Practicing Magic Ten Minutes a Day: Why It's Important and How to Do It

Spirit work I've been performing with a deceased soul.

I highly recommend practicing ten minutes of witchcraft a day. Only ten minutes: don't pressure yourself to work above that (at least not yet).

I can already predict commenters arguing that this approach is lazy. I beg to differ. When you're lazy, you decide to do nothing because practicing too much effort. Performing magic ten minutes a day is doing something, even if you don't want to do it. That's the opposite of laziness. It's dedication.

Before you decide that ten minutes doesn't add up to anything, let's lay down the math.

10 minutes x 7 days a week = 70 minutes. That's over an hour of practice each week.

10 minutes x 7 days a week x 5 weeks = almost 6 hours of honing your magic skills.

Ten minutes isn't too much pressure. It doesn't intercept too much of your day. It's doable. It provides enough time for practice and reflection. And putting in the time lends you the motivation to continue the habit in the future.

​Here's how to employ the ten-minute practice. 

1. Pick a practice that you can work on for ten minutes. Preferably, you'll choose a skill that you want to improve. Examples include spirit communication, divination, astral projection, energy work, scrying, and dream interpreting. 
2. Carve out the time to work on that magic. From in between classes to morning/night routines to waiting for your pasta to boil, you'll always have a ten minute block to spare. So, use it to your advantage. Set an alarm if you need to be reminded. 
3. Do it before you can second-guess yourself out of doing it.
4. Frame your results in a positive light. Even if your spell failed, it still taught you something about magic and your skills. Write down what worked and what didn't work. Decide what you'll change next time in order to achieve better results. The point isn't that it went differently than expected; the point is that you did it. 
5. Reward yourself in a small way. You can post on social media, play your favorite song, or tell yourself, "I did that pretty well." Although this might sound arbitrary, research in 2008 by Dutch neuroscientists found that positive feedback activates the brain more powerfully than negative feedback. We understand positive feedback better since it's put more simply, which gives us an easy push to work on our magic again.

I've been applying my scrying skills using the ten-minute practice and I've already noticed an improvement. I hope this post motivates you to tackle your witchcraft goals.

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