‘I thought “manifesting” my perfect life was nonsense – until it worked’
telegraph.co.ukThe Secret, Rhonda Byrne’s bestselling book on the law of attraction, after finding it in my flatmate’s room. It claimed that if I desired something, all I had to do was believe I already had it, feel all the positive feelings this led to, then simply let go.
My desire would then come true.I read this with scepticism – surely if life was that simple, there’d be no poverty and we’d all win the lottery?
But there was a handsome man near me who I’d been admiring for the past hour, so I laughingly tested it out on him. I closed my eyes, feeling slightly ridiculous, and visualised him talking to me.
I smiled as I imagined us flirting and then ‘let go’, by accepting I’d be fine if it didn’t happen. I opened my eyes and waited.Five minutes later, he caught my eye, grinned, and asked if he could join me.
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