Talking Miracles

Miracles aren’t random—and they aren’t reserved for a chosen few. In this episode, we explore how miracles arise at the intersection of mind, body, and spirit. From the science of belief and the body’s “inner pharmacy” to deeply personal stories of healing and divine intervention, you’ll discover that miracles often begin with a simple shift within. When perception changes, possibility opens—and what once felt impossible can become real. 

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Welcome to episode eighteen. Talking miracles. What people call miracles aren't random, and they aren't reserved for the chosen few. They follow a familiar, living, repeatable process that sits right at the intersection of biology, psychology, and consciousness. Every miracle begins the same way. Something changes inside of us before anything changes outside. It could be a new thought or a new possibility or a need. This is the moment when the old way of thinking begins to loosen its grip. This is where science quietly agrees with spirituality. Your brain constantly filters reality based on what it expects or looks for, and this process creates pathways for what you seek, and this begins to open our portal to the world of miracles. Now, this is where it gets real. When a person genuinely believes in the possibility of something, their body actively participates, it responds, and in the case of needing to heal our body, our chemistry shifts and stress is reduced, healing pathways activate, and the inner pharmacy begins to do its work. This is where the placebo effect becomes something much bigger than people realize. It's not fake healing, it's self-directed biology. Even if you do not realize you are participating in it happening. But thought alone doesn't create a miracle. Emotions help to fuel it. It's when someone feels the possibility and when it deeply matters. Hope, relief, and even surrender enters. You have blending of mind, psyche, and body. When the inner state changes enough, the outer world begins to reorganize. Opportunities appear, people show up. Timing aligns. From the outside it looks like that was lucky or that was a miracle. But underneath, hidden within, something very real has happened. The person is no longer operating from the same thoughts or emotions that were limiting or interfering. Here is the part that often goes unspoken. It's the quiet, often hidden step where at some point a person stops forcing things. They let go of the tight grip on how they think things must go. This release creates a space, and in that space something new can emerge, often in ways the mind could never have anticipated. And here is where science is still catching up. Even when we understood the biology, the psychology, and familiar patterns, there are moments that go beyond explanation. And this is where people imply that the soul, spirit, and higher consciousness are involved. Science is beginning to explore this phenomenon through consciousness studies, quantum theories, and even structures within the body, like microtubules. It remains at the edge of understanding, however, and perhaps that's okay, because the experience itself is undeniable. Human beings have often witnessed what we call miracles. They've been witnessing it since the very beginning of life on this planet. And every time something miraculous happens, it becomes part of a much bigger story. The ongoing history of human experience that points to something real, not fully explained, but deeply known. A miracle happens when a person's inner world changes so deeply that their body, their brain, and their life begin to reorganize around a new reality, and something once impossible becomes possible. Often this occurs for individuals experiencing profound grief or facing moments of desperation, particularly at the intersection of life and death. These emotions reveal and bring about internal change that are not breaking the laws of nature, but revealing ones we haven't fully understood yet. I want to share a story about one of my sisters. She lost her husband in a tragic work-related accident. There was an explosion and he died instantly. She was in shock, so I went to stay with her for a while. One day she showed me a concerning lump on the side of her breast, was this color, protruding and larger than a quarter. I urged her to see a doctor immediately. She then revealed that before he died, her husband had been very worried about it, and had been insisting she see a doctor as soon as possible. Then, a few days later she showed me her breast again, and the lump was completely gone. She said to me that her husband's face had appeared to her in the middle of the night as she felt his hand on her breast and not in a sexual way. The next morning she woke up to find the lump had vanished. It was a miracle of the mysterious kind, a divine intervention miracle. And the other type of miracle happens from within us. Here is the next story. It's about my grandmother, who came from Norway. She went through something like this. By all expectations, the situation should not have resolved the way that it did, and yet it did. She was seventy two and had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from her pancreas. She had asked my mom, her daughter, not to tell her it was cancer, if it was. It was cancer, but they did not give her radiation or chemotherapy treatments. In those days, it was pretty much a death sentence to get pancreatic cancer. So we expected her to become sicker, but she never did. On one visit, she and I sat together and she told me something that was happening to her every night. She said that little black crabs crawled across the floor and up her legs. She said she swats them off until they stopped. She said it happens every night. The result? She lived cancer free and quietly passed over at the age of ninety-seven. She did not explain it in any other way, just a thing that was happening and how she was dealing with it. I'm the only one she told too, probably because she and I are the same when it comes to being open to the other dimensions. What I witnessed was my grandmother actively engaging with what was happening in her body, not waiting, but participating, and that changed everything. These were two types of miracles, two pathways. One, my sister experienced, was divine or external intervention, beyond personal control. The second type is internal, self-generated healing, my grandmother's experience. Just as powerful, but different in origin. This describes how the body responds to inner imagery, beliefs, and experiences, engaging the mind on a deeper level. The healing unfolds from my grandmother's vision of the black crabs, serving as a perfect example. Whether symbolic, neurological, or something we don't yet fully understand, her subconscious and psyche were actively engaging with the illness. She battled with it, not passively waiting to die. The important thing is that these are not opposites. They may actually represent two different expressions of the same underlying process, a shift in the consciousness that allows something to occur, whether felt as an external or from within the person. What I've come to understand through science, healing work, and life itself is that miracles are not random. They follow a pattern, a very real, very human, and very repeatable process. A miracle doesn't start in the outer world. It truly begins within us. Remember, there are many elements inside of us that contribute to who we are. We are physiological, which includes electrical and chemical processes, and we are our conscious and subconscious minds. And not to be overlooked, there is our psyche, the magical, mystical, unknown aspect of us that is always present, which can be influenced by our thoughts, our emotions, and behaviors in ways that are not always understood. Every miracle begins with a shift in perception. Something loosens, a thought changes, even slightly. A possibility enters where there wasn't one before. And this might seem small, but it's everything. Because your brain is constantly filtering reality based on what it already believes. So the moment something new is allowed in, even just a crack, in the old stories we tell ourselves, you are no longer seeing the same world. You open up to something more. The body responds, emotions ignite, your world begins to change. You let go, the mystery appears. We can call it consciousness, the field, the soul, spirit. Miracles are not breaking the laws of nature. They are revealing one. We are only just beginning to understand. And maybe the most important thing to remember is this you're not separate from this process, you are always part of it. There's something else I want to share with you, something that sits underneath everything we've been talking about. Because the truth is, what we call miracles may not be rare at all. They may actually be part of our natural state. But we live in a very dense experience. We live in physical bodies with nervous systems designed for survival, and that creates a kind of heaviness, a constant focus on what's wrong, what could go wrong, and what needs to be controlled. And there's nothing wrong with that because it's part of being human and surviving on our planet. It can keep us anchored in a very primitive pattern of thinking, of survival, fear, self-protection. But when most of our energy is there, there's very little room left to experience the more subtle part of who we are. We overlook that part of us that senses, that knows, that connects to our life force, our source, that part of us where insight comes easily, where healing can happen, where things begin to line up in ways we can't always explain. What I've come to feel and see is that miracles don't come from outside of us, and they emerge when we are no longer fully locked into the density of our physical carbon-based existence. This release is everything. It opens us up to becoming aware of and tuning into a frequency from which the miracle arises. It's not that miracles are rare, it's that we spend so much time in survival mode. We don't always have access to the frequency where they occur. Here is another personal experience. I came to know a very interesting Catholic priest, a doctor of theology, professor, author, and an ordained exorcist. He enlightened me that the way to our source, God or higher power, and to evil forces is through our soul within us. That is where the other dimension exists, through our soul, not externally in the world around us. He even said that to be possessed by an evil spirit, you have to consciously invite it in. It can't just show up uninvited. I've accepted his explanation and see it in the same way. This gives us a new perspective, doesn't it? A spiritual interpretation that the gateway to the higher or darker influences comes from within to the soul via our awareness and intention. So in essence, we need to invite our miracles in, and our awareness is what allows us to choose what we do invite in. However, I will say not everything we experience is consciously chosen, such as my Norwegian grandmother's visualization of black crabs. But our awareness gives us the ability to choose what we continue to give power to. So on some deep level, maybe even an ancient genetic memory, allowed her to go with the vision and bring in her miracle. Because the same inner doorway that connects us to fear and survival also connects us to insight and healing and what we call miracles. She chose healing and she received a miracle. Before we close today, I want to give you a moment to experience what we've been talking about. So wherever you are, just allow yourself to pause, take a slow breath in, and gently let it go. And again, breathing in and out. Yes, breathing is the beginning of everything, the day we were born and on the day that we die, and all that is in between. So breathe again, in and out to relax yourself. Now just bring your attention inward. No need to change anything, no need to fix anything. Just notice where you are, how you are feeling. And now very gently, ask yourself this simple question. What in my life feels stuck? And then ask yourself, am I ready to change it? Don't force an answer, just allow something to rise, a feeling, a thought, an image. And now instead of trying to solve it, just introduce a new possibility very softly. Say to yourself, what if this could change? Not how, not when, just what if. Now notice that what happens to your body, even the smallest shift, a softening, a little more space, a breath that feels easier. Or you may feel emotional, teary, a little breathless. If this happens, breathe in again slowly and exhale until you feel calm. Allow yourself to soften, give yourself more space and breathe easier. This is where it begins. Let yourself feel just for a moment what it would be like if this could change, if things moved even slightly in your favor. Allow that feeling to be real even for just a few seconds, because your body doesn't need certainty. It responds to experience. It knows already how to behave. Just like my grandmother's instinct to swat the crabs off her legs. It was a natural response, a sensible action, and brought about a change, a miracle. Now take one more slow breath in and gently let it go. And when you're ready, come back to your busy day or quiet day. You don't need to have it all figured out. You don't have to force the outcome. Just remember, even the smallest shift inside of you can begin to change everything. And this is how miracles begin. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Please join me next time for episode 19 from Stardust to Soul, the science and spirit of who we are and our search for meaning. Thank you for listening today. 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