This is one thing I have 
    noticed about being guided by intuition. Sometimes hunches and gut 
    instincts don’t actually seem to mean anything?but we don’t know that 
    until afterwards?so accept that you may have the odd intuitive red 
    herring!

    So this week begin paying attention to your hunches. Call that friend, 
    read that book, make that call?and who knows what delightful things 
    could come to your door..

    About The Author

    Anne Walsh is a life coach based in Co. Galway, Ireland

  • Ogoun’s Special Oil

    Hello everyone!  As many of you know, we are planning to resume our chat classes on April 23, 2008, with a special ritual to honor one of our favorite lwa, Ogoun Feraille.    He is syncretized with St. George and April 23 is St. George’s feast day.  So we will honor both Ogoun Feraille and St. George on this day.

    Many of you have responded to the idea that we are offering a special ritual pack to be used either together with us when we are doing the ritual online or at any other time that you desire.  I am really happy to see such a great response to honoring Ogoun!

    In this ritual pack is a special voodoo oil that Parran Matt and I have formulated especially for Ogoun.  This is actually partially a formulation that I came up with several years ago for Ogoun.  However, with some special input from Paran Matt, this oil feels even more powerful than it did to start with!  There is a "Fire and Iron" concept to this oil, representing some of the most venerated aspects of Ogoun.  If it turns out that you all like it as much as we think you will, we will certainly start to carry it on a regular basis.

    I cannot wait until you all try it out!

    Love, Mambo SamMonarchogoun

  • Chat Class Resumes Wednesday, April 23!

    Greetings everyone!  Happy Sunday to you.  I hope you are enjoying a peaceful and relaxing day.

    I am thrilled to announce that we will be resuming our online chat classes on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time!  If you are not registered for chat may I ask, WHY NOT?  😉   If you are a Spellmaker client, past or present, you are entitled to attend these teaching sessions absolutely free.  Please write to us at office@spellmaker.com for information on how to register for class if you are not already signed up!

    April 23 will mark a very special class for us.  This is the traditional day for the feast of St. George.  St. George is often syncretized with one of our favorite lwa – Ogoun!  To that end, we will be starting back to class with a bang by doing a special ritual for Ogoun and St. George to call upon them for strength, power, health, "slaying of dragons," and much, much more.  If there is something/someone that you need to power over to help your spell casting case along, then you don’t want to miss doing this ritual.

    We have put together a  special Ogoun/St. George ritual pack  that you can use in conjunction with the online ritual.  You can join in the ritual without using this pack, but obviously it certainly will be greatly enhanced if you can use it. 

    I look forward to seeing you all in chat class again!

    Love, Mambo Sam

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