If only I had known as a single Mom about how law of attraction could help me learn the strengths of a person, I may not have had so much trouble developing my own personal strength...
... Although, as they say, sometimes it's our pain that is our greatest asset...
It's pain that makes up the strengths of a person
But without even realizing how the law of attraction actually works, here's the "spooky" reality that took place in my life back in my single Mom days...
First, let's back up to where my personal strength was at its lowest...
I was lying on the floor in the one-room apartment I had just moved into with no furniture, trying to remember how I had managed to get us the point to where we are living at poverty level (I had given the one bedroom to my daughter to make things as easy as possible for her)...
I left most furniture behind because I actually did feel sorry for the husband I was leaving...
... As a suicidal alcoholic, he had attempted suicide three times before I had the courage to leave, and was still drinking consistently, so the situation seemed to be getting worse with every passing day...
... I figured the least I could do for him was leave him with the house and the furniture while I took my daughter (not a bad trade, actually) to start life over from scratch.
Just a few days earlier I had been enjoying the luxury of a king size water bed with cable TV and a large yard with a playground for my daughter. I remembered how my husband had I had worked together to build the wooden jungle gym in the back yard... what went wrong since then?
I was so ashamed of what my life had become... and really, the worst part of it all was that I had this little girl depending on me. What could I possibly do to make her grow to be proud of her Mom?
I'm about to share my inner soul with you here, so please read on only if you promise not to judge me...
I try not to judge the strengths of a person because, as the law of attraction dictates, you get back what you give!
I knew that continuing my only job of working for my Dad for $145 weekly was never going to make enough to put food on the table for my daughter and myself. So I thought, I need to learn a new skill... and I was attempting to work on a correspondence course to teach me the skill of medical transcription.
As you can imagine, I was continually stressed all the time, and it didn't take much from my daughter to "set me off" into a rage. But I had promised myself that I was going to find my own personal strength and make a life for my daughter and myself no matter what!
In an angry moment, I slammed the door as I screamed at my daughter... which got the attention of my next door neighbor (who I hadn't met yet). "Is everything alright?" He asked... to which I embarrassingly replied, "Oh, yes, fine, I was just angry with my daughter".
Even though I'd always been a "loner" and didn't make friends easily, this man became one of my closest friends as he "bailed me out" of circumstances like needing a ride to work or needing someone to assemble my daughter's first bicycle.
My personal strength continued to grow through the Law of Attraction..
From there, I attained a new job that actually paid over $200 weekly, and established a successful secretarial business with five clients who used my services on an on-going basis... none of which I really advertised for - just seemed to come out of the woodwork from word of mouth...
Fast forward to today... I'm realizing how all that I had gone through gave me personal strength; but the Law of Attraction was working for me every step of the way...
My daughter grew to demonstrate real personal strength, and we continued to meet weekly for coffee and catch up...
But here's where I learned that there was such a thing as "The Law of Attraction"...
I had been reading Wayne Dyer's book where he maintains over and over "you get what you think about, whether you want it or not". This really resonated with me as I looked back and remembered how things just seemed to fall into place as I grew in my own personal strength and started to feel better about my life.
This explains why gratitude is such a powerful part of the law of attraction...
The better I felt, the more good things just "happened" to come my way. I now understand how gratitude works... because you can't possibly feel TRUE gratitude for anything without feeling truly happy! And it's that happy feeling that makes more good stuff come your way.
Conversely, remembering how I was so miserable all the time... Could I have been somehow responsible for my husband's spiral downturn and eventual death? As troubling as this is to accept, once I did accept it, I now realize that, if I had the power turn things bad with my continual crying then I also have the power to make things great by continuing to feel good.
And then the "coincidence" happened as I learned what makes up the strengths of a person...
LOL - we all that the "coincidence" was really "synchronicity"... As I was reading Wayne's book, my daughter met up with me and I mentioned this cool theory of how you get what you think about whether you want it or not...
And she said, "Mom, that's the Law of Attraction!" "What is the law of attraction?", I questioned. You remember "The Secret" I was talking about? That's it!"... Which inspired her to give me the audio recording of Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, which I've listened to many times and still continue to listen to the wise teachings of the book The Secret.
I no longer live a life of shame because I know that anything I had gone though in the past has helped me with my own personal strength. And what's even better, it gives me the potential to help others.
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