I discovered the film The Secret in 2013 and was very impressed by it. The same year I read The Power and The Magic. I manifested lots of beautiful things including our dream car and house, a job, and a career. But as time went by I became more and more obsessed with the things I thought I wanted and it became harder and harder to let them go. My manifestations became unsatisfying to me and I felt daily frustration from things “not being enough.” It seemed the more I tried, the less I would get. My mind was driving me crazy and some days I wished I could turn it off.

Then in February 2021, my dream career crumbled without any notice. I had been so identified with it that it triggered a profound identity crisis as I no longer knew who I was. I had no control over my life anymore. I felt like a stick carried by the current. It felt very frightening at first, but then I asked for guidance and was guided to work on my childhood traumas and limiting beliefs stored in my subconscious mind.

In a matter of 40 days I freed myself from countless negative emotions, traumatic memories, and beliefs I didn’t even know I had and which were nevertheless keeping me in bondage all this time. When it was over I realized that I still had automatic negative thinking going on and that I needed to free myself from the thinking mind as well. I didn’t know how to do it. I just wanted to be free to be my real self.

That was when I saw an interview about the recent release of The Greatest Secret.

I didn’t expect to find my answer in this book at all! I only checked it out because I was curious, having read the previous books. But there it was, a profound truth I was looking for, laid out in such simplicity before me. The very first day I began the practice of awareness and here I was finally! Just me without the exhausting chatter in my head!

Ever since then I enjoy my days. Everything seems to flow easier now. I find more joy in the smallest details. I found myself enjoying the form of a spray bottle, such beauty I couldn’t see before! I still react automatically to things sometimes and immediately I shift back to awareness, and boy, my problem ceases to be one! I am so eager to see how much better it gets.