The Opposite of Fear is Faith

When I look back to the beginning of my story to share with you, I can hardly remember this fearful life feeling that bothered me before I knew The Secret. Nevertheless the ultimate change happened just a few days ago, even though I started my metamorphosis nearly two years ago – with the second book of Rhonda: “The Power”.

At this time my life was characterised by financial problems and worries about the future, although I was working hard. Each time this “fearfulness” began to overwhelm me I started criticism against my husband, and also against myself. I felt totally helpless, and this was the worst feeling: having the impression of not being able to change anything by my own, no matter what I tried.

But – stop ! … “No matter what I tried” ? Today I see that this was not true, because I did NOT try this and that with courage and fantasy. Rather I did always the same thing within my thought prison, at the same time wondering and arguing that nothing changed. I was really in despair, I was exhausted, overworked, and I felt myself being constantly under force. It was no “negative illusion” but completely down-to-earth, when I felt BURN OUT creeping into my body and into my mind. At this time I became rightly anxious because a real burnout destructs healthiness probably for the rest of one’s life.

At his time I took some holiday to prevent myself from a definite breakdown, and at peak time I was presented with “The Power” by my husband who wanted to help me. Up to this time I did not know Rhonda Byrne. But I identified the emblem beside the title of “The Power”, and I remembered a book that I had seen for several times in my favorite book store. This book I had paged through for one or two times (I had become curious because of its wonderful look) but I had not been able to understand the sense – unbelievable for me today !

But: this did not make a difference at all. For me it was the easiest way to become acquainted with the secret by starting with “The Power” which was a “direction to use” to me, I rather wolfed it down. After this my studies of the principles of the secret lead me through different literature to check out onwards, what I had learned already, and then I had a look at the film “The Secret”. Because of my studies of other authors I could trust the rather unbelievable content of the film at once, I was prepared to understand the message. I just felt happy during facing the film.

Although I liked what I had found out, for a longer time I could not really execute this new form of thinking and feeling and believing.

One day I was sitting in my living room, contemplating the principles of The Secret. I felt that I had to come to a decision: either fear or faith. I was afraid to trust, I was afraid become disappointed: what would happen, if I relied on the secret now – and after all had to recognize it as a fake ? Could this ruin the last little confidence I had into me and my life ?

The following moment I will never forget in my life: I threw the switch in my head. How I managed this ? See below.

I became aware of the actual facts: besides being felicitously married I had gained a lot of good and fine things important for me and also for my husband: I had become a good doctor, I had built a beautiful house, I had got a safe job. But at the same time there was the risk of loosing all that by loosing my healthiness and by – despite of all my work – not earning enough money at the moment to keep things going … and first of all: by – deep in my heart – not believing, that all these wonderful things are really mine, by not believing that I do earn what I gained. I became aware that for the last fifty years I had lived with the fear to fail and the idea that I had to change external processes wherefore my life was exhausting and stressed.

And here the switch: After having been aware of the described facts I began to think the other way round: What about handling life as of now in the opposite manner ? With faith instead of fear ? With happiness instead of stress ? By changing and influencing my inner processes as precondition that the UNIVERSE could change the outer processes ? At that moment I knew: there was nothing to loose, if I tried the secret. As the case might be, nothing would change. But if I was lucky and The Secret worked, I would be going to win. As I threw the switch, a feeling of happiness, joy, curiousness and lusting for future streamed through my body and my mind, and from then on things developed in an easier way.

It took two years until I arrived at The Secret for good. I lived through many moments of learning and expierencing, but there were two other milestones in my POSITIVE development. First: trying to get rid of my fear I searched and searched for a positive expression instead of “fear-less”. It took several days before I found “FAITH” – or CONFIDENCE. I concluded that this had been obviously one of my main problems: feeling confidence no matter in what – in my life, in myself, in the universe…

There were other words on behalf of which I had problems to find the positive expression, for example “unstrained” – it simply means “relaxed”.

And second: The last few days I trained myself in feeling the “as-if”-process – feeling as if there have arrived all important things of my life, especially that life is good, the universe is good to us and that we have just to believe like Jesus Christ said in Mark 11,24: “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”.

It is no sin whishing good things for oneself, whether they are spiritual, mental or physical. And if we follow the rules, we will win – in a deep, hearty sense.

Thank you, Rhonda, for bringing the secret to the people in the world. There were a lot of geniuses who have already talked and written about The Secret, to privileged and also to underprivileged people. But I think you were the first person to bring The Secret to anybody who is just willing to listen. Thank you.