It was about two years ago as August 2021 was coming to an end that I realized I had hit rock bottom. My grades at my university were not as high as I had wanted them to be even though I had been working incredibly hard. I was healing from multiple episodes of sexual violence I had faced. My partner, whom I had considered to be the love of my life, had left me, and I had gained around 13 kgs of weight whilst dealing with all of this. Back then, if someone had told me that 2021 would be the most transformative year of my life, I would have laughed and said it had been the worst year for me. However, as someone who had always heard incredible things about The Secret, and witnessed small miracles in my own life during my high school years through the power of love, gratitude, and positive thinking, I decided to pick up “The Secret Daily Teachings”. What happened after that is something I find incredibly hard to explain to people.

To begin with, my biggest priority became to get good grades and for that, I was adamant to put out an intention into the Universe about wanting straight As; nothing less than that. Even on days when I would not be fully prepared for class, I would give myself a slight push and speak as much as I could. As hard as it is for me to explain how I became a straight A student, I received a stellar GPA for two consecutive semesters which led me to graduate with Latin honors, something that had always been my dream.

Another thing I intended was for me to lose weight. For that, all I did was look at old photographs of myself from when I had the body I was aspiring to get once again. Alongside that, I made small, unnoticeable changes to my food habits and within one month, I lost around 5 kgs.

On my journey to heal from the sexual assault, I took up writing, artwork, and photography. Before I knew it, I had a successful blog where I could share my pictures and small write-ups. Plus, I had created quite a lot of pretty artwork that I could happily flaunt in front of my relatives and friends.
In short, within just 3 months, my life had transformed in ways that make me feel so grateful as I look back.

A few months ago, I came across a diary from 2021 on the front page of which, I had put up a sticky note with the name of my dream grad school. With tears in my eyes, I took pictures of it and sent them to my friends because that school is exactly where I ended up.

Recently, my father asked me where I wanted to apply for my Ph.D. and I told him the name of a school in California. He looked at me with surprise on his face and said to me that it was the exact same school he had wanted me to go to since he could not do so himself. Even though I had come across papa’s gratitude list where he had written how much he had wanted me to study in the US, I never knew the names of the schools that he himself had applied to.

There are many more ways in which I have manifested impossible things into my life, but I will save all those stories for another day.

Today, after all this while, I am sharing my story because I want everyone reading it to know that miracles do take place if we believe in them. I hope my story reaches all those people who, like I once had, are feeling hopeless and suicidal. Please hang in there and believe in the power you possess! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you all so very much!