Magnetic Selecting
A Practice for Finding What You Truly Want and Living It
You may already know what needs to change. The harder question is whether what you are reaching for is actually yours.
Magnetic Selecting is a practical guide to separating what you truly want from what you have inherited, performed, or learned to pursue. Drawing from psychology, mindfulness, hypnosis, and decades of work with people navigating change, James O'Neill offers a practice for bringing your attention, choices, and actions into alignment with the life you actually want to live.
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The book was written to make the argument. The daily practice belongs beside it. If you have just finished reading, you have already done the hardest part. You have taken the honest look. You have named, or begun to name, the honest want. This is where the practice continues.
The practice is returning
Magnetic Selecting is not a technique you perform once. It is a way of participating. The honest look. The honest want. The chosen direction. Recovering your altitude when the day pulls you down. Meeting the lock when the body pulls back. Making contact through action. Letting the result teach you without letting it become a verdict.
You are already selecting. The practice is becoming conscious of it and choosing how you participate.
That takes repetition, and it goes better with company.
The companion practice, delivered
The guided companion arrives in writing. Subscribe to Dark Night Alchemy and you will receive the Magnetic Selecting practice series by email, alongside the weekly essays. The essays go where most therapy conversations do not, and the practice series takes the book's seven movements one at a time.
It costs nothing to begin.
Begin the practice seriesThree doors
The writing.
Dark Night Alchemy, weekly essays on the places where psychology, mindfulness, spirituality, and an actual human life meet.
Read the essays →The podcast.
Make Your Own World, conversations on consciousness, healing, and the territory most people never explore.
Listen →The work itself.
If the book named something you are ready to move on, that is a conversation. It begins with a free 15-minute call. No script, no pitch.
Begin →Book Details
- Author
- James O'Neill, LCPC
- Publisher
- Journey Mindfulness, LLC
- Publication date
- September 29, 2026
- Paperback ISBN
- 979-8-9981071-0-8
- eBook ISBN
- 979-8-9981071-1-5
Keep what helps. Leave what does not.
Keep walking.