The Practice

You light a candle. You speak an intention. You sit in silence for ten minutes. And something shifts. Not in the external world—not immediately, anyway. But something inside you changes. The anxiety loosens. The decision feels clear. The grief becomes manageable. Was that magic? Or psychology? The answer: both. And they're the same thing. Ritual works—but not the way most people think. There's no cosmic force rearranging reality on your behalf. The universe isn't granting wis