Member Log In
Today’s Miracle Moment is about Listening to Your Soul…
In Your Year of Miracles program, we teach that there are Five Foundations for Living in the Miracle Zone, and the first foundation is…Listen to Your Soul. What we mean by that is to live aligned with your highest truth, honoring your inner guidance, and looking inside yourself for the answers rather than running to everybody else for the answers. While it’s fine to get people’s input, ultimately, we need to listen to our own soul to guide our life.
The bottom line is—the soul knows.
The soul is made of the entire cosmos packed into the core of our body. We call it the Soulful Self or the Essential Self, and it’s that place of deep, true inner knowing. It’s the part of you that’s always known, even when the mind is questioning and creating stories. What’s happening in the still waters beneath the mind is that the Soulful Self is offering up this knowing. All we have to do is train the mind to listen to this deep core truth.
In all my (Sue’s) travels around the world travel teaching hundreds of thousands of people, I’ve never heard anyone say, “I had this inner knowing and I went with it, and boy, do I regret it.” What I have heard hundreds of times is, “I had a deep inner knowing and I didn’t act on it, and boy, do I regret it!”
Clearly, the smart thing to do with your mind is to teach it to listen to this deep inner knowing. Your mind and soul need to become so bonded that they could complete each other sentences–so bonded that you are operating as the soul. We start by just listening to this deep knowing that we’ve been trained to ignore and override.
Think of the things that have worked out the best for you. Was it because you followed something that you had a knowing about? It may not have even made sense, but you knew that was the path to take.
You want to build that muscle of listening to your soul, and here’s an exercise to help you:
Right now, disempower yourself, by throwing your energy off of you onto a person who pushes your buttons or whatever distracts you. For practice, throw your energy onto the computer screen as if you’re disempowering yourself. Discredit yourself as if your opinion doesn’t matter. Notice how that feels in your body—probably not good. Now just claim your energy back, pulling all of your energy back onto yourself.
We have a tendency to splat and disperse our energy and then live from that place of dispersed energy. Notice how you feel in your body when you call that energy back for yourself. It feels different—it feels robust, it feels abundant.
Here’s what to remember: When you make a decision that you’re unsure about, you get to make another decision. And, if you go down that road and don’t like that decision, you can make another one. You keep doing this until you train your mind to follow your Soulful Self that always steers you in the right direction.
Over the next week, practice this and let us know how it’s going for you. Please share your experiences in the section below—we’d love to hear from you.
We’ll end with a quote from Rumi who said:
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
~Jalal ad-Din Rumi
May you feel that river moving in you—that joy of living from your soul.
I have a song I wrote called Follow Your Soul. Thanks for this tip on how to do it!!!! 😉 yes, oh yes – how many times have I not heeded that inner voice telling me what to do, and later regretted not paying attention to my-self!
Been there, done that! 😉 We love the title of your song, Alison!!! Sounds like you know what we’re talking about!
I would like some clarification please on listening to the soul. I know what it feels like to disperse your energy on to someone or something. I know what it feels like to feel contracted in the physical body. Resistance is one of them. I know what it is to feel at one with your true self. But I am still not sure if I can distinguish between the mind and the inner voice. The inner voice the whisper with no attached thought process.??
Listening to your soul will feel expansive, not contracted in your body. And connecting with your soulful self will generally be a quieter “voice”. The mind tends to analyze, justify, or argue. The soul simply states what is.
Lovely message thank you from Mary Llewellyn. I know when I’m doing something from my soul. For many years I have been using the sway technique. If you don’t use it or haven’t heard of it I’d love to share it with you both. blessings from Mair to you both
Right on, Mary! We personally love using muscle testing as a great tool to tap into soul and intuition.
Hi, Thanks for all your advice – quite lovely and useful. However, I am interested to learn what Mary Llewellyn’s “sway technique” is. Please could she explain?
Love and best wishes for the series.
PAT
Me, too. I was wanting to know the same thing, Pat. I think it’s good to have various tools to call upon at different times.
Not 100% sure what Mary was referencing but pretty sure she’s talking about muscle testing, which we love. Google “muscle testing” and/or “sway technique” and you’ll find all kinds of videos and resources.
Sway technique? Please share it…
Places tend to pull me…in my 20s it was Alaska/Yukon. I stayed in Quebec/Ontario instead. But went to Alaska as a married woman and my husband had felt strongly about it. Now Hong Kong is pulling at me.
I pray that my quest for wanderlust never diminishes. I can think of nothing finer. The world is too big (and small) to ignore.
Lovely to hear that you follow where you’re feeling pulled, Babs. We agree that the world is a big (and small) place.
Thank you for the reminder! As I walked through a huge fear today in my new coaching business, and ( of course!) judged myself on how poorly I did, I listened to your message.
I thought, “Well I listened to my soul when I chose to transition to becoming a life coach!”
Your message helped re-align me with my soul.
Thank you!
Perfect, Jody. And isn’t it the best that our soul never judges us or makes us “wrong”?
Excellent reminder, thank you!
You’re so welcome!
I love Sue saying that you have train yourself to listen. I think we forget that and think it should just be there. Love your videos.
Right? That connection is like a muscle that we need to remember to use and strengthen.
Thank you so much ladies, I needed to hear that.
We always know that the right message gets delivered to the right people at the right time!
I’ve had a problem all my life with either listening to recommendations from my brother that don’t feel right for me or letting him discount my ideas and impulses for movement. Recently I told him, “No thanks,” to a magazine article he sent me that felt weird. Instantly I felt empowered. Sadly, he has now created distance between us.
Following how you feel (good or bad) is so empowering. Hugs to you, Beverley!
Thank you Marci & Dr Sue for another spot on reminder as this one is getting SO much easier since listening to my soul re starting our YOM back in Dec or Jan…my life is not the same and listening to my soul has become a more common practice!! I’m deeply appreciating our work ( should say play) together and am experiencing small and large miracles daily!! I experienced anther strong pull from my soul recently when I went for and applied to Marci’s HFNR Certified Training course and was blessed with an invitation to join & have been soaring in my life once again! Thank you so much for this most alive and present journey of my life!!
Yay! We love hearing about your miracles, Elizabeth! And thank you for wanting to spread happiness around the world with those around you. We’re soaring with you.
Yes! My Soul Knows! And my Soulful Self is in charge.
Your suggested Exercise is wonderful- helps to banish
those Fears….
Thank you Marci and Dr. Sue,
Anne Marie
Yes! Namaste to you and your Soulful Self.
I listened to my soul today and felt free. Thank you for the happiness you
Both put out with your video
Free! What a beautiful feeling. It’s available to one and all. 😉
Thanks for the reminder How easily we forget to listen.
We remind each other all the time!
I like to think listening to my soul is akin to trusting my gut and my instincts. I have experienced some strong intuition lately and need to remember to keep my energy within me rather than giving it all way because I refused to trust myself. Thank for you for the encouragement!
Sounds like you are definitely moving in the right direction! And it gets easier over time for sure.
Thank you for your support and belief in us, in me. I am having some massive miracles coming forth and it all feels so easy! Singing opportunities, teaching opportunities abroad! I was recently telling a friend that I want “more of this,” meaning professional singing opportunities at a higher rate. No sooner had I hung up the phone when I received (3) opportunities in a week! And other miracles, too that seem so random but I know they are not. It takes courage to live from the soul sometimes I get a little overwhelmed, but I try to stay in my body and breathe. What surprises me is that the time from organic soul desire to manifestation time has shortened, and sometimes is instantaneous. Whoa.
YES!!! You’re in the Miracle Zone!
Listening to your soul is empowering. When I choose to heed my inner voice I feel such confidence and peace. I find myself navigating difficult situations, responding not reacting, by pausing and listening to my gut, my soul.
So beautiful, Charlene. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much Marci and Dr Sue for your message on Listening To Your Soul and finding one’ true purpose in life. I am now in fact taking a bold step of moving out of my present surroundings in order to step into the totally unknown trusting the Universe to guide me towards my innermost desires to become a change agent for my community. I am praying that all this and much more positive outcomes are to come my way in surprisingly wonderful packages. I am at peace in the knowing that I will be having a greater sense of self worth than ever before. I am so grateful to the Universe for making me come across your teaching and support. Namaste
Namaste to you, Christine. You are right. Trust is also so important. Thrilled to hear you’re consciously setting your intentions.
Oh Hi, Marci, this is Bonnie Hoo (from down under) here, one of your participants in your YOM 2017. I am not sure if this is the appropriate place to do this, I was lucky enough to be able to get in touch with Debra and thanked her personally in her YTS Facebook. I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I feel for I believe that you and Debra, together with so many other Miracles sisters (N a few brothers) had turned my life around, in many ways subtle (as it is more inner than outer), but nonetheless it could be felt. Because of your Course and the persons you and Debra are, now I have a rather successful website called bonniehoo.com (I based my success purely on making lots of people laugh, that is my highest ambition!..and it is working, esp with many “can be rather serious” Doctors…). It is weird that I am writing this to you now as in my May’s blog posted out just last week, I mentioned you. There is no way I would have the courage to embark on this so public journey without you guys’ inspiration and encouragement and it is such comfort to know that Debra knows of my gratitude (and now you know) and other participants have been acknowledged as well. I still participate in two groups formed as a continuation of the friendships made back in 2017. Thank you for sending me videos as I miss you so much and I also luv your new co-partners/mentors. I think a student can never pay back a teacher(s) adequately for them kick-starting us but I trust that every time my blog readers LOL, they would know that nothing comes from nothing, if we trace hard enough, we would find the birthplace of an “idea”. I feel that you and Debra have been the best midwives, it wasn’t only an easy birth, Marci, it has been so fun, lots of LOLs and I believe I am the only weirdo who laughs at her own jokes or expenses. Sending you and the team lots of love, light and laughter.
Bonnie Hoo!!! Your comment is so touching. It was our honor to be your midwives. So happy to hear from you and all the miracles in your beautiful life. Blessings.
Hi All
Tuned in for a second time to Monday’s message. My small contribution is to express thanks to Marci and Sue. Was ‘hopeful’ when joining YYOM that the program would have some depth and meaning. Each week and month you two ladies deliver ‘gold for my soul’ and I am so grateful. Blessings to all💫
Oh, thank you, Jo! We love having your energy in the program. We are so blessed to be able to do this work.
I love this soulful reminder, the timing was perfect. May 7 (yesterday) I had to deal with my mom at her nursing home. I was a little grumbly, as I had a talk to give that night, and work to do, but kept asserting “over the overwhelm,” that this was the right place to be; I met with staff as needed, and felt my mom (age 95) and I got to have a “soul talk.” Later, my talk at a meditation center flowed with ease and grace.
I’ve been listening and doing the threshold exercise a lot. It’s VERY powerful–for issues that have stymied me all my life. Yes, gold for my soul, and goals somehow met. Thank you for the Weds. talks and miracle moments, like shiny surprises, that uplift my day. Kinda like Crackerjack box toys, in a healthy box. Sheila in NYC
Way to put things into practice, Sheila! And we are so glad to have you with us in the program. Many more surprises still to come… =)
I may be the one person that you are hearing from who has trusted my gut and it got me into trouble.
Would love to hear more about it, Pam. Any lessons learned? (We find that often when things don’t go our way, it’s because there’s a lesson we needed to learn…sometimes over and over again until we get it right.) But we’d love to hear your experience.
My husband and I are in the midst of preparing to move from British Columbia to Ontario, at the end of May. My soul is “jumping up and down” this morning, telling me to join “Your Year of Miracles”, once we get settled. I will. Whenever, I listen to your short videos I feel inspired. I want to learn more, so I will join the next session of YYOM. Thanks so much, Marci and Sue, for helping me to be my best self.