Learning Disability Gone!

Republished from The Secret

I just had to share this, I cannot believe this has happened.

I was never diagnosed as a child. I could read very well and I guess 40 years ago Dyslexia was the only known learning disability. So I could read really well and was treated like I was just being dumb, stubborn, or lazy with spelling and writing assignments.

I really have a hard time when someone spells something for me, I have to get them to spell it over and over. It is like having the letters for the word, address or phone number on 6 sized cubes, flipping in my head. I get only one or two letters at any given spelling. I never get them in the right order either, when I was young it felt like craziness to me.

Well about 2 weeks ago I was so embarrassed on a conference call at work, for the first time I was able really put the feeling into the steps of asking, believing and receiving. I would think about being able to spell well and cry with joy!!!!

Eight days later I was driving and my son asked me to spell a word and it popped into my head. Clear as a bell, perfect! That has never happened to me before, ever! I am so grateful!!

I Believe!

Republished from The Secret

I was at the library one day searching for a book to read and I passed by The Secret book twice. The third time I saw the book facing me on the shelf where it would normally be side ways on the shelf. Fascinated by the book, I read 80 pages within one day. While reading the book I decided to practice and try it out for myself.

My closet was needing a makeover and I was trying to lose weight. So as I remembered what I read and studied I began to change my thought process of how to receive things. Having an attitude of gratefulness I went into my closet and cleaned out old clothes and left an open space for new clothes. One week later my husband decided since I was out with my mom, I should go ahead and shop for myself which I rarely do. When I came back home to hang up the clothes, I noticed I had just enough clothes to fit into the space. My mind was surprised but happy at the same time.

I decided to see if this was really happening or merely a coincidence. Weeks later I decided since I was unemployed I would use the lessons learned again from The Secret. Each morning I would wake up and have meetings as if I was at work. One week later I was on an interview and hired the following week where I’m the happiest I have ever been. When I accepted the job my first desire was to be the number 1 Recruiter and guess what?!

Today I was informed that I’m over my goals and I’m currently the number 1 Recruiter for the entire company and I’ve only been with the company for 1 month. Just to give you a number of how large the company is, we have branches worldwide including Canada and Alaska. Just when I thought I should go another route in my career I feel like this is my season and time.

There are so many stories to share but the final one entails me misplacing my wedding ring. Anyone who loves their spouse and wedding ring can relate to the feeling of a naked finger and that empty feeling when it’s misplaced. My exact words were “I summon my ring to me today” and as I went about my day as if my ring was not misplaced. Then I spotted her in my drawer hiding under other items.

The Secret works and I’m excited of all the changes that have occurred since me finding The Secret, or should I say “The Secret finding me”. The possibilities are endless as I have so many more stories to tell. Watch out for my Infinity Suv QX80 story to come as I know it’s destined to be mine.

Again, thank you!

The Six Month Secret Experiment

Republished from The Secret

I first read The Secret on the 4th August 2014 and for that I will be forever grateful. A friend had recommended it to me after I told her about my clear visions of the future; How I wanted to help people believe in themselves, to be a motivational speaker and coach and to travel. But also that I was feeling so stressed and overwhelmed by life, bills and the extreme diet I was following in preparation to compete as a first time bikini competitor, that I couldn’t see how it would happen.

That night by page ten I had goose bumps, my heart was racing and I knew I was discovering something really important. The “aha” for me was that I had a choice about how I felt.

Three months later I was contemplating ending my life.

Within weeks of reading The Secret I was a magnet for opportunity. Introducing gratitude to my life made everything seem smoother, even beginning to feel grateful for a body I had felt uncomfortable in and dieted to change since I was 12. Even though I considered myself a positive person, I became aware of how much negativity I’d unwittingly been allowing into my life. By choosing to change my thoughts everything else changed for the better. Giving my first ever motivational talk about the power of our mind set only one month after reading the book, I visualized the room full and it was. Then I signed a contract for a new business and website with plans of sharing all I had learned with the world. My mood had improved drastically, starting each day with gratitude I felt good and was going to bed each night excited like a child on Christmas Eve.

On 4th of October 14’ I stood on stage and competed. I knew immediately it wasn’t for me and was feeling positive about beginning a more balanced life and setting my plans for the future in motion. The week after competing as I struggled to eat foods that weren’t part of the restrictive plan I had been following, anxiety kicked in. Along with panic at even the slightest weight gain and imagining my clothes were feeling tighter. The realization that I had been living my whole life with an Eating Disorder began to sink in. That same week I lost the investment for my business, the close friend who recommended The Secret cut me out of her life via text. Something I now understand, but then my heart was breaking and I felt a fraud and a failure.

Three of the most challenging months were to follow during which I began to binge in secret, then make myself sick. The guilt and shame this caused me led to chronic anxiety and I was barely able to leave my house. Consumed with negative thoughts about myself and my body, I began to contemplate ending my life, to escape the pain of my own thoughts. Knowing the devastating effect this would have on my two children aged 10 and 6, here was my rock bottom. Deep down a voice whispered “Hannah, maybe this is your journey, maybe you are meant to find a way to get through this so you can share it with others.” and that is when The Secret truly changed my life.

Filled with anger and resentment about how my life had turned out, then guilt for thinking that way, I wondered if the books principles would really work in this situation, with anxiety, despair and a lifetime of hating my body. So I decided to become a guinea pig in a six month experiment, creating ten rules inspired by all I had read in The Secret. Feel good triggers including gratitude, love, kindness, being aware of negativity in my thoughts, feelings or actions and trading it for positivity. My crucial rule was number 3: “Be kind to my reflection. Pay myself a compliment when I look in the mirror”.

Each night even when it seemed impossible, I would visualize the life I wanted and the person I wanted to be, carefree around food, happy and successful, traveling to America. I’d see my passport in my hand and hear the sounds of the airport, and a goal to talk with Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday.

The positive effects were immediate, from day one I noticed a difference. Each day my sense of well-being, love for life and love for myself grew stronger. A journey that had begun with the simple goal of feeling better than I did, had transformed my life and it’s positive effect radiated out to everyone I came in to contact with.

So many amazing events took place over the six months that I have a separate journal of hundreds of things that manifested into my life. Being accepted to co- author to 20 Beautiful Women Volume 3, becoming a Huffington Post Contributor and writing for local and national newspapers are just a few. An amazing breakthrough was that along the way I said hello to self love which meant goodbye to a lifetime of body shame and my eating disorder. Instead of a negative, painful process that most of what I read described recovery to be, it was a positive and remarkably quick journey.

I now know for sure that if you visualize what you want in life, if you are grateful for all that is in it now, not only believe it is possible but love yourself enough to believe you are worth it, it will come. Most often in a way you least expect. The priceless gift that my experiment gave me was the journey.

I have wanted to write this piece for a long time and this week it felt right. Having visualized a trip to the US since I began, I have just returned from Philadelphia. There I spoke with literary agents about my own book about my Secret Experiment, I had the opportunity to not only hear live but meet the amazing Jack Canfield who’s words in The Secret gave me strength during some of my darkest moments. This experience showed me there is no limit to what is possible and I want to share with the world that life is meant to be amazing. To everyone, not only those people who are living with eating disorders or have negative thoughts about their body I want to say “You deserve to and are meant to live an amazing life and all the tools you need to do so are within you right now”.

I’m glad I hit rock bottom because it forced me to choose change. But you don’t have to experience it to live a better life. Unless you are excited by and proud of your life, unless you are a friend to yourself, unless you can feel gratitude so strongly it’s a physical feeling, then there is room for change. When you create an environment that your true and authentic self can thrive in, everything is possible and there truly is no limit.

Dream big and make those dreams happen. You can hold me accountable to two of mine, to be interviewed by Oprah and to work on a book project with Jack Canfield!

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Thinking of dropping daily posts

It's been my constant endeavor to provide you relevant and important posts around this topic but due to my constant busy schedule, I had been sharing other's content.

I had been thinking if I should drop the idea of posting daily or not. I'm in a dilemma & can't find a way out. Still thinking.... Will update by weekend hopefully.

Gratitude Is All It Takes.

This was such a beautiful story that I couldn't resist myself from sharing it. It's such a motivator!

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Republished from The Secret

I was successful in getting admission in two of India’s best colleges. I had obtained 99.5 percentile in the entrance exams to get into these colleges and that is no easy task. The competition is immense; after all, India is the world’s second most populous nation! After engineering, I got the chance to work with Deloitte. As part of my MBA curriculum, I interned with Tata Sons, a $100 billion company.

In short, I had never faced failure. It also meant that I had grown to become an arrogant, ungrateful atheist. When I got selected in Deloitte, I was more disappointed at not having cracked the Goldman Sachs interview than being happy about getting into one of the “Big Four”. Same was the case when I got admission in NIT Calicut and SIBM Pune. I was always restless, always wanting more, never satisfied.

“Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.”

In December of 2013 it was placement season. I was sure of getting placed in the first couple of days, like had always happened for me. What followed was 3 months of a nightmare. I was one of the last students in my batch to get placed, in a company that paid less than half of what my friends were being offered. This was hell and then 100 feet under. This episode humbled me and brought me back to earth. Little did I know back then, that it was I who had brought this upon myself, through my sustained negative thoughts and emotions. Thankfully, my family stood like a rock behind me and supported me during this extremely tough phase of my life.

I was 3 months into my job at my new company. I was browsing on Amazon.in. I don’t know why, or how, I stumbled upon The Magic. I decided to buy it immediately. My eyes welled up when I read the first few pages. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. It explained my whole life thus far.

“Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.” This sentence struck a special chord with me.

I practiced the 30-day exercise, to the best of my ability. Within a month, I hadn’t even completed the 30-day exercise yet, I got selected in my current company. This was huge!

I had applied to any and every company in the 6 months prior to that; all I had to show for all that effort was 1 unsuccessful interview. Just to emphasize this fact, I had practiced The Magic Check exercise on 17th September 2014. I joined my current company on 22nd September 2014 at a 50% salary hike! I love travelling; my current job enables me to travel every other week. I couldn’t have asked for a better manager. I am working with an excellent brand. I have got 2 appreciation mails in just 10 months from my stakeholders, without me even asking them for it!

This is not all. As part of the 30-day exercise, I had compiled my ‘Book of Dreams’. Two of my dreams, that I have illustrated with pictures in the book, were to become a certified scuba diver and to learn new dances.

In December 2014, I became a PADI-certified Open Water Diver. I went diving again in March 2015. Sixty feet below the ocean, I was staring, mesmerized by the sight of the beautiful clown fish, when, suddenly, I realized that the fish swimming in front of me was the same fish as in the picture in my ‘Book of Dreams’. The joy I felt in that moment is hard to describe in words. I said a silent ‘Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!’ to the Universe.

Last month, I participated in my company’s annual cultural event. We had practiced for three months for this show. In order to ensure that everyone in the team got a fair chance, a person was allowed to dance in a maximum of three sequences. I was among the lucky few to do so. This was the first time I was performing on stage. A 2000-strong audience cheered us all the way. It was certainly one of the best experiences of my life!

I am writing this story, again, to express my gratitude to you, Rhonda Byrne. Your book literally brought me back from the brink. I have bought the Hindi version of The Secret and The Magic, just so that my father can benefit from them as well.

I’ve written a poem that describes my dreams. I had written it about two years ago. I have shared it so far with only a few people. It is titled, “The Dreams I dream”. Here’s how it goes:

“There are dreams I dream
I close my eyes and they make me beam

I have my grand bucket list
Which I’d like to share in a gist

I want to gift my parents everything they secretly crave
As a small way of saying ‘Thank You’ for all that they gave

I want a girl to call my own
For whose smile I’d give up the world’s biggest throne

‘Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer’, they say
It is the best education for which you pay
To travel extensively is what I yearn
New people, history and cultures I’ll learn
More adaptable and easy-going I’ll become
New music and songs I’ll learn to hum
I’ll open my heart and eyes and learn more
Sleep beneath the stars, get tanned on the beach, and hear the lion roar
Dance with the Hulis
Eat the spiciest chilies
Camp in a forest, navigate an unknown city, climb a mountain peak and cross a gorge
Lasting relationships I’ll forge
I’ll find my true self as I lose my way
In the sea, crystal-clear and blue, I’ll play
A new perspective is what I’ll gain
And become a child once again

Out of the plane I’d like to jump and fly
Tie a rope to my legs and hurl myself to kiss the air, is what I want to try
I wanna go scuba diving and see majestic, golden fish glide
On the ski mountains of Innsbruck I wanna slide
I’ve heard Western Cape in South Africa is a kite surfer’s paradise
A date to swim with white sharks should till then suffice

These are the things I want most
And upon achieving them I’ll raise myself a toast”

I know that all my dreams are coming my way. I just know so.

Thank you! Rhonda.

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