I was given a card some years ago. It simply read ‘Expect a Miracle’. I kept it there when times were tough to remind me that miracles are possible. But they still seemed somewhat elusive.
And despite similar wording being written on a poster in my office, I could not see at that point in my life, that miracles are part of everyday life. That miracles occur within each and every one of us every minute of our lives.
Just like many people, I had been conditioned to look outside myself… I was simply unaware of the wonder within.

So often we can take for granted the wondrous things we do on a daily basis. That when I smile at someone, a part of me knows exactly where the muscle memory for that smile is stored, and the emotional memory that accompanies it, and finds it for me at precisely the right moment. That when I eat, a consciousness within me knows exactly how to mobilise the right enzymes and in the right order to digest and make best use of the nutrients to heal and restore my body according to the memory or template of what it is to be healthy and whole. That when I sleep at night, my deeper consciousness is able to find the parts that are hurting emotionally and help me to bring healing to them gently within my the privacy of my own mind.
When I pause to reflect on the wonder of who we are, we are extraordinary.
Without memory, be it muscle, or immune or emotional, or facial, or cognitive, life loses much of its joy and its meaning. We witness this when it comes to ill-health in body and mind. Memory is intangible but vital to our survival and wellbeing. It is something to be treasured and protected.
And even more than the wonder of memory itself, the gift of memory reconsolidation is an aspect of memory that leaves me in absolute awe. The ability we all have to update memory on all levels. It’s a gift we are all born with.
From the perspective of science, memory reconsolidation is an extraordinary process of being able to reactivate long term memory and bring new information to those memories. We do that cognitively when we learn new facts, we do it with muscle memory when we learn a new movement, we do it automatically with faces when a loved one changes their ‘look’, and with spaces when we move furniture around… the most wondrous of all to me is that we do it emotionally when we dream at night.
That is how we are designed to heal ourselves emotionally.
In the quiet of night, a part of us is able to locate emotional memories that still hurt, update them, and bring resolution. What an extraordinary gift of healing that is… another of life’s miracles…

When I help people to heal emotionally, it is this gift of healing that I am helping them to engage with. And while the science journals keep talking about how wonderful it would be if we could help someone to do this, there are many of us that have been helping people do exactly this for decades. Supporting people, reminding them, how to do their own healing… because healing is our birthright. It is what we are designed to do.
As Albert Einstein once said..
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
―Albert Einstein
So today, before the busy-ness of life begins, why not pause for a moment and reflect on the miracles within you.
I asked for a message like yours and then you appeared. Thank you for the reminder that miracles do happen.
I love this piece Belinda. There's nothing like an attitude of gratitude to find appreciation, and growing interest in all of our accounts including emotional of course.
The chooks are making a bit of a racket, this means they have filled today's memory pill script for me, aren't they precious..