What Is the Difference Between Embodiment Energy and Magical Thinking?
Understanding Embodiment and Magical Thinking
True manifestation, begins with emotion—with embodiment. It’s the process of aligning your energy with the frequency of what you want to create.
Magical thinking tends to be looked down upon by many personal development teachers and students—and for good reason. For a long time, that reason wasn’t clear to me either.
Now I understand: magical thinking is just words with no emotion, no feeling, and no conviction behind them. It’s like saying, “I’m happy,” while your entire being is radiating stress and frustration. The words sound nice, but they carry no energetic charge.
Here at the Wellness Garden Tool Shed, we talk a lot about the Law of Attraction, but what we do differently is combine it with the Law of Action. That’s where embodiment amplifies your ability to attract, manifest, and bring your intentions to life.
When “Positive Thinking” Feels Impossible
I’ve been told it sounds discouraging when I tell people to change their thoughts and focus on what makes them happy—especially if they’re in a dark place. I understand that now.
You can’t simply declare happiness in the middle of a crisis and expect it to stick. That’s magical thinking. You might say, “I’m beyond happy,” but your body is embodying stress, not joy. The mismatch blocks the energy flow.
Embodiment doesn’t mean pretending you’re okay. It means acknowledging where you are while gently guiding your energy toward a higher state through emotion, breath, and awareness.
How Do Affirmations and Mantras Fit In?
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When you use mantras or affirmations, you’re setting an intention, not reacting to negativity. You’re consciously choosing a state of being for that moment or day.
In my upcoming Queen Course, we’ll teach you how to embody your mantras—how to create a mood that awakens the feeling inside you. This is what turns words into vibration.
Think about guided meditations: they often walk you through breathing exercises, grounding cords, and visualizations of light and warmth. Those sensations—the tingling, the stillness, the peace—are the physical experience of embodiment. That’s what gives your affirmations power.
Why Embodiment Feels Awkward at First
When you first start practicing mantras or affirmations, they might feel weird or even “fake.” That’s normal. Most of us have years of limiting beliefs shaping our inner dialogue.
But if you’ve found your way to this blog, you’re ready for change. Maybe you stumbled here randomly—or maybe your energy guided you here because you’re ready to understand how energy really works.
Next time you speak an affirmation and it feels silly, pause. Take a deep breath. Ask yourself to feel the words as if they were true. This isn’t lying—it’s awakening. It’s opening the door to the version of you that already exists in your higher energy field.
Science Meets Spirit
Have you ever noticed how elite athletes talk about their success? They train their bodies, eat well, and visualize their victories.
In one well-known Free Throw Experiment, three groups of students were tested:
- Practice Group – practiced free throws for 20 minutes a day for 20–30 days.
- Visualization Group – never touched the ball, but visualized making perfect shots.
- No Practice Group – did nothing related to basketball.
The results were astounding:
- Group 1 (Practice) improved by 24%.
- Group 2 (Visualization) improved by 23%.
- Group 3 (No Practice) showed no improvement.
That’s not magical thinking—that’s embodied visualization. Science proving that your body and mind respond to the emotions and sensations of what you imagine as though it’s real.
The Bridge Between Thought and Reality
When you embody emotion and take inspired action, you’re building an energetic bridge between thought and reality.
Repeating affirmations without belief is like planting seeds on concrete—nothing grows. But when those same words are charged with emotion, intention, and action, your inner garden begins to bloom.
At the Wellness Garden Tool Shed, we call this balance energetic living—where spirituality meets practicality, and manifestation becomes movement.
“To change your personal reality, you must change your personality — you have to become someone else in thought, behavior, and emotion.”
— Dr. Joe Dispenza
Embodying Your Inner Queen
If this concept of embodiment is lighting something up inside you, that’s no coincidence. It means your energy is ready to shift into a new level of creation.
In my upcoming Queen Course, we take these principles even deeper. You’ll learn to embody your inner Queens—the archetypes that represent strength, compassion, clarity, intuition, and self-worth.
You’ll discover how to:
- Use affirmations as energetic activators, not just words.
- Align your thoughts, emotions, and actions in harmony.
- Ground your energy through daily embodiment rituals.
- Recognize when you’re slipping into magical thinking—and shift into empowered embodiment.
This isn’t about pretending to be confident—it’s about becoming that version of yourself from the inside out.
When you embody your Queen energy, you stop chasing and start attracting from a place of calm certainty.
So if you’re ready to elevate your energy, manifest with purpose, and feel what it means to become the vibration of your dreams, stay tuned.
Your crown is waiting—it’s time to wear it with confidence.
Gratitude
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. With all of the world’s woes, I find it helpful to write topics that help me get my mind shifted into an empowerment mode. Halloween is just around the corner and what better way to understand embodiment like dressing up in costume. Dress the part and become the part. Character actors do this and become the best in their field.
Jack Canfield’s book The Success Principles, has an exercise where people dress up like the people they want to be and are asked to act out those character traits of what they want to be. It’s a very interesting concept. Here’s the link to the audio on YouTube. https://youtu.be/UHpiIqYnxTk?si=U3zKd_PVZdFAakGc I haven’t listened to the audio, but I’ve read the book and implemented many of these principles. That’s what gave me the courage to write a book, start racing dirt bikes in my 40’s, play drums, along with my other achievements. This knowledge isn’t just for me, that’s why I want to share this information. Anyone can achieve anything they put their mind to.
~ Cheers to you.
