I read Therese J. Borchard on Beliefnet as often as I can because she always seems to express herself so well about her Bipolar Diagnosis. Her topic today “12 Things to do While You Wait for Recovery,” was both humorous and informative. She encounters many knowledgeable people and expresses herself exceptionally well.

Some would say that people with mental illnesses are not people you want to attract into your life. In my case, they would be wrong. They are people I want to attract into my life, especially individuals that recognize and CHOOSE to understand and RECOVER from their disease.

When I began to experience my third serious relapse into mental illness, I tried to stay in denial for a while, but instead, I CHOSE to face recovery in a different way. I am happy to say that my recovery began with Oprah’s introduction to “The Secret”
on her daytime talk show. (Like I have to explain Oprah) I have mentioned many times in my blogs that I used “The Secret” as a tool to aid in my recovery. What actually took place was “The Secret” held the methods that helped me to recognize and accept my illness, and learn that I had control over how I CHOSE to live with it.



I would like to share what it feels like to experience a day in life when you have applied The Law of Attraction. Think about a Deja Vu´ moment, or another way of expressing it, an AHA moment. When you begin to apply the Law of Attraction to your life, you live in moments like that and it is in those moments that you learn to recognize and follow the messages that the Universe shows you every day. Remembering that The Law of Attraction states that there are no coincidences this is an example of that for me:



I am speaking to my daughter as I am watching a show on television where all the teens are talking in text language. (Shortened words that people use to converse with one another on their cell phones or on the computer using an Instant Messenger program.) Moments later, I receive a phone call from a friend I have not spoken to in a couple of months and she asks me if I sent her a text message. I laugh hysterically because she is not aware of the conversation I just had with my daughter, and the message she received said “You are Pretty, signed Anne.” When I stop laughing, I explain to her that I have never used text messaging and maybe it was a company phishing (trying to reach individuals with text messages using emotional statements, also called emotional advertising) Not moments later a new cookie that I made around Christmas time and shared with my friends, showed up on the television show. Not an everyday cookie, it looked and tasted like a Pepperidge Farm Milano® cookie except the chocolate was only on half the cookie. The next thing I notice is a young man in the movie is wearing a football shirt with the number 1966 across his chest, my graduation year from high school. I know it is normal to explain those things as coincidences but when everyday is like that what do you say, Paranoia, over thinking, psychosis? No, it is “The Law of Attraction.” Therefore, the next time that many things happens to you in a single day, let alone in a single hour, recognize and accept them as “The Law of Attraction” and continue to look for them on your way to my blog to purchase your copy of the movie or book and take a leap to BELIEVE that there are small miracles in everyday and that “The Secret” will help you to find the big miracles in your life.