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  • Miracle Moment: How to Get Your Groove Back

    Miracle Moment: How to Get Your Groove Back

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About How to Get Your Groove Back.

    Do you ever feel like you’ve lost your groove — that juiciness for life? When was the last time you felt that inspired, creative, tapped-in and turned-on feeling? Maybe it’s been a while!

    With the intensity of our world these days and all that we’ve been through collectively over the past few years, it’s totally normal to feel like you’ve lost your groove. When you add to it the stress of worldwide events, climate change, or inflation, it’s enough to make you go: What groove?! 

    Even with all the stresses of our world today, you can absolutely get your groove back, and it can be better than ever.

    We’re not just talking about going to an exotic island and having an adventure or having an exciting love affair like Stella did in the movie Stella Got Her Groove Back…

    We’re talking about experiencing a lasting change in how you feel — and that starts as an inside job. 

    We’re on the planet at a magnificent time. Your soul came here to feel contraction and expansion and to discover who you truly are.

    High vibrational energies are available to each of us anytime, and all we have to do is open up to them.

    When you feel energies that make you feel low, stuck, lethargic, or uninspired, that’s because you’re drawing your energy from your head and the outside world. What you can do instead is to bring all of your energy back onto yourself.

    Here is a breathing technique that will help you to reconnect and find your center.

    1. Drop all of your energy into your belly and start breathing from there, feeling your connection with the earth.
    2. Take a deep breath into your belly and keep inhaling until you breathe the energy up into the upper lobes of your lungs.
    3. Keep inhaling and imagining that you’re bigger than your body.
    4. Then exhale your energy out in every direction: in front of you, behind you, above you, and below you.
    5. Take a breath into your belly from every direction. Then, exhale in every direction.

    Repeat this exercise a few times and then exhale, breathing deep into the earth.

    When you do this exercise, you’ll begin to experience yourself as a bigger energy than your physical body. When you do that, you can get in touch with a version of yourself that’s inspired, illuminated, and a higher vibrational frequency than the version of yourself that’s living in your head.

    To get your groove back, you need to be grounded in your body and remember how amazing and beautiful this life is.

    What a beautiful opportunity we have to live fully in any way we choose!

    This week, return to this breathing exercise any time you need to “get your groove back” and notice any shifts in how you feel. As we say in Your Year of Miracles, what you put your attention on grows stronger in your life. Focus on one shift at a time, and you’re on your way to more miracles.

    We’d love to hear from you! In the comments below, share with us how you feel after doing this exercise to get your groove back.

  • The Thanksgiving Miracle Feast

    The Thanksgiving Miracle Feast

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    Welcome to today’s Miracle Moment.

    In the United States, Thanksgiving will be here very soon; in Canada, you celebrated last month. But wherever you are in the world, every day is a great day for Thanksgiving. And, it’s really great that we actually have one day of the year where we turn our primary focus to thankfulness and gratitude.

    Thanksgiving is a vibrational frequency as well. Vibrationally speaking, the Universe operates in a complete celebration, and when we’re in a state of gratitude and praise, we’re resonating at the frequency of the universe. This is a beautiful time of the year when we’re in a collective state of gratitude. A large group of people zero in on that specific vibrational frequency.

    Here’s a wonderful appreciation process that we want to share with you called The Appreciation Feast.

    I (Marci) have been doing this with my family at Thanksgiving for 20 years. On Thanksgiving, we feast on a lot of food, but it’s this feast that has made my recent Thanksgivings awesome.

    We go around the table and appreciate one thing about each person at the table. The first year we did this, we started with my Mom. I said, “Mom, something I appreciate about you is how generous you are.” Then the next person said they appreciated how funny she was. By the end of the appreciations, she was in tears. Then we moved to the next person.

    To do this, you go around the entire table one person at a time until each person is appreciated by everyone. This is such a feast!

    This year, if you’re not able to get together in person, you can do an Appreciation Feast via Skype or a free Zoom account.

    If you want to capture this, remember to record it via video. I promise when those people are gone, you’re going to treasure that video!

    One little tip…the first year we did our appreciation feast before the meal, while the meal was getting cold. So, we suggest you do your appreciation feast after the meal and before dessert instead.

    This is a sure way to have a most heart-opening experience of Thanksgiving.

    I (Marci) want to start the Appreciation Feast early this year by expressing my appreciation for Sue and Lisa — my dear friends and co-teachers in Your Year of Miracles:

    “Sue, something I love and appreciate about you is that you are one of the most extraordinary light beings on the planet. You are truly living in the Miracle Zone. You are the embodiment of what it is we teach in Your Year of Miracles. Being around you, I catch it. I love and honor how you are committed to living your life in the Miracle Zone.

    “Lisa, you are a living and breathing miracle yourself. I’m so grateful for the energy, brightness, and vitality you radiate. You’re an absolute gift in my life and in the lives of each and every person in Your Year of Miracles. Thank you for the incredible impact you make in the world by being who you are and sharing the wisdom from your soul.”

    And we, Sue and Lisa, want to express our appreciation for you:

    “Marci, we so appreciate that you are always looking to the light, to the bright, and you’re seeing that in people and pulling it out. You’re always opening doors and being a wayshower. You show up to people in such a beautiful and amazing way. You see what people can do and become and you inspire them towards their best life.  It is  beautiful when brilliance meets such an uplifting disposition. We so appreciate being in your sphere of engagement—it has changed our lives.”

    How did that expression of appreciation feel for you? Just being in an energy of gratitude and appreciation and the energy of Thanksgiving generally feels really good for everybody.

    AND, we want you to know that we truly appreciate you! We appreciate you for connecting with us and with our miraculous community—the more the merrier! The more that we can appreciate life together and have a commitment to goodness together, the better life becomes.

    Our invitation to you is to spend not just Thanksgiving day, but spend the entire week in a feeling of gratitude and appreciation for life.

    We end this Thanksgiving Miracle Moment with a quote by Meister Eckhart, a 13th century mystic who said…

    “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ it will be enough.”

    Thank you for your beautiful heart and soul!

    Please share your experience of the Appreciation Feast in the comments section below and on our Facebook page. We love hearing from you!

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  • Miracle Moment: Celebrating the Harvest

    Miracle Moment: Celebrating the Harvest

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About About Celebrating the Harvest.

    In the Northern hemisphere, it’s the fall season. The leaves are changing, the temperature is dropping, and cozy sweaters are coming out! Traditionally in North America, fall has also been the time of the harvest celebration, where farmers would celebrate and give thanks for the harvest of crops that would get them through the winter

    Cultures all over the world practice the importance of celebrating and giving thanks for what we have.

    At different times of year, harvest celebrations take place all over the world. These often include community festivities and gathering together to enjoy the fruits and vegetables that have been harvested. In the US and Canada, we have Thanksgiving. In Bali, Indonesia, they have a rice harvest festival which is dedicated to the rice goddess. In China, Taiwan and Vietnam, there’s the Moon Festival, where they encourage the harvest-giving light to return again in the next year. In Ghana, there’s the Yam Festival, which celebrates the first crops of yam.

    It’s important that we all take time to celebrate our own individual harvest, too. So often in transformational work, it’s easy to stay focused on what you want to change or shift about yourself or your life. It can be easy to get in a constant “healing” mode and lose sight of how far you’ve come.

    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.

    Just as the harvest celebration is a key part of nature’s seasons and cycles, take this time in your own personal cycle to celebrate yourself.

    You can explore: How have you grown so far this year? How are you showing up differently? Maybe you’re experiencing greater peace and happiness than you did a year ago, or maybe you’ve found resilience in the face of challenges. Or maybe you can celebrate that no matter what, you keep showing up for yourself, and you’re learning and growing.

    When we take time to celebrate our own personal harvest, it actually creates more to be celebrated.

    Take a moment to take a deep breath into the belly. As you breathe, be grateful for how far you’ve come and how engaged you are in life. Recognize the sensations in your body that come with that celebratory feeling. As you do this, you’re telling the cellular structure in your body that all is well, and your body can memorize this feeling so that it is your regular state of being.

    This week, we invite you to continue to celebrate yourself and how far you’ve come. Take yourself out for a celebration of a personal harvest time and enjoy the fruits of your labor before a new season begins.

    We’d love to hear from you! In the comments below, share with us how you’ll celebrate yourself.

     

  • 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.

  • Miracle Moment: Your Power to Shift Right Now

    Miracle Moment: Your Power to Shift Right Now

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About Your Power to Shift Right Now.

    What does it mean to shift right now? It means that in this very moment, you can experience a miracle of letting go of old pain, anger, regret, guilt, and sadness and opening up to love, joy, gratitude, and compassion.

    To illustrate this, here’s an experience that Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati, a dear friend of ours, had in India more than two decades ago. At the time, she’d traveled to India to take a break from her grueling work of getting a PhD at Stanford. When she was there, she met her spiritual teacher. At that very first meeting, she told him about her very painful past including a childhood that was filled with emotional and physical abuse. She told him this expecting him to feel sorry for her, but instead he said to her, “So when are you going to let go of that anger and resentment for all that you’ve been through? When are you going to forgive? Are you going to do it before you die?” She was in her twenties thent. She said, “Well yes of course, I’m going to forgive before I die.”

    Then he said, “Well, are you going to do it an hour before you die?” She said, “No no, of course not, I’m going to do it well before then.” And then he said, “Well, a day before you die?” “No, much before that!” He said, “A week? A month? Then why not now? What’s going to make you any more ready a year from now, or 10 years from now — why are you putting it off?”

    And she thought, “Well yes — why am I going to be any more ready then than I am now?”

    He suggested that she go down to the sacred Ganges river and sincerely let it all go into the river.

    He told her to offer her anger, resentment, worry, and fear into the river and to ask the river to take it away. She thought to herself, “Well, this is crazy. How could it possibly happen that easily?” But she sincerely wanted to be able to let go, so she decided to give it a try. So she walked down to the river, took off her shoes, put her feet into the pure cool waters, and felt her feet sinking into the sand. With the utmost sincerity of intention from her heart, from deep inside, she pulled up all that she could remember about her abuse and all that she had been through in her childhood and since then. She stood in that river sobbing. She cried for a very long time as she offered her pain into the river.

    After a while, there were no more tears, and she felt a feeling of lightness, release, and peace come over her.

    She was shocked, because she really did feel cleansed of the pain, worry, anger, and fear. Over the next few days, she tried to find the anger again because she was so amazed that it was gone. She tested it from every direction and she couldn’t bring it back. The river, along with her sincere heart and intention, had cleansed her. She felt so released from her old pain and resentment that what flowed in to fill that empty space was a joy, freedom, and love beyond what she thought possible.

    Today, she continues to live with that love and that forgiveness in her heart. Let her story be an inspiration for you!

    It is 100% possible to let go of any heavy feelings or past pain right here in this moment.

     Here’s an exercise to experience a shift right now:

    Think of a situation in your life that you’d like to let go of. It may be something that you feel angst, irritation, or resentment around that you know no longer serves you.

    Focus on this situation and take a deep breath in. Breathe into your heart space and into your belly, and then exhale down into the earth. Open up your chest, heart, and belly, and breathe in Mother Earth’s nurturing, loving support. Allow this situation that you’d like to let go of (and the angst, frustration, sadness, or irritation about it) to come into the space where you’re sitting.

    Take a deep breath from the heart of Mother Earth, and then exhale down through your body, and breathe into the heart of Mother Earth again. Breathe in the fiery, molten lava of Mother Earth into your belly and allow her to help you transform this as you exhale. Embrace the feeling you have about this situation. Don’t try to change it — just accept that it is here. If you feel resistance, accept that.

    Breathe in this entire situation and your feeling of it up through your throat, to the center of your head, as if you’re giving it to the Divine. Allow all that you’re feeling to be in your heart and be transmuted in ways your mind can understand.

    Allow all of it to come into the bonfire of your heart and be transmuted into love and light in ways you can’t understand. Feel the ashes of it gracefully flowing away as if a river was taking it all away

    This week, we invite you to remember your power to shift right now.

    Please let us know in the comments how you’re feeling from this. What are you letting go of and what are you opening up to? We’d love to hear from you!

  • 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.

  • Miracle Moment: Strengthening Your Receiving Muscle

    Miracle Moment: Strengthening Your Receiving Muscle

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About Strengthening Your Receiving Muscle.

     Do you struggle with receiving? Especially if you’re very empathic and sensitive to the needs of others, you might tend to focus on everyone else’s needs. Maybe you even feel guilty about receiving. So how can you strengthen your receiving muscle?

    Here’s an important shift in perspective around receiving:

    When you receive with gratitude and joy, you’re allowing the giver to experience the full pleasure of giving.

    For example, when you put a lot of thought and care into a birthday gift for someone in your life, you get to experience the joy of seeing their happiness and appreciation. It’s the same for the Universe.

    The Universe wants to shower its abundance on you, and when you receive what you’re given with gratitude and joy, you create a feedback loop of joyful giving and receiving.

    You can practice receiving from a place of joyful gratitude by recognizing all the little and big things you’re receiving all day long. When you wake up in the morning, you can be grateful to the universe for the fresh air you breathe or the rest you got the night before. You can be grateful for your morning coffee, your favorite breakfast, or a hot shower. At the grocery store check-out line or at a restaurant, you can also practice receiving with gratitude and joy.

    The more joyful gratitude you feel and express for everything you have in life, the more you strengthen your receiving muscle.

    Your body is literally built to receive. There are little antennas on the surface of every cell inside your body that are constantly receiving energies from the material manifest world, the divine, your ability to process life, and all that you’re experiencing.

    When you reject or resist something you’re experiencing, you shut yourself off from the abundance of life. By opening your heart to whatever it is that you’re authentically feeling, even if that’s a “negative” feeling like anxiety or worry, the feeling will begin to dissolve. It will then transmute into the energies of light and love and support you to live a more authentic life.

    So receive, accept, and embrace every part of life with great appreciation.

    This week, we invite you to go through each day noticing the little and big things you’re receiving. Practice accepting and embracing each of them with gratitude.

    We’d love to hear from you! Leave a comment to share what you’re grateful for right now.

  • Miracle Moment: Relationships As a Spiritual Path

    Miracle Moment: Relationships As a Spiritual Path

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About Relationships As a Spiritual Path.

    As humans, we’re wired to be social creatures. We all share the core need for connecting and bonding with each other — whether that’s in friendships, romantic partnerships, family relationships, or community connections. Loving relationships add more fulfillment and happiness to our lives. 

    Relationships can also be our biggest teachers! The people we love the most are usually also the people who can push our buttons the most.

    The people we’re in closest relationships with are our “mirrors,” showing us the places we may need some healing.

    We’ve all experienced a moment in a relationship when someone says or does something that creates a painful emotional reaction within us. It can seem as though the other person is out to criticize or upset us.

    However, if you feel triggered by what someone else has said or done, it’s most likely your reaction is not just about that specific situation or incident. It may be bringing up wounding that happened at a younger age, and that you didn’t fully process at that time.

    While emotional upsets within relationships don’t feel great, ultimately they’re an invitation for healing.

    In that moment, rather than projecting onto the other person or getting defensive, the first thing you can do is to simply recognize that you’re experiencing an emotional upset. Notice what you feel in your body – you may have tightness in your chest, tension in your shoulders, or a stomach that’s tied up in knots.

    Then, turn your attention to loving the part of yourself that’s upset. Breathe with it and be with it, acknowledging the inner child within who didn’t get what he or she needed earlier in life.

    At that point, you can choose to be the person who leads with love in your relationships — even if you really want to just yell out all the reasons that the other person is wrong. Instead you can practice being present, share vulnerably, and listen deeply.

    When you look at relationships as opportunities to grow and evolve, then everything that arises can be an opportunity for that.

    This week, we invite you to explore what your relationships could be teaching you. How are your relationships giving you opportunities to grow and evolve?

    In the comments below, share with us how you’re growing and learning from your relationships.

  • Miracle Moment: The Power of the Beginner’s Mind

    Miracle Moment: The Power of the Beginner’s Mind

    Today’s Miracle Moment is About the Power of the Beginner’s Mind.

    There’s a story from Japanese Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki about a professor who went to a Zen Master. The professor asked the Master to explain the meaning of Zen. The Master quietly poured a cup of tea. The cup was full but he continued to pour. The professor couldn’t stand it any longer, so he questioned the Master impatiently, “Why do you keep pouring when the cup is full?” The Master said, “I want to point out to you that you are similarly attempting to understand Zen while your mind is full. So first, empty your mind of preconceptions before you try to understand Zen. If your mind is empty, it’s always ready for anything — it is open to everything.” The Master went on to say:

    “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”

    Our culture often shies away from any notion of being a beginner. We feel embarrassed about not having the answer and think we should know everything. The power of the beginner’s mind lies in this paradox: the more you know about something, the less likely you are to keep your mind open to more learning

    Your next breakthrough isn’t in what you already know — it’s in something you don’t know. 

    If we were already completely enlightened and had all the answers, we wouldn’t need to learn. It takes the willingness to be vulnerable to have a beginner’s mind and to embrace the unknown. 

    Our friend and mentor Jack Canfield, creator of The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, is a great example of this. He’s taught seminars for 50 years, and at every workshop he attends, he still sits in the front row with a notebook taking notes. He always shows up with a beginner’s mind open to what he doesn’t know — and that’s one of his secrets to success.

    The beginner’s mind is about having a childlike mind that’s open, eager to learn, and sees new possibilities in the world.

    The toddler doesn’t beat himself up for not “toddling” the first time. He just gets up again and again and again. When we aren’t burdened with the responsibility of needing to know everything we think we’re supposed to know, there’s room for a youthful energy to rise up within us. We become more flexible, more adventurous, and more ingenious. From this place, we can see new solutions in any situation.

    This week, we invite you to embrace the unknown so that you can stay open to your next breakthrough, inspiration or creative solution.

    Let us know in the comments section what ways you’ll embrace the beginner’s mind this week.