The goal is ultimate surrender
Magick can be a type of time travel in a way. You take an intention – a desired future, and have feeling it will inspire in the present. So in a way, the magick is feeling good in itself.
Yet there are repercussions to feeling good in that way. It’s oh too easy for this feeling (based on the future) to become grasping—a kind of subtle desperation. The reality of the present moment (perceived externally) doesn’t match the desires of the mind.
This issue can be solved by focusing on the sensations of happiness, which are essentially an energetic representation/expression of the future—though with sustained practice of this… constant sensate happiness, a reaction will occur—unhappiness. It’s inescapable when it happens.
The problem is threefold. One, we aren’t meant to be happy all the time. Two, you don’t want to be happy all the time. Three: the goal is awakening—not necessarily to be happy all of the time.
The best practice will establish intention—and then consider impermanence—that ultimately any future you are creating with magickal will be lost and fade away—as will everything.
Then you can consider the suffering people—your own future suffering—and have a deep sense of compassion within yourself. Perhaps, to evoke a strong feeling, you could recall a time you saw an animal being hurt or someone you love in pain—until there is a deep sense of sadness and compassion in you—and then focus on the sensation—the physical sensation of this, which tends to be lower down in your body—perhaps around the midsection or wherever you are generating the strong wish for people and beings to be free of suffering.
Focus on this sensation, which is love, and send out this well-wishing into the physical universe from your midsection and out through your shoulders into the world.
Do not rush this. Sit with it for a while.
Switch to your happy, positive intentions. Notice that the feelings will be higher up—though in a way similar—if all your goals are aligned to altruism.
The magickal sensation moved up from the solar chakra (considering compassion) to the crown chakra (considering altruism).