May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness [Hardcover]

Gabrielle Bernstein (Author)

Book Description

Release date: January 1, 2013

New York Times Bestseller!

From the popular and exciting author of Spirit Junkie and Add More ~Ing to Your Life comes this practical and fun 40-day guidebook of subtle shifts for radical change and unlimited happiness.

Are you ready to work miracles? Gabrielle Bernstein believes that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image. In this inspiring guide, Gabrielle offers an exciting plan for releasing fear and allowing gratitude, forgiveness, and love to flow through us without fail. All of which, ultimately, will lead to breathtaking lives of abundance, acceptance, appreciation, and happiness. With May Cause Miracles, readers can expect incredible transformation in 40 powerful days: simply by adding up subtle shifts to create miraculous change.

Editorial Reviews

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"Gabrielle is the real thing. I respect her work immensely."
-Wayne W. Dyer, bestselling author of The Shift and Wishes Fulfilled


"Mistress of Miracles, Gabrielle Bernstein, offers the compelling message that anything is indeed possible with a few simple shifts that almost all of us can make. Recognizing that we are the authors of our own experience, Gabrielle leads us step by step through the thorny terrain of false beliefs, and helps us find our way home to our deepest truth so that we might manifest a life that is filled with light and love."
-Katherine Woodward Thomas, bestselling author of Calling in “The One” and co-leader of the Feminine Power Global Community


"Gabrielle Bernstein has taught me to love myself, my work and my ability to create subtle change in any arena of my life. In May Cause Miracles, she reminds us to use fear as a landmark of our longing to be strong and clear. She implores us to witness our journey as the beautiful commitment it can be. Her meditations are potent, precise and perfect. Get ready—this book may cause miracles in your seeing and your ways of relating to everything and everyone in your life." 
 -Elena Brower, Author of Art of Attention; Founder of VIRAYOGA, NYC 


"May Cause Miracles is a refreshing and welcome guide.  This spirit's human experience has been forever altered. From the very first page Gabby shows her innate ability to communicate right to the soul.  The excercises are simple, yet profound, and allow you to allow the miracles in your life to happen all around. The personal development world will never be the same.  Her clear and witty communication style makes this book and it's lessons easily digestible–even for the most fearful place inside us all."
-Gail Kingsbury, founding member, Women Speakers Association, and owner, Speaker Resource Connection

About the Author

GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN, the inspiring author of Spirit Junkie and Add More ~Ing to Your Life, is the cofounder of the Women's Entrepreneurial Network, a nonprofit professional organization that connects female entrepreneurs. Since 2004, Gabrielle has been on the speaking circuit, lecturing and conducting motivational workshops. Gabrielle launched and oversees a social networking site, www.HerFuture.com, for young women to find mentors. Her personal website is www.GabbyB.tv.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Harmony (January 1, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9780307986931
• ISBN-13: 978-0307986931
• ASIN: 0307986934
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (129 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #22 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Mental & Spiritual Healing

More About the Author

Featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday as one of the next generation thought leaders, Gabrielle Bernstein is making her mark. Expanding the lexicon for the next generation spiritual seekers, Gabrielle is a #1 bestselling author of the books Add More ~ing to Your Life - A hip guide to happiness and Spirit Junkie - A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles. In January 2013 she launches her new book May Cause Miracles (published by Random House.) Gabrielle is also the founder of the social networking site HerFuture.com for women to inspire, empower and connect.

Gabrielle has been featured in media outlets such as Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, The New York Times, Access Hollywood, Anderson Cooper Live, ELLE, Oprah Radio, Marie Claire, Health, SELF, Women's Health, CNN, Fox & Friends, the cover of Experience Life Magazine, People, US Weekly, DailyCandy Forbes Top 20 Best Branded Women and many more. She can also be seen riding around the East Village on a unicycle.

For gabrielle's free videos and meditations visit http://gabbyb.tv/. Check out Gabrielle's latest release: the Spirit Junkie Alarm App: http://gabbyb.tv/spirit-junkie-app

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

317 of 322 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Do I have to be the first one to say it? January 4, 2013

By krissskrosss TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm a big fan of Gabby's. I have read her other books and followed her on her site and social media for years. I had the release of this book set on a countdown on my phone. I couldn't have been more excited for it...Maybe that was the problem. Maybe because I have read her other books, May Cause Miracles read like May Cause More Of The Same. I just felt like I was reading her first two books all over again with a (very basic) guide added on.

It's definitely geared towards those who are beginners on their spiritual path. The 40 Day guide is a great start for beginners, but wasn't what I was looking for, as I've also done similar and more in-depth daily guides in such books as ACIM (of which Gabby is an admitted student), The Magic, and others.

I was hoping for something new and fresh, considering this is only Gabby's third book... But i do acknowledge that maybe that's unfair and I was hoping for too much, and that those are simply MY expectations, which isn't a reflection of the book itself. However, I don't think it's reaching too far to expect some new material from a relatively new author. Some clearly disagree with me on this, they're okay with reading the same thing repeatedly. That's fine. I just wish I had known before I paid full price for it. I still like Gabby and will continue to follow her and watch her growth and draw inspiration from her. And I look forward to her future, and hopefully new, publishings.

For those who are new to the self-help section, or for those looking for reinforcement material on Gabby's previous two books and A Course In Miracles... This book is a good start.

*Edited To Add* - READ BEFORE BUYING BASED ON REVIEWS*
I find many of these reviews on this book and comments made on my review disheartening.... A large portiom of the 5 star reviews are written by unverified users who have only ever written a review for this book or just of books under this publishing company. A couple of reviews even claim to have completed and been transformed by the FORTY DAY guidebook on January 1st and 2nd... When the book was released on January 1st. I do believe in miracles, but I also believe in reality and I know it's not possible to complete a 40 day workbook properly in 1 day and be transformed.

Faking ratings to boost sales is not a new marketing scheme, but very disheartening with this book if that is the case. If you're publishing a book on "miracles" and "trusting in the universe", perhaps you should believe in what you're publishing before you run it through the marketing mill and take people's money. Considering that this book really is just a rewrite of Gabby's other two books and the hypocritical marketing along with it, I half feel like lowering the rating to one or two stars. But I will not because the contents of the book remain the same and I believe in the message. I now just question the sincerity behind the words. Perhaps the marketing team should believe in miracles, too.

Conclusion: Be wary of purchasing this book based on the glowing reviews alone. If you are drawn to this book, give it a try. Just don't be deceived by marketing schemes. Read more ›

159 of 181 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love it! January 1, 2013

By Maya Penn

Format:Hardcover

I'm Maya, I'm 12 years old and I'm reviewing Gabrielle Bernstein's new book May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness

Gabrielle Bernstein's "May Cause Miracles" is more than a book. It is a journey of self discovery. It's a book about turning your fear into love and learning how to create and embrace miracles. It opens your eyes to see the good and the great in life and it helps you discover your ~ing ( Inner Guide ). After reading the FIRST chapter I felt very refreshed like I had finished a peaceful meditation or awakened from a good nights rest. The thing I also LOVE about this book is that it's for everyone! :)

I love this book so much I just HAD to make a video review as well!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars not my favorite March 6, 2013

By starrjoy

Format:Hardcover

I am a little disappointed with this book. For starters, the author quotes methods from " a course in miracles" on practically every page of this book. It leads me to think I should have just bought that book instead of this one.
Some of the affirmations were quite good and some of the exercises were helpful but I found that breaking up the meditations to several times a day was overall difficult for me to keep up with. For those leading a busy lifestyle its hard to keep up with and may even forget to do the nightly meditations/journalings/ exercises.
Overall I found this to be more of a chore than motivational.

37 of 46 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Gabby's a false voice in the spiritual writing world February 9, 2013

By Lori M.

Format:Hardcover

I had many problems with this book. Mainly I found it boring and repetitive. Plus I agree with some other reviewers here - that Gabby doesn't go deep. A lot of her info is surface oriented. As someone else mentioned in their review, Gabby writes how she got down to 99 pounds and had 6 ulcers - but doesn't explain enough of the what led to this- etc etc But mainly this book is a challenge to read because it's boring and redundant. I am shocked that this book got so many positive reviews - it is simply that bad. So out of curiosity I read the comments below one of the other reviewers - a reviewer who said she thought this book was a re-hash of Gabby's first 2 books - the reviewer xkriscrossx - Check out comments below her review. She got dumped on by what appears to be Gabby's aggressive marketing team. Very strange behavior - for a self help author to assign her marketing team to attack negative reviewers. And from what this reviewers says, Gabby's done this before with her other book reviews too. From what I've read from (and about ) Gabby - she's a good marketing girl - but she's really a very shallow spiritual writer. She seems like a a false voice in the spiritual world. I too noticed how a majority of the 5 star reviews were written by people who have only ever written a review for this book - many of which claimed to have finished the book and had their lives changed by this 40 day plan - on January 1st or 2nd - when the book was published on Jan 1st.As someone else pointed out, it's not possible to complete a 40 day program in 1 day and be transformed. Perhaps this book received a lot of positive reviews because Gabby held a blog contest - which required people to write positive reviews on amazon - if Gabby were to consider posting their submission on her site.... I suppose this is a good marketing tool for Gabby to come up with to get a bunch of writers who want some publicity to write positive reviews on amazon about Gabby's book - but - in the end, this means that if you're considering buying this book - you should pause before you do so - and make sure you're not being lured in by insincere reviews. Read more ›

32 of 42 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This book Will cause miracles January 1, 2013

By Lauren Grace

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

If you are looking for another inspirational book to sit on your bookshelf and give you temporary moments of insight this book isn't it. But if you are ready to invite in real change, and yes, miracles, this book is for you.

May Cause Miracles is designed to be a 40 day guide book to help you make subtle changes in your life, one day at a time. Every day there is a morning passage and meditation, an affirmation to use throughout the day, and an evening exercise. Each week touches on a different topic from relationships, to finances, to your self image. Through this process Gabrielle guides you on how to identify your fears and limiting beliefs that have been holding you back. Then through a series of journal work and mediation you learn how to work through these blocks and truly invite miracles into your life.

I have read tons of self help/ spirituality books so I was surprised to see the shifts in my own life just after 40 days. I think the difference with this book is that you are called to actually apply what you are learning. You're not just reading a bunch of inspirational quotes, you are actually doing the real work that it takes to change. Because change usually doesn't happen over night. You have to show up every day and be willing to change. And that is where May Cause Miracles has created the perfect structure. Not only do you start and end your day with this book, but you are given affirmations as little reminders throughout the day.

This is also not a book that you will just read once. You can keep going back to this 40 day practice to invite in more growth and more miracles. Personally I really loved the ritual of starting and ending my day this way, so even though I've already finished my 40 days I am going to start on round 2 now....

I would recommend this book to anyone that is ready to see real change in their life, you won't be disappointed. Read more ›