Today on Widening Circles,
Touching your own miraculousness.
You are alive.
Have you ever stopped and noticed this?
I know this sounds like a basic fact but for most of my life I took my own aliveness for granted.
I think we all conceptually know that we are lucky to be alive but do we really feel it?
Do we live feeling like we are walking miracles or do we trudge through our days feeling insignificant and small?
Today I bring you on a journey to put you in touch with your own miraculousness.
I hope this will revive a sense of gratitude and amazement at your own existence which will dissolve any sense of unworthiness and make all the issues you're dealing with suddenly feel very small.
So settle down comfortably and allow this mind melt to carry you.
Enjoy.
First take a few deep breaths allowing all of your stress to ride out on the exhale.
Feel the deepening sense of relief that comes with these breaths.
Allow your breaths to smooth down any rough edges you may be feeling as if they were waves slapping against the shores of your mind.
Any striving or bracing held in your body allow it to relax.
Allow your heart to unlock and soften.
Bring your mind back into your body and feel the warmth of this homecoming.
1 in 10 raised to the 6.
285 million.
That's the number calculated to be the odds of your existence.
To give you a sense of what this number means imagine you had a stadium filled with 2 million people.
Every person had a trillion-sided dice.
To be 1 in 10 raised to the 6.
285 million,
Everyone would have to roll their dice and land on the same number.
That's the astonishing odds it took for you to be here breathing.
For you to be here sharing moments with the ones you love and experiencing the beauty of life.
Take a moment and let this knowing sink in.
1 in 10 raised to the 6.
285 million.
That's as if 10 raised to the 6.
285 million people were lined up which is more than the number of known particles in the universe and you were chosen out of all of them to receive the gift of life.
You were the 1 in 10 raised to the 6.
285 million chosen to be here alive getting the chance to experience the delights that our world has to offer.
Delights like the warmth of your friendships,
The green of grass,
The smell of earth after rain,
And the weight of your body.
Take a moment and let this sink in feeling gratitude for your existence seeping up like groundwater.
The odds of your existence 1 in 10 raised to the 6.
285 million is basically shatteringly close to zero.
You are the miracle of the miracle of the miracles.
Allow this knowing to sweep away any feeling of smallness and insignificance from the cellar of your mind because anyone who has been granted this gift of life has already won the ultimate lottery.
You are born a winner.
You have already won.
Keep in mind that this number does not even take into account the staggering odds of our planet forming favorable conditions for life.
So it's actually under representing the odds of your existence.
The odds that you are here alive and breathing.
Let your body receive this knowing and feel your heart opening in gratitude for this extremely rare occasion of life.
How are you going to live and honor the miracle of your life?
The miracle that you are?
I leave you with this question.
Thank you for journeying with me today as I hope it rippled widening circles of awe in you.
Wishing you a magnificent day and never forget the miracle that you are.
