Here is the recent podcast I shared on the Inspired Mind Podcast, “Five Simple Tips to Happiness.”
At the beginning of the summer in June this year I began practicing these five easy mind-shift steps that have radically transformed my well-being. When there is a need for change it must first come from the mind and the heart as one. These easy steps are basically in alignment with A COURSE IN MIRACLES, As the “Course defines the term, a miracle is a “shift in perception from fear to love.” When our heart and mind operates from the shift from fear to love, miracles really do occur in our daily lives. The only way to experience this shift is to set up a routine or rituals that can bring about this mindset organically each day. Are you ready for five simple steps that will help you discover daily miracles?
I am not speaking about making fish and bread grow into thousands. I am not talking about making water into wine. I am speaking about the peace of mind that can only be felt in the soul when we feel completely grounded in one word:
LOVE.
Love spreads like a bright light covering everything with infinite healing; from our past to our present and into the future. It’s important to understand that a miracle is as simple as a mindset. Why? When we change the attitude and fill the heart with gratitude, the shift begins to happen and healing will be in abundance in subtle ways, like how we feel when we arise in the morning. How we feel when we take our nature walk with your pet. Most of all, how we feel when we interact with others each day. There is a new way of thinking, a mindset that brings out the best in each person we meet. When we are focusing on LOVE becoming our pure intent, everything else falls in alignment with this pursuit.
Are you ready to unlock your life and find five steps that will help you find more love each day?
Here are the five tips that can help you experience miracles daily:
- Pray for everyone.
- Practice forgiveness and ask forgiveness.
- Set everyone free.
- Have the best thoughts for everyone and what their thoughts are for you, too.
- Believe in your huge, bright future.
That’s it. Those are your five mindset steps for us to meditate on each morning.
I will now break it down for you in five short paragraphs on why these simple mindsets work:
Pray for Everyone. – Why this works is easy. The first thing you are doing when you arise in the morning is tending to sending loving and caring, protective thoughts to all that you can think of in your mind. This is in a sense, an act of gratitude, too. You are acknowledging others through prayer, thinking of them and wishing divine protection and love over their lives. Don’t forget to pray for you, too.
Practice Forgiveness ask for Forgiveness. – Asking for forgiveness and practicing forgiveness is an act of humility that teaches our hearts first thing in the morning to remember one thing: Each person walking the planet, including ourselves can make mistakes and wrong judgments, practicing forgiveness and asking forgiveness becomes like a healing balm to the soul. Here is an ancient Hawaiian Prayer I have learned from my guruji, Michiko Jane Rolek: “I’m sorry; please forgive me; thank you, I love you.” Practice this prayer when you awake after praying for everyone you can think of and then repeat these words in your heart, mind and soul. Speak these words silently to yourself. You will feel your soul feel jut a little lighter and stronger from learning and speaking this powerful prayer over your life and for others.
Set Everyone Free. -This sounds like a very broad action, doesn’t it? However it’s quite inclusive of one’s heart. When we actually set everyone free from resentment, pain or expectancy and come from a place of love, relationships begin to heal naturally. How do I set everyone free in the morning? I speak these words in my heart: I set everyone free and send love. Here is a powerful quote from Nelson Mandela that encapsulates the essence of this action: “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” -Nelson Mandela
In addition, A COURSE IN MIRACLES states: “Therefore, hold no one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. The way is simple. Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free.”
Have the best thoughts for everyone and what their thoughts are for you, too. Many years ago I read THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE by Stephen Covey. I remember being nonplussed by one suggestion that instantly altered my life. Here was concept: We are not mind readers. This is a fact. Even if we think we can read other’s minds, we cannot. If this is true, which it is, why not insert the best thought possible others are having for us? Why not think the highest thought possible in all relationships in our lives? This is what number four is about in these simple steps. Have the best thoughts for others and believe they are having the best thoughts for you. This simple mindset can help immediately change your current daily relationships in the workplace to meeting strangers on the street. Always think the best of others and the feeling becomes like a warm glow in the heart. In the morning when you arise, when you say this simple mindset, think about it. Focus in your heart about your relationships and truly believe it. Feel the weight of the world will instantly lift from your shoulders.
Believe in your huge, bright future. Coming in at number five, this simple mindset is a strategy that will activate one important game changing word: HOPE. Alice Walker once stated: “Hope is a woman that has lost her fear.” When we wake up in the morning and practice believing in a BRIGHT and HUGE future, wonderful sparkles of light begin to mix inside the soul. New thoughts of courage begin to brim from inside. Thoughts of where you might want to go for the first time begin to emerge. Taking time to HOPE, have faith over your future in the mindset of the NOW is maybe one of the most important acts we can take each day. All I can tell you is that if we don’t, If we continue on our path without taking an active mindset to create the very life we want to live, here it comes:
IT MAY NEVER HAPPEN.
Please check out the podcast that goes over these five simple mind-shifts that will elevate your attitude every morning. Don’t be surprised if you catch yourself singing a Neal Diamond song, or maybe it’s Juice Newton. I am grateful you stopped by my website and read this blog. I wish you well, dearest reader!
Stay Kind and Have an Inspired Mind,
Machel Shull
