Conscious contact with your Higher Power is not confined to formal prayer or a quiet room with eyes closed. It can happen anywhere, at any moment — including in the middle of a pressing problem, or in the deliberate, joyful act of choosing to laugh. Here are two practices that deepen your contact with the divine right where you are.
Widening the Hoop
When you feel tight — when a pressing problem is consuming all your inner space and everything feels small and constricted — try this: capture a view of earth from space. Imagine looking down from an enormous distance and seeing your situation in the context of an infinite universe. Ask yourself honestly: in the scope of this world, and this universe, how significant is this problem relative to all that is out there?
The answer, almost always, is: not very. That is not dismissing your pain — it is restoring perspective. Some of what you are experiencing may be a soul experience: something your deepest self signed up to go through in order to grow. We rarely see that while we are in it. But if you can widen the hoop enough to consider it — “what is this teaching me? what am I supposed to learn here?” — the suffering begins to carry meaning rather than just weight.
Make a Point of Laughing Today
Laughter is a form of conscious contact — a direct connection to the lightness and joy that is always available beneath the surface of difficulty. The problem is that most people wait for the perfect conditions to laugh. They wait for something genuinely funny to show up. And then they say, “I haven’t laughed that hard in so long!”
Why wait? Make a point of thinking throughout the day: “Today I want to laugh.” Then go looking for it. Try faking a belly laugh with someone nearby — start it loud and obvious, keep going, make it bigger. Within seconds, the fake becomes real. The person watching you will start to giggle. Point at them, laugh harder from the gut. You will have started something that neither of you can stop.
Contact Through Perspective and Joy
Both of these practices — widening the hoop and choosing laughter — are forms of prayer in motion. They are ways of saying to your Higher Power: “I am choosing to step out of the small, contracted version of reality and connect with something larger, lighter, and truer.” That is what conscious contact really is: not a technique, but an orientation. A daily, repeated choice to live in the wider reality rather than the contracted one.
- When you feel tight and constricted, widen the hoop: view your problem from the scale of the universe.
- Some difficulties are soul experiences — designed to teach something your deepest self needs to learn.
- Do not wait for laughter to arrive on its own — make a decision to seek it every day.
- Starting a fake belly laugh often becomes a real one within seconds — try it with someone nearby.
- Conscious contact is an orientation, not a technique — a daily choice to live in the wider reality.
Ready to Transform Your Thought-Life?
Explore our personal coaching services or browse our audio resources to continue your growth journey.