Your Year of Miracles

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  • Miracle Moment: Moving from Scarcity to Abundance

    Miracle Moment: Moving from Scarcity to Abundance

    Today’s Miracle Moment is about moving from scarcity to abundance.

    You’re probably familiar with the ideas of scarcity and abundance but what do they both really mean? And how do these mindsets really affect us?

    In a book called Scarcity, The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives, the authors Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir share how scarcity brings our focus toward unfulfilled needs. If we don’t feel we have enough of something, our minds become absorbed with focusing on that lack. This affects our mental “bandwidth” and weakens our ability to pay attention, make good decisions, stick with our plans, or be forward thinking. So when our minds are absorbed in scarcity thinking, we’re limited in our ability to create new inspired ideas, pay attention to synchronicities, or have the energy to take steps in the direction of our dreams.

    We also know that what we focus on expands. If we’re focusing intently on not having enough of what we need, we’ll continue creating that experience in our lives of “not having enough.”

    The true state of the universe is abundance.

    There’s more than enough to go around and the universe wants to shower its infinite abundance on each of us. If we’re not experiencing that, we’re blocking the flow in some way with our scarcity thinking. So, how do we make this shift from scarcity to abundance?

    It starts within us.

    Everything that we experience is based upon the amount of circuitry that we have in our system to perceive the abundance of life.

    If we can’t perceive life as abundant and miraculous, it’s because we don’t have the circuitry to do so. The good news is — you can start building the circuitry for abundance right now with this exercise:

    Take a deep breath into your belly. When you breathe into your belly, you’re automatically activating the nervous system to move out of scarcity and fight or flight mode and to perceive abundance. Inhale into your belly and the upper lobes of your lungs. Then, exhale out in every direction around you. Imagine that your conscious awareness is reaching out in every direction and pulling in the abundance of the Divine and of infinite possibilities into your belly. Inhale the idea of “There’s more than enough” and imagine that energy being bigger than your physical body.

    Then, exhale out in every direction. As you exhale out in every direction, you’re carving a pathway for your ability to flow in abundance.

    Keep inhaling the abundance around you from every direction. Imagine yourself breathing in all of the resources that you need and all of the infinite capacity that is needed to activate your dreams and desires. Keep breathing into your belly and your upper lobes, and exhale out in every direction as if you’re filling the space around you with the vibration of abundance.

    Now, exhale down into the earth and feel the Earth receiving you right now. As you breathe up into your belly and exhale back into the earth, feel her support and grounding. Imagine that you’re breathing in the feeling of fulfillment and of abundance realized in your life.

    This week, try out this breathing exercise before making an important decision or taking an important step forward.

    When the feeling of abundance in your body matches the intention in your mind, abundance flows naturally in your life.

    We’d love to hear from you! Please leave a comment and share some of the ways that you are abundant right now.

  • The True Meaning of Abundance

    The True Meaning of Abundance

    There’s a lot of confusion about how to manifest abundance. You’ve probably heard tips like think positively, visualize abundance, or recite daily affirmations. Maybe you’ve tried some of these techniques for a while, but you didn’t see any big changes.  

    You might start to wonder, “What am I doing wrong? Is it really possible to attract abundance into my life?”

    The Universe wants to shower its infinite abundance on us. If that’s not what we’re experiencing, it’s because there is a conscious or unconscious block within. 

    And one block might be that we’re misunderstanding what abundance truly is. 

    People often look at abundance as something outside of them that they have to go out and get.  With this thinking, you’re inherently coming from a place of lack. All of your energy is focused on attracting what’s “out there,” like getting a new job or coming into a windfall. 

    The truth is that abundance is just energy and you are made of all the energy of the universe. 

    Abundance doesn’t come from outside of you–it comes from inside of you!

    Thousands of years ago, masters of consciousness said that one of man’s biggest downfalls was getting involved in the material world. This idea has been confused over the ages, leading people to believe that money was sinful. What they really meant was that humanity gets too involved in focusing on the outer already manifested world. 

    We’re on this planet to master our innate abilities as creators. 

    So how can you shift from seeking abundance in the outside world to creating abundance from within? 

    The vibrational frequency of abundance is a very high frequency. If we’ve been operating from a place of struggle and lack, we aren’t vibrating at the same frequency of abundant money flowing through our lives. Because our bodies are built to maintain homeostasis and to resist change, our bodies stay safe by staying in old familiar feelings. 

    By familiarizing your system with the vibrational frequency of abundance, love, joy, and satisfaction, you build new vibrational familiarity in your cells. Then, those patterns can become sustainable.

    Here’s a practice to familiarize your system to the vibrational frequency of abundance: 

    Notice any time that you have a feeling of joyfulness, love, and gratitude. Pay attention to what those moments feel like in your body and practice feeling them for no reason at all.

    Take a deep breath and breathe in the feeling of “That’s for me.” 

    The more and more that you practice feelings of abundance and breathe into those feelings, the more that you are building the circuits to maintain that frequency. 

    Remember, you have the power of the universe within you, waiting to shower its abundance on you.

    “As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.”  — Marianne Williamson

    Please leave a comment and share your experience practicing experiencing the feelings of joyfulness, gratitude and abundance! 

  • Reversal of Fortune from the Tithe

    Reversal of Fortune from the Tithe

    Have you ever wanted to experience more flow of abundance into your life? If the answer is yes, this Miracle Moment is for you!

    Tithing is something that I (Marci) started practicing in 1982, and I think of it as one of the greatest things that I’ve ever done to create more financial abundance.

    As a matter of fact, I remember a time when I was feeling that I didn’t have enough money to tithe, so I stopped tithing for a period of time. And you know what happened? My finances dried up even more! And when I saw that there was a direct correspondence between my break from tithing and my financial downturn, I started the practice again and I almost immediately had a dramatic reversal of fortune, which showed me the power of this practice. I’ve practiced it religiously since then.

    So, exactly what is a tithe?

    The definition of the tithe is giving the first one-tenth of your income to the source of your spiritual inspiration. And by this definition, you would tithe to a spiritual teacher, or to an organization like a church, or a temple, or an ashram. Giving charitable gifts wasn’t considered tithing. But we have a different take on it, and we like to listen to our own hearts. So, in addition to giving to the sources of our spiritual inspiration which we do, we also consider the donations that we give to organizations that we believe are doing a lot of good in the world as part of our tithe.

    We look at tithing like sending a thank you note to the universe—as an expression of gratitude to the true source of abundance which is the universe, the creator, the God of your understanding. Just like you wouldn’t expect your doctor, your accountant or your gardener to give their services to you without some demonstration of your gratitude back, why wouldn’t you also want to give gratitude or a demonstration of thanks back to that force in the universe that gives you everything day after day after day?

    And if you think you can’t afford to tithe, that’s when you can’t afford not to tithe.

    I know it may seem like the hardest time, if you feel like you don’t have that 10% to tithe. But that act of trust and surrender is what’s going to connect you in even more deeply to the source of infinite abundance. The most powerful element of the tithe is that you’re demonstrating your trust in the Universe.

    We suggest that you just give it a try, maybe just for 6 months, and see what happens in your life. We think you’ll be surprised! What we’ve witnessed happen for so many is that they feel more in the Miracle Zone and more abundance begins to flow to them in many unexpected ways. If you choose to do a 6-month trial, let us know what happens and share a comment below.

    And we’ll end with a quote from Sir John Templeton, the founder and chairman of The Templeton Funds:

    Wishing you overflowing abundance and a miraculous experience with the magic of the tithe.