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Miracles Ritual: Train Your Brain for Weekly Calm and Peace
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Miracles on the Calendar: A Weekly Ritual That Trains Your Brain for Peace

You can feel calm and brave at the same time. Karen Lee Cohen’s Let’s Be Peace: 20 Unique Paths to Healing Yourself and Spreading Peace in the World is proof that small, steady practices can reshape what you notice, choose, and share. Her mission is simple and bold, be peace inside so we can help heal the world, one person at a time .

Who This Is For

If stress keeps stealing your wins, this ritual is for you. The book brings together clear tools so you can take what fits and leave what does not. Karen invites you to listen to your gut, breathe, and create a daily rhythm that returns you to yourself, again and again .

Why It Hurts Right Now

One hard moment can wipe out good ones in your mind. The book offers a gentle reset. Give yourself a sacred time to name wins, progress, and everyday wonders. “We all know that what we focus on expands,” so your attention needs a home that is peaceful and steady .

The Heart Of It: A Weekly Miracles Ritual

Set a weekly time, solo or with a small group. Keep soft rules that make it safe and clear. During the ritual, only positives are shared, one person speaks at a time and the others listen, and each person sets an intention that the group blesses. Many have kept a miracles group for years and say the act of writing wins before the meeting often reveals support they had missed. The more you look for the daily miracle, even if it is tiny, the more miracles you will notice .

How To Start, Step By Step

Here is how you do it, like we are sitting at your kitchen table.

  1. Put it on your calendarPick a weekly time you can keep. Treat it like a promise. Karen’s project is full of simple tools you can slot into real life, so this fits right in .
  2. Keep gentle rulesShare only positives. When one person speaks, others listen. Then each person sets an intention, and all bless it. These simple rules guide your attention to what lifts you and help you receive with an open heart .
  3. Capture wins with “because”During the week, write them down. The book gives exact prompts: “I am so grateful for … because …” and “I really appreciate … because …” It notes that the written word carries more energy than a passing thought, so writing your “because” encodes the moment and makes it easier to remember when life gets loud .
  4. Bless intentionsIn the ritual, after sharing wins, speak your intention for the coming week and let others bless it. This is a warm way to feel support and to set your inner compass toward peace .

Why This Works

When you track small wins, one tough moment cannot erase good ones so easily. The miracles ritual gives your mind a clear time and place to celebrate wins and wonders, which slowly trains your attention to serve peace. Over time, your attention becomes an instrument for calm action. The book repeats this theme, peace inside gives you steady tools for mental and physical wellness, and it spreads out from you without force .

Wisdom From Let’s Be Peace

  • “Make Gratitude Your Attitude.” This section explains that gratitude is a high state and that we can write why we are grateful to deepen it. A few lines a day, with a because, can shift the tone of your whole evening or morning .
  • “We all know that what we focus on expands.” This line sits at the center of the miracles practice and the group’s gentle rules. Create a protected time that celebrates wins and blesses intentions, and watch your outlook change .
  • Trust your inner signals. Karen offers simple tools, like breathing counts, forgiveness, and a daily gratitude practice, to help you find steady ground and choose your next step with a clear head and open heart .

What Opens Up Next

  • You feel guidedWhen you breathe, ask inside, and listen, you begin to trust your answers. The book encourages you to ask your own questions and notice what feels right in your gut. If it feels off, wait or choose a different step .
  • You take braver stepsEnding your week by honoring wins and naming intentions helps you start the next one with courage. The book reminds you not to live in victim mode, you have the inner strength to move forward and create the life you were born to live .
  • You spread peace without trying. Karen’s promise is clear, when you are peaceful inside, it touches your health and your circle. Your calm becomes a quiet signal that others can feel. One person at a time, peace moves through a room, a home, a team .

Helpful Phrases For Your Journal

  • “I am so grateful for … because …”
  • “I really appreciate … because …”These simple lines help you record the why so your heart can remember it later. Writing gives the moment more energy than a passing thought, so it stays with you when the day gets busy .

Start Today

Pick a day. Invite one friend, or sit with yourself. Share wins only, listen with your whole heart, set one clear intention, and bless it. Each night this week, write one gratitude line with a because. As Karen says, “Love and trust yourself.” Let your attention become your practice, and let your practice become your peace .

What small miracle will you write down tonight, and why will you remember it?