101. Life’s Tiny Miracles: How to Find Appreciation in the Ordinary
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When was the last time you felt awestruck? Was it last week? Last month? It’s not our nature to hold a space for daily appreciation and gratitude. However, consistent recognition of life’s little miracles leads to deeper fulfillment in life. In this mini episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael discuss how to find beauty in the ordinary and shift our thoughts so we can increase the level of appreciation we have for our tiny blessings.
“It’s not human nature, but it is something we should fight extremely hard for every single day. Have at least one moment each day in which you are overwhelmingly appreciative, not of something great that just happened, but of the normal workings of life.” – Michael Berg
Further Readings:
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
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| 0:00.0 | The reality is unless you are working on getting appreciative, excited about the ordinary, the new things will not actually bring you any lasting, greater happiness than you have now. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast, summer series, episode 101. |
| 0:30.7 | How's summer treating you? |
| 0:32.5 | We actually had quite a lot of adventures and movement. |
| 0:36.9 | We were in Europe right up until now. |
| 0:38.4 | We were. |
| 0:39.0 | We were. |
| 0:39.8 | And we are going to Israel next week, so a lot of travel ahead. |
| 0:44.5 | But I'm hoping for also, at some point getting to a relaxing part of the summer as well. |
| 0:49.4 | Actually, I find it all relaxing. |
| 0:50.7 | It was a lot of travel, and I mean, I'm over movement for a minute in a car |
| 0:55.8 | or a plane or a train. But it's always great to step out of your day-to-day routine, |
| 1:04.5 | your environment and wake up in a different part of the world and see how people live |
| 1:08.4 | and different cultures and that went to Scotland. |
| 1:11.9 | And, you know, it's so breathtakingly beautiful there. |
| 1:15.5 | And the people are so kind and, you know, |
| 1:18.6 | take time to really talk and just a different, I think, |
| 1:21.7 | way of living that it's super inspiring for me. |
| 1:24.1 | So I think that's a big point of traveling. |
| 1:27.3 | Absolutely. So I think that's a big point of traveling. Absolutely. So I wanted to share something |
| 1:32.7 | that has inspired me. It's one of my favorite books. I've quoted him before. It's the comfort book |
| 1:37.3 | by Matt Haig. And we just speak in the same language. I've written many ideas that he's written about. |
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