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Don McAvinchey's Articles in General Self Help

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  • Where are the Miracles Hiding When You're Down and Out?
    Hard times test us. They challenge our beliefs that The Universe is a beautiful place, that we will be supported in what we are trying to accomplish in our lives, and they especially challenge our belief in ourselves. But sometimes, and I'm sure you've experienced this in your own life, sometimes it gets really, really hard to stay awake and aware of the miracles in our lives. Where are the miracles then, Oh Miracles Coach?!!
  • What Gandhi Taught Us About Relationships
    Gandhi and his wife, Kasturbai Gandhi were married fo 69 years. That path took him from being a dominating, bossy, over-bearing husband who thought that his job in marriage was to bend his wife to his will and his ideas of what she should do and who she should be, to a place of absolute respect and honoring of her.
  • Want Life-Enhancing Power? Try Sustainable Spirituality!
    As human beings, we often know more than we think we know. Many times, we pretend not to know as a way to protect ourselves from our own power. When I become overwhelmed and think that I am alone, I use the 3 following strategies to maintain my connection with the Universe:
  • Reclaim Your Power through Your Miracle Stories
    Miracles happen around us every day. However, they may pass us completely unless we're open to seeing them. The more we include our own miracles stories in our conversations with others, the more aware we become of seeing and hearing more and more miracles,
  • A New View of a 12-Step Process
    I recently sat down and looked at each of the 12 Steps of AA and tried to feel the essence of what each step is saying and calling for. There is an underlying theme for each step that I've felt inspired by whenever I read them, or talk about the steps with a client. Something about them has always struck me deeply, and did again when I was meditating on them. Here's how I've re-written the 12 steps:
  • Create a Beloved Community
    The Beloved Community is a two-fold dream. It has as its center point the two aspects of non-violent change that Dr. King pursued in helping to change our country toward more racial equality: Compassion and Economic Justice for all. Here's how you can create your own beloved community.
  • Beyond New Year's Resolutions: Celebrating YOU!
    Most New Year's resolutions make us feel like failures when we give them up 3-4 weeks into the new year. Follow the steps below to discover a new way of looking at this new year as a time of rebirth in terms of who you are, instead of setting yourself up for yet another failure.
  • Making Your Life a Miracle Zone
    We think of miracles as only happening when life is in peril and someone heals from a potentially tragic disease. Or, when by some unbelievable set of circumstances, a totally unpredicted event occurs. In my book, these are all what I call miracles. Here's how you can discover the miracles in your life.
  • 5 Secrets to Creating the Most Satisfying Relationship You Can Possibly Imagine
    There is a secret to the success of the relationships of most couples. There are particular practices that they engage in that bring them the happiness and satisfaction that we all seek in a relationship. The step-by-step keys to that secret are outlined below.
  • Are Miracles All Around Us?
    Miracles are all around us in daily life, if you choose to seek them out. However, in order to find them you have to look first at what it is that you are doing every moment of every day, all the time: the manifestation process.
  • Seeing Perfection Everywhere
    The ups and downs of life that we all experience are actually resting in a daily reality of what can be seen as "perfect." However, most of us don't view life that way. I believe, however, that there is perfection in everything that occurs, and all of us exist within that perfection.
  • On Becoming a Miracle Magnet...Yes, You Can!
    Miracles happen daily in people's lives. Miracles may be connections of unexpected serendipity, or events that "mysteriously" come together in synchronicity, or even times when our hearts open up and a relational healing occurs that we truly experience as a miracle.I've discovered that some people readily attract miracles into their lives -- I call them "Miracle Magnets". Here are 7 steps you can follow to become a "Miracle Magnet"
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