I shower thank you’s to each and every one of you who have helped to inspire, share, and spread positivity through your messages and stories. I am sharing because all the stories here have helped me on a daily basis and I hope to help someone out there too! And of course, thank you to Rhonda!

I had known about The Secret for many years and had used it to get many things! For example, traveling across the country to go to New York for school, getting the job I wanted, the apartments that I wanted, even getting the boyfriends I had. I would simply write myself a note that I had it, I would believe and feel it, and it would somehow always work out. Sometimes, things did not work out, but I always had the attitude that “What is meant to be, will be”.

I had gone a long time of only applying The Secret to specific things here and there in my life rather than every day. Then a little over 6 months ago, my boyfriend of 4.5 years broke up with me. I was devastated. I begged and pleaded with him, but he wanted absolutely nothing to do with me. After searching high and low on the internet to get over a heartbreak, I found myself reading and watching The Secret all over again, all the time. At first, it was my intention to get my ex-boyfriend to come back to me.

In the beginning, I would envision my ex coming back to me. I would write and envision how he would come back to me, what he’d say, how I would feel. I created a vision board with the two of us being back together happy, changed, and more mature and committed to each other. I wrote a date that he would come back to me by. However, that day came and went. Nothing happened. I hadn’t even heard from him since the day he broke up with me. I set a new intention that I would hear from him right before my birthday, which would be in 3 months.

But something amazing happened after a few months of practicing the Secret. I was consciously present and setting my intention to just feel good and be thankful for everything in every moment. I started living The Secret for myself. Instead of getting discouraged, I decided to let it go. I let go of the intention of wanting my boyfriend back. I accepted that he was out of my life.

For the first time, I started seeing the world in a different way and I started seeing how the relationship I was in was not a good one because I was constantly negative about it and about him. I had co-created the relationship to be how it was, and I had also co-created its ending. I began thinking that I didn’t want to be in that relationship. I realized that I didn’t deserve that relationship. My boyfriend never told me he loved me, we didn’t communicate, there was no passion, and things were just bad. It was not my ideal relationship, so I was happy that it was over because now I could find a better one, one that I was more deserving of.

I decided to focus on myself and finding my perfect man. I left it completely up to the Universe whether it was my ex coming back to me a changed man, or someone completely new. I knew he was out there. So, I wrote a very detailed list of the things I wanted my perfect man to be. I felt that I had him. I set an intention that I would be spending Christmas and New Year’s with my perfect man. He was coming to me. I had faith in the bigger picture that the Universe had in store for me.

I moved apartments, I traveled, I dated a few guys, I hung out with friends, I loved myself and made a conscious effort to do things that made me happy! Every morning I would write in my journal 10 things I was thankful for. Every night I would meditate, write what I was thankful for what happened that day.

Then, nearly 6 months after the breakup, I received an unexpected email from my ex-boyfriend. He wrote expressing how much he missed and loved me, how he made a big mistake, how he wished he could have done things differently, how he wanted a more loving relationship with me, how he wanted to see me but knew he couldn’t have that anymore. This was exactly 1 week before my birthday.

After a few emails back and forth, working out our emotions, I decided to meet with him. Long story short, we are in the process of working things out. He is such a changed man! Everything that I wrote on my list, he has become! He never used to express his emotions or tell me he loved me or compliment me. Now? He tells me every day and is so much more open and communicative. He is so patient and understanding with me in trying to work through my emotions in all of this, and he is 100% committed to me. He never used to talk about marriage or kids, but he does now. And things are just so much more passionate between us. Best part? He is the man I spent Christmas and New Year’s with!

The Universe works and shifts things in mysterious ways. There is always a bigger picture that only the Universe can see.

I hope this story inspires those of you who are going through something similar. I had intended that I would one day share this story! I’ve read so many stories so similar to this, and it just shows that the LOA works! My best advice would be to just tell yourself every day that in that exact moment, the world is perfect. That the Universe is on your side! Hold on to your intention and really feel it for a few days or weeks at least, and then let it go! I know letting it go is the hardest part, but to make it easier, whenever I found myself thinking or getting sad about my ex, I would think of 10 things I was grateful for, or go and take a walk and be out in nature and appreciate it for how it is. Then start the process of loving yourself and doing anything and everything that makes you happy and excited about life! Have the attitude that if he (or she) doesn’t come back to you, then it wasn’t meant to be. That the Universe has something and someone even better in store for you!!

And above all, just send love to everyone you meet! The more you love the more you get it back!