Making Miracles: Create New Realities for Your Life and Our World - Softcover

Woodland, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897238622 ISBN 13: 9781897238622

Publisher: Namaste Pub Inc, 2011

Synopsis

<div>Grounded in science and metaphysics, <i>Making Miracles: Create New Realities for Your Life and Our World</i> is a growing snowball of group consciousness. It invites all readers to bypass the presumed boundaries of space and time (boundaries that science is showing to be permeable beyond our wildest imaginings) to reach out in loving compassion to every other reader, wherever they happen to be in space/time. The "experiment" involves focusing and directing this collective energy of love to see what miracles we can create for ourselves, each other, and the world beyond.<br><br>This is a book about consciousness, time, quantum science, and God, all woven into a series of practical, personal experiments in miracle-making. It goes far beyond current teachings o the law of attraction and will sweep readers up in a collaborative experiment that pushes all the boundaries of human potential.<br></div>

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About the Author

<div><b>Lynn Woodland's</b> background includes twelve years as a chemical dependency and mental health counselor, and she has studied and practiced Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, and other forms of energy and spiritual healing since 1981. In 1983 she founded and directed the Baltimore Center for Attitudinal Healing, a free health crisis resource center for people dealing with life-challenging illnesses.<br><br>Lynn has taught workshops on the law of attraction for decades, blending science, spirituality, psychology, and practical application. Her particular area of interest and expertise is in what gives rise to miraculous experiences.</div>

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MAKING MIRACLES: Create New Realities for Your Life and Our World is about consciousness, time, quantum science, and God all woven into a series of practical, personal experiments in miracle-making. It goes far beyond current teachings on the law of attraction and sheds light on why popular techniques for having whatever we want don't work as predictably as advertised. MAKING MIRACLES will sweep you up in a collaborative experiment that pushes all the boundaries of human potential. It's sure to boggle your mind, touch your heart, and forever change reality as you've known it.

What can you personally expect from this book? Be open to no less than the fulfillment of your dreams just don't expect the expected! Miracles awaken us to dreams we never thought to dream before, things our heart has always longed for but our mind has never known how to name, and these may compel us to leave predictability behind. Curious? Come join the experiment it may just change your life!

Lynn Woodland is an award-winning author, international teacher, and human potential expert with a 35-year career in transpersonal psychology, human motivation, spiritual healing, and mind-body psychology. Her particular expertise is in what gives rise to miracles and in teaching ordinary people to live extraordinary lives so that miracles become, not just possible, but natural.

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Making Miracles

Create New Realities for Your Life and Our WorldBy Lynn Woodland

Namaste Publishing

Copyright © 2012 Lynn Woodland
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9781897238622
INTRODUCTION

The perfect parking place shows up every time.
A hopelessly lost pet reappears within an hour of a group
praying for a miracle. The perfect house becomes available,
a job opens, money multiplies, the right people appear, all
through serendipity too remarkable to be ?coincidence.”

I don’t believe in miracles like these; I see them in my daily life.
I would no more say I believe in miracles than say I believe in
cars, or planes, or chairs. They’re just a part of life.

For decades, a rash of literature has shown how easy it is to
create miraculous health, wealth, and happiness by following
the simplest of formulas or techniques. Many wonderful books
have taught us the value of affirmations and visualization,
of practicing meditation and yoga, of positive thinking and
prayer. Popular movies like What the Bleep Do We Know?! and
The Secret make ?the Law of Attraction” look like an easy way
to have everything we want. And it really is that easy?except,
of course, when it’s not, when no amount of affirmation or
visualization techniques will budge life circumstances that
feel hopelessly out of our control. Sometimes these techniques
backfire comically with results that are literally just what we
asked for, as when a woman I once knew affirmed, ?My next
boyfriend is rich!” Her affirmation produced immediate results,
drawing into her life a new boyfriend who wasn’t wealthy but
was named Rich!

While I will address the art of intentional manifestation
and spontaneous healing here, miracle-making goes beyond
either of these. Too often the practices of spiritual healing or
intentional manifestation keep our focus on the presence of disease
or on a lack of something in our lives. Miracles may include
healings and manifestations, but they take us beyond our needs,
beyond our wants, and beyond the limitations of our thinking.
They’re such a direct experience of God energy that they don't
simply produce a desired outcome; they change us.

For example, several days after attending one of my group
experiments, a woman came into a large windfall of money
after her sister won the lottery and shared it with her. The
money definitely helped the woman progress speedily toward
the goals she had identified at the group event. But when
she recounted the story, she said the real miracle wasn’t the
manifested money; it was that her sister shared it with her.
The two had had a very strained relationship and this gesture
produced a totally unexpected healing. Miracles can result in
all kinds of lovely manifestations, but they’re more than these
end products. Miracles are always rooted in love, the love of God
that transforms us and makes all things possible.

Calling forth a miracle is a bit like coaxing some beautiful, wild
thing out of the woods. When you find you can’t chase it down
or catch it, you finally give up hunting and just become still. Yet
merely stopping the chase isn’t enough; the thing won’t come
out as long as it senses your agitation. You need to relax. Then
you look the other way, because the creature is shy and won’t
appear if it knows you’re waiting for it. So you pretend to be
simply enjoying the day with no other agenda. After a while,
you actually are enjoying yourself, peaceful and content, the
wild thing all but forgotten?when suddenly there it is, magical
and magnificent, better than you expected, coming right to you.

And it comes just as you’ve stopped trying, stopped expending
effort, aren’t even focused on it anymore, so its appearance
feels strangely not in your control. Certainly you did things.
You wanted it, you set an intention for it, you looked, and you
waited. But these things by themselves didn’t call the creature
forth. It was the point of release, a simple lightness of being and
love of life that called the wild miracle.

Stop for a minute before reading on. Think about whether you
experienced anything as you read this last paragraph. Did
you put yourself in the words and picture something wild and
beautiful out there watching you as you waited for it? And did
you, just for a moment, release the feeling of ?hunting” as you
imagined the easier experience of simply being present and
light? If you did, you’ve already altered your vibration a bit to
let something wonderful sneak into your life when you least
expect it.

This book won’t give you a never-fail formula for manifesting
miracles?because there isn’t one. It will explain some of
the science and psychology of miracles, which is important,
because many of us will block what we don’t understand. It
will also offer stories of real life miracles, because the more
commonplace they seem, the easier it is to relax, to stop
stalking the impossible miracles, and to let them simply appear
on their own terms. Most important of all, I’ll walk you through
some experiments and playful moments in which, together, we
can forget what’s impossible long enough to let the miraculous
slip through!

You don’t need to read this book in a straight line from
beginning to end in order to see miraculous manifestations.
Miracles aren’t linear. You might experience the most
phenomenal miracle of your life after reading the very next
page or by opening the book anywhere. What reading this
book from start to finish will do is help you to accept and truly
benefit from miracles. Each chapter contains an exercise and/
or an experiment in miracle-making. The exercises prepare
you for the experiments, and the experiments take you beyond
time and space into uncharted territory to see what is possible.
If you give careful attention to each one, you’re likely to notice
fortunate coincidences and serendipities happening more
frequently. You also may experience dramatic life changes.

Alternately, change may creep up on you so slowly that you
don’t notice it at all until one day you realize everything is
different. This was the case with a woman who attended a
healing event with me. She reported many months later that
she didn’t realize she had been healed of a severe, chronic,
asthma condition until she found herself in a situation that
would normally trigger an attack. As she noticed she was fine, it
dawned on her she couldn’t remember the last time she’d had an
attack, because it had been so long.

As with the wild thing in the woods, don’t stalk your miracles.
Give yourself over to the quality of the moment, and let your
miracles find you?in great, obvious ways or in quiet, secret
ones.

I suggest doing the experiments when you have some quiet
time to yourself. Some of them are a bit long. For best results,
you can either read them slowly in a quiet, reflective state,
make a recording to listen to with your eyes closed, or use my
recordings that are available on CD or for download at Namaste Publishing's website.

Perhaps the best way of all to experience this book is with
a study group, where you can discuss the exercises and do
the experiments together, reading them aloud as guided
meditations. The butterflies appear in the text to help you pause
between thoughts so when you see them, breathe, reflect, be
still.

Every segment of the book builds upon the next, from this
introduction on, with the aim of helping us all?readers and
author alike?to grow, not just a miraculous result or two, but
a thoroughly miraculous life. Probably the most effective way
to go through this book is to work with the material of each
chapter, giving at least a day to each exercise before going on
to the next chapter. However you choose to plunge into this
experiment, I hope you enjoy the ride!

CHAPTER 1
The Experiment Begins

This book is an invitation to suspend disbelief,
let your mind be boggled, and have an experience of reality
beyond what you think you know for certain. Miracles are
more readily found in the slightly unsettling territory of paradox
than on familiar ground so, if you’re game, let the experiment
begin right now by imagining that the earth is shifting just a bit
underfoot and that nothing you see is what it appears to be.

The more of this book you read, the more deeply you will enter
into a miracle-making experiment. Modern science, as you will
learn, is showing we can’t change our minds without affecting
the world around us and, as easily as reading these pages, your
mind and your world are changing. If it’s your choice, you will
become a miracle-maker. And if you’re feeling excited, it’s
already begun.

Proceed a little further into the experiment by imagining you’re
not alone as you read. Change your mind about the normally
solitary experience of reading so that you are now, simply
through your intention to do so, linking with every other mind
who is reading these words. As we’ll explore in greater depth,
all consciousness is connected. To quote one of the pioneers
of modern physics, Erwin Schrödinger, on the nature of
consciousness, ?The overall number of minds is just one.”

To wade a little more deeply into the fuzzy edges of reality, let
go of what you think you know about time. Einstein proved
in his theory of relativity that time and space aren’t a fixed,
neutral container for matter and can be altered by what they
contain. Time is a more fluid thing than we realize, as Helmut
Schmidt, one of the early researchers of mind over matter,
discovered in his extensive work with random event generators.
He not only found statistically significant evidence suggesting
consciousness alone can indeed affect matter, but also that
consciousness can affect matter in the past. More on this later.

For now, without quite understanding how, imagine your
mind is transcending the fluid boundaries of time and space
to connect with every mind that has in the past, and will in
the future, read these words. This is happening automatically,
simply because you’re thinking it. You don’t even need to believe
it; just imagine what it would feel like if you did.

Picture this joined consciousness as clear, beautiful, and only
positive. As we join minds, we leave behind the clutter of small,
weak thoughts that so often cloud our attention, and we rise
into a Higher Mind that is wise and wonderful. In this Higher
Mind, we amplify each other’s power for good and automatically
repel harm. You may already feel a difference. Your senses
may be a little sharper; you might feel warmth or tingling or
gooseflesh. Perhaps you’re a little more awake. You may notice
your body is relaxing and you’re breathing more deeply. You
may feel nothing at all, the real magic happening outside of
your conscious awareness. It doesn’t matter what you perceive.
Just imagine what it would be like if you felt certain, beyond
a shadow of a doubt, that miracles are normal and starting to
unfold in your life.

Now, for a moment, hold the deepest, most heartfelt intention
that every reader of these words, past, present, and future,
receive something wonderful, and imagine just by reading
this page, you will too. Hold this thought lightly and with
wonder, like you would a butterfly that just alit in your hand.
Hold it gently, no need to strain, and now let it go. Just as
anonymous prayer has been shown to have a definite healing
effect, even when the recipients are unaware that prayer is
being offered on their behalf, just this easily, a powerful prayer
has now been set in motion on your behalf.

After this exercise, if you notice a waft of rose scent that has
no discernible source or you see butterflies, feathers, or some
cherished symbol wherever you go, just say thank you. As
you’ve opened yourself to God, God is showing Itself to you.

And now you’ve become more than a passive reader?you’ve
become part of this experiment, reshaping matter and calling
forth miracles for yourself and countless others whom you
will never know.

Continues...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Namaste Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897238622
• ISBN 13: 9781897238622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192