The Woo Diaries: Time to get started

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So let’s begin with my first observations in the world of woo.

Most of you will know by now that I’ve always been…well….slightly anti-spirituality. Not particularly fond of the ‘woo’. Woo-adjacent if you will.

I think I know where this came from. Firstly, I grew up very religious (I was a Mormon until I was 18) and so when I decided to walk away from a religion I no longer believed in, I think I walked away from all spirituality. If you’d have known me as a child, I was very spiritual, drawn in by anything mysterious or other worldly – so much so that 3 different mediums have told me I have ‘the gift’ – whatever that means. Plus, my sister tells me I regularly saw ghosts and described them in vivid detail. Or had a very active imagination (which I definitely do not have now).

But I walked away and became very logical. Very scientific. Very sceptical.

I didn’t think much about it until I came into this online personal development space and in the first few months of my business, when I was kind of open to all things magic and manifesting, two things happened:

1. A coach I was following used the law of attraction to publicly on a social media post say that she wasn’t surprised the Grenfell Fire in London happened because poor people lived in the block and as poor equals negative, they had attracted this terrible tragedy to themselves. I read this the day after the fire happened when I was mourning the losses with the rest of London. As someone who was born into poverty, I seethed (and still do) at the privilege of that coach. It was the first I had heard the words ‘law of attraction’ and so straight away I didn’t like it.

2. 3 months after this incident, I was in a Facebook group when a woman asked a spiritual coach why her daughter, who was 6, had gotten cancer and how she could
help her. The spiritual coach told this poor woman she had manifested it into her life somehow and that she could also manifest it away again. A discussion ensued. If the girl therefore died of the cancer, does that mean the mother didn’t want her daughter cured enough? Basically, yes was the answer. Again, I was livid. Putting that onto a mother was incomprehensible to me.

These two occurrences then took me down a year-long path of manifestation. Not to learn it, but to disprove it and, as with most things, if you’re looking for it, you can find the falsehoods, the loopholes and the charlatans fairly easily. Add in a dose of Derren Brown and his book ‘Happy’ and he basically disproves manifestation as a real thing completely.

And that was that. Job done. I had a huge knowledge of the history of it, where it did (and didn’t) come from and how I could show it to be nonsense.

But I hadn’t looked at the other side. I hadn’t actually tried to manifest myself or learn about how it can be used for good. I was too angry with it for that. Or with some of the people using it anyway.

Over the next 6 years, I was told time and time again that I was a master manifester by those that practice manifesting, and I was told by several spiritual people, psychics and the like that I was deeply connected to spirits and all things other worldly. I laughed but secretly said out loud to any ‘ghosts’ that might be hanging around not to talk to me because I didn’t want to see them (I saw how Whoopie Goldberg had to deal with it, and it wasn’t happening to me!)

But…a little voice in me said “why are you talking out loud to something you don’t believe exists”. And I still can’t explain why I do this to this day.

About a month ago, I was at a conference where someone said that if we are to truly grow, we need to really challenge ourselves. Not with anything easy but with something hard.

I challenge myself with actionable hard things every day. I’m good at it. But I never challenge my thinking enough. I feel steadfast in knowing what I believe and what I think.

So, to challenge what I think is going to be a hard thing to do. And I like to push myself to do hard things.

Which is why this anti-woo strategist is going to spend a year going down the rabbit hole.

I’m going to spend as much time and energy as I did on learning about strategy to make the £15m I have in 6 years, to now learn about all things spiritual. And I won’t just learn. I’m an action taker. I’ll implement all of it whether I want to or not, and I’ll tell you exactly what happens in these emails along the way.

I started this week with a course on manifesting, and already I can tell it’s going to be hard to keep my mind open and my cynicism silenced, but I’ll tell you all about what I’ve already learned next week.

Plus, I’ve just set up time with a psychic, so that’s going to be interesting!

See you next week for the next installment of the Woo Diaries.

Lisa x

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