I am young, at least that is what they tell me, but I have had many mental health troubles in my life. Mental health issues ran in both sides of my family, and I was aware of that and accepted that I would have similar issues. Those of you who study the Law of Attraction understand the danger in that assumption.

I was blessed to be exposed to the Law of Attraction at a young age, as The Secret found it’s way into my family and they shared it with me. I was never very gung-ho about it, though. Intellectually, I understood and believed. I have a gift for assimilating religion, science, and philosophy that gives me a wonderful view of the world, and the lessons taught in The Secret fit right in. I believe I was still blessed by the underlying awareness and understanding, such as by becoming more aware of my thoughts and feelings and avoiding the negative in favor of the positive, and seeing the Law of Attraction in many other works. But I never purposefully put the Law of Attraction into use at full force.

Years later, I realized I was afraid. Afraid of failure, yes, but more afraid of success. Though I had long been taught the limitless potential of the human, the concept of harnessing that now and for myself was overwhelming. I cannot explain my fear, for it was, as most fear is, illogical, but I was genuinely afraid of succeeding in using the Law of Attraction. It is taught in my religion that fear is a lack of faith, and so I realized that fear was not only a negative and therefore damning feeling, but the perfect opposite of the faith I needed to make change happen. I had suffered from depression and anxiety disorders, which I believed prevented me from feeling happy enough to make things happen. I could not summon the feelings needed to move the universe. I had become fed up with my unhappiness so much that I did not fear succeeding in the demolition of it, and because I felt that it was damning me from using the Law of Attraction in other aspects of my life, I decided to focus on that first.

I did not know where to begin. I had seen The Secret movie and read The Secret book many times, but I still had no idea where to start, so I turned to the other resource I knew: www.thesecret.tv. I searched for “depression” and saw many posts of gratitude for what The Secret had done in their life with regards to depression, but I was seeking specific directions.

“Your wish is my command.”

I found my specific directions.

A fellow ex-depressed now-practioner-of-the-Law-of-Attraction shared their story. They had taken Cathy Goodman’s “Thank you for my healing” from the movie and, like me, had looked to others for inspiration. Xe found another practitioner’s story of success, who had used the phrase “My body, my neurons can produce all the chemicals and neurotransmitters to heal myself.” It clicked in my mind and tears welled in my eyes. This is what I need to do, I realized. Depression and anxiety are technically physical disorders, an imbalance of chemicals in the body, though their manifestations are emotional and mental. If you can heal a broken leg, you can heal the neurons. And like the poster I found inspiration from, and the poster Xe found inspiration from, I did not want to wait.

I recited the phrases in my head with all the happy feeling I could muster and fully expected to never face depression or anxiety again. I am healed. I am happy.

And, I AM healed. I AM happy!!

Thank you Rhonda for sharing The Secret.