This is a fabulous article and I hope DTM nominates it to be boosted.
Neuroplasticity is so interesting and also works much smaller but no less profound miracles than you discussed here. I first came across the concept in 2012 when after a typical 30-day stint in a 12-step based rehab (where incidentally my spiritual journey to an understanding of God and soul contracts outside of the teaching of any religion began I when I met with the non-religious spiritual member of the clergy team whom I call Mystical Meredith https://medium.com/illumination-curated/life-is-school-for-the-soul-9b081dbe8453) I went for an 8-week stay to a program with a much broader outlook. One of the actual psychiatrists who spoke to us regularly had us read The Brain that Changes Itself, Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, by Norman Doidge, M.D., Penguin Books, 2007.
In addition to the stories of stroke patients learning to speak again and the woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, regarding smaller miracles, I found Chapter 6 to be particularly life-changing. Chapter 6 is called "Brain Lock Unlocked, Using Plasticity to Stop Worries, Obsessions, Compulsions and Bad Habits."
Another of the many fascinating chapters on how the brain works is "Imagination, How Thinking Makes it So." Sorry to all the new-age claptrap espousers out there, this does not support the perversion of the law of attraction (https://medium.com/channspirations/revisiting-karma-and-the-law-of-attraction-997965601b65 ) that says if you imagine getting rich you can manifest that yacht on your 3rd-grade level art project y'all call a vision board. What this chapter establishes is that imagining physical practice is as effective as actually physically practicing, for example, playing piano, tennis, etc. This is why a good free-throw shooter closes his/her eyes and imagines not the ball going in but the physical act of shooting the ball that leads to the made shot.
Underlying all that and your essay on miracles is the power of creation that lies within all of us. As Jodie Helm typed in a recent archangel channeling, https://jodieshelm.medium.com/where-should-we-place-our-faith-9931fd28a1d0 , "You were created so that you could also create. This is what it means to be created in the image of God."
