Why a Glitch Log matters and you should keep one too!
Do you remember that iconic film from 1946, It’s a Wonderful Life? Many of us make it a Christmas tradition to watch it every year because it’s so poignant a reminder that perception is everything!
If you have never seen it, the premise of the film goes something like this: George Bailey is a little kid with heaps of potential and a lot of big dreams. He’s also got a huge heart and capacity for helping other people. Slowly, slowly over the course of his life he makes little decisions out of duty to his family and community that are out of aligment with his big dream. So, slowly, slowly he grows more angry and more resentful until evetually a mistake costs him everything and we find him in the snow on Christmas Eve, suicidal about to jump into an ice cold raging river. He believes as life didn’t turn out the way he dreamed, that he seems to have failed, and it’s all gone to ****, that the world would be a better place without him in it.
Then Clarence the angel enters the scene, a lower class angel trying to earn his wings by saving George Bailey. How does he do it? He changes Georges perception. He shows him what the world would be like without George in it. Needless to say everyones lives are much, much, MUCH worse. Clarence helps George see that although his life is out of alignment with his dreams, he has infact made a huge impact on his community, for which every single person is supremely grateful. He sees that he is valued and loved exceedingly deeply as the community rally to save him, and that although it didn’t manifest as he expected he in fact lives a wonderfully rich life. It’s a very moving moment when at last he sees this.
So maybe you don’t believe in life’s magic, maybe you think synchronicities are just meaningless coincidences, and you have no power to really influence or manifest anything. Where does that position of perception leave you? How does it feel to be in that place? I’m not asking you to make a jump to a new belief system. I am asking you to start seeing a little bit differently. This is why I started my Glitch Log. I wanted to see just how marvellously magical my life really is, (and boy was that eye opening!) To be honest it was also a little bit confronting because it wasn’t all sunshine and roses, but it was also exceedingly exciting!
When you shift your perception you start to see things that you didn’t notice before. Things that were always there but were obscured from view because of how you had positioned yourself. When you choose to look with eyes that want to see the magical moments, the sycnchronicities and glitches, you start to see them. And when you have recorded enough of them (for me nearly 80!) it becomes undeniable, what you thought was mundane is in fact a magical life! And when that happens, and you start to realise how much of a mirror to our consciousness this ‘reality’ actually is. Then, I think we can’t help but examine what we’re putting out there and start developing this as a tool to shift ourselves towards living a life that keeps on reflecting back, the wonderful and magical. Imagine if everyone grasped this?!
So this is why I have called my substack It’s a Magical Life, because like George we can think we are not living a wonderfully magical life and then discover that in fact we totally are!
I recommend you start your own Glitch Log and see for yourself?
(You’ll find my Glitch Logs as posts on my substack profile, if you subscribe you’ll get the stories sent straight to your inbox. Enjoy!)
Love,
