Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want

by Melody Beattie

Overview

A simple practice taking ten minutes a day that will transform you and your life

OVER THE COURSE OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, Melody Beattie has become a trusted friend for millions of readers, and in Make Miracles in Forty Days she offers the ultimate distillation of what she learned about gratitude, surrender, and connecting with our essential power. The power to enact change, the ability to create miracles, she argues, rests within ourselves.

In her innovative, six-week action plan, Beattie helps us establish the miracles we’d like to create and then walks us step-by-step through her Miracle Exercise, which combines the most powerful spiritual and recovery principles into a simple activity that can be done individually, with a partner, or as part of a group. Along the way, she reveals her own experiences of making miracles, and those of the participants in her Miracle Workshop. These moving stories of overcoming hardship and finding acceptance and forgiveness demonstrate that transformative change is within our reach and inspire us to move forward with a renewed vigor for life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439102169
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	12/06/2011
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	411,362
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Melody Beattie ha escrito numerosos libros sobre el crecimiento y las relaciones personales, y su mensaje se basa en la sabiduría curativa de los Doce Pasos, el cristianismo y las religiones orientales. Con la publicación en 1986 de Ya No Seas Codependiente, Melody se convirtió en una de las principales voces de la literatura de autoayuda cautivando a millones de lectores empeñados en tener relaciones más sanas. Ella vive en Malibu, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

What's a Miracle? 3

The Miracle Buffet 3

What to Expect 5

A Disclaimer 9

Activities 11

1 My Miracle Fix 13

Sage's Story 15

My Introduction to Making Miracles 19

Becoming Fully Present 28

Activities 32

2 How to Make Miracles 35

Find a Miracle Partner 37

Dr. Joi's Story 42

How Project Miracle Works 47

Exactly How to Do It 49

Essential Ingredients 61

Adapt Project Miracle to Fit Your Needs 62

How Project Miracle Worked for Dr. Joi and Me 67

Activities 74

3 A Roomful of Miracles 75

The Miracle Workshop 77

Make Miracles for Almost Every Situation 82

How to Handle Feelings That Surface 86

Activities 90

4 Project Miracle for Kids 93

A Tale of Two Girls 95

Rebecca Narrates Her Daughters' Story 96

How to Simplify Project Miracle 99

Start a New Family Tradition 104

Activities 107

5 Reactions to Project Miracle 109

Objections 111

Frequently Raised Questions 115

Moving Forward 127

Activities 129

Appendix: Sample Miracle Exercise Lists 131

Bibliography 177

Acknowledgments 179

Editorial Reviews

Yeah, for serious, just don't let anyone see you reading this. Make a paper bag book cover for it like you did in the sixth grade when you were reading those Nancy Drew stories. Or hell, bedazzle it! This is a typical "female" self-help book, and I mean that in the best possible sense: it is well-intentioned, personal, and full of the author's deep altruism. Beattie wants very badly for you to be happy, so she shares her successes and the experiences of others in order to empower you to do the same. Is that so bad? In a nutshell: practice gratitude for everything around you; gratitude breeds positivism, which breeds optimism, which breeds productivity and success, which in turn breeds young rabbits by the hatful (they's good eatin'). But gratitude exercises are just the start, young Skywalker. The book goes on to relate Beattie's personal journey (as opposed to Neal Schon's Journey). Covering debilitating surgery and horrendous grief, she steadfastly remains grateful for all things, even the awful ones, and encountered many other people doing the same. The process of gratitude leads to growth, handling the problems instead of avoiding them, and eventually overcoming them. Beatty is a respected and well-reputed and well-loved author, and her writing is of great worth. Be grateful for it. — Douglas Lord, "Books for Dudes," Booksmack! 2/3/11

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