Last week, my mom gave me a copy of The Secret. She, of course, knows of the turmoil in my life, turmoil that's now less about the issues themselves than it is about the decisions and actions I'm not making and taking to resolve them.
So, she gave me a copy of that book everyone's talking about. I'm so out of the loop, I'd never heard of it before she mentioned it, and I never even knew it had been featured on Oprah until a co-worker saw it on my desk and told me. I don't even know WHEN it was featured. Last week? Two weeks ago? A month ago? So it was surprising to learn that it is an insanely popular little compendium.
Thanks to my mom, I grew up dabbling my developing little toesies in the mysteries of metaphysics, so the content of The Secret is no surprise to me. In fact, it is really a rewording (and a rewording and a rewording and a rewording) of something my mother has been telling me for at least a decade: Thank the Universe for bringing to you what you desire in life before it happens, and that will attract those things to you- - everything from good parking spots to resolutions of life problems.
But this book, which i did not intend to discuss in this post but it just sorta spilled out of me, gives that philosophy a new spin, giving it new direction and focus. You can't just thank-you-in-advance for what you want from life, you must also change the way you think about those things in order to attract them to you.
So as a promise to my mom, I started reading.
And then I started taking notes.
And while taking these notes, I'm discovering in my heart the flicker of rekindled hope...
