Two of the mental / magical exercises which were recommended on episode 106 of the podcast with David Shoemaker were The Lesser Banashing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) and The Middle Pillar. Shoemaker and John Michael Greer advocate doing these daily. Josephine McCarthy and other’s do not. So go figure and perhaps try them out for yourself and see if they do anything for you over time.
At first they seem like a lot to memorize, but after getting use to them, one can grasp that they are actually quite easy and can be done very efficiently, only needing to take up perhaps 5 to 10 minutes of your day outside of other practices like perhaps blending a smoothy and sitting down to meditate.
Here are two simple step by steps of how to perform them taken from the book “Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation: A Complete Course” by Lyam Thomas Christopher. I usually would honor NOT sharing a book by an author who is still living and perhaps relying on royalties from the text, but the work is easily findable on archive.org so perhaps that is sanctioned by the author - https://archive.org/details/KABBALAHMAGICAHDTHEGREATWORKOfSEL
There is a more detailed description of how to perform the LBRP in the previous pages, but here is a simple cliff notes version from page 22 of the text:
How to do the Middle Pillar from starting around page 72:
