Valeria interviews Maria Robins, the author of I AM Magic: How To Create Your Best Life and I AM Calm: How To Leave Your Worries Behind.
Growing up in Aotearoa, New Zealand, Land of the Long White Cloud, Maria Robins knew from a very early age that she wanted to be a writer. Born in the Scottish heritage city of Dunedin, she wrote her first complex story at age 7, which was 14 pages of A4 lined sheets, complete with numerous little illustrations in the margins. That was the beginning of her love affair with writing and books. Blessed with a mother who would take the family to the local library every week, it was her favorite place as a child, where she could breathe in the wonderful old and new book smell and borrow as many books as she was able to carry. By 10 years old she had a complex library system worked out between herself and her sister, with all their books, complete with catalogue listings and borrow cards taped inside the back of each one in little hand-made paper pockets.
Her passion for words and writing continued throughout her schooling years and into her adult life but somehow the day to day busy-ness of general life, family and work commitments got in the way and although she had started too many books to count as time went on, she had never got around to completing or publishing any of them. That was until the night of May 10, 2016, when a little book, begging to be shared, came into the world with an important message for humankind. This book compelled her to stop procrastinating and share it with the world, even though it took her another six months to get around to publishing it. Finally, her official author life had begun.
I AM Magic, How To Create Your Best Life, is the first in a series of books written to help guide people to happier thoughts and a happier life. It was certainly written in an unusual manner. Maria awoke in the middle of the night during May 2016 with the words to this bestselling little rhyming book clearly in her head and got up to write them down, taking a note of the time and date, something she always does when she sits down to write. It wasn’t until a month or so later that she became aware, after reading a subscriber email from Hay House that the time she had started writing was actually the late renowned author and spiritual teacher Dr Wayne W. Dyer's time of birth, but months later she also discovered that the date had also been Dr. Dyer's birthday. At that point the handwritten pages had become buried under piles of paper on her desk and she had to search for them to even check when she had written the pages, literally getting goosebumps when she realized the synchronicity. Coincidence or not? She asks you to be the judge of that but it is her belief that the words written were meant to be shared to help spread a positive message of self-belief.
In an age of information overwhelm, she writes short, easy-to-read books that anyone of any age can read quickly and understand. Her goal is to inspire as many people as possible to believe in the power of having a positive mindset and grateful attitude so that they can enjoy their most joyful and meaningful lives.
— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.
