Your Year of Miracles

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  • Miracle Moment: Living 10% More in the Miracle Zone.

    Miracle Moment: Living 10% More in the Miracle Zone.

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About Living 10% More in the Miracle Zone.

    A couple months ago, our Your Year of Miracles behind-the-scenes team had a workshop together, which was all about how we could expand in the Miracle Zone individually and together.

    Our friend and consultant Mary Pat led the workshop. Throughout our time together, she gave us some prompts to answer in small groups. One of the questions she gave us was inspired by the book 10% Happier. The question was:

    “What would you do if you lived 10% more in the Miracle Zone in your personal life and business?”

    Some people shared that in their personal lives, they would exercise 3-4 times a week, spend more time outside, sign up for a course they’d been wanting to take, or take some risks in a relationship that they’d been avoiding taking. In business, some people said they’d spend time preparing now for our busy season. Others shared new projects they’d get a head start on.

    Living just 10% more in the Miracle Zone can bring us more happiness, joy and fulfillment in the present moment while helping us move towards our bigger miracle intentions.

    We loved this idea that we can make a 10% change, because it’s totally doable. Often we have our eyes on the prize of the huge miracles we want in our lives. And while big miracles can sometimes happen quickly, they also sometimes come through slow and steady steps forward.

    When you move just 10% forward in the direction of your big miracle dreams, you ignite momentum in your life.

    This idea of “living 10% more in the Miracle Zone” can keep you from self-sabotaging or thinking, “I can’t do that. It’s just too big of a leap for me.”

    The subconscious tends to fear change and is always trying to protect you from it. You can help your subconscious to be comfortable with change by taking small steps forward and then acknowledging what that feels like in your body. By acknowledging what 10% more in the Miracle Zone feels like to you, the subconscious can feel the incremental shift and it will be able to relax, because it’s a small (rather than big) change.

    And in the process, you’ll get to experience more of the Miracle Zone right now!

    This week, we invite you to look for ways to live 10% more in the Miracle Zone. Perhaps it’s in your health, self-care, creative projects, business goals, or relationships. What small step can you take in any of those areas to live 10% more in the Miracle Zone? We encourage you to take that “10% more” step!

    In the comments below, please let us know: What would you do if you lived 10% more in the Miracle Zone? We look forward to hearing from you!

     

  • Miracle Moment: Tapping Into Divine Inspiration

    Miracle Moment: Tapping Into Divine Inspiration

    Have you ever wished that you could tap into your creativity more? Maybe you feel like there’s a book inside you, or a screenplay, or a business idea that’s waiting to be birthed. How can you tap into divine inspiration so creativity can flow?

    We can go all the way to Italy to get insight on this, by looking to one of the most famous pieces of art in the world: Michelangelo’s David. The David is a 17-foot tall statue that weighs 6 tons, which is the weight of around 90 adults! The David was carved from a single slab of marble which had originally been discarded by other sculptors. In fact, before Michelangelo used it to carve the David, it had been sitting untouched for 40 years.

    When Michelangelo was famously asked about his process of carving the David, he said,

    “It’s easy. You just chip away at what’s not the David.”

    Whether it’s a work of art, piece of writing, business idea, or any type of creative project, you can use Michelangelo’s words as inspiration. Rather than trying to force ideas to come through, you can tap into the divine inspiration that’s already inside you and is waiting for you to bring it forward.

    So how do you do this? First, it’s important to realize that you are the universe expressing itself, packed into a body.

    You are made of pure creative energy — you cannot not be creative.

    You can tap into the divine inspiration within you by bringing your attention to the area below your naval, the area above your naval, and your heart space (also known as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chakras). This is the area where you can tap into your true creative nature.

    When you want to be more creative, bring your awareness to this part of your body and breathe deeply into this area. Envision these three areas working together as a big oval-shaped space that is constantly alchemizing creative essence from divine inspiration.

    The biggest artists who came before us and will come after us are able to powerfully tap into their creative energy because they’re living inside this space (even if they don’t realize it).

    By bringing your mind’s attention into this deep reservoir of divine inspiration, creative ideas and new projects will come so much more easily than trying to access them from your mind alone.

    This week, practice breathing into your core, and stay open to the inspiration, ideas, and creative nudges that arise when you tap into the beautiful creativity that’s already inside of you.

    We’d love to hear from you! In the comments, let us know your thoughts on tapping into your divine inspiration.