🪄Everyday Magic in Healing Through Tea ☕️ Which Chases Away The Flu #MondayBlogs

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A few weeks ago, I told my journal that I was interested in finding examples of everyday magic. Sometimes it feels like my life and my journal are in cahoots, as whatever I write in my journal ends up in my life. Exception – lottery wins. I have tried.

Last week, I came down with the flu. The timing of the flu wasn’t great as I had my mum staying with me, and I worried about her immune system. Plus, we had a weekend in London planned. As I thought my aches and pains were just a symptom of me overdoing things, we went ahead with the London weekend. By Sunday, I was sick, and on Monday, Mum went home as I didn’t want her to catch whatever I had.

Last week was spent battling with aches, tiredness, a sore throat, sneezing, coughing and limited sleep. This morning, my symptoms were no better.

Medication wasn’t shifting this damn illness, so I turned to food. I’d read some posts about the magical powers of food, but never quite believed. My husband bought the ingredients for a recipe which promised to send the flu bug running:

Ingredients:

Water

Ginger (fresh, 1 inch)

Black peppercorns

Cloves

Honey

Lemon

You put all the ingredients in a pan and simmer for 10 minutes. After you strain the liquid and make a tea.

It’s the kind of tea that smells like care itself; that seems to hum inside you and whispers: rest, breathe and let go.

I have spent the day drinking this special tea while wrapped in a blanket. This tea has done more for me in a few hours than those medications have done in days. Tonight I feel like my old self and earlier this afternoon I managed a little nap without coughing.

This feels like a good example of everyday magic and thought it was worth a blog post x

✨ Everyday Magic: The Unexplainable Moments in Life #MondayBlogs #everydaymagic

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Every now and then, something happens that makes us pause. It might be tiny, almost ordinary, yet it makes us stop and think. It carries a weird feeling that something else is at play. Some call it coincidence. Others call it fate.

I like to think of it as everyday magic. ✨🪄

Something big has happened in my life. I can’t talk about it just yet, but when I tell you about the strange synchronicities, how the stars aligned and the weird signals that preceded its arrival, you will give me a knowing nod.

We often imagine magic as something dramatic – spells, miracles, glowing orbs, but often it quietly slips into our lives in ways that don’t demand to be understood.

👩🏼‍🦰 The Right Person at the Right Time

Have you ever run into someone whom you hadn’t seen in years, right when you needed them most? Or a stranger enters your life and helps you achieve things you never thought were not even possible?

Those chance encounters often feel like more than coincidence. But to me, they feel like the universe is winking 😜

Signs and Synchronicities

Numbers on clocks, songs on the radio, feathers on the ground and repeating patterns that appear when you’re thinking deeply about someone. When I think about my dad I always see a white feather or hear a guitar playing.

These signs can sometimes feel like little messages.

Science might be boring and call them pattern recognition, but I think they give us a sense of connection with something unseen.

🔮 The Quiet Answers

Sometimes the answers we search for don’t come from books or conversations. They arrive in stillness, during a dog walk, a toilet dash in the early hours or a passing breeze. It’s as if the world whispers back when we finally get quiet enough to listen.

🤺 Moments of Protection

There are stories we carry, the near misses, the close calls, the strange pull that made us take another route or change our plans. We may not be able to explain why, but we’re grateful. These are moments which make sceptics wonder if something is watching out for us.

🌈 Everyday Wonders

Magic doesn’t need to be mysterious. Sometmes its the simple things: skies turning gold, clouds clearing at the right moment, the warmth of a hug or the sudden smell of something from your childhood.

A next time something small and strange makes your heart skip, smile. ⭐️ Magic is at work ⭐️