I recently completed the online class from Creative Dream Incubator, Project Miracle. This 30-day class is labelled "a 30 day Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style creative support system for calling in the shift you need right now".
The class includes printable worksheets that you can cut and glue in your journal, including mandalas for colouring meditations, as well as videos to introduce the principles of the class, and a lot of audio practices that you can use daily to evolve in the process of working towards your miracle. They are short visualisations, each covering an aspect of the process.
On the Creative Dream Incubator website, Andrea Schroeder's teachings focus on working towards your dreams. You can also call them goals if you prefer.
Miracle, to me, the way I understand it in the context of dreams and goals, is a condition that either you create, or creates itself, to move you forward in the process of working towards your goal. It is with this concept in mind that I worked through the class.
When working towards goals and dreams myself, I tend to experience A LOT of resistance, procrastination and fear, so I decided for my miracle to be "beat my fears, procrastination and resistance to be able to do what I plan for fulfilling my purpose and achieve anything I want in my life". Progressing into the practices, after a couple of weeks, my miracle was rephrased to "manage and understand in a compassionate way my fears, resistance and procrastination to be able to communicate with them so we can work together to do what I want to do". This is a major shift for me, so I'd say that definitely the class has worked for me.
Andrea's style of working is very focused on your feelings, which was a real revelation to me, to not push through no matter what but to LISTEN to how you feel and what the resistance is and wants from you. This was a totally game-changer for me. Most of the planning goals methods are very specific steps. logical orientated, whereas Andrea's techniques ALWAYS take into account how you feel, at that moment, and how you feel towards your dream/goal at that moment.
The visualisations in the Project Miracle class are very powerful. To someone not used to visualisations, they might sound a little airy-fairy (all visualisations seemed like that to me when I was starting doing visualisations a few months back) but you just have to play the game and go with the flow, and you will soon feel how powerful these visualisations can be and how much they make you realise about how you truly feel about your goals and steps to get there. To the question, is it real or am I making it up? The answer for visualisations is always YES - ie they are both the same.
With these visualisations, I realised that sometimes feeling resistance towards a step may mean that the step is no longer relevant in the pursuit of your dream, and needs to be changed - there is a better way out there for you to move forward, that's what it really means. And it's all OK.
The process of going through these visualisations can be very emotional and also quite funny. When doing the visualisation "Calling In Your Miracle", I felt 100% ready to call in my miracle and even receive it, but my miracle "decided" that I wasn't ready. The rest of my visualisation was basically like a Christmas pantomime going on in my head - "yes I am, no you're not, yes I am, no you're not..." That was and felt quite funny to experience. And, of course, my miracle was right; I wasn't ready for it just yet.
As the class was designed in this way, I was able to do earlier practices to build my foundations to be stronger, more grounding, so I could move forward, at my own pace, in my own time. There is something that Andrea says as one of the main principles that I deeply connected with, "IT TAKES THE TIME IT TAKES". In contrast with the SMART goals system, Andrea's system, while embracing in her own way some of the SMART criteria, gives you the time "it takes" for your dreams/goals to unfold naturally, not in a forced way, not cramming everything because on your planner you scheduled it for THAT date. Some goals and tasks are obviously already pre-determined for you as far as the due date is concerned, but what you build for yourself, usually is not. You have permission to take your time to let your dream roll its course in a way you are happy with.
Going through a process like this really brings you on a roller-coaster of varied emotions, that you obviously journal, but by feeling fully the process, this is how you work towards your dreams/goals more efficiently, without forcing anything.
I really love this process and have decided to keep my monthly subscription to carry on accessing Andrea's classes and work on a daily practice. Every day, you receive and email with some ideas and concepts you can explore and suggestions of practices you can do. So every day you can actually do the practice that you feel will serve you best for where you are. The sections Help! I'm Stuck and Having Trouble Getting Started are extremely helpful to get you up and running and choose a practice.
Access to this class is $33 for a month, but also includes access to ALL her other classes, as well as a Monthly group coaching call (with available replay).
I also love the options on her website to get a random Journaling Prompt to work on and a suggestion with the Oracle on what to work on if you don't know what to explore.
A MUST-HAVE/DO for soul explorers and dreamers.
