Your Year of Miracles

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  • Take Responsibility For Your Life

    Take Responsibility For Your Life

    Today’s Miracle Moment Is About Taking Responsibility for Your Life…

    In Your Year of Miracles program, we have Five Foundations for Living in the Miracle Zone. Today, we’re going to talk about the fifth of these foundations, which is Take Responsibility for Your Life. 

    Taking responsibility is the way to embrace your true power in life. This means showing up as a victor rather than a victim of your circumstances. We’ll explain more about that in a minute.

    Now we recognize that the word “responsibility” can feel heavy. Many people think that taking responsibility means judging or blaming yourself: “things are all my fault” or “shame on me.” That does feel heavy.

    But that’s not what we’re referring to. Instead, we suggest you think of responsibility in this way: “If my life is my responsibility, it means I have some say in it. I’m going to have a great role in the outcomes I get in life.”

    When you allow yourself to make choices from the place of what’s possible for your life rather than from the place of limitation, then you feel the power and freedom of taking responsibility for your life.

    You can start to take more responsibility for your life by noticing how often you give away your power by showing up as a victim in life.

    Here are three ways to know that you’re showing up like a victim:

    Blaming: Anytime you’re blaming somebody else or outside forces for what’s going wrong with your life—whether you’re blaming the weather, or blaming someone else or blaming society — you’re giving away your power.

    Shaming: This is blame turned towards yourself. Telling yourself things like, “I’m never good at this. I can’t do this. I’m always messing up. I don’t deserve this” is evidence that you’re stuck in the rut giving away your power through shaming yourself.

    Complaining: When you spend energy complaining about the circumstances in your life you don’t like–focusing on what’s wrong–you’ll inevitably end up getting more of that, because what you put your attention on grows stronger in your life.

    We’re sure you’ve noticed what a bummer it is to be around people who are blaming, shaming, and complaining, yes? Well, it’s also a bummer to be around yourself when you’re blaming, shaming, and complaining.

    Any time you’re blaming, shaming, or complaining, you’re showing up like a victim in life and you’re not in the Miracle Zone.

    So, here’s what we invite you to do this week: play the “Blame, Shame and Complain Game”.

    It’s quite simple. Every time you find yourself blaming, shaming, or complaining, you put a dollar into a bowl. You’ll be surprised how often you catch yourself on those first few days. But by the fourth or fifth day, you’ll be doing much less blaming, shaming and complaining. We’re sure of it.

    You can play this game with your family (it’s great with kids) or your friends or your co-workers. (At the end of the week, you can donate the money you’ve collected to a favorite charity.) This is a fun way to shift the habit of showing up like a victim.

    Click here to learn more about the first Foundation  – Trusting the Universe
    Click here to learn more about the second Foundation – Living from the Soul
    Click here to learn more about the third Foundation – Leading with an Open Heart
    Click here to learn more about the fourth Foundation – Choosing Where You Put Your Energy and Attention

     

    Please share with us below what your experience is with playing the Blame, Shame, and Complain Game.

  • Miracle Moment: A 105-Year-Old Woman’s Secret to Happiness…

    Miracle Moment: A 105-Year-Old Woman’s Secret to Happiness…

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About a 105-Year-Old Woman’s Secret to Happiness…

    Recently, I attended a singing event with about 25 people, where we sang beautiful songs and chants together for about 2 hours. Throughout the event, I noticed a radiant woman in the back row – she had a huge smile on her face, and she was clapping and singing along the whole time. She stood out to me because she looked to be a little older than the rest of the people there. After we were done singing, I went to meet her and found out that her name was Natalie and she was about to have her 105th birthday. 

    She was the first 105-year-old I’d ever met, and she was full of energy, cracking jokes, and living in what we call the Miracle Zone!

    We sat down to talk to her, and I asked her what her secret is to living to 105 with such zest and a big smile on her face? 

    Because it’s one thing to live to 105, but it’s another to be full of life, vitality, happiness and energy at that age. 

    Natalie said that her secret is keeping busy and helping people. She loves encouraging others, helping them believe in themselves, and doing that gives her an extra spark. 

    What I love about this is that when most of us think about being 105, we’re afraid we’ll need to rely on others.

    Instead, Natalie keeps her focus on helping others, and that’s helped her to stay healthy and energized at her age.

    I also got to talk with Ann, Natalie’s daughter, who said that one of her mom’s strengths is that she’s a “rascal” who has a lightness and sense of humor about life. And she definitely made me laugh during our short chat. 

    Natalie’s experience is backed up by research done by Dan Buettner, who discovered the Blue Zones – the places in the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives. Just the day after meeting Natalie, I had an interview already scheduled with Dan for Your Year of Miracles members. 

    Dan said: Having a sense of purpose and helping others can add 8 years to life. And that’s far more powerful than any pill or any supplement you can find.

    So there you go – put your focus on how you can help others, and have a sense of humor about life. 

    This week, I invite you to look for ways to focus on helping or encouraging others. This doesn’t have to look like spending a whole day doing volunteer work, but it can. Simply have the intention to be an encouraging presence for others, and as you go through your day look for the opportunities to help others or show you care. And, when life feels too serious, practice having a sense of humor.

    Leave us a comment about what Natalie’s story inspires in you! We look forward to hearing from you. 

  • A Powerful Practice to Supercharge Your Miracles in 2025

    A Powerful Practice to Supercharge Your Miracles in 2025

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    You did it! You survived another crazy year!

    We love the new year because it’s the perfect time for a fresh start. A time to get clear on what’s working in your life, and what you want to create for the coming year.

    We’re personally feeling that big things are in store for all of us in 2025!

    New year

    One of our beloved spiritual teachers used to say: Well-begun is half done.

    We take that to heart every year and like to start the new year with a powerful ritual that you may want to try!!

    You can do this ritual by yourself or with your partner, friends, or family members. In fact, we encourage you to do it with others–with anyone who will support your intentions with an open heart to give them more juice.

    Here’s how it goes:

    • On New Year’s Eve (or anytime in the first few days of the year), take out a piece of paper and write a list of everything that you want to let go of from 2024. These can include habits, behaviors, limiting beliefs, fears, physical conditions, feelings of resentment, conflicts, or thoughts that don’t serve you.
    • Then thank all those items on that list for having been with you and for all the lessons learned and ways you grew from them.
    • Next make a clear statement of letting go such as: “I now let go of all these things and anything else that no longer serves me and my miraculous life as I step into a glorious 2025.”
    • Then gather around a fire in a fireplace and throw the paper in to be burned. If you don’t have a fireplace, you can CAREFULLY burn it in a large stainless steel bowl.
    • Then speak out loud everything you’re grateful for from the past year — the joys, celebrations, accomplishments, lessons learned, and “growth” experiences. Offer those into the fire to be amplified.
    • And now it’s time to call in what you’d like to bring forward in 2025—so speak out loud everything that you welcome into your vision of the New Year—the intentions, beliefs, behaviors, relationships and everything else that you will embrace. Offer those into the fire to ignite the new.

    With this powerful start, you’ll be on your way to a magical, miraculous and fulfilling year ahead. We say, amen to that!

    We want you to know that we’re here to support you in making that happen.

    Have you saved your seat for our free training, “3 Keys to Manifesting Everyday Miracles”?

     We (Marci, Dr. Sue and Lisa Nichols) will share why most New Year’s resolutions fail year after year and how you can shift that pattern for good with simple (and even fun!) step-by-step guidance.

    >> Save your free seat here!

     

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  • You’re Never Too Far From Your Miracles

    You’re Never Too Far From Your Miracles

    Today’s Miracle Moment Is About You’re Never Too Far From Your Miracles…

    And this is inspired by an amazingly courageous and adventurous cat named “Rayne Beau”. Yes, his name is pronounced “rainbow.”

    Rayne Beau is a 2-and-a-half-year-old siamese cat, and his owners, Suzanne and Benny, had taken him with them on a trip to visit Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. While they were there, Rayne Beau sadly went missing. 

    Benny spent hours looking for Rayne Beau in the forest, trying to lure him back with his favorite treats and toys, but Benny had no luck finding him. Finally, the couple had to leave without their beloved cat. They were heartbroken and felt like they were abandoning him. But they never lost hope in one day reuniting with Rayne Beau. 

    And then, two months later – 61 days, to be exact – Rayne Beau was found in Roseville, California, which was actually 190 miles away from his home with Suzanne and Benny. 

    It turns out that Rayne Beau had traveled 900 miles to get there – all the way from Wyoming to Roseville.He had been found in poor health, and was taken in for a couple of nights by the woman who found him and then she took him to a local SPCA. There, they were able to identify him through his microchip and reunite him with Suzanne and Benny.

    And here’s a wonderful photo of Suzanne and Rayne Beau together.

    Suzanne and Benny were ecstatic to have Rayne Beau back. Suzanne said, “I look at him every day and am so grateful and tell him, ‘Do you know how many weeks I had been praying to see that face again?’”

    I love that story. And let’s look at a few things Rayne Beau can teach us about how to live a life full of miracles, no matter how far you feel from them.  

    First, Rayne Beau shows us the power of following our internal GPS.

    There’s no way to know how Rayne Beau found his way back to California in his 900-mile trek, but somehow, his instinct was guiding him. No matter how far away you feel now from where you want to be, you have an inner GPS that can guide you to your miracles. Following your GPS requires you to deeply listen to and trust a deeper voice within than the mind. Usually our GPS won’t show us the entire map all at once – we’re given one step at time to lead us on our way. That keeps us in the mystery and in a state of openness and trust, which is fertile soil for miracles.

    Second, Rayne Beau relied on benevolent helpers – like the woman who found him when he was in poor health, or the Animal Shelter who took him in.

    We can lean on the support of unseen benevolent helpers in each moment. You can call in your guides, ask for help from the angels, or pray for support from specific spiritual figures that you resonate with, like Mother Mary, or Ganesha, or Quan Yin. Your unseen helpers can support you by giving you guidance, sending you signs, sending helpful people to you, or many other creative ways of lining up circumstances in just the way they’re needed to support your miracles. You’ve just got to ask!

    And finally, don’t give up even when you feel you’re so far from the miracles you want.

    Poor Rayne Beau must have been very hungry, scared, and tired by the time he made it to Roseville, California all the way from Wyoming. Sometimes when we’re at our lowest, we can feel that we’re the furthest from our miracles. But actually, Rayne Beau shows us that when we’re tired and weary, our miracles can be just right around the corner. 

    Be sure to watch the video where I walk you through a short Miracles Process to support you in finding your way back home to the miracles inside of you. 

    I hope you can feel a stronger connection with your inner compass from that exercise. You can go back and repeat that video process anytime to keep strengthening that channel.

    So, I’ll leave you with a quote from an African Proverb, “To get lost is to learn the way.” Leave a comment to share how Rayne Beau the cat inspires you to never give up on your miracles. I send you love!

    Music credit: Jim Oliver “Full Moon”

    Please share with us below about your thoughts about trusting that your miracles are coming…

  • Tapping Into the Universe’s Creative Solutions

    Tapping Into the Universe’s Creative Solutions

    Today’s Miracle Moment Is About Tapping Into the Universe’s Creative Solutions…

    I recently heard a story of what an 86-year-old Japanese man named Mr Toshiyuki Kuroki did for his 79-year-old wife, Yasuko to make her happy again.

    The couple lived on a dairy farm in Japan, where they tended to a herd of 60 cows every day. When she was 52 years old, Yasuko experienced a problem with her eyes and ended up becoming blind very suddenly, within a week. 

    And as you can imagine, she was absolutely devastated. Not only did this drastically change her day to day life, but she also gave up a dream the couple had of taking a trip around Japan when they retired. Yasuko ended up shutting herself off from the world and fell into a deep depression.

    Her husband decided to get very creative about coming up with some way to bring happiness back to his blind wife.

    He came across a pink moss flower in his garden and noticed that it had a scent that was just as beautiful as it looked. He came up with the idea of planting his farm full of these beautiful pink flowers so that his wife could enjoy their wonderful fragrance. He also thought that maybe the flowers would attract people to come and visit the garden, so even if she wasn’t able to or comfortable with traveling, people could come to her. 

    Well, he spent two years building the foundation for the garden. And, his idea worked – the pink flowers bloomed all over their fields, and they lured his wife out of the house to enjoy them. People who had heard about their touching love story started coming to visit to see the couple and the beautiful pink flowers. Now, up to 7,000 visitors come to visit every year from late March to April, when the flowers are fully blooming.

    What a fabulous example of what it means to live in the Miracle Zone!

    First, is that the husband lives in what I call “the land of all possibilities.”

    That means that no matter what happens, you know that there are infinite possibilities and creative solutions available in the Universe for you. Toshiyuki wanted to bring his wife happiness. He didn’t know exactly how that would happen or what that would look like, but he started with that clear intention and with the perspective that anything is possible. That perspective keeps you open to discovering the solutions that the Universe wants to provide for you. 

    And then, he listened to his unique inspiration.

    You can imagine the lightbulb moment that went off the day he smelled the pink flowers and thought to himself – “What if I created a whole field full of these flowers? Maybe that would make her happy!” The Universe speaks to us through our intuitive hits – through those ideas that pop into our mind and bring with them a sense of excitement. Listen and pay attention to the nudges you receive. Don’t write them off – because there may be gold in them. 

    And finally, he took aligned action and put in the work day after day.

    He spent years digging, planting, weeding, watering, waiting, and taking care of the field and the flowers to support them to grow. The Miracle Zone isn’t about magical thinking – our participation is required to co-create with the Universe. And when you take aligned action, the universe will meet you more than halfway.

    Be sure to watch the video to do a process with me where you’re going to create your own Land of Possibilities in your mind – a place you can always visit to tap into the Universe’s creative solutions.

    How delicious is it to be in your Land of All Possibilities? Know that whatever came to you during that process – that is your sacred place that’s just for you. Trust that your request was received and open up to the ways the Universe speaks to you – it could be an idea that pops in your mind, or a song you hear, a sign on the highway – just pay attention and notice what resonates with you and creates a feeling of excitement.

    Miracles are a gift of the divine AND our participation is often needed! So once you get your inspired idea, take baby steps and take aligned action to bring it life. Remember the husband who spent years digging, weeding, and watering to bring his inspired idea to life. 

    So I’d love to hear how this Miracle Moment landed for you. Share in the comments what resonated the most. And I’ll leave you with this quote from Pearl S. Buck: “All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

    I send you my wishes for a fabulous week!

    Music credit: Jim Oliver “Residing in Love”

    Please share with us below about your thoughts about living in the Land of All Possibilities…

  • How to Open to What You Resist

    How to Open to What You Resist

    Today’s Miracle Moment Is About How to Open to What You Resist…

    What is that difficult thing that you know you need to do, but you’ve been resisting it or putting it off? Maybe it’s a conversation you need to have or overdue paperwork you need to handle or any looming task on your to-do list that’s hovering over you. Whatever it is, it’s something that the thought of doing gives you a sunken feeling. 

    All of the big or small things that you’re putting off doing take up space in your life energetically. What you resist tends to persist.

    Your resistances can end up as a pile of incompletions that are actually weighing you down and taking up your energy. To create more space for miracles to flow, you need to handle incompletions and the things you’re resisting.

    So how can you get yourself to do that thing you’re resisting? Many productivity experts say that the best way to handle this is to start your day doing the most difficult task first. By doing that thing you’re avoiding, you can lift that feeling of overwhelm from your shoulders.

    Brian Tracy calls it “eating the frog.” This comes from a Mark Twain quote where he said, “If the first thing you do every morning is to eat a live frog, then you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that’s probably the worst thing that’s gonna happen to you during the day.” 

    I actually need to change that analogy since I’m a vegetarian! But the idea being is that you start with a difficult task first.

    And it’s not just beneficial for that one thing on your list. Research has shown that when you complete a difficult task, it triggers the release of endorphins in your brain and it gives you a natural high that’ll last for hours. And that energy can carry you through your day and you can put it towards the other important things in your life. 

    You can actually develop a positive addiction to these endorphins, and that’s going to make you want to go after the harder things first so that you get that endorphin high.

    So let’s take this a step further and bring some miracles energy in to help you to face what you’re resisting.

    Let’s do a short process together that will support some of those deeper fears or worries about whatever it is you’re avoiding to dissipate:

    • Start by getting in your body. Feel your feet on the ground and your body in the chair or wherever you’re watching or listening to this from. Imagine a chord going all the way down from your base chakra connecting you to the earth, and another chord going from your crown all the way to the heavens. Feel your physical body deeply rooted and supported by Mother Earth, and your spirit supported by your guides or your angel team and the celestial realms. And put your hand on your heart, and take a couple deep breaths in and out.
    • Next I invite you to explore your answers to the following questions.
      • What am I resisting?
      • What am I afraid will happen if I handle this?
      • What is a new, empowering Miracle Affirmation I could give myself about this situation? Maybe: I can do this. Or: I have the capacity to figure out how to handle this situation. Or: I trust that I’m supported by the Universe no matter what.
    • Now, imagine that you’ve faced what you’re resisting, and it goes very well. How do you feel after completing this? Maybe deep relief, ease, and gratitude. Now that you’ve moved the stagnant energy, there’s greater space for miracles to flow.
    • Finally, imagine going through your day with more energy to put towards everything that’s important to you. Feel the lightness you feel now that what you’ve been resisting is off of your shoulders.

    And now, from this energy, I invite you to go forward with your day. Start checking off those incompletions and make it a practice to do what you’re resisting. 

    And I’ll leave you with a quote from the past president of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis. His name was Theodore Isaac Rubin, and he says, “Happiness does not come from doing easy work, but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes from the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” 

    I’m wishing you a week where you courageously face those things you’ve been putting off and feel the weight lifted off your shoulders, and have more space for miracles! I send you love.

    Please share with us below what your experience is with trying today’s process to help you open to what you resist.

  • The Miraculous Power of Receiving

    The Miraculous Power of Receiving

    Today’s Miracle Moment Is About The Miraculous Power of Receiving…

    It’s absolutely fabulous to receive: whether it’s love, financial prosperity, kindness, appreciation or gifts, each can be a wonderful blessing to our lives. Having the power to receive means we have the ability to fill up and enjoy greater love, connection and prosperity.

    However, many of us grew up hearing the message that it’s better to give than to receive. While it’s incredibly rewarding to give, it’s possible we’ve overlooked the hidden downsides of prioritizing giving over receiving. We may have unknowingly created blocks to our ability to receive based on a perception that it’s somehow selfish or wrong.

    Far too many people end up depleted, exhausted, and unfulfilled without realizing they haven’t learned how to fill themselves up. They haven’t learned to receive and this pushes away the abundant gifts that come flowing in from living in the Miracle Zone.

    If that feels familiar, you’re in the right place! In this Miracle Moment I’ll share a wonderful process you can try to practice joyful receiving.

    Now, it’s surprisingly common for folks to feel uncomfortable receiving. For instance, do you silently squirm inside when someone offers a kind word or a present—or do you allow yourself to deeply receive the gift of kindness, caring, and connection?

    Here are some reason you might feel uncomfortable receiving:

    • Distancing Intimacy: When we fear intimacy we may disallow ourselves from receiving a gift or compliment, thereby depriving ourselves of opening up to a deeper connection.
    • Fear of Vulnerability: Receiving invites us to welcome a vulnerable part of ourselves. Can we allow ourselves to surrender to the good feeling of receiving a gift?
    • Feeling Selfish: Through family, society, or religion you may have come to believe that it’s selfish to receive. We may have lost touch with our inherent worthiness and the right to relish in life’s pleasures. We might have forgotten that when we receive with gratitude and delight, we are gifting the giver; who’s true desire is to bring us joy.
    • A Feeling of Guilt or Pressure to Reciprocate: Some people have difficulty receiving because they believe they’ll then be indebted to the giver. We reject a gift to defend against a self-imposed obligation to reciprocate. If this is you, see if you can release yourself from your expectation to reciprocate and instead, simply receive. Rather than projecting into the future about what comes next, allow yourself to enjoy the present moment and greet the generosity with true appreciation.

    There are many ways we can block ourselves off from the pleasure of receiving. That’s why it’s important to bring awareness to these areas so we can begin to soften them and expand our hearts into joyful receptivity.

    So here’s an exercise that I invite you to try out to practice joyful receiving…

    1. Become Aware: The next time someone offers you a compliment, a present, or looks lovingly into your eyes, notice how you feel inside. What’s happening in your body? Is your breathing relaxed and your belly soft or are you tensing up? 
    2. Open Your Heart: Breathe into your heart and see if you can soften into a place of allowing. Can you simply be with any sense of caring and connection you feel in your heart?
    3. Remain Present: Bringing awareness to the pleasant and delightful experience of receiving might allow you to be more present in that moment. Allow yourself to stay in your heart instead of your head.
    4. Offer Gratitude: See if you can respond with genuine gratitude as you deeply receive the gift. Remember your appreciation is a gift you can share with the giver. 

    Learning to receive is a healthy step in experiencing a fullness and richness in life. It’s a confirmation of your own worthiness and a deepening of self-love that leads to a higher vibration in the Miracle Zone.

    I want to end this Miracle Moment with a wonderful quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson who said “Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”

    Here’s to saying yes to life and yes to the miraculous power of receiving. I’d love to hear from you! What is your experience with receiving gifts? How might you shift yourself into receiving with more joy? I wish you many moments of relishing in the gifts of life and experiencing all of the abundance that the Miracle Zone has to offer.

    Please share with us below what your experience is with playing with joyful receiving.

  • A Powerful Practice to Supercharge Your Miracles in 2024

    A Powerful Practice to Supercharge Your Miracles in 2024

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    [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]You did it! You survived another crazy year!

    We love the new year because it’s the perfect time for a fresh start. A time to get clear on what’s working in your life, and what you want to create for the coming year.

    We’re personally feeling that big things are in store for all of us in 2024!

    New year

    One of our beloved spiritual teachers used to say: Well-begun is half done.

    We take that to heart every year and like to start the new year with a powerful ritual that you may want to try!!

    You can do this ritual by yourself or with your partner, friends, or family members. In fact, we encourage you to do it with others–with anyone who will support your intentions with an open heart to give them more juice.

    Here’s how it goes:

    • On New Year’s Eve (or anytime in the first few days of the year), take out a piece of paper and write a list of everything that you want to let go of from 2023. These can include habits, behaviors, limiting beliefs, fears, physical conditions, feelings of resentment, conflicts, or thoughts that don’t serve you.
    • Then thank all those items on that list for having been with you and for all the lessons learned and ways you grew from them.
    • Next make a clear statement of letting go such as: “I now let go of all these things and anything else that no longer serves me and my miraculous life as I step into a glorious 2024.”
    • Then gather around a fire in a fireplace and throw the paper in to be burned. If you don’t have a fireplace, you can CAREFULLY burn it in a large stainless steel bowl.
    • Then speak out loud everything you’re grateful for from the past year — the joys, celebrations, accomplishments, lessons learned, and “growth” experiences. Offer those into the fire to be amplified.
    • And now it’s time to call in what you’d like to bring forward in 2024—so speak out loud everything that you welcome into your vision of the New Year—the intentions, beliefs, behaviors, relationships and everything else that you will embrace. Offer those into the fire to ignite the new.

    With this powerful start, you’ll be on your way to a magical, miraculous and fulfilling year ahead. We say, amen to that!

    We want you to know that we’re here to support you in making that happen.

    Have you saved your seat for our free masterclass, “3 Secrets to Living a Miraculous Life”?

     We (Marci and Lisa Nichols) will share why most New Year’s resolutions fail year after year and how you can shift that pattern for good with simple (and even fun!) step-by-step guidance.

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    >> Save your free seat here!

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  • Miracle Moment: Your Morning Routine for Miracles

    Miracle Moment: Your Morning Routine for Miracles

    Today’s Miracle Moment is about your Morning Routine for Miracles…

    Having a morning routine is a great way to ground yourself for the day ahead. Research shows that willpower is highest in the morning, so it’s a great time to do the practices that will support you.

    Ancient yogic sages have always known about the power of mornings. They saw the mornings as an auspicious spiritually charged time and would use the sacred energies of the morning to devote to practices like meditation or prayer.

    In our modern times, well-known influential people swear by morning routines too. Richard Branson gets up at 5 am to exercise and spend time with his family before starting the day.  Gwenyth Paltrow gets up by 6:30 am and meditates first and then works out.

    Even if all you have is 5 or 10 minutes on some days, you can still soak in the magic of this sacred time of the day and establish a morning routine to set your day up for miracles. 

    Here are some rituals that can help set you up for a day full of miracles big and small…

    1. Get a good night’s sleep – The first part of your morning routine actually starts the night before with getting restful sleep! Sleep is our body’s built-in healer, and it’s how our bodies restore, replenish, and recharge.

    We need both the right quantity AND quality of sleep to feel well-rested, energized and focused the next day. And, it certainly helps us to want to get out of bed and start the day.

    To improve your quality of sleep, you can go to sleep at the “magical hour,” which is 10:00 pm. According to Ayurvedic medicine, there are three cycles that occur twice in every 24-hour period–Vata, Pitta and Kapha. At 10:00 pm, we move into the Pitta cycle (from 10:00 pm – 2:00 am), and that’s the most important time for your body to recharge. An hour of sleep that you get before midnight is worth twice as much as the sleep that you get after midnight.

    For a better quality of sleep, you can also stay away from TV screens for at least an hour or two before sleep. You can also take an epsom salt bath, and drink sleepy time tea or have calms forte or magnesium.

    Try an experiment: For 3 nights in a row, go to bed at 10:00 pm and see how you feel on the 4th morning.

    2. Spend time in gratitude first thing in the morning – When you wake up, one of the first things you can do in the morning is to spend some time in gratitude. What you put your attention on grows stronger in your life. When you start noticing all the miracles you’re already experiencing, big and small, you’ll experience even more. 

    This is extra powerful if it’s in an area that you might be struggling in or it’s an area that you’re calling miracles in for. So if you’re having a challenge in a relationship, think of 10 things you’re grateful for in your relationships. If you’re calling in more financial abundance, spend time in gratitude appreciating 10 ways you have abundance in your life, even if right now, you’re focusing on things like: I have food in the fridge to eat. I have clean water. I have internet access to watch inspiring videos! 

    By focusing on the good, you’re going to support even more good in those areas to grow.

    3. Connect with the Divine in any way that feels meaningful to you – This could be meditation, prayer, or chanting, etc. As Mother Teresa said, “God speaks in the silence of the heart.” 

    We all need some silence away from the rhythm of daily life that helps us plug in to our inner peace and inner connectedness. 

    Find what brings silence to your heart. It could be chanting, or music, but it brings you to the silence of your heart.

    4. Set some specific intentions for your day – Your intentions could be a specific feeling you want to experience like: I feel so energized, focused and creative today. Or, you might have a few specific goals you want to accomplish. Write those down, and then spend a few minutes visualizing yourself achieving those successfully.

    See yourself going through the day feeling the way you want to feel while accomplishing the specific goals you have for your day!

    All of these practices only take a few minutes, but can make a huge difference and help you to experience more miracles! Let us know in the comments what you’ll try for your Morning Routine for Miracles, or what already works for you.

    Morning Routine for Miracles

    May you have magical mornings that set the stage for miraculous days.

  • Miracle Moment: Small But Mighty Difference

    Miracle Moment: Small But Mighty Difference

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About How You Can Make a Small But Mighty Difference Today.

    Let’s start with a short story…

    One day, a woman was riding a bus. She’d just gotten herself a wonderful fresh bouquet of flowers and she was really enjoying their beauty and scent. She looked over to the row in front of her across the aisle, and saw a man who looked lonely and sad. She looked at him, and then looked at her flowers, and she felt inspired to give him her fresh bouquet of flowers.

    She walked over and handed them to him, and he was so surprised that he was brought to tears. He said to her, “You don’t know how much this means to me. My wife just passed away, and I’m on my way to visit her at her grave. I’m going to be able to give these to her today.”

    One of the greatest, deepest joys in life comes from making an impact and making a contribution. However, we can often look at the world around us and think, “What could I possibly do to change anything? There is so much that needs to be done!” Or you might have so much on your shoulders with life, like paying the bills, that you don’t have the energy to think about making a difference. As this story shows, it’s not about saving the entire world…

    There’s huge power in making a difference in just one person’s life. This can be a huge boost of happiness and inspiration for you, too.

    The woman in this story allowed love to matter first. 

    Love is the highest frequency on the planet, and it’s the highest frequency we can tap into while still being in the body.

    The first vibration that the Unified Field generates is love. The more we are loving, the closer we are to the miraculous and to the infinite possibilities that are available to anyone at any time.

    When we do small acts of kindness, we bring more love into the space we’re in. Love unifies us with the highest vibration of the people that you’re engaging with directly. And not only that…

    Quantum science shows us that when you do an unexpected loving act, it positively impacts someone on the other side of the planet too.

    They’ll find it easier to forgive a family member, or to let go of a heartbreak.

    The most significant thing to all of us is love, so let’s find a way to make that into an action.

    This week, we invite you to bring more miracles into your life by making a small but mighty difference in the life of someone you encounter. Maybe you acknowledge the grocery store clerk for how their friendliness brightens your day, or buy a cup of coffee for the next person in line at a coffee shop, or give a call to an elderly family member out of the blue.

    Let us know in the comments what you’ll do to create a small but mighty miracle for someone you meet.