Dr John Hinwood has been called the Miracle Man and he is visiting Port Macquarie on April 14 to present Expect A Miracle School.
Dr Hinwood has an unusual way of changing people’s lives. Over the past 25 years he has been handing out a small white card to almost everyone he has met. The card has just three words written on it: “Expect a Miracle”
He estimates he has handed out more than 88,000 cards to people all over the world in the last 25 years. Through this small act of kindness Dr Hinwood prompts people to think about their own miracles; the small seemingly insignificant events and moments in people’s lives that open the doors to a sense of wonderment and opportunity.
He once stood in the foyer of the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel acting as a “miracle magnet” and handing out Expect a Miracle cards which instantly attracted a large queue of people. Hotel security approached him and he told them he thought they were doing a poor job welcoming hotel guests to which they said: “What you are doing is obviously working, so carry on.”
Dr Hinwood has lived his own personal miracle. He suffered dyslexia and was a bad stutterer as a child but overcame his learning difficulties, won a scholarship to become a physical education teacher in NSW, and later completed a Doctor of Chiropractic in Canada. He established one of Australia’s most successful chiropractic practices in Brisbane. For eight years he was President of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation and has raised millions of dollars for spinal research.
Dr Hinwood and wife Judy, in 2009 were awarded the International Humanitarian Award from the Parker Seminars of Dallas, USA for their “unselfishly helping others around the world”. Later that year they were awarded a second Humanitarian Award in their native Australia for “their commitment and dedication to empower the chiropractic community”.
.Both US and Australian editions of Dr Hinwood’s best selling book, “You Can Expect A Miracle’ have been released. In it are chronicled, believe-it-or-not miracles experienced by those who have received his cards.
Henry David Thoreau said: “Most people lead lives of quiet desperation.”
“People need to believe they are worthy of a miracle because that thought alone can change a life,” says Dr Hinwood.
Dr Hinwood has developed 13 tips for making miracles happen in your life. These are:
1. Think, talk and act positively in all circumstances. No matter what.
2. Ask yourself whenever you face a challenge: “What would be the best outcome in his situation?”
3. Find time to just sit and put your brain into freewheeling mode, just let it run free…busy brains sometimes miss miracles.
4. Miracles don’t necessarily come with a clap of thunder or a flash of lightning: sometimes they come on tippee-toe.
5. Go with the flow. Sometimes at first sight the miracles we get don’t appear to be the ones we want.
6. Miracles come when you least expect them. Make them welcome whenever they arrive.
7. Help enough others get their miracles and it’s amazing what a positive life you create.
8. Look for the miracles around you – a bird on the wing, the beauty of a rose, the smile of a child, when you see the miracles that already exist, new ones arrive.
9. It’s OK to ask, miracles are for everyone and we all deserve them.
10. Abundance abounds. There are plenty of miracles for us all.
11. When you are totally open to receiving miracles, it’s astounding how they find their way to you and you become a “miracle magnet’.
12. If you continually ASK for what you really want in life, the funny thing is you will often get it.
13. Print off some Expect A Miracle cards from the www.expectamiracle.com website and start handing them out.
