One of my intellectual heroes, Albert Einstein said it quite simply,

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”.
 
I have always chosen the latter and as a result have had a semi-magical experience of life. As Jeni Miller said during a recent podcast taping, “Everything is Energy”.

How does this miraculous energy enhance your happiness and why should you care? There are two valid reasons for choosing this approach:

1)    You get to, through practice and free will, choose and then train what your emotional states and experiences will be. For many this practice feels like an elevation.

The emotional states of awe and wonder, sweetness, and innocence resonate at a particularly nourishing frequency for humans. Remember, the milk of human-kindness is real. And at VAST we especially appreciate what human-kindness can accomplish.

As revealed in Dr David Hawkins, maps of consciousness, (Power versus Force: the hidden determinants of human behavior, 1995, page 69, Veritas Press) those emotional states of being allow you to inhabit a more life affirming space. When you allow your healthy joy (sans shame or guilt) you tune up your body and access a higher functioning portion of your brain to problem solve. Systems on a physical, emotional, and cellular level have been seen to integrate and work cohesively.”

Thus, miraculous experiences depend on your focal point and opinion of self, life, and mankind.

2)    Being able to focus and intentionally experience states of emotional nourishment improve not only your experience but that of the loved ones around you. (Sherman, Michelle, 2017, Kindling the Flame: the art and science of cognitive replenishment on mirror neurons, page 33).

Here are a few of my personal favorites my to stimulate your positive imagination about things that elicit a state of awe.

Fifteen plus things that tend to inspire awe within me:

·      Symphony music, jazz, and rock-n-roll.

·      Photos of space taken by Voyager, Cabrini space explorers, et al.

·      The bodacious variety and splashes of color and scent that flowers bring into the world.

·      Placing Humans on the moon and returning them safely.

·      Understanding that we are part of a grander Universe or Multiverse.

·      Seeing how well men cooperate at the hardware store, wishing the world fully reflected that empowered example.

·      The baby genius of all our children. The way they explore the world learn to be themselves.

·      Hummingbird aerodynamics and sparkly feathers.

·      Women of all ages and backgrounds celebrating each other.

·      Softening the hardest hearts with consistent loving kindness and respect.

·      Experiencing how beautiful the world and people are, and you looking for it.

·      How staying calm can turn a difficult moment into a minor nuisance.

·      Arnica when I bump my toes.

·      Really happy families.

·      The myriad colors contained within a rainbow.

You get the picture.

And I didn’t yet mention bubbles, or swimming in the ocean.
 
Each of the above has inspired a feeling of warmth, care, awe, happiness, and/or gratitude, expansion within my being. Knowing your awe-inspiring moments and cues is a great life hack that empowers you to intentionally include and practice these emotional states.

For some, awe might occur upon seeing a third baseman running towards home, with bases loaded, or walking barefoot through the grass. You decide, there are no right or wrong answers.

You get to decide for yourself if this life is miraculous or an incomprehensible and random set of experiences.

We decide by choosing the lens through which we see the world.

I highly suggest practicing awe, wonder, celebration, and sincere enthusiasm for that reason. Practicing those emotional states intentionally, is a gentle healing method. Choose and recognize daily the pieces of the world around us that are beautiful, kind-hearted, and worthy of our respect.

As a scientist Albert Einstein understood, “everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.”.

Dramatic, yet to the point as we each are tasked to decide if we choose to capture the miraculous.

Magic unfolds in embracing the mystery that everything is potentially miraculous, even if you do not yet see it. He knew that and the power of personal accountability. It is in the acceptance of our connection to the awe already baked into life; that the true miracles are revealed and enjoyed.

Ready to practice and stoke your positive imagination?

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