Living 'The Secret'
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By Megan Woolever
Is it true, as Shakespeare once wrote, that "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"? Can "The Secret" be so simple? Megan Woolever, MA, CMT, CCHT, ACST, is a Holistic Healing Practitioner in San Francisco. She blends energy healing, hypnotherapy, bodywork, life coaching and intuitive guidance in her practice to help empower her clients to unleash their potential for transformation and miracles.
Last year many of us were introduced to an amazing new film called The Secret. The Secret is a revolution-ary look at how we shape our reality by the thoughts we are thinking and the feelings we are feeling, good or bad. Like many folks, I was eager to begin to put the principles taught in the movie into practice in my life. Although I have been trained in many kinds of transformational work, The Secret invited me to step into authority and responsibility for my life in a powerful new way.
Borrowing techniques suggested in the film, I began consciously affirming all that I wanted to create in my life, all the good things I wanted to attract. I made a gratitude list. I began to focus my awareness on where I was sending energy in my life through my thoughts. At first, things began to manifest almost immediately...it was like magic! I would think something, and "POOF!" it would appear. "This is amazing!" I thought, "I can manifest miracles!" And I couldn't wait to see where it would take me.However, as time went on I found that deeper layers of resistance began to surface. All the ways in which I had unconsciously limited myself, all the negative self-talk, all the fears and worries, all these subtle saboteurs came up. As I began to adjust my thinking, I found that it wasn't necessarily as simple as just "positive thinking" or "affirmations." There was deeper work to be done, or more pointedly undone.
I dove deeper into murky territories of my mind, body and spirit. I set my intention to step into greater abundance in my life in every realm and release all that was holding me back. Many times I went from feeling incredibly powerful and on purpose to feeling lost and hopeless. However, I was fortunate to have a tool kit of techniques to help the healing process.
I used practically every method I had ever learned, everything from Hypnotherapeutic Parts Dialog to Chi Nei Tsang (internal organ massage) to allow the hurting pieces to surface, release and transform. I cultivated habits of gratitude and self-worth, focusing on thoughts and attitudes that made me feel good and expansive, aligned with spirit. I listened to programs, joined groups and read books that inspired and uplifted me, gave me a sense of my potential. Anything that would feed the new ways of thinking I was cultivating. And as I processed through the range of emotions that came up, I realized that I was de-toxing all the negative habits or programs that I had learned or adopted throughout my life.
Eventually, as I stuck with the process, I developed the capacity to bravely face these negative parts with love and compassion. I realized they were there for specific reasons. They had needs, wants and desires. And I knew that until I heard them, met them, and loved them back into alignment with the rest of me, they would continue to act out. I had to stop resisting, and start loving.
My whole outlook changed as I realized I could make a profound difference, simply by living my joy without limiting myself. For as I began to change my thinking, things around me, friends, family members and situations, began to transform as well, aligning with my intentions. I was reminded again and again of that fantastic quote by Dr. Wayne Dyer, "Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change." My life became proof of its truth.
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