The wonder of wishes

The Wish is your gift to yourself. It's one of the most powerful gifts you will ever receive because it offers you the miracle of realising your deepest desires through the unique magical power you already hold within you. The Wish gives you the greatest opportunity to begin to transform your life, and much more.

Have you noticed how certain wishes come true, while others seemingly dissolve? You may wonder why this is, but don't worry — the how and why will be revealed as you read on. The key thing is that once you realise what you already hold in your hands, you'll be inspired to begin to dream again of all you wish for — for yourself, for those you love, for the world. Soon you'll discover how to stop losing your vitality. You'll learn how to energise yourself by tapping into the immense energy readily available to you. You'll also know which dreams will create a happier, more enriched life and which will turn things pear-shaped.

While everyone wants their dreams to come true, sometimes life can seem quite overwhelming, leaving us feeling that it's just not practical or possible to achieve what we long for. Living day to day, taking care of ourselves and those we love, working and commuting, paying the rent or the mortgage can end up becoming the sum total of our lives. So we end up telling ourselves we haven't got the time, the energy or self-belief to do more than get by. Add to this the negative fallout from financial upheavals, climate change, shaky governments, natural disasters, war and terrorism and we can so easily assume (or be led to believe) that we have to accept whatever comes our way.

No-one denies we live in challenging times and that not everyone has our best interests at heart. But when you understand how to make your wishes come true — and make no mistake, all you can create is well within your reach — life takes on a very different hue. Accepting that this is not just a possibility but achievable changes everything. You can really start to make wonderful things happen.

Whatever you've achieved up to now in your life, that is your journey, along with the setbacks, disappointments, blocks or frustrations along the way. You may have thought that nothing ever goes right for you. It's time to put all that negative stuff in a box, as it's in the past. Now it's time to look to the future with a lighter heart. Through The Wish you will feel empowered and you will be able to 'create' good things for yourself from this moment on.

As you'll see, even our darkest moments can offer us wonderful ways forward. Often it's life nudging us to do things differently — to lighten up, get more sleep, take our health seriously, apply for a new job, take a holiday, make more time to spend with friends, get creative, move to a new suburb, invite more love into our lives. All these things are possible right now. There's no need to wait for some distant time in the future to make life how you would like it to be. No matter what you're facing right now, let me assure you it's time to go beyond the mundane stuff of everyday life so you can experience the beautiful completeness that is the real you.

The adventure you're about to take is a very practical and gentle one that will teach you real life skills, from how to heal past baggage and stop your energy being zapped, to connecting with your soul. This last point is crucial, because even though you may get everything you think you want, unless it resonates with the truth of who you really are, with your soul's needs, you'll never find happiness, success or fulfilment.

As we take The Wish journey, you'll see that dreams that come true aren't just chance occurrences. This flies in the face of popular opinion, but it's so. You may have noticed that anything you do that attracts good things always amazes others. They pass off your achievements as just being 'lucky'. Yet what we don't think about nearly enough is exactly what a 'lucky' person is. Some say people make their own luck, and to a great extent that's absolutely true, but the real question is: how can you capture this wonderful thing called 'luck'? The timeless knowledge I am now sharing with you will help create your own beneficial happenings, your own 'luck'.

The beauty of The Wish approach is that it delivers all this and more. As you read this book, you will see how the change in your approach to life will strengthen and empower you, and help set you on your chosen path — it will help you find out who you really are. The Wish will give you far greater awareness of how best to operate in the world, taking away all those nagging doubts and anxieties. When you're no longer on the roller-coaster ride of daily life, you'll be in the perfect space to discover what you truly want, to create the genuine joy and satisfaction you ache for. Why? Because you will be powerful beyond all imagining.

The power of love

Victor Hugo

As you might imagine, I have spent a long time pondering the magic of 'wishing', checking it out and testing it on many levels before I began to teach and then write about it. As I thought about wishes I realised that each was a tiny act of creation. More than that, I discovered that all true creation is born out of love. Why? Because love is all-encompassing, it's that most exquisite quality that resides in the very centre of who we are. When you stop to think about it, you realise we cannot survive without love, and it's through love that we live, flourish and willingly help others to do so. Through love we gain an overwhelming compassion for all living things.

We will be examining love in greater detail shortly. Here, as we ponder its qualities, we begin to sense how love gives us the 'x-factor'. Love triggers our ability to make things happen because it dramatically increases our life energy. When we're in love, the world is a beautiful place, full of potential. Nothing gets us down, and we're hopeful about the future. Love is contagious; people enjoy being around us. They are inspired to be part of our dreams. And good...