SUNDAY 26TH FEBRUARY 2023
I’ve held off on writing about this, other than making a passing reference, because I didn’t think I should go off-piste in a blog that was supposed to be about taking a year off alcohol but I’ve realised that this is part of my journey and it absolutely should be included……
MY WHY
In September last year, I stumbled across the book, The Secret, which introduced me to the Law of Attraction and I can honestly say that it has changed my life. Briefly, it’s a universal law, apparently as infallible as the Law of Gravity, which says that what we give out we must receive back. “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”, “what goes around, comes around”, “give and you shall receive” – it has been spoken about and written about in so many ways for centuries that I find it incredible that it doesn’t appear to be more commonly discussed. The Secret is built on the premise that, because like creates like, and our thoughts are energy, what we hold in our mind, creates the circumstances in our lives. At first reading, it seems hard to believe, and yet, when I think about my own life, I can totally see the Law of Attraction at play in both the good things and the areas that could use improvement. I’ve been marveling at this for months now and every now and then something else will come to mind and I see that it came about from the way I was thinking or feeling at that time. Not only can I see it in my own life, but I can see it all around me – in friends, family members and colleagues. Obviously, I don’t know what they are holding in their minds but from knowing what they talk about, their attitudes about certain things and how they live their lives, I can see why their lives are the way they are. It is absolutely fascinating. As for me, given the amount of negative thoughts I’ve harboured, I find it astonishing that I’ve ever gotten anywhere in life at all! And yet, there is a lot of good in my life, which proves to me that positive thoughts are more powerful than negative ones. The things that I have wanted and been really clear about – I have. The things that I’ve thought I wanted but had conflicting feelings about – I don’t. So, I’m now working to get really clear and focused on what I do want. The other thing is timing. I’ve always bought into the general idea that things will happen in their own good time, which is frustrating when you want things to happen NOW but, as I look back on my life, I can see that the Universe really does have perfect timing so it makes sense just to let go and trust in it. It’s kind of exciting!
Theme Tune: The Secret, The Key by Urban Cookie Collective