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Today’s Miracle Moment is about how you are enough…

So many of us struggle with believing that we are enough. We question if we’re good enough to go for our big goals, lovable enough to have the relationships we want, or capable enough to take a big leap of faith. In practically any area of life, we question our enoughness. Why is that? 

For one thing, our culture is constantly pushing the idea that we’re not enough. We receive messages from advertising, entertainment, and even social media that leave us feeling we need to look different, dress different, or be different. Or if we purchase the latest fancy phone or new car, that we’ll be enough then.

If you’re a woman, chances are that you struggle with this even more than men. A study at Cornell University showed that men overestimate their abilities and performance, while women underestimate both. Meanwhile, in the study, their actual abilities and performance didn’t differ.

Women also struggle more frequently with feeling like an imposter. Another report showed that men apply for a job or promotion when they meet only 60% of the qualifications. However, women apply only if they meet 100% of them. 

If we don’t actually believe we’re enough, we can fall into a very risky trap called The Perfectionist Trap. This usually leads to behaviors like being hypercritical of ourselves and others and beating ourselves up. This can leave us feeling completely stressed and overwhelmed.

Here’s the truth: 

You are MORE than enough. In fact, it’s been said that the probability of your being born is about one in 400 trillion. 

Your existence is a complete miracle by mathematical measures. 

When you start feeling like you aren’t enough, try the following visualization and breathing practice: 

1. Imagine that there’s a channel running through you (because there is), and a funnel coming out the top of your head (because there is). That funnel connects with the entire universe!
2. Feel a connection between the planetary circulation that’s constantly influencing the cells in your body and the star dust between the constellations out beyond our own planet system. Know that billions of bits of information are bombarding you every millisecond in the form of consciousness that is here for your interpretation. When you come into your body and open up all of this information, you’ll start to be able to operate as the filtering system that you’re designed to be.
3. Take a big belly breath, inhale into the upper lobes of your lungs, inhale bigger than your body, and exhale in every direction. Then do it again. Inhale into your belly, inhale up into your chest, inhale bigger than your body, and exhale in every direction. 

As you repeatedly take these deep breaths, you’re activating these very energies of higher consciousness.

When you activate these energies in your body, you’ll find yourself naturally feeling that you are truly enough. You’ll find yourself leaning in and asking for what you need, rather than waiting for someone else to fulfill your dream for you. You’ll express what you think, rather than hesitating. You’ll have more courage to take the risk, rather than holding back. 

There’s nothing that you are not, and you’re here to express and play in the beautiful delight of your wholeness.

Let’s celebrate that instead of ever questioning again if we’re enough!

“Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it’s true.” – Geneen Roth

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Today’s Miracle Moment is about loving your body now, not later…

Your body is truly a miracle! Do you feel that? 

Or do you find yourself judging your body and thinking it needs to change before you love it? 

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to feel healthy and energized. In fact, that’s a wonderful thing! But because of the messaging in our culture, we can spend our whole lives thinking that our bodies need to change. We believe our bodies aren’t good enough as they are, or that one part is too big or another is too small. 

As a result, we can miss out on many of the incredible gifts that our bodies offer us. 

Our subtle bodies have incredible energy centers that have the power to calm our minds in a way that our minds can’t do alone. 

These energy centers filter all of the impulses that are coming from the universe to you. Dreams and desires can rise up through your heart, through your manifesting ability, and into your conscious awareness. They allow us to elevate our consciousness and connect with our true spiritual nature. 

Here’s a practice to do when you find yourself in a state of judgment about your body:

• Drop down from your head and start taking deep breaths in your belly.
• Squeeze your shoulder blades together and drop them down. This will help you to anchor yourself right in the center of your body around your heart space. This also stabilizes the mind and allows it to pay attention to what’s happening inside the body.
• Take deep, slow belly breaths low in the abdomen below the navel.
• Slowly count to 10 and inhale.
• Then count to 12 or 14 and exhale even more slowly.

This breathing process allows for so much transformation to happen. Your nervous system can start to anchor itself and pay attention to what’s happening in the body. When our awareness is on what’s happening in the body, we can stay out of our heads, the place where judgments originate.  

We then become present with life instead of making judgements about how things could be better or different, or should be better or different than they actually are. 

You are beautiful and perfect as you are. 

Simply by getting back into the body, you can start to experience the amazingness of what your body truly is.

“And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.’”– Nayyirah Waheed

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