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The Secret Turned My Life Around
Submitted by: Val D
Dartmouth, Devon UKWork part time in local Tourist Office, also do therapeutic massage from home. Love my jobs, meeting and helping many different people. Happily married for twenty years this year. Three lovely grown up children, four lovely young grand children.
On November 9th 2010, I suffered a TIA (mini stroke) at work. My 60th birthday had been just two months before and I felt fit and healthy so it was like a bolt from the blue and very alarming. I felt very weak and downhearted for a few weeks after, and so anxious that it would happen again (but maybe worse next time), and feeling that I was now going to be an invalid when I had felt that I had so much of life ahead of me. I had to make the decision to cut down on my working days at the busy Tourist Office where I work as it can be so stressful and I knew it was not doing me any good, which would mean halving my income – quite worrying when we do not have a lot of money to manage on – but I knew that my health was more important.
I tried to keep the news from my daughter as we live 90 miles apart and as I know she worries about me I wanted to protect her, but one day on the phone I found myself pouring out my fears to her. She paused a minute and then said “Mum, I am going to send you a DVD – it’s called ‘The Secret’, and I think it will help you.” She is not well off and I was concerned about her spending the money on me, but two days later the DVD arrived – bless her. I love her and feel so grateful to her for what she did as it has changed my life.
She had not told me anything about the film but I was intrigued and took myself off to my bedroom to watch it the same afternoon. It is true to say that I was riveted from the start and by the time it finished I was in tears – it had affected me so much. I rushed down and told my husband how amazing I had found it, and to my joy when we watched the film together the next day he was as blown away as I was (but without the tears…!).
Since that day I have watched it a few more times and have also bought both ‘The Power’ and ‘The Secret’ books, both of which I read in twenty four hours. The things I have read and seen just seem to resonate with me and I have been feeling so much more positive and happy about everything in my life since then.
Now I just want to share with you what happened at work on December 23rd six weeks after my TIA to confirm to me that The Secret really does work. A few days before, the thought had come into my head that I was going to get £100 bonus from work before Christmas. We don’t usually get a bonus as such – in fact last year we had a £20 voucher which we had to pay tax on (!) but somehow I just felt that this year I would. As I walked to work, I became more and more convinced that I would get this bonus, and when I went in I saw on the Manager’s desk a folder of cheques waiting to be signed. I just knew my bonus was in there, and when I checked my payslip – it was!
But it gets better – please read on….. Because I was so thrilled I made the decision to really try give the ‘The Love’ to all the customers that day, as the Power book suggests, and I have to say I really enjoyed doing it and felt so good. One lady even said she wanted to lean over the counter and give me a kiss for the help I had given her, and then the next man I helped actually came back with a bunch of yellow roses for me to thank me for what I had done! Flushed with success, I then kept saying to myself “Someone is going to bring me in a bottle of wine this afternoon”, and – yes, you’ve guessed, they did!
Quite apart from all this, the more I read the books and watch the film the more I feel so happy and calm inside. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the change it has brought to my every day life and I know things are going to get even better.
So thank you Rhonda for the wonderful Secret which has come into my life at just the right time – you have changed my life. Big love and gratitude to you, and all the other people involved in bringing it to me. Thank you so much. xxxx