Debra Poneman: Living in the Miracle Zone
Twenty-five years later, Debra Poneman’s back. Now a best selling author, award-winning speaker and the co-founder of the mega-successful mentoring program for women Your Year of Miracles along with her former student, multiple times #1 NY Times bestselling author Marci Shimoff.
“For years I taught people around the world how to live lives of true success and Marci taught them how to live lives of authentic happiness. One day we realized that we not only knew the secrets to success and happiness, we knew the secrets to living a life that is actually filled with miracles. We decided not to keep our secrets to ourselves. Our 2014 Year of Miracles program had 1800 women from 38 countries – and a few brave men. Our participants had miracle after miracle happen in their lives using our formula –and 2014 was only the beginning.”
OMTimes Magazine is thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down with Debra and discuss her life, her plans and how is to be Inside the “Miracle Zone“
It’s hard for me to imagine meditating 12 hours for one day. How did you do that for months at a time?
Debra Poneman: It’s hard for me to imagine that I used to meditate for 12 hours a day, believe me!! And we fasted too. Sometimes I’d fast for the first week or two of each year. But the truth is, I was burning with the desire for self-realization and to know the reality of creation, to know God, to know the nature of the Self. That desire was so strong that I would have never come out of meditation until the truth dawned but we also had a lot to learn and study in order to be certified as teachers of meditation.
So tell us the chronology of living that deeply inward lifestyle to traveling around the world doing the seeming opposite – teaching success seminars.
Debra Poneman: It’s not as opposite as it appears. The basis to success is inner silence. Trying to create a life of great outer success without that inner immovable peace is like trying to build a skyscraper without a foundation. The building would simply collapse. With a deep, immovable foundation the building can’t be toppled even by a hurricane or tsunami. Likewise, we need to practice a technique that creates the deepest, most immovable silence inside so when the tsunamis of life occur, which they will, we don’t topple. I’ve been in this world of meditation for over forty years.
