I would think most of you if not all have seen at least one Harry Potter movie. I have seen them all more than once and from time to time I feel a desire to watch at least one of them again.
It's not only the classic story line we find in all movies, or books of the triumph of good over evil it's something deeper. Some truth was there but I couldn't get a handle on it until tonight, when it all became clear.
All the children at Hogwarts went thought the same training; some were like Hermione that knew the book inside and out. Others no matter how hard they tried it always turned out wrong and a few were always the ass no matter how hard they tried. Longbottom should come to mind.
Harry was not only a good (not great) student of magic but he felt it in his heart. With that he was able to achieve what he needed to. When times were tough he could pull the rabbit out of the hat. He not only knew magic he felt magic, he had no need to remember what spell to cast, it was automatic. It came from his gut; remember what I told you about your gut feelings, their seldom wrong. The other thing he used was emotion; he and I are alike in both respects.
When I healed my daughter I used raw emotion. I didn't have a clue about how to heal her I only knew I had to.
As I cast the circle I started remembering all the parents and children, the Nurses and Doctors. As the dark circle started to form I remembered their eyes (a window to your soul) from the Doctors and Nurses their words always gave you hope but their eyes held little.
The parent’s eyes were full of hope and fear as they held their children suffering from all kinds of debilitating defects. I'm sure my eyes looked the same.
But the eyes of the children pulled my heart from my chest. The innocence in most and the fear in others is something I will never forget, as they held tight to their mothers and my daughter was one of them.
That's when my mind screamed "not again it will not happen" and the healing began. I poured everything I had into her healing.
I didn't just use the love my wife and I felt for our daughter, I brought back the hundreds of eyes I had seen. I relived the fear, despair and unwavering love of all the parents, the innocence of the children and gathered it to myself.
That's when you must control your emotion and focus your thoughts to achieve the desired results. That's harder than you think, when all you want to do is fall on your knees and cry like a baby.
You may have been wondering why I waited so long before I healed my daughter. The truth is I was afraid, deathly afraid I would fail and had been since my wife asked me to "fix it". I know I told you not to doubt yourself but I'm human and had never done anything of that magnitude in my life. So I set a trap for myself, if I had tried earlier and failed I would have had another chance and probably more failures and I would begin to doubt myself. That's why I waited until the last minute because the only option I had was success. I was out of time.
By now you’re asking what this has got to do with Harry Potter. Well allow me to explain, the people of Hogwarts were the only family Harry ever had and he would do whatever it took to protect them. That is why he prevailed over things far more powerful. He used what he had and the fear of what would happen if he failed, together they allowed him to do more than he was able to do on his own.
So the next time you watch Harry Potter don't see a boy always getting himself in over his head. See a person willing to overcome anything for the ones he loves, even though he doesn't know how.
If you chose to pursue The Arts you will sooner or later find yourself in a similar situation.
Will you take hold of the fear and pain and turn it into intent, or will you let your emotions rule you?
One can never be sure until the time comes to pull the rabbit out of the hat.
Thomas