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Today’s Miracle Moment Is About Remembering Who You Are…
A number of years ago when I (Marci) was writing Happy For No Reason, I read the story about a tribe in Africa in which every tribe member has a signature song. When a baby is in the womb, the family feels into that baby’s soul and comes up with a “signature song” for the baby. The child is sung their song during the pregnancy, when they are born, and many times throughout their childhood. The entire tribe knows each person’s song and they sing the songs to each other.
When a member of their tribe commits a crime, rather than punishing them, the entire tribe gathers and circles around that person. Then they sing the offender “their song” to remind them of who they are.
Then each person in the circle shares their appreciation of that person to further help them remember who they are.
Isn’t that amazing!
The whole tribe stays strong when everyone loves and uplifts each other rather than judges each other.
How different from how our modern culture operates! But, we can adopt this perspective for ourselves and our own family and friends – to remind ourselves and each other who we really are.
We can breathe our own breath in such a way that it feels as familiar as our own song being sung to us.
If you take slow, deep belly breaths regularly throughout the day, you continually soothe yourself and connect with your true Self. This is a reminder of your vibrational signature that feels like home, and you can create this for yourself at any moment.
Here’s what to do:
Every time you take a deep belly breath, relax your shoulders, rest the activity in your mind, and drop into the deep core central channel of your being. Your subconscious is going to respond with, “Oh, there I am. I don’t have to work so hard to figure out who I am. I don’t have to prove it. I don’t have to be afraid. I remember who I am.”
When you give that signal to the subconscious, you connect to the feeling of belonging—as though you are part of a tribe that is not going to let you flail about, but will hold you high and remind you of who you are.
The truth is that we are each magnificent beings. There is not anything wrong with any of us, and all we have to do is remember who we truly are.
Over these next weeks, we invite you to practice checking in and remembering who you are…the truth of your essence. And, don’t just rely on your mind alone—let your body and your breath help facilitate the process.
When your mind, body, and breath are all working together, you don’t feel alone!
Thank you for reminding us of who we are
Thank you for sharing the story of the African tribe and their custom of singing the tribe member’s song. Is it possible to name the tribe and the African country/region? It is such a beautiful ritual and I believe we should give credit to the tribe by recognising it by name when sharing its customary practice.
This was soooooo the best ever miricle moment 😊 so loving ,soothing ,welcoming ❤️
Having a tribe is the key for sure
I agree and thank you for wanting to know and acknowledge this African tribe, Gail, as their beautiful wisdom and cultural practice is benefitting us too. I wondered the same thing, as I read it. This way, they won’t be obscure in history. We give thanks. And thank you all too for bringing this to us.
I agree and thank you for wanting to know and acknowledge this African tribe, Gail, as their beautiful wisdom and cultural practice is benefitting us too. I wondered the same thing, as I read it. This way, they won’t be obscure in history. We give thanks. And thank you all too for bringing this to us.
It’s a beautiful tale and an Inspiring idea (but may not be based in fact). We can still be uplifted by it as a story.
Some origin research was done in this article:
https://aidamanduley.com/2015/03/10/the-real-origin-of-the-african-birth-song/
I strongly recommend EVERY reader of this thread to click on https://aidamanduley.com/2015/03/10/the-real-origin-of-the-african-birth-song/ to get some real knowledge about the “African tribe”. Thank you for staying awake in class, Gail!
Yes I agree, the area and name of the tribal people is important.
Thank you Marci for this beautiful reminder. It works really well for me
Very interesting and a good reminder to always know who you are despite the noise around you
Thank you for sharing and giving permission to accept myself and everyone. I embrace this community!
Love this! Thank you. This was beautiful. <3
What beautiful sentiments to embrace and incorporate as we journey along in our Year of Miracles! Thank you so much Dr. Sue and Marci–essential elements to keep close all the time! And I know that my spirit is so grateful and appreciative that you have shared this “miracle moment” as with all the others!
Grateful to be present to receive all your Brilliant wisdom, reminded daily how very Blessed I am….alone, not lonely…smiles 2 our Beautiful universe…only love Heals all wounded Hearts& souls…love,love,love….eat something yummy& smile,Ahhh nice.
I am a child of God…..so profound…..love it and to extend it to others is so good too. …..transformative for families and society. Wonde ful! Thank you,Sue and Marci.
During follow your breath through your entire body and you will connect with the wonderful being that you are.
I am truly grateful for receiving this message today. Taking the deep breath to bring calmness and connect with my I am was a perfect reminder to me. Thank you so much!
Thank for reminding us, how important it is, to stop, take a deep breath, before taking actions, when the mind is in over load.
I have experienced this many times. Jumping to conclusions, without stopping to take that deep breath. I am contractioned, taking short breaths.
My energy is slow moving, while the mind is running havoc. Reminder, remember always, to breathe in long, and exhale, softly.
Thanks for the remainider! Lovingly, Sarika G
Yes, Sarika! Simple reminders and lots of breaths. I can see you smiling!
Wow I did comment Marci and Dr sue u nailed it I think if we uplifted people and find the cause of the problem instead of condemning them we may have a better outcome of repeat offenders. I also am liking the breathing with the body and mind all coinciding. Mitzispencer thanks
I also love the principal of who we are in God. We are the victors not the victims . We are the head and not the tail in Christ Jesus amen.
So simple, yet so helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for helping to remind me how to touch the true me and know how wonderful I really. really am. I have passed your wisdom on to my daughter
to help her remember. Namaste and peace to you both.
I was just thinking about importance of your true Self nowadays and post in the blog:
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6904649185984290993#editor/target=post;postID=8892399223510464967;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname
Thank you so much. I needed to remember this today. May you be blessed
many times over. Our lives can be lived at a much deeper level if we hold
this in mind every day until it is automatic.
Perfect and uplifting thank you for sharing.
Nice concept reminded. In India there are many such rituals reminding our self. Many such prayers too.. I know very few which my family practices.. Regards
thanks so much very helpful.
This is extraordinarily powerful Dr Sue and Marci. In the whirlwind of our daily lives we can easily forget who we are. Thanks so much.
I am doing an exercise called “the miracle of today” which is an exercise from a book called “Real Life” from Dr Phil McGraw in where Dr Phil says that I should write the miracle of each day for 30 days and then reviewed them. I started doing the exercise in 5 November 2010 and I still write that miracle each day. I have 10 Diaries and so far I have written over 460000 words because I typed it in Microsoft word. Thank you for letting me share the miracle of today with you Dr Sue and Dr Marcy. Nicolás.
I love this Miracle Moment series.It brings tears to my eyes .truly we are, each one of us, God’s Children .We are miracles and we tend to forget this in the hurry-burry of morn life.I wish we could do what the African tribe did.It is a binding together of the entire tribe.We just have to be like that- big ‘One”.
Thank you Marci and Sue. That was awesome! Love to everyone. 🙂
I love this ideal that every being has a song. I’d like to see this used for children, and even in the elementary school classroom—terrific idea of love and inspiration.
Lovely. Thank you.
Thank you for this reminder, followed by the August message about Overwhelm. I sat down and noted where I feel it, how sometimes it’s resistance, and often it’s when I think I must do things that are hard. The 5 top priorities (in Marci’s talk) became less overwhelming if I thought of…who can help me, or who can I delegate this to?
This began to free me of this huge weight around social media, how without doing a lot I wouldn’t build my business, properly market my writing, etc.
And then I looked at how my miracles journal was mostly blank. So I thought back and started to write a bit–in a new journal my grandson, 5, just gave me (we share a love of paper and writing). I saw that I have delegated, and bartered, and do have help.
A friend got me on Instagram, and a partner is doing all the social media for an event (I write, she posts).
Listening to these talks, loving our small YOM group, digesting Dr. Sue’s book and sharing its wisdom, with time when I can’t sleep to read more…these are small miracles that keep me in the zone and off the overwhelm track. And I just found out how to correctly access this blog after all these months. Thank you all for listening, and sharing. Less Overwhelm, More Love, Sheila