At the Heart of Life is a Miracle
This blog is an updated version of one from 2024.
At the Heart of Life is a Miracle
We are miraculous. We are designed to be miraculous.
We've so lost touch with our natural way of being that when someone taps into what is inherent within each and every one of us, it's miraculous. We call it a miracle.
We can't explain it. We can't see the logic or the join. How did that happen?
Chiropractors see miracles every day in our offices. Things that aren't supposed to heal, just do. Things that aren't supposed to change, just do. I've often thought in more cynical moments that these aren't miracles; it's just society's lack of imagination or faith in possibility.
Magician and card trick inventor David Berglas said, "The impossible I do immediately, miracles take a little longer."
I've started to see a new level of miracle show up in my work and in my own life. My understanding of what's possible or what's changeable in life and in the body expanded recently. First, in my learning transformative coaching, my definition of what transformation is has widened vastly. I had no idea. The possibility of what's possible flew wide open.
Then miracles started happening to me, my family, and my clients. I think of a miracle as something that comes from somewhere else, an experience of unearned grace, divine providence moved. We can't explain it. It doesn't fit the expected model. An outlier. It's not supposed to be possible. I'd become very comfortable with the "not supposed to be possible" or even the impossible. But the miraculous? Hmm... sounds grandiose. However, they just keep happening.
The nature of life is miraculous, and when we learn to align ourselves with life, magic happens. It's unstoppable. It's also very simple. And once you get the hang of it, it's effortless. You can't quite believe you can actually live this way. I giggle every time I realize this truth afresh.
"If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle." Morgan Freeman
I've always been delighted with life and found joy in everyday things. This didn't keep me from feeling high levels of anxiety or fear for much of my life.
And then, I experienced a miracle. Maybe several. Here's what happened:
My relationship with my kids and my husband went from good to stellar to beyond. Even my cat feels the love in the house and is changed by it.
I healed 7 years of "permanent brain injury", constant weird neurological symptoms and daily almost constant "panic disorder". This was not supposed to be possible, so I'd stopped talking about it. Or even hoping it could change. I was told it was as if I'd lost a leg. It would not regrow.
All my symptoms, diagnoses, and challenges vanished. As a result, I can do stuff again! I can watch movies again! So many to catch up on. I can listen to music and cook in my kitchen! At the same time! I can put the kids to bed. My vision improved. My hearing improved. I can eat any food I want. I'm much less sensitive to things like caffeine. Random body things have healed. I suspect that I haven't yet noticed all of the things that I can now do freely. I'm not scared anymore.
I feel younger than I have in a while. Lighter.
I fell in love with life all over again. And again.
I fell in love with people. With my business as it is and as I'm creating it to be. I fell in love with joy.
I discovered that I love Earl Grey tea. And that there's this flourless chocolate cake in London, England, that I dream about. The pipe organ music at St. Paul's Cathedral is exquisite and will transport you, if you let it.
I discovered that I am extremely well-equipped for anything in life. I can create anything I can dream up. And what comes to me to dream up is more wonderful and more fantastic than I knew.
When I looked at the heart of life, I found a deep, never-ending well of love. I fell into it and drowned.
You can too.
What’s required to create a miracle?
Knowing yourself as love, immersing yourself in the feeling of bliss that is the ocean of being, let yourself be filled with love until it spills over onto everyone around you, until it heals all your issues, complaints, aches and pains and niggling doubts. Until you can hardly stand it at all because it's so strong and lovely and vibrant and alive. Until it shines out of your eyes and threatens to stop your heart with longing for release. Until it swallows you up whole, spits you out and loves you up even more. Until a miracle occurs.
We are designed to fill up with love, listen to what comes, and follow our knowing until a miracle occurs. We are powerfully amazing. Humans are not the problem; we are the solution and a gift.
"Listening is at the heart of every miracle” - Sara Joy O'Neill
We are the creators of miracles. The conduits of love made manifest in the world. You need only look within.
My work contains miracles, too. Are you ready?
If so, here are some new ways to work with me:
1) 30-minute Breakthrough Session for a quick shot of clarity: It's easy to align with our natural flow when you know how. No techniques or exercises are necessary; simply awareness of what your system is doing. Sometimes all it takes is a quick shot of clarity to get you rolling again. This half-hour session does just that.
2) Transformative Coaching Intensive: Transformational conversation about the nature of how all humans work and exploration into living a life you love. I act as a guide along the way to creating and living your perfect life you are excited to live. This starts with a no-charge conversation about what you would like and how I can help. If you would like more joy, more real safety and freedom, this is for you.
For these and other opportunities, visit https://www.liveyouralivelife.com/work-with-sara-joy or call Nancy at 519-880-0003
With Love,
Sara Joy
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