Ep 22 The Magic Is in the Pause: How to Hear What Is Calling You From Within

You are being called right now. Can you hear it?

Not the to do list. Not the notifications. Not the rushing and the busy and the go go go. Something deeper. Something quieter. Something that has been waiting, patiently and lovingly, for you to stop long enough to feel it.

In this soul-stirring, deeply intimate episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares a spontaneous midday download that stopped her in her tracks. Because in the middle of a rushing day she realized she could not hear herself anymore. And that is exactly when this episode was born.

This is an episode about the pause. The sacred, underrated, revolutionary act of stopping. Of breathing. Of placing your hand on your heart and listening for what is actually trying to reach you. Because here is what Sarah knows and what this podcast has always been about: the magic is not at the finish line. It is not in the achieving or the doing or the arriving. It is in the middle. In the space between the inhale and the exhale. In the quiet where something greater can finally get through.

In this episode you will discover:

• Why the pause is not a luxury but a lifeline, and how even 5 minutes of genuine stillness can shift everything about how your day unfolds
• How to use your heart center as a receiver for the guidance, love, and direction your spiritual team, your guides, your God, has been trying to send you
• The difference between prayer as asking and meditation as receiving, and why both are essential to a life that feels truly supported
• A gentle guided breathing practice to bring you out of the rush and back into your body, your heart, and the present moment
• Week one of Sarah's free Fire Horse Journey, including the kidney water element morning practice, the 5 minute water walk midday reset, and the gratitude harvest evening ritual
• How the Reticular Activation System works with gratitude to literally rewire what you see and notice throughout your day, from parking spaces to mother ducks with seven ducklings to the exact person you needed to meet
• Why the Fire Horse year of 2026 is asking you to move and take action AND to fill up first, so the fire does not burn you out before the year is done

This is not a passive listen. This is an invitation. To pause. To breathe. To place your hand on your heart and ask: what is calling me right now?

It is already there. It has always been there. The middle is where you hear it.  You are greatly loved.   

Sign up for Sarah's free Fire Horse Journey, with or without AI support, with AI support the link is https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-ai and without AI support https://marrvelouslife.com/fire-horse-integration-qigong and for more information and to join her free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom go to marrvelouslife.com.    

Transcript

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Hello? I'm happy to be here with you. Always happy to be here with you. I can't say enough how how excited I am about this journey with you. About the magic in the middle. Wait. Did you hear that? Hold on. Did you hear that? Are you listening? Let's just pause just for a minute. And listen. Listen. Pause. And listen. Did you feel that? Do you hear that from within you? Did you feel it? Did you feel that ping? Did you notice? What is calling you? What is calling you and seeking to emerge in and through you? What is wanting to connect in with you? It could be your little person. Could it be something greater? A much greater vision. Could it be your gods, your guides, your spiritual team, your angels wanting, wanting to get through, to say, look here, go over here, go over there. Look what's over here. I have this for you. It's perfect. It's perfect alignment for you. This is what you came here for. This is what you came here to do. This is what you came here to experience, to grow, to embrace, to feel, to walk. What am I talking about? I'm talking about pausing. Our world is moving so quickly right now. I mean, the energy of our planet, because our planet is now at this tilt, and the energy has accelerated, and our lives have accelerated, and we are just going along with it. I mean, I just see people going along with it. Oh, I'm busy, busy, busy, busy. Oh, I'm too busy for this. I'm too busy for that. I'm too busy to take time for myself. I'm too busy to even take 10 minutes and pause and listen and breathe. Does this sound familiar? Like just taking 10 minutes and connecting in with that breath, your breath, that sacred breath that breathes you. Being quiet. Pausing. For me, one of the things I like to do is we have this big picture window. And I like to sit in front of the picture window and just watch the hummingbirds coming in and out, drinking the nectar. We have a a hummingbird feeder there. Or sitting in the garden, closing my eyes and listening. Maybe I start by listening to the leaves rustling a little bit. We have a hummingbird feeder in the back as well. So hearing that brrrrrr of their wings. Maybe I'm hearing the other little birds singing. My mind wants to carry me away and say, oh, here, put this on the grocery list. Okay, put this in the laundry. Oh, the dryer. The laundry's ready. Okay, you need to move it over. Oh, this errand. You have to do this errand. No. Stop. Stop. I have a friend who just says, stop it. Just stop it. Allow your mind and your body and your cells to pause and rest for a moment. And listen. What is seeking to merge in and with you? In and through you. We are much greater than our bodies. We are much greater than we're led to believe. We're, I mean, I feel like in schools and business, people are just taught to be robots. We are not robots. We are human beings with emotions and feelings and cells. And we radiate. We're like radio receivers. We radiate. We have energy. We're all energy. Everything is energy. My voice is energy. And we do have the ability to choose and stop just for a few moments. This is the middle of my day. And things are rushing. And I just thought I can't hear right now. I can't feel. It's all going so quickly. Before I know it, it's gonna be five or six o'clock. And I'm gonna say, wait, it was just 4 30 in the morning. I don't want to live like that. I I want to smell the roses. I want to pause and smell the roses. And what was coming to me when I paused and I stopped was do you hear it? Do you hear it? Listen. Listen. Not listening to your mind in the chatter. No. Do you feel it inside? Do you feel it? Put your hand on your heart. Your heart is 60 times more powerful than your brain. And breathe into your heart. We've done this before on this podcast. Breathe into your heart. Take that breath in and hold it for a moment. Just focus on your heart center. And release and let go and just pause. Connecting in. I believe we have a higher self within us that connects in with the universe. And the universe could be whatever it is to you, your God, your angels, your guides. I call it my spiritual team. In Qigong, we call it our master. And the master doesn't master you. The master loves you 100%, no matter what, and wants to be there for you. The master has mastered ascension or compassion or love, has mastered energy, has mastered the chi. I believe all of these beings have done that, and they're there for us to help us. I believe we have all these guides here waiting for us to say hello. Please come forward. Will you please come forward and connect with me and guide me and show me? So that every step I'm taking, I am floating, I am joyful, I'm being carried, so that I know that you are there. Show me that you're here, and they want to hear. Will you please help me? Will you please show me the love that you have for me? Pour it into my heart center, pour it into my body, and then just pause and allow it and be connected, connected to your spirit, to your soul, to all that there is, and feel that pouring into you because it wants to pour into us. We're much more than our body and our brain. And a great way to get to this space and to connecting is through the heart center. So let's take a few breaths into the heart center. Let's take a moment to pause and then listen. At agape, Michael Beckwith says, prayer is for the asking, and it's a grateful asking. It's not a begging, it's a grateful asking with gratitude and thankfulness and thank you for being in my life and showing me abundance and joy and wealth, whatever it is for you, health. Pausing and meditation is the receiving part of that, is receiving and listening, and that can be a five-minute thing. We have five minutes in our day for ourselves. If you have to go into the bathroom and close the door, then do it. Believe me, I this is all experience right here, talking. And it really makes a difference to take a moment and pause and breathe. So let's do it here together. Ready? We're gonna inhale through our nose and we're gonna pull in this powerful energy. You could pull it in as rainbow light or joy or love through your entire body to your heart center and put your hand on your heart and then pause if it's comfortable. Exhale and release and let go of what you're not needing, and feel your shoulders and the large muscles on your back, just relaxing in, your shoulders dropping down. And let's do it again. That big breath in, holding just for a moment, and focus on your heart center and the colors of that or the joy or the happiness, whatever it is in your heart center, and exhale, release it and let it go. Just feel yourself letting go of that rush. Rush, rush, rush, go, go, go. Feel into being human, this wonderful human being. It is such an honor and a privilege, I believe. Let's see this one more time. Inhaling. Bring in that rainbow light, and maybe it has joy and happiness and peace and presence and groundedness and gratitude. And you hold it there and exhale. Feel your legs relax. Feel the presence in your body. Feel that connection with your heart center. Feel your heart center smiling, maybe, or maybe you smile to it. And Qigong, this is the house of our spirit. We connect in and we smile to our spirit. I'm safe. Everything is okay. I want to read you something. I created a fire horse journey for this year of the fire horse. So the morning, and this is this is week one. There's five weeks. This is week one, day one. And what this is created to do is help us to connect in more deeply with ourselves and take care of ourselves, take care of our nervous system, pause, really support ourselves. And then out of that comes abundance and inspiration and perfect health and vitality and joy and all the things that you're wanting. That list of the hard things, right? The things that are outside of us. So today, and how it works is I send to you, once you sign up, I send to you an introduction which says, This is how you use this, and this is what it means. And this is what the RAS is, which is the reticular activating system. So it really goes through and explains things. And then each day for five weeks, for seven days, there's something to do, and it's quick. These are quick things, it's supposed to be manageable. Things that we can do. So today, and every morning, before you get out of bed, before you look at technology, this is about getting off technology and having it define who you are and take your mind and your body down this road. It is about taking your mind and your body and your energy back so that you are the master of it, and you are choosing and designing your life and where you want to be and go and grow, and how you want to feel during the day. That's one of the things Louise Hayes says: like when you wake up before you even get out of bed, decide how I want to feel. That's activating the reticular activation system. So on this day, should you be on this day? Today I look for every sign that the universe is holding me steady and I'm filled with gratitude. This goes with the pausing and the listening that I'm talking about. I'm filled with gratitude. And the universe just pours into us when we're filled with gratitude, pours so many messages and and so we call them Easter eggs in the marketing business. Easter eggs, meaning so many great surprises throughout the day. The thing is, is you have to be present and available to notice or could pass you by. Like my husband and I are walking on um the San Gabriel River this past weekend. We saw a mother with its little ducklings, seven of them, and we saw sea turtles. And sea turtles aren't easy to see. You have to be awake and conscious. I mean, it you will be rewarded. So before your feet touch the floor, place both hands on your lower belly. This is your kidney area because week one is about the water element, which is our kidneys. And then you take three slow breaths into your hands. So you breathe in through your kidneys, your hands to your kidneys, like similar to what we did, and feel the warmth you're creating. So you say the mantra aloud or to yourself, even a whisper. So today I look for every sign that the universe is holding me steady, and I am filled with gratitude. Then you drink a glass of water, and the reticular activation system is now tuned to see support everywhere in a kind word, a parking space, a moment of ease. So watch for it today, and it could even be a beautiful flower or a butterfly, because for each person there's different types of symbols, it could be the chair you're sitting in or your bed. Like I like to feel my bed supporting me right even before I get out. That's the universe supporting you, and then there's a midday practice. This one's five minutes, it's a five-minute water walk. So stepping outside as you walk. Imagine you're moving like water, like you're flowing. There's no force, no resistance. There's a beautiful flowing like a river. You know, you relax your shoulders, you breathe through slowly through your nose. And then notice three things around you that are in flow. Maybe the leaves are moving or the clouds are shifting. People are walking. Maybe you see some butterflies or a dragonfly. When you sit back down, close your eyes and visualize deep indigo blue light filling your kidneys with each inhale and then exhale tension. So this is connecting. This is taking that pause and then take a minute. It doesn't say that in here, but take a minute and listen. What is wanting to come in? What is wanting maybe from within you to be expressed and seen and heard, and what is calling you? And then the evening practice, the gratitude harvest in your journal, right? Three moments a day where you felt supported and feel the gratitude in your body. So that's a big one is feeling it, the vibration, the frequency. Because what you're radiating is going out like a radio station, and it's coming back, it's a magnet bringing back to you as well. And these don't have to be big things, it could be like a nice cup of tea or the sun on your face when you were out today. Maybe the blue sky, maybe daylight, your body breathing easily, and then read them back slowly and let them land in your body and feel the gratitude. Maybe it was a beautiful flower. Maybe it was a mother with her seven ducklings. Maybe it was a you know a nice nature hike or hearing the leaves rustling of the trees. And then the fire horse wisdom, the fire horse year arrives like a galloping wind. And I don't know if you notice it at the beginning of the year, but it came in whoosh. I could feel it, like it was like, I want to go, go, go. But before you run with it, water asks you to arrive fully. Your kidneys are the root of your life force, they hold your reserves for the entire year ahead. So nourishing them now is the wisest investment you can make for continuing steady this year. For being steady, for not burning up, because during the fire horse year, it's easy to burn up because the fire horse asks you to move, to go, to take action. We're shedding old, we're shedding old karma, we're shedding old patterns, old habits that are not supporting us. And we're asked to move and step in and go. So it's really important for us to fill up, and it starts with the kidneys, but also it's really important for us to pause and listen because the energy is there, and it's wanting to connect in with you, and the fire is energy, the horse is energy. We want to make sure the fire doesn't burn out of control and burn you out, and listening, just taking a moment and listening, pausing for yourself. And feeling that guidance, it's like you're being pulled forward, and you and you don't even know why you took that left turn, or you don't know why you went to this place, or you met this person, and they were just exactly the right person for you to meet to receive what was needed in that moment in that day, or maybe you met the most amazing person, and they just gave you a smile and so much joy. You know, I mean, that's valuable, that is valuable, that is the human condition, the human beingness, and it is so beautiful, and that is the key to thriving in every area of our lives, connecting in with you, with the universe, and listen. Might be a feeling in your body, a picture might come in your head. Could be a thought to call somebody now, to read a book. Did you hear that? Did you hear it? You're being called. There's everything there to support you and to love you and to guide you. Do you hear it? Can you feel it inside? All the messages are there for you. For your healing, for your joy to thrive. Wait. Just taking a breath. Put our hand on our heart center. Pause. When you hear it, let me know. Let me know what it says. I love when you comment on the podcast because it encourages others. It encourages others to go further, to share, to go beyond. That's what this podcast is about. Going beyond, living your greatest, greatest life, thriving, completely thriving in every every area of your life. If you feel like you're getting value from this podcast, I encourage you to share it. Give five stars because this will allow us to rise in the rankings. So many people can connect in and find this, and we can create a planet of thrivers, of people that are thriving, and we can spread that around the planet because our energy is everything. And the more we raise the vibration, the more we're spreading this love and this joy and this powerful healing frequency. And I love you and I honor you. Thank you always for being here with me. Thank you for loving and honoring yourself and pausing.