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How The Secret Turned My Life Around
Submitted by: Jay P
Boston MAI read The Secret about 1 month ago, and before that at the young of 20 I’d been through a lot. My father was mentally abusive, my mother was on a one way road to nowhere after losing more than 15 jobs, I was in serious debt, my parents were losing there house, and we were going to be homeless. My mother started having a lot of medical problems from all her medicine she was on, and my father was dying from MS. I was studying to be a hairdresser, but one week before I was set to graduate I didn’t have enough money to pay, so I was thrown from school and my dreams were crushed. I thought I was gonna be working in fast food forever. I was overweight and unhappy.
I read the book and i felt as though everything I’ve been looking for had been answered. I virtually had nothing to look forward to… I had felt like the hole I was in was only getting deeper and there was no way out. So my friend gave me the book and told me I really needed to read it. I read it within a week, and I noticed myself letting go, telling myself I had nothing left to lose. So I changed my thoughts. I thought of the things I did have and that I was grateful for, and the things I was expecting to come to me.
Within 2 days after reading the book my mother, who had no money, was getting the mail. I knew right there I had to expect her to receive money, so after she went through her bills that she couldn’t pay, she got to the last 2 envelopes. The first one was a letter stating they had actually found in her favor for unemployment, where before she had been denied. She was told she was going to be repaid $4000, and then she would receive $2000 a month for the next six months, which was great considering we were losing our house in 6 months. So I felt happy and secure. And then the second envelope stated that my birth father, who had owed a lot of money in back child support to her, would pay 1000 a month instead of 100 a month. She was so happy… some security had landed in our laps.
A week later I had been feeling very lonely. I had my eye on someone for some time, so I put all my thoughts in that person talking to me again. Within a matter of 5 hours I received a call from that person asking me if they could hang out with me that night. I couldn’t believe it. I went out with that person, we hit it off because I wasn’t so negative… I was happy, and for the first time someone saw me for who I really am. The happy me.
The next week my mother, who had crashed her brand new car and was sharing one with me for the time being, and which made things very difficult, found out she was getting a very good tax return. She would be able to buy a new car so that she could go find a new job and get back on our feet.
Another subject was that I was overweight. So I made myself believe I could eat what I wanted, and I would achieve my dream body that way as long as I believed it. Since I’ve read the book I’ve lost 35 pounds and I feel awesome and full of energy.
So now my horrible job doesn’t seem like such a hassle anymore.
2 weeks later my mentally abusive father for 10 years towards me and my mother decided he wanted to move on, and he left and life hasn’t been this good since I was a child. Me and my mother are celebrating our first holiday in 3 years where we couldn’t before because my step father would just ruin it and make us feel horrible. And we’re having so much fun together. I gave her a copy of The Secret to read for herself, and she hasn’t been this positive in years! It’s like I have a mother again, and I’m not so lonely… we do things around the house together and it’s great. We’re still losing our house soon, but we’re not worried about it anymore because deep down inside we both know that we’re going to be ok, and that whatever happens to us is for the better and it’s what needs to happen to get to that next step.
Just the other day I had my eye on a new cell phone, but didn’t have nowhere near the money I needed to buy the phone. But I knew deep down that the phone would come to me, and every day I would wake up and and say, thank you for that phone. So when my friends boyfriend came to see us the other day he had the phone in his hand and offered it to me free of charge because he didn’t like the phone, I couldn’t believe it. The exact phone I wanted was mine because I asked for it and was grateful.
I was also told at work that they thank me to be promoted to a manager, and granted it’s not my dream job, but it’s a new start to get back on my feet, and I’m taking it one step at a time. And I couldn’t ask for anything more… I’m truly grateful for this book, and I have total faith in it, especially because of the fact that all of these thing happened within 3 months of reading the book. Because I let go and believed, and I looked at life from a different perspective. I now see beauty in everything, and I’m grateful for that.