I don't know if it makes miracles, but the process definitely looks like a way to feel and accept "negative" feelings and I will give it the 40 day trial on that alone. ( )

I really like the central idea behind this book-- the miracle exercise, which is basically taking 10 minutes in the morning to be grateful for the things you feel negatively about, without trying to turn them around into positive things. So in this way it is different from a typical gratitude list where you only list all the positive things. The effect doing the exercise produces is that you end up acknowledging your negative thoughts and emotions, which in turn helps you release them. While the author mentions God/a Higher Power in the book, I feel like the ideas are very much in line with a lot of other things I've been reading about spirituality, meditation, and Buddhism-- that we need to sit with our emotions without judgment, even the "negative" ones (because "negative" is just a label), that so-called negative emotions aren't wrong and shouldn't be avoided, etc.

Before embarking on the 40 days of doing this activity, you're supposed to write down a list of miracles you want-- goals that you feel are out of your reach, that you cannot get using your own abilities, things that are out of your control. I really like the author's insight that essentially, what everyone's goals are are really about self-love. This is true for my own goals as well. Anyway I'm started the miracle exercise today and I'll see what happens in 40 days.

All in all, I think the idea in this book is really great and I believe it's worth doing. The idea of the miracle exercise deserves 5 stars. But the book itself is kind of repetitive and there's actually not that much content, I guess because the miracle exercise itself is really really simple. But that's fine, it really doesn't need to be complicated. I just think this book could have been a pamphlet instead, but probably no one would take it seriously then.

[Update, October 2018: It works!] ( )