Each year at this time we look at our bank statements and our lives and start to make plans to improve them. The main problem is we try to do so much so quickly that we set ourselves up for failure. How many of us have made New Years resolutions we such big hopes of success, giving up smoking, going to the gym, losing weight etc. we make these resolutions in the hope that our lives will improve. We tend to focus on our failings or our negative aspects rather than our successes or our positive aspects. When we focus on our negatives we look in to a deep dark pit “the abyss” which has a way of making us focus on our inner demons but as Friedrich Neitzsche said “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” The problem with trying to change our negative aspects is that our focus is on the surface issues rather than the deeper root cause of the problems. Each of our bad habits has a deeper cause, which can take years of therapy to resolve. The issue is when we attempt to fix our flaws we tend to focus on the flaw not the cause. This happen not just in our daily lives but also in our magickal working when someone is sick we try to cure the illness or bring relief often forgetting that the illness is only a symptom of a deeper
