I am 34 years old, I am a drug addict in recovery, and am 40 days sober. Two days ago I graduated from my rehab program and during my program, I read the book “Expecting Miracles” by Joe Vitale, who is in The Secret. And it changed my life. Since reading this book I changed everything about my thoughts, how I treated people, and how I am grateful for everything I have in my life and not what I do not have in it. I learned to let go of what I can not control and although my miracles are so far small, all of this has helped me to believe in the law of attraction.

I will share something that happened to me while in rehab and how I used the law of attraction to help me through some things I felt that I was being tested on.

One day I was running late to my group and I needed oil in my car really bad as I could not drive the car without putting it in. So I asked one of my other housemates to help me, and I asked her if she knew how to put oil in a car. She said, “Yes, of course I do.” So she put oil in my car and when I went out to the car I noticed she had put it in my power steering!

At first, I was like, OMG, that is not good! In my head, I was thinking what the hell! I thought you said that you knew what to do! I was really upset! I drove it to my class and then had a mechanic look at it. The mechanic said, “Honestly, you might as well buy a new car.” It was a 2007 Ford Focus so not worth very much. But instead of being angry, blaming her, and talking behind her back to everyone about how she did that to me, I thought about the book Expecting Miracles. I thought about everything it had taught me about being grateful, changing my thoughts and reactions, and the way I treat people. It helped me to go to this girl and tell her “It’s not your fault, I don’t want you to feel any sort of way about this, and please don’t worry about helping me pay for it or anything.” I thanked her for trying to help me and then I left it at that.

While all this was happening, I had to wait to hear from the mechanic about my car. It had been there for about 4 days and during those four days, I had changed my thoughts and stayed positive the whole time. I imagined myself driving away in my car. Four days later I got a call saying that my car is good to go and the mechanic was in shock because he said that he should not have been able to fix it so easily! I know this is just the beginning of my journey with Joe Vitale and these amazing books and I hope I can inspire someone to do the same. Thank you!