{"id":3936,"date":"2008-01-08T01:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesecret.wpengine.com\/stories\/finally-eyes-wide-open\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T01:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:56:56","slug":"finally-eyes-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.thesecret.tv\/stories\/finally-eyes-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Eyes Wide Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on page 144 of The Secret &#8212;  for the first time &#8212; and I am blissfully in heaven.  I have watched the DVD once, and I literally sobbed with joy.  <\/p>\n<p>For the first time in my life, I am able to express what I have always believed, and always thought to be true &#8212; and it is the way of The Secret.  It brings tears to my eyes &#8212; of the utmost joy &#8212; just to be able to write these words.  My only real problem in life has been that over the years I allowed myself to believe what society told me to believe, and I let the &#8216;real&#8217; me fade away.  <\/p>\n<p>I felt so very alone, and I didn&#8217;t understand why.  I kept looking for love, believing that if I could only find the right &#8216;man,&#8217; then all would be well.  So of course, because I wasn&#8217;t believing in myself enough, I kept meeting men, but the wrong ones and the wrong kind. Finally after years of abuse, I got angry enough to get fed up and I made up my mind to get out of my situation.  I had no idea where I was going to find a place to live, as rentals are at a 0% vacancy rate where I live, but I started packing all my things anyway.  I didn&#8217;t even look for a place to move to &#8212; I just kept packing. When my packing was finished, I looked in the paper, called a number, immediately went to see the manager, and I had a place that day.  Everyone was in shock that I found a place at all &#8212; including me! I had used the Secret and I didn&#8217;t even know it!!<\/p>\n<p>That was 6 months ago.  Since then, everything has started to go my way.  First it was just little unexpected things &#8212; so much so that I began to confide about them to my daughter.  And the more I confided, the more things kept going inexplicably right, and the things just keep getting bigger and better. I put on much needed weight without even trying.  My aches and pains from my illnesses are steadily decreasing.  My skin is improving and my daughter says I look 10 years younger! But I still didn&#8217;t know about the Secret until a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now every corner I turn brings more joy to me.  I get so excited about the Secret and how much it means that sometimes I don&#8217;t even get sleepy!  Every day gets so much better that I don&#8217;t want it to end!<\/p>\n<p>The business I&#8217;ve always wanted to start is becoming a reality &#8212; the people I need are just coming into our lives out of the woodwork &#8212; good people with good hearts, helping me before I even ask.  And I have no doubts anymore that all my dreams are real.<\/p>\n<p>Now when I look back on my life, I see many times where I have used the Secret &#8212; I just didn&#8217;t know it until now.  I didn&#8217;t know that it was me who made those things happen.<\/p>\n<p>I truly thank you, Rhonda Byrne, for writing the Secret, and I thank everyone for spreading the word, the same reality that I believed when I was 14 years old.  I just didn&#8217;t know that anyone else believed what I do, and I fell into that disillusioning web that so much of society tells us to dwell on &#8212; the negativity, the wars, the things we &#8216;can&#8217;t&#8217; do, or &#8216;can&#8217;t&#8217; be.<br \/>\nI started to believe I wasn&#8217;t good enough and never would be.<\/p>\n<p>And I kept falling deeper and deeper into the trap until something inside me raged to get out.  I changed my life and then I found you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you with all my heart.  I know my dreams will come true &#8212; they already have &#8212;  for I am back, seeing the light again, and I will be forever grateful.<\/p>\n<p>With love,<\/p>\n<p>Donna J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on page 144 of The Secret &#8212; for the first time &#8212; and I am blissfully in heaven. I have watched the DVD once, and I literally sobbed with joy. 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