Today marks the second week of Miracle Soup, the week in which we focus on the act of using the ingredients we've already discussed for the purpose of transformation beliefs. You can think of it as "cooking".
Each day this week, the Miracle Recipe you'll be given focuses on a different kind of transformation, with specific instructions on how you can keep track of your progress.
I encourage you try all of the different practices. You'll know fairly quickly if it's something that you'd like to continue to cultivate, after this week is through. But just like with food, "you'll never know if you like it, until you try it!"
The first transformation for the week is transforming doubts. There are two ways doubt can be changed into belief. First, it can happen suddenly, brought on by an experience of great intensity, or it can happen gradually, over time. Beliefs don't change overnight, but you can bring them about more swiftly by paying attention to micro-changes that occur over time in the belief structure.
For example, let's look at someone who doesn't believe in a Higher Power. In order for that person to believe, she either must be engaged in a powerful experience that suddenly persuades her otherwise, or her belief is transformed slowly over time. In the case of the latter, she could follow an internal progression that goes something like this:
- I don't believe in God
- I doubt there is a God
- There might be a God
- I would like to believe in God
- I am seeing more and more reasons to believe in God
- I believe in God
In this example, if she was paying attention to the shifts that were happening in her consciousness (i.e., talking about them, journaling about them, dreaming about them), she would be more likely to reach the change more quickly than if she were unaware of the shifts occurring. She would also be more likely to hit that crucial turning point of taking responsibility, ("I would like to believe in God") than if she was not articulating her process.
By actively processing through change, we bring unconscious shifts to a conscious level, which adds momentum to the direction of change.
On the upper-right corner of your
"recipe card" worksheet for this week, is a card for "Doubt Count."
Today's Recipe will introduce you to a simple process that you can track on that area of the worksheet. Try it once today, and then try it again every few days.
MIRACLE RECIPE #8
Think of the things you would like to have in life...the miracles you'd love to see.
Once you have them vividly in your mind, fill an entire page with a list of statements that describe how you would LIKE to feel about drawing those things into your life. What would you really want to know, for sure? What would you like to rely on? What evidence would you like to see?
If you pay attention to where your beliefs are, it is much easier to shift them. As discussed above, being in tune to the various stages of the journey increases the momentum at which crucial changes occur.
The "Doubt Count" is a quick way to get a sense of the status of your beliefs. It's very easy. To start, simply grab a pen and write down today's date. Next, read through each of the quotes below.
When you read something that really makes sense, and something that you truly belief, you don't need to do anything...just keep reading. If, however, you read something that you doubt or do not believe, just make a "tick" mark next today's date.
Continue reading, making tick marks whenever you read something that you don't belief is true. All doubts are not created equal, and some will be stronger than others. The bottom line, however, is that for every statement, you either BELIEVE it, or you DOUBT it. "Doubt" gets a mark; "Believe" doesn't.
Do this exercise without any judgment. Whatever you believe or doubt is OKAY...it's just where you are.
After reading these statements, and marking your page accordingly, go back and read what you wrote yesterday, about what you WANT to believe is true. Add any more tick marks that you need to mark when reading your own words.
Then close up the exercise for today. Try it again every few days and see if your count changes.
Here are the quotes....make sure to have your pen to mark your Doubt Count!:
1. "The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life."
~ Dalai Lama
2. "What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally."
~ Doc Childre
3. "In fact, the easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want."
~ Deepak Chopra
4. "There is absolutely nothing...NOTHING...that you cannot be, do, or have...It is as easy to create a castle as it is a button."
~Abraham-Hicks
5. "Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you are right."
~Henry Ford
6. "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking which created them."
~ Albert Einstein
7. "The individual human mind is like a computer terminal connected to a giant database. The database is human consciousness itself, of which our own consciousness is merely and individual expression, but with its roots in the common consciousness of all mankind. This database is the realm of genius; because to be human is to participate in the database, everyone by virtue of his birth has access to genius."
~ David Hawkins
8. "If you are one step away from the poor house, you are only a step away from the rich house."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
9. "The universe is loving, friendly, and supports your highest good. Trust is knowing that you are part of the process of creating, and believing in your ability to draw to your what you want."
~ Sanaya Roman
10. "When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
~ Barbara J. Winter
11. "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
~ Richard deVos
12. "Anyone can be a millionaire, simply by deciding to be one. It only takes one minute.
~ The One Minute Millionaire
13. "The Law of Deliberate Creation: Step 1. Get clear about what you want.
Step 2. Line your energy up with it. Step 3. Allow it and it is yours.
~Abraham-Hicks
14. "Whatever your needs may be, the answer is not to get God to give you more through some divine sleight-of-hand process, but rather to uncover and release your own 'imprisoned splendor'."
~Eric Butterworth
15. "You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack, and your saying you want a thing only works to produce that precise experience - wanting - in your reality.
The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
16. "Reminiscent of the biblical passage that 'in my father's house there are many mansions,' the 'house' of our world is the home of many possible outcomes for the conditions that we create in our lives. Rather than creating our reality, it may be more accurate to say that we attract future outcomes, already established, into the focus of the present. The choices we make as individuals determine which mansion, or quantum possibility, we experience in our personal lives."
~Greg Braden
17. "Don't make yourself feel wrong for worrying about money. Do change the habit of worrying, or you will continue to worry about money no matter how much you have. If you resolve to think only about money when you feel confident and peaceful, you can increase your magnetism to what you want."
~ Sanaya Roman
18. "If you need a miracle, focus instead on how to GIVE a miracle. If this is the way we approach living -- constantly, obsessively, deliciously -- all the miracles we need have no choice but to come to us, and they delight in doing so."
~ Marney Makridakis
19. "Our focus on what is wrong will always create more of the same. The worse we feel, the worse things get. The better we feel, the better things get."
~ Lynn Grabhorn
20. "What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and words we speak create our experiences."
~ Louise Hay
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