The book that changed my life!

The book that changed my life!

It opened up my soul and hero's journey of life.

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne was the very first personal development book I'd ever read. Enid Blyton was my childhood all-time favourite book. Were you a Byton fan? Famous Five, Malory Towers and The Twins at St Clare's were up there. 

I came across The Secret at the age of 30yrs when a friend gave me that ebook to read as part of starting in Network marketing, back in 2013. 

There I was 30 yr old living in Scotland and never had any knowledge of this type of world information and development. Plus I was very cynical and believed life would always be hard and nothing good really ever happened. 

I lived for the weekends to go out and binge drink, have fun and let out my wild adventurous side of me I'd kept in all week. The drink was the only way I knew how to do that to numb and bring out my inner wild warrior. That was my life worked for the weekends and the holidays, everything to suppress how I really felt in life. 

As a small child, I had this feeling deep inside that there was something else to this 3D life, I felt like I didn't fit in, didn't belong anywhere, even with family and friends. I didn't understand it all really and life took over with getting the job, getting the qualifications, the house, the marriage, the holidays each year, the savings, the pension to work 40 years and then retire and then relax and die. Phew, blink and life is gone by ticking off the boxes. Over the years my inner calling had been suppressed through drink, drugs, partners and abuse. 

The book awakened my soul that had been kept hidden for so long. I had no idea what to expect from this book, now keep in mind the Firery Scottish 30yr old woman who at that point was at breaking point to what she thought life was meant to be and pretty hated the world for her past. 

So there I was beginning to read the book and still not really understanding what it all meant. I then got to the part where Joe Vitale says I'm here to be a bit in your face and say everything up until now that has happened in your life it down to you, no one else, the thoughts you have been thinking and feeling.  I shut the book ( well slammed it shut) and had a few colourful words about Joe at that moment, then I got really angry as I thought I hadn't asked for that abusive marriage and how dare he say that who does he think he is. 

After that, I met my friend and threw the book back at her and said what a lot of BS that book is and she said Melanie I would like you to read it again with an open mind. I breathed heavily, rolled my eyes and thought that inner rebel really y doesn't want to read it again, but a part of me doesn't want to be closed-minded either. So I rolled my eyes, walked off in a DIVA style walk and went off to read the book again.  

I gave it a few days to bring that rebellious fire down, and opened the book again, when I got to Joe Vitale's part I still gave him a few colourful words and rolled my eyes (today I laugh when I read his part 9 yrs later) I finished the book and something side knew there was something to this whole law of attraction. I then came across the film as a more visual person or needed to see and hear it 3 times before it resonated with me. The switch came on and I was awake to what was possible in life that childhood feeling I had was back and from there I consumed these kinds of development books on a daily basis and 6 months later I arrived in Australia. A new life and a new perception of life........

As I sit and read the book again for the hundredth time at a friends place I felt called to share my experience of the book. 

I invite you to read it for the first time or again grab a copy online or local book store The Secret by Rhonda Byrne https://www.thesecret.tv/store/ or watch it on Netflix.  

The book was my stepping stone and call to life's journey and will share more blogs since my first read of the book. 

Melanie Wood