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  • What Valentine’s Day Teaches Us About Self-Love

    What Valentine’s Day Teaches Us About Self-Love

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    Today’s Miracle Moment Is About What Valentine’s Day Teaches Us About Self-Love…

    You know Valentine’s Day is coming up because if you go into a drugstore, you see entire aisles filled with boxes of chocolate, pink and red fluffy pillows, teddy bears, and all sorts of advertisements that give ideas of what this day should be like. 

    It’s wonderful to have a day dedicated to celebrating love. The challenge can come if it creates certain expectations in our minds about what love should look like.  

    Should our lovability be measured by whether we have a partner or by how many boxes of chocolate we receive or how many Valentine’s cards we got? Definitely not. 

    If we aren’t showered with the affection that we’re hoping for or expecting on Valentine’s Day, we can end up feeling disappointed, believing that we aren’t as loved as we want to be. 

    Or, if we’re not in a primary relationship, it can be easy to create a story about our lovability, especially if we compare ourselves to the images we see everywhere in the media and social media. 

    So our first invitation for you on Valentine’s Day is to drop the expectations on others to shower you with the love that you are.

    Because your core essence IS love!

    Our next invitation is that you treat yourself the way you’d like someone else to treat you on Valentine’s Day. 

    What if we gave ourselves the same level of love, attention, and affection that we hope or expect to receive from someone else? Well, the same thing that happens when someone treats you wonderfully — your heart opens, you feel relaxed, you feel happy. This is a gift we can give ourselves. 

    We can do this in simple ways… Be your own Valentine.

    Do for yourself what you’d want to have for Valentine’s day. That could be having a nice meal or getting yourself some flowers. Write yourself a love letter or Valentine’s card. Tell yourself everything that you love and appreciate about yourself. I know this might seem a bit uncomfortable — we’re not used to this — but just try it out and see how you feel. You’re worthy of receiving that kind of loving care and attention.

    This is a powerful way of showing ourselves how worthy we are. When we act in these loving ways towards ourselves, we naturally build up love for ourselves. And when we spend time nourishing ourselves, we start to believe how worthy and valuable we are — unconditionally. 

    And then, make sure that you do it! 

    We want to leave you with this quote from Oscar Wilde:

     “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

    Happy Valentine’s Day!

    We’d love to hear your comments about how you’re going to shower yourself with love this Valentine’s Day, so please leave them below…

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  • The Power of the Fifth Chakra

    The Power of the Fifth Chakra


    Today’s Miracle Moment is about the fifth chakra, the energy center of communication and manifestation.

    The fifth chakra, around the throat area, is where many people feel some constriction or feeling of tightness. That generally relates to an emotional tightness around communicating or speaking.

    The throat chakra is about speaking your truth. It relates to listening and hearing so that you can manifest appropriately with grace and ease.

    If you ever experience fear around speaking or expressing your feelings or ideas, or you simply want to be a better communicator or manifestor, you’ll appreciate the practice we share with you here that will help you open up the throat chakra.

    We’re all made of energy, and energy creates vibrational sounds in the Universe and in our human system. You can do some very simple sound and toning practices to support the chakra system. Simple sounds of aah and ooh and mmm bring energy through your system in a particular way that opens you up and activates your chakras.

    For this practice, you’ll be using three sounds or tones: aah, ooh, mmm.

    It doesn’t have to sound pretty; it just has to be authentic.

    Let’s do this practice together…

    • Take a breath in and exhale making the expansive sound…aah. Continue making the sound of aah for about 10 seconds.
    • Imagine a channel, a tube of energy, coming right down through your body like a waterfall.
    • Take another breath in and exhale making the sound of ooh. Continue making the sound of ooh for about 10 seconds. This channels the energy down through your body and enlivens the chakra centers.
    • Take a breath in and exhale the sound of mmm for about 10 seconds. As you make the sound of mmm, feel the vibration in your mouth and in the back of your throat. This anchors the energy.

    Perhaps you can feel your spine or the base of your skull vibrating. That’s you starting to land more in your body.

    Do this practice when you’re wanting to listen to others with greater understanding, speak your truth more fully, or manifest with ease and grace. Life is supposed to be easy—it’s time for us to remember that!

    Opening ourselves and our expression through the fifth chakra allows us to break down barriers and feel our deeper connection to others.

    We suggest you do this practice once or twice a day for just a minute or two. You can invite your family members to do this with you or you can find a private place and do it by yourself.

    Have a curiosity about what could happen in your life by doing this practice.

    What we’ve seen is that this simple practice can help you feel greater alignment and aliveness and open you to the Miracle Zone, where miracles flow more easily into your life.

    We’ll end today’s Miracle Moment with a quote from Ernest Hello who is a 19th century writer and critic who said…

    “There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were to speak to each other; for when they spoke, they would discover that their souls had only been separated by phantoms and delusions.”

    We wish you a great experience with speaking your truth and manifesting the miraculous!

    Click here for our latest videos and articles on the chakras.

    Please share your experience of this exercise with us. We love hearing from you! How was this toning practice for you? Head over to our Facebook page and tell us about your experience with making these sounds. Did you notice any shifts?

  • The Power of the Fourth Chakra

    The Power of the Fourth Chakra


    Today’s Miracle Moment is about the fourth chakra, the heart center.

    The fourth chakra, in the area of the heart, is the energy center most associated with giving and receiving love. When we feel open-hearted, when our hearts feel full and expanded rather than contracted or in fear, when we feel gratitude, forgiveness and loving-kindness, then we’re in the energetic state of flow we call the Miracle Zone, where we’re more open to the miraculous.

    While we can’t “create” miracles, we can create the conditions for miracles to show up more in our lives. As Webster’s dictionary says, “Miracles are a surprise and welcome event that cannot be predicted by science and that are often attributed to Divine Grace.”

    One of the fastest ways to create the conditions that invite miracles is to open the fourth chakra more and to live with greater love and a more open heart.

    Love is what we’re made of; it’s not something we’re supposed to be finding or looking for. It’s inherently who we are. When we drop into that knowing, we start to breathe in a different way — a way that’s associated with recognizing that we belong, that there’s only oneness here. Then we’ll develop more of the consciousness of that state.

    So, you can approach opening the fourth chakra by breathing in a particular way that wakes you up to the parts of you that know you belong, your essence.

    To expand the fourth chakra, here’s a simple, but powerful practice…

    • Begin by breathing in your belly, which activates a part of your nervous system that says all is well.
    • Keep breathing in until you fill the upper lobes of your lungs as well. Then, breathe even bigger. Imagine that you’re bigger than the body.
    • Then exhale out in every direction—above you, below you, to the left, to the right, to the front, and to the back in a big sphere.
    • Then, inhale from every direction right back into your belly.
    • Continue inhaling into the upper lobes of the lungs, and then inhale bigger than the body.
    • Exhale in every direction.
    • Again, inhale from every direction right back into your belly. Inhale into your lungs, upper lobes, and then bigger than the body.
    • Exhale in every direction.
    • Practice this sequence six to eight times, several times a day.

    This spherical breathing puts you in the quantum field, which also happens to be the field where miracles occur.

    The quantum field is beyond logic, and we can access this field by breathing this spherical breath. Practice this several times a day, and you will start to feel very different in the world.

    Notice how it feels for you — we imagine you’ll feel more open in your heart and able to more easily access the love that’s your essence.

    We end this Miracle Moment with a quote from the Upanishads that says…

    “There is a light which shines beyond the world, beyond everything, beyond all, beyond
    the highest heaven. This is the light which shines within your heart.”

    We wish you lots of access to the essence of love that you truly are!

    Please share your experience of this spherical breath in the comments section below and on our Facebook page. What has it elicited in you? We love hearing from you!