Today’s Miracle Momentis about the miraculous power of developing your intuition…
Dr. Sue and I (Marci) want to share with you a quick tip about intuition. Intuition is when we gain insight without the use of reason. Intuition is knowledge that comes to us spontaneously before we have a chance to analyze it with our intellects. Unfortunately, over time we start to doubt our intuitive voice, and we start to shut down that channel of information.
The good news is that it’s still there waiting very patiently for us to open up. It’s ready to get back into business again, but it’s like a muscle that hasn’t been exercised. It’s still there, it still exists; and if you want to build it up, you need to exercise it consciously.
The first and most important thing that you can do to develop your intuition is to acknowledge and honor the messages that you receive.
Start noticing simple gut feelings throughout the day, trust those gut feelings, and act on them. Even if they seem illogical, you’ll be amazed at the positive results that show up. Although the mind is sometimes a useful provider of knowledge, it often throws us off course as our intuition bumps up against the mind storehouse of old imprints and old fears.
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “I don’t really have intuition. I don’t get those gut feelings.” If this is the case, then you may be looking for the wrong thing. Intuition may not be a BIG BOOMING voice that shouts “Here I am! This is what you’re supposed to do!” It’s more often a subtle impulse. It sometimes tends to come back again and again until it gets our attention.
So, here’s what we recommend. First, slow down, s-l-o-o-o-w down. Intuitive knowledge can’t come to an agitated mind.
When you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off, STOP, take a few breaths, and just ask for an intuitive answer. When we’re moving so fast, we are spinning. Instead, stop, take a breath, and ask your higher self, “What do you want me to know right now?” Nine times out of ten, we get a profound answer because the contrast between the spinning and the silence allows a portal to open and your intuition to speak.
Your intuition is a muscle that needs to be exercised or it can degenerate. And, then it takes longer to get it back up and running. As they say, “Use it or lose it!” We send you much love and wish you many miraculous intuitive experiences as you slow down, breathe, and become attuned with your higher self.
Please comment below and share your experiences of following your intuition…
Today’s Miracle Momentis about the healing power of nature…
Dr. Sue and I (Marci) are in standing in the midst of beautiful nature around us. Whenever we connect deeply with nature, we’re moved by the experience of inner wholeness we feel from that connection.
We invite you to pay attention to and connect with nature in a different way than you may be used to. Not just in an “Oh, my gosh, look how beautiful that is” way. Instead, experiment with dropping down inside yourself and communing with nature from a deeper place within. You’ll begin to sense the difference between appreciating how amazing nature is and actually feeling a part of it.
Take a walk in the woods and feel what’s going on. Take a look at a flower growing up from the earth and watch that meticulous, miraculous demonstration of infinite possibility that happens just by nature unfolding. The seasons—spring fall, winter, summer—each of these are different expressions of your own wholeness. Allow what you’re experiencing to be an unfoldment of this miraculous power of nature. When you do, you start to vibrate as Nature herself. As that energy comes more alive in you, infinite possibility pours through.
When you connect with nature, you connect with your own inner nature. It’s healing, relaxing, opening, expanding.
Now, you may not live in a place where there’s a lot of nature around you. Yet, wherever we are, there’s some nature to connect with—the sky, the stars, the sun, the clouds, the rain. Allow yourself to feel connected to nature all around you, and you will feel more connected to your own inner nature.
There is a wholeness that is trying to pour through you. Allow your wholeness to reveal itself and to shine. We leave you with a great quote by Albert Einstein…
“Look deeply into nature and you will understand everything better.”
We send you much love and wishes this week for feeling deeply connected to the nature around you and to your own inner nature.
Please comment below and share your thoughts about how the power of nature impacts your life…
Today’s Miracle Moment is the miracle of listening to your inner voice…
Have you noticed that the times you had the courage to listen to your inner voice the results were better than you could have even predicted? And not only for you but for everyone else involved?
What we’ve noticed throughout the years that we’ve been sharing knowledge on how to live a miraculous life is that when people listen to their inner voice and act on the messages they receive, it always leads them to their greatest good. In fact, I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone say to us, “I listened to my inner voice and I really wished I hadn’t. It was a disaster.”
When we say your “inner voice,” we’re not talking about the critical parent, or the scared child or the addictive impulses that speak to you from inside your head.
The Inner Voice we’re talking about speaks to you from a place of silence within.
It speaks quietly and gently although sometimes firmly from the part of you that can see the bigger picture, the reality that resides in the arena of all possibilities, not in the arena of fears and “but what if…”
Your Inner Voice knows the perfection of creation and that we live in a benevolent universe. The Inner Voice is patiently waiting knowing that if you’d only listen your life would be so much more miraculous.
This voice is always trying to get you to listen but many choose to listen to the other voice instead – the one that responds to doubt and fear because it’s louder and often more logical OR to the advice and opinions of others who are seeing the world from their perspective, not yours.
Debra recently had an experience of listening to her inner voice and I (Marci) was the one who tried to say, “Don’t do it,” until I realized what I was doing and I turned it around and gave her my full support and more miracles than we could have imagined have resulted….
I (Debra) am happy to share this story…
Several months ago, my inner voice started saying to me that it was time to move on from Your Year of Miracles and pursue some of my other dreams. I have to say that I didn’t listen at first because it made no logical sense. I love YOM. I love our community. I’ve seen all of the amazing miracles that occur in people’s lives who are in our program and the quality and quantity of these miracles just keeps growing every year from soul mates found to book deals signed, from long standing health problems disappearing to money appearing from seemingly nowhere…And not only finding love but people sharing that their self love has blossomed and so much more. Why would I want to move on from this?
But that gentle voice was very persistent and I realized I had to live what we taught and I had to listen to that voice for my own happiness and personal truth and because I knew that when you do what’s best for yourself it will always be what’s best for everyone else. So I told Marci I have to follow that voice and at first she resisted, because, as we said, Your Year of Miracles was only getting better and better and it made no logical sense for me to move on—but listening to your inner voice is seldom logical….
So we both took a deep breath and did what we teach others to do, we listened to our inner voices and trusted in the Universe and the magic in my life has been beyond what I could imagine and what is happening in Your Year of Miracles is well, miraculous. Actually, beyond miraculous. Proving to us both, once again, that when you follow you inner voice it will not only be good for you but good for everyone else.
I (Marci) will certainly miss working this closely with you, as it has been a blast these past 5 years, but you are deeply embedded in the fiber of the Year of Miracles program, so you’re always with us.
And the universe is always supporting expansion and evolution, so we have invited two extraordinary women to join us in the 2019 Your Year of Miracles program. The amazing Dr. Sue Morter, and the amazing Lisa Garr.
Dr. Sue Morter is a Master of Bio-energetic Medicine and founder of the Morter Institute for Bio-Energetics. She is true visionary in the field of energy medicine and natural healing.
Lisa Garr is the founder of the Aware Show, Inspirations on GIAM TV and Becoming Aware on Hay House radio as well as being a beloved talk show host on KPFK-FM in LA and WBAI-FM in New York.
We have all known each other for many years, we are soul sisters and we are looking forward to the next evolution in the Miracle Zone.
Debra, you and I are always family, you are an exceptional woman and we all completely support you on your next adventure that will certainly be a great contribution to bettering people’s lives.
So as Marci and I continue to be each other’s biggest cheerleaders and are more committed than ever to follow our inner voices to our greatest good, let’s all commit that in the coming weeks we’ll listen to that inner voice even if it seems to be leading us in a different direction than our logical minds would have us go, and please share with us the miracles that we know will unfold for you.
So since this is my last miracle moment (although I’ll be back as a guest once in awhile), next time along with Marci you will enjoy the amazing Dr. Sue Morter.
I send my love and look forward to us meeting each other again someday soon, in the Miracle Zone.
How has your inner voice guided you? Please share a comment below…
Today’s Miracle Moment is about the miraculous power of trust.
Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a place of complete surrender, a place where you profoundly trust that you’re being taken care of by a Universal power at every moment? To live with certainty that the Universe is really out to support you…That it’s on your side and has your back…
We know that that seems like a big stretch to believe 24/7/365…but let’s lean into it just for the moment.
We often try so hard to control everything in our lives that we forget the power of putting our faith in the universe, and in letting go. But once you get into the habit of doing all that you can from your humanness, and trusting when you get that intuitive message “it’s time to let go and surrender to a Higher Power” and you you actually do it, you’ll begin experiencing a deep sense of peace and of well-being.
Throughout history, the wisest men and women have known that their highest good came from surrender.
Not the kind of surrender as in losing a battle surrender, but as in letting go of their personal limitations and aligning totally with an intelligence and an energy that’s greater than themselves. The energy of: “Let Thy Will Be Done.”
If you can do this, it creates something that we call a “yes mind.”
Now what’s a “yes mind?” Basically, instead of saying no and resisting everything that’s happening, simply say “yes.”
I (Marci) had my first experience of a “yes mind” when I took an improvisational acting class many many years ago, and they had this practice that at first was really hard for me…
One of the rules of improv is to respond instantly and enthusiastically with a yes to whatever another actor throws at you. So during my first class, my improv partner told me that I was an elderly rock star. Instead of saying, “No no no, I can’t do that,” I immediately started playing the part. I started strumming an air guitar, and clutching my lower back, and belting out lyrics as I gyrated like a ninety five-year old. When suddenly the scene switched. And I was an alien coming to earth to rob a bank, I just had to go with it.
This exercise broke my boundaries and freed up my energy, and I found that it was a great practice for living life. When you say yes, it’s like being a trapeze artist – you’re able to let go of the trapeze you’re holding on to, and sail through the air towards the next one. Without letting go and trusting the next one is there, forward motion just isn’t impossible. So it’s surrender and trust that creates a feeling of flow in every moment.
Now, we acknowledge that sometimes things happen that are not the way we want them, like we let go a bit before the hands of the other trapeze artist are there to catch us, but we also know that there’s an intelligence in the universe that’s bigger than us…an intelligence that can see things in ways that we can’t…an intelligence that just wants you to hear it when it’s telling you, “Don’t worry, I’ve got this one.”
Here’s an exercise that we invite you to try.
It’s an exercise of acting from from saying yes to what the universe brings you and being led by your soul surrendering throughout the day. This is an exercise that was adapted from A Course in Miracles, and here’s what you do…
At the beginning of your day, close your eyes for just a moment, and take a few deep breaths, and offer these three questions to the Universe: What would spirit have me do today? Where would spirit have me go today? What would spirit have me say and to whom? And then, as you move through your day, use the answers that come to you as your inspiration from spirit, and simply say yes to whatever those answers are, trusting life’s unfolding. And if you get stuck, ask the questions again.
When you act on the intuitive answers that show up and follow them trusting that spirit is guiding you and has your back, you’ll find yourself living more and more in the miracle zone.
Debra and I wish you many moments of trusting, surrendering, and living in in the Miracle Zone until we’re together again.
How has trust been a challenge AND a champion for you? Please share a comment below…
Today’s miracle moment is about the power of intuition.
A few years ago, Marci went on a trip with the amazing Lynne Twist to the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and lived for a week with the indigenous Achuar people there. Traditionally warriors with a fierce devotion to their land, the Archuar have kept their culture and worldview remarkably intact. In the Achuar world, dreams are shared each morning before sunrise, and interpreted by either their community leader or their shaman.
One of the things Marci most noticed when she was in Ecuador was that the Achuar depended primarily on their intuitive sense to navigate through life. They had rituals that honored their intuition and it was working really well for them. In fact, being guided by intuition is what’s allowed all indigenous people to survive. In cultures like the Achuar, intuition is acknowledged, respected, and honored as an important aspect of life. The Achuar children are taught at a very young age to allow themselves to notice and follow their sense of connection to the universal creative force. As people age in these cultures, their intuition doesn’t diminish but becomes even stronger.
Watch the video below to get the full story or keep reading…
We can all access our intuition…
…This inner knowing, which is a universal, intelligent life force that everyone has. Some people describe intuition as a “gut feeling.” And even though we’re all born with it, unfortunately, in our modern world, we’re rarely encouraged to develop it. Instead, we’re taught to defer to the wisdom of our parents, teachers, clergy, bosses, friends and even the media.
And just like a physical muscle that can atrophy if we don’t use it, the muscle of our intuition degenerates if we ignore it.
There’s another reason why we in our modern society lose touch with our intuition and that is, we rarely get quiet enough.
Intuition speaks to us in moments of silence, and when we’re moving too quickly or doing too much multi-tasking, we can’t experience silence. In fact, when we’re watching TV, eating, talking to someone and texting at the same time, there’s so much noise in our brains that there’s no space for our intuition to speak to us. On top of that, we’re bombarded with so much energetic “noise” emitted from the EMF’s swirling non-stop through our homes and workplaces that our intuition really doesn’t stand a chance.
Maybe people in the rain forest are in touch with the inner voice because there is so much silence. The “noise” they most often hear are the sounds of the river running, animals calling, and insects singing – the sounds of silence.
So what can you do?
Slow down. If you need an insight about a situation in your life, stop what you’re doing, take a few breaths and ask your intuition. If you get a gut feeling, listen to it and act before your rational mind starts giving you all the reasons why you’re wrong. You can recognize your intuition (as opposed to some thought based on fear or past hurts) because it comes to you in a flash and gives you information neutrally and unemotionally.
When you’re hearing that intuitive voice, although it will ultimately lead you to your greatest good, it might not be linear, and it may ask you to do things that are inconvenient. It may lead you into unfamiliar territory, or even require that you take a leap of faith…but it always takes you by the quickest and surest route to a more expanded and fulfilling state of life – a state that we call Living in the Miracle Zone.
We’ll leave you today with a great quote from the actor Alan Alda: You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you discover there will be yourself.
May your intuition lead you to the Miracle Zone!
Please share a comment below about how your intuition has guided you…
Today’s Miracle Moment is about cultivating our intuition.
We view Intuition as the phenomenon where we gain insight without the use of reason. Intuition is knowledge that comes to us spontaneously before we have a chance to analyze it with our intellects.
The word “intuition” is thought to come from the Latin verb intuaire or from the middle English word intuit, both of which mean to “look upon” or “to gain knowledge without using the process of rational thinking.” We all have intuitive potential – as a matter of fact, when you were a child you lived by your intuition, just following it freely long before you even had the ability to reason.
In fact, I (Debra) remember a day when my daughter was a little baby like it was yesterday even though it was almost 28 years ago. Since Deanna was our first and my husband and I both worked from home, it took awhile to have the courage to leave her with a babysitter. We were probably a little over cautious and must have interviewed about a dozen potential sitters.
There was one girl who we loved. She was charming and funny and seemed very responsible but when we handed Deanna to her – who was maybe 7 or 8 months old at the time – she would just start to scream her little head off. We were miffed but obviously couldn’t hire this girl because it happened every single time.
A few weeks later, we read in the local paper that this girl been arrested for selling narcotics and was part of a drug operation that spanned 3 states. How did Deanna know??!?!
Unfortunately, over time we begin to doubt our intuitive voice and shut down that channel of information. The good news is that it’s still there waiting patiently for us to open it up for business again! Just like a muscle that hasn’t been exercised, it’s still exists and if you want to build it up, you need to exercise it consciously.
The first and most important thing that you can do to develop your intuition is to acknowledge and honor the messages you receive.
Start noticing simple gut feelings throughout the day. Trust those gut feelings and act on them even if they might seem counter-intuitive. You’ll be amazed at the positive results that show up.
Although the mind is sometimes a useful provider of knowledge it often throws us off course as our intuition bumps up against the mind’s storehouse of old imprints and fears.
And if you think, “But I don’t get many gut feelings,” then you’re looking for the wrong thing.
Intuition may not be a big booming voice. It’s more often a subtle impulse that tends to come back again and again until it gets our attention.
Intuitive flashes often come to both of us in the bath or shower or during our meditations or when we’re driving with some quiet music playing or talking a walk in nature. And if you feel you don’t get intuitive messages, then you may simply be moving too quickly or doing too much multi-tasking. When there are 3 or 4 things going on in your head, there’s no space for that inner guidance to speak to you. Intuition is most readily available when we have silence or spaciousness in our heads. It also comes when we’re relaxed, enjoying and thinking about something else. Even Einstein said that his greatest ideas came to him when he was out for a walk or relaxing.
So, here’s what we recommend…
First, slow down. Intuitive knowledge cannot come to an agitated mind. When you’re running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off, stop, take a few breaths and ask for an intuitive answer. When we’re moving so fast that we’re “spinning,” we stop, take a breath and ask our higher self, “What do you want me to know right now?” 9 times out of 10, we get a profound answer because the contrast between the spinning and the silence allows a portal to open and your intuition to speak. Your intuition is a muscle that needs to be exercised or it can degenerate and then it takes longer to get it back up and running. As they say (whoever they is), “use it or lose it!!”
And we’ll end with a quote from one of our favorite actors, directors and authors, Alan Alda who said:
How has your intuition served you? Please share a comment below…
