Your Year of Miracles

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  • The Power of the Seventh Chakra

    The Power of the Seventh Chakra


    Today’s Miracle Moment is about the seventh chakra or energy center, which is about our connection to the oneness of life.

    We all crave connection, and today’s Miracle Moment is about the most powerful connection of all– to the oneness of life. Opening the seventh chakra can help you tap into this blissful connection. Our seventh chakra, located at the top of the head, is referred to as the crown chakra, and it’s the energy center for connecting to our divinity, to spirit and to oneness. It creates a feeling of unity in life, a feeling of connection with all of life. From our experience, when this seventh Chakra opens, life feels more magical–it’s what we call “living in the Miracle Zone.”

    Today we’ll share a practice to help open the crown chakra and your connection to divinity. Truly, it’s who you are. You’re a divine being manifest here on this planet in human form. So, you’re not a human being–you’re just being human. You’re actually made of these divine energies that you can tap into and access.

    To tap into the divine energy, we share this practice to open the crown chakra. . . 

    • Imagine a funnel
      Imagine that you have a giant funnel sticking out of the top of your head that goes out to the planets above you, to the sun and the moon and the whole Milky Way. This funnel goes to the constellations and other galaxies far beyond; it goes into stardust and makes its way out to the unmanifest world. When you imagine and create an energetic funnel, it becomes a channel for pure connection.
    • Breathe from and into the Crown Chakra
      Now, you can keep that connection alive by specific breathing practice.  Pick a spot about two inches beneath the surface of your skull and then pick another spot two inches above your head. Inhale from the spot two inches above your head and exhale from the spot two inches beneath the surface of your skull — about the center of your brain. Then inhale from the center of the brain and exhale right back out to two inches above your head. Pretend that you’re a whale blowing out the blow hole. Exhale like a whale would, with power, right up through the crown of your head. Next inhale as if you’re just breathing right in through the soft spot when you were a baby, right into the center of your brain. Then exhale right back out.
    • Expand and connect
      As you start to practice this center of the brain breathing, expand it further.  Breathe further above the head. Start to incorporate the funnel you created to breathe in the planets, the constellations, and the cosmos. Breath it all right back down into the body. That’s how we start to open this gateway and allow these energies to integrate so instead of feeling like a separate self, we feel connected. 

    Do this practice regularly and you’ll probably start to feel like a different person (or more of who you really are). You can also go back and review the other Miracle Moments practices we’ve shared and do those as well.  This energy work connects you to the truth of who you are. 

    In the work that I (Marci) did interviewing people about happiness, the most consistent quality I found amongst unconditionally happy people is a feeling of connection to the greater energy of the universe. This seventh Chakra practice is a brilliant way to help us feel more connected to the divinity of who we truly are. So, start this practice right away and then share with us what’s opening for you either on our Facebook page and in the comments section below. 

    Many people comment about feeling a lightness or tingling in the head while doing this practice. Did you have a similar experience? Or what sensations or openings did you feel?

    We’ll end today with a beautiful quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    “We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.”

    Let us open to the truth of our eternal oneness, and as we do, may we live more fully in the Miracle Zone!

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

    Please share with us. We love hearing from you! How was this seventh chakra experience for you? Comment below and share what you noticed.

  • The Power of the Sixth Chakra

    The Power of the Sixth Chakra


    Today’s Miracle Moment is about the sixth chakra or energy center, which is often called the third eye.

    The sixth chakra, located in the area between the eyebrows, is our energy center that helps expand our perspective and vision–it’s our center for true seeing and intuition. Opening the sixth chakra is one of the ways that we can most powerfully open up to the energy of the Miracle Zone, where miracles more easily flow into our life.

    When we have clear vision, and when we connect in deeply to our intuition, we have a greater sense about where to go and what to do. We make decisions that are informed by our intuition and that are aligned with our greater good.

    It’s great to hear about opening our energy centers, but the real value comes from actually using these practices to truly open them.  Dr. Sue has great practical techniques to open up our energy centers, and in this Miracle Moment, she shares a practice to open the third eye.

    While it’s called the third eye,  it should be called the first eye because it’s about seeing the real you, the you that existed long before you decided to come to the earth. The you that existed before you got freaked out about being a human being who is trying to figure out how to get back to the truth of who you are. 

    Our first eye has access to our multidimensionality. We’re not just physical human beings who are struggling through this life on earth. We’re much more! We’re spirit beings who came into form, and we have access to tremendous resources to live in the Miracle Zone as soon as we start to recognize the truth of who we are.

    Opening our sixth chakra is fabulous because it allows us to activate the higher brain centers that are above the primitive brain. This opening helps us operate creatively to figure out what we want and move towards it.  

    Join us in this practice to open the sixth chakra…

    • Sit up straight and keep your nose pointed forward. Roll your eyes up and slightly together in a comfortable position. Don’t make it tense—just enough to feel the muscles working. Keep the chin retracted slightly.

    This will activate muscles that are inside the cranium which are located very close to the pineal gland. The pineal gland receives energy of high frequency quality that is considered divine. It’s considered other worldly and it is really accessing the True Self.  

    • Take a deep breath in right into the tension that you can feel between the eyes. Then, relax your eyes, rolling them down.
    • Exhale and roll your eyes up, and inhale again into the tension behind the eyes.
    • Roll your eyes down and exhale. Once again, roll your eyes up and inhale. Roll your eyes down and exhale.
    • Once more, roll your eyes up and inhale divine light, divine guidance, divine truth—the truth of who I AM.
    • Exhale, dropping into your body and experience having all of this divine light, guidance, and truth right here in this life.
    • Roll your eyes up. Breathe in your own Higher Self. Breathe it into your brain. Let the brain be filled and filtering high frequency energies of possibility.
    • Roll your eyes down and exhale down through your body into the earth. Let yourself fully have all that you are receiving.
    • Roll your eyes up and take a deep breath in. Receive the light from this high frequency source, from the Cosmos.
    • Roll your eyes down and exhale. Let it be for you. Let it be you. Receive it consistently. Have it. Notice how it feels in your body, and just relax your body.

    You will start to feel clear in your brain. You’ll feel more open and you’ll find yourself thinking thoughts that you wouldn’t normally allow yourself to think. These thoughts are creative in nature and meant to guide you toward understanding a bigger version of who you are—a more magnificent version of who you are. You’ll begin to manifest more in alignment with that magnificent you.

    This practice and all of the body-based, somatic practices that we have been sharing with you are practices that any one of us can do. They take just a couple of minutes to do, and they start to totally restructure how you experience life.

    You could spend a year mentally trying to do things to open up your vision center, or you could spend moments…consistently.

    We suggest that you do this practice every day for a few weeks, just a minute or two every day. By doing this practice, you will begin to create different connections in the body and mind that will powerfully clear your mind.

    Experience it and let us know how it goes for you. Share with us on our Facebook page and in the comments section below.

     We’ll end with a quote by a brilliant 19th century British poet, William Blake…

     “If the doors of perception were cleaned, everything would appear to man as it is—infinite.”
     ~William Blake

    Let us open up that true vision that we have and see the world as infinite, and as we do, we’ll live more and more in the Miracle Zone!

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

    Please share with us. We love hearing from you! How was this sixth chakra experience for you? Comment below or head over to our Facebook page and share what you noticed.

  • 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!

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    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?