Whatever your goal, state it in declarative and specific terms which have the power to evoke non-verbal images in your mind.
When you work magic, you are speaking to the unconscious mind, your own or another's, and the unconscious mind is linguistically primitive. It may be confused by negatives, passive constructions, sentences with more than one clause, or generalizations.
For example, in the case of the stolen wallet, to say that “the important documents that were in my wallet will be returned to me” will not work as well as, “I will get back my license, my Visa card … " listing the items and seeing them in your mind's eye as you speak.
It also appears that the English-speaker’s unconscious mind is Germanic, and that words of Latin or French origin generally have less psychological impact than ones which come from Old English; “get, stop, go back,” for example, are stronger for magical purposes than “receive, cease, return.”
Also, be careful in stating your purpose and talking about the spell to choose words which are appropriate to your intentions.
For example, if you mean to contain a trouble-maker in a mirror box in order to control the damage they can do, do not even jokingly refer to the box as a “coffin” if you have no intention to do bodily harm. In magic, as in dreams, the unconscious mind tends to use language very literally.
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