Magick Matters

“Cards Against Negativity: A Guidebook and Cards to Manifest Positivity” by Kim Davies and Pooky Knightsmith

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Learn to introduce positivity into your bustling day with this portable guidebook and pocket-sized deck of 25 affirmation cards Break free from the taxing elements of your daily life and embrace the positive. From the authors of Cards Against Anxiety comes Cards Against Negativity, a new guidebook and card set to help you identify and escape time-consuming negative thoughts so you can focus on everything worth celebrating. Like its predecessor, Cards Against Negativity includes a deck of 25 wallet-sized cards that function as cheat sheets for mindfulness and CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) techniques that you can practice anywhere—on the bus, walking to class, in your home office—to help boost your self-esteem and get out...>>

“Zentangle Basics, Expanded Workbook Edition: A Creative Art Form Where All You Need is Paper, Pencil, & Pen” by Susan McNeill

"The Zentangle book that started it all—and inspired 9 sequels—is now available in an expanded workbook edition! 25 original tangles with step-by-step illustrations to get you tangling in no time Expanded workbook edition offers 16 interactive bonus pages to help you practice your tangles Beginner-friendly creative art, with no special artistic talent required to get started, just some paper, a pen, and a pencil Decrease stress and increase your creative focus with this meditative hobby Zentangle turns drawings into artistic design while reducing stress and improving focus. Zentangle Basics introduces you to this popular trend in drawing meditation. Using only pencil, pen, and paper,...>>

“The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science” by Alan Lightman

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality? Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic unity and things larger than ourselves. But these experiences are not easily understood by science, which holds that all things can be explained in terms of atoms and molecules. Is there space in our scientific worldview for these spiritual experiences? According to acclaimed physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, there may be. Drawing on intellectual history and conversations with contemporary scientists, philosophers, and psychologists, Lightman asks a series of thought-provoking questions that...>>

“Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy” by Whitney Goodman

"A powerful guide to owning our emotions—even the difficult ones—in order to show up authentically in the world, from the popular therapist behind the Instagram account @sitwithwhit. Every day, we’re bombarded with pressure to be positive. From "good vibes only" and "life is good" memes, to endless advice, to "look on the bright side", we’re constantly told that the key to happiness is silencing negativity wherever it crops up, in ourselves and in others. Even when faced with illness, loss, breakups, and other challenges, there’s little space for talking about our real feelings—and processing them so that we can feel better and move forward. But if all this positivity is the answer, why are so many...>>

“Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy” by Andrea Scher

"Spark your sense of wonder and lift your spirits with this collection of fun, creative activities and ideas to help cultivate daily joy, illustrated with full-color photographs, artful watercolors, and inspiring stories. Do you remember the first time you saw the night sky blanketed in stars? Or that feeling of magic when you found your first sand dollar on the beach? Maybe it’s when you rode a bicycle for the first time and it felt like flying. Wonder taps us into the joy of being alive, opening our eyes to how much beauty there is in the world and how life can surprise us in the most delightful of ways. Wonder Seeker reminds...>>