As per Mother Earth's suggestion, testimonial thread re: "the Secret"

[wovenpaint]

I'll start with a funny incident.

I'm putting together my own studio at the moment with the goal of being self sufficient, so I'm visualizing large sums of money to fund my dream studio. I focused on one million dollars. Well, a friend came to visit me last week and brought me a million dollar bill-from Crawford, TX-with guess who's face on it! So the lesson learned here is to be specific...the universe has a great sense of humor. (the bill now has Yoda's face, btw and is on my new vision board)

The next thing happened late last week as I keep focusing on income. I happened upon a job posting on Monster that I'm very qualified for (I have very specialized job skills, not that simple...usually)-that's within 5 miles from my home. I've sent out a resume.

So what do you have to report??

:hi:

I love the intention thread that has been posted! I visualize a peaceful, light planet Earth.

[mother earth]

1. Why thank you, Wovenpaint! I'm glad to hear about your

progress. I started out simple, to transform my home, and have pretty much done just that in relatively short time & wonder what took me so long. It's as though I had stopped looking at it, not that there was anything terribly wrong, but it sure needed a good cleaning, new curtains here and there & a real change up and shake up with decor, things I'd sort of just abandoned & hadn't changed in years! I keep asking DH what took me so long? :D

Now that I've accomplished that, I too will be working on my vision board, tonight & am planning to take advantage of the New Moon as I Have a Dream has thankfully instructed (see New Moon thread), taking advantage of "prime" time, so to speak. Now, is the time to really motivate and manifest! :) So, I'm planning to view The Secret once again tonight while I work on my board...prime time starts 11:30 pm EST---see IHAD's thread for more times posted. :)

Thanks for sharing, come on everyone, check in & let us know what's working for you!

[lildreamer316]

2. I'm right with you on that!!

Gonna hop on that intention and wish train tonight also;and work on my wish board!
I've already watched the movie twice today; think I'll play it again in the background later. I'm SO excited!! Watching it the first time just gave me SUCH a feeling of happiness and well-being--pure love.

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. I had been having some serious health issues

when I watched The Secret. I was all caught up in "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Now, I know better than that. Silly me. But sometimes we need a wake up call to what we're doing.


So I began a meditation of thanks. I carried the thought with me that "I am so thankful that my pituitary and thyroid know exactly what to do to keep everything in my body running in top order." Every once in awhile during the day I'd repeat.

I immediately felt better --- just knowing I was doing something active was helpful. Within a day the health problem was better. Within a few, it was healed.

After that, I began meditating on the osteoarthritis in my knees. That seems to be helping a great deal and along with some other measures I'm implementing, I expect regeneration of my knee structure to full health.


After I watched The Secret, I went looking for other information in the same vein. I came across an interview with Gregg Braden. This is a couple of lines from that interview:

M: I remember seeing, in one of your workshops, actually, a video of a woman undergoing a sort-of prayer session in China, hooked up to an ultrasound, and seeing a bladder tumor shrinking visibly as the monks prayed behind her.

G: We use that video, with permission, from a very different perspective now because it’s a powerful demonstration that applies to this principle. There are three practitioners in a room with a woman who had been diagnosed by a western medical practitioner as having an inoperable cancer in her bladder. Watching the ultrasound screen we can actually look inside of her body in real time. This isn’t a time lapse, it’s real time and done in 2 minutes and 40 seconds, in the presence of these three practitioners trained to focus the feelings. They’re not focusing on making that cancer go away. They are feeling as if they are in the presence of a woman who is fully healed, fully capacitated, fully enabled, feeling what it’s like to be with a woman already healed -- and they are not judging the cancer as right or wrong or good or bad or trying to make it go away. They are acknowledging it is one reality of many realities. As our physicists say today, we live in a world of many realities. The one that we experience is the one that we focus upon. So they acknowledge that that cancer is a possibility and there are other possibilities, and now we’re going to focus on the one where this woman is already healed and we see that happen. We see her body respond in less than three minutes real time.
This was filmed in a medicineless hospital in Beijing. Over 10,000,000 people don’t have medical insurance there. They use this form of healing frequently because they don’t have any other alternative.

[lildreamer316]

4. WOW.

I would just LOVE to see that! Can you imagine the impact that image would have on your brain???
Incredible.

[MorningGlow]

5. A success story and a request for advice

The manifestation that happened for me was great--I think I mentioned it in another thread--I was fretting about the balances on our three credit cards and one debt-consolidation loan and wondering if I should contact a debt counseling service. I looked at different discussion forums online and the reviews for this type of thing were mixed, so I put it off, planning on doing more research about it before I bit (plus I wasn't sure how I was going to break it to Mr. MG--he doesn't handle facing our debt very well).

That night I got home to find a balance-transfer offer in the mail--3.99% FIXED till it's paid off. It was on one of our existing credit cards, so I didn't have to open yet another one, and there was enough of a credit limit that I could transfer two of the other three balances to it. So now we only have two bills to pay each month instead of four! Yeah, the debt still exists, but I'm happy the interest rates are much lower, and even if it takes a bit longer to pay off, I won't have to part with as much cash as FOUR cc payments would have demanded.

Now my request for advice: I have a thyroid problem (whee...) and I gained about 40 lbs. very quickly several years ago before I was diagnosed. This jacked up my blood sugar. I lost about 12 lbs., got my body back on track, my fertility came back, and WHAM I got pregnant. Yay for MorningGlow Jr., but as for weight, I was back where I started.

I would like to get rid of these extra 40 lbs.--heck, I'll take 20--but they won't budge. Part of the problem could be that I've been experiencing interrupted sleep for the past several years (thanks, MorningGlow Jr.), which I know affects weight gain. Still, I am watching what I'm eating and want to get back to the gym as soon as my hectic pace at work slows down (which it should, soon).

Question is, how do I envision/manifest/affirm weight loss without binding myself TO that weight? I have tried several different affirmations and nothing has worked. Any ideas? Thanks!

[mother earth]

6. Hi, MorningGlow! I'll tell you what worked for me several years

back. I lost about 25 lbs. doing this, of course I did all the right things first of all - gotta reduce the calories & gotta increase the exercise, that's without question. My little trick though, was to get my little stack of catalogs (pick your favorites) from those companies you love and start envisioning yourself in all of the favorite outfits you would like to purchase, heck cut some of those pics out and make yourself a vision board! :) I never realized until today, how much of The Secret I have always incorporated into my life, those times when I was most successful.

I'm going out and picking up some gratitude stones today, have much to be thankful for, let's not forget that & always, always appreciate all of the love in your life, people especially! Maybe you can use Jr. as a visual aid & think of all the fun stuff you want to do with your little one--my, my, once you get going on this you will think of tons of ways to see yourself thin! I think I should get on that bandwagon again too, thanks for being MY reminder! :)

[MorningGlow]

7. Hi, Mother Earth!

Love your name, BTW. Funny you should mention favorite catalogs--I just got one last night that I call "overpriced clothes for hoochies". Although a lot of the stuff is very cheesy, I did kind of drool over the more sensible clothes and could work on envisioning myself fitting into the more form-fitting ones. Maybe I will have to cut out some pics and keep them around.

Speaking of weight, I had another good cosmic lesson yesterday. I was feeling pretty down on myself, weight-wise (trying on jeans will do that every time, no?), as I went to the supermarket to get a salad. All of a sudden, as I was walking through the parking lot, I found myself completely surrounded by very, very overweight people. It I had never seen that many obese people in one place before in my life--I mean, that high a number of them, and no "thin" people at all. It was a "bash on the head" insight--the universe saying "THIS is what obesity looks like. Do you look like that? No? Then calm your ass down."

That doesn't mean that I'm not going to work on losing the extra weight--just that I got some perspective, and I won't beat myself up if I struggle. And that's what gets me--on a cosmic level, considering what this thread is all about--I feel like I'm retaining the weight because I obsess over it. If I can stop obsessing, I won't be clinging to it, and it will go away. What a fine line to walk, though. Hm...

P.S. I think MorningGlow Jr.'s higher self was listening yesterday, too, because the kid FINALLY slept all night (a rarity). Please, MG's higher self, get him to keep it up!

[mother earth]

8. Yes, it is hard sometimes to direct your focus. I'm choosing not

to watch the news 24/7, like I used to & not to read each and every article I can get my hands on like I used to over certain issues I held dear. I find I need to watch the DVD now and then to keep myself on the right path & use little tricks until it becomes second nature. I have to laugh because I guess I was a little intense in the past---though I never would have described myself that way ;). Being very specific is a little hard for me, I seem to find it easier to say I want financial freedom & wonder if it would be better to say how I want to accomplish that exactly,not sure.

We're all finding our way, which is exactly why I think it's important for everyone to check in now and then & share what is working for them.

I know what you mean about weight & trying to lose a few pounds--women can really get down on themselves, I remember obsessing about 10 lbs.!!??!!? I remember beating myself up for years because of 10 lbs, and then when I lost 25, it wasn't until the "veil" was lifted that I saw how crazy that was & how "simple" life could have been if I hadn't obsessed & just did it. I guess that Nike commercial is wiser than we know, "Just Do It"...:)