| The Secret has been an inspiration to thousands of | | | | suggested that Jennifer watch the movie "The |
| people and it really enhanced people's awareness of | | | | Secret" and her husband bought the DVD for them |
| the Law of Attraction. | | | | to watch in Christmas 2006. |
| One woman who had been suffering from chronic | | | | She was so exhausted from her illness that she |
| illness and excruciating pain for years used the | | | | couldn't even watch the movie the whole way |
| underlying message of the secret - the power of the | | | | through the first time. The second viewing was more |
| Law of Attraction when consciously used to our | | | | successful and by the end of the movie Jennifer |
| advantage to transform her life. | | | | made a decision. She decided that: |
| This is the story of Jenny Mannion who used the | | | | "I WILL heal myself of pain." |
| Law of Attraction to heal herself from chronic pain. | | | | And she did but what is so miraculous about |
| For nearly eight years Jennifer experienced chronic | | | | Jennifer's recovery is that having been ill for nearly |
| pain and was diagnosed and misdiagnosed on | | | | eight years she was able to almost completely heal |
| numerous occasions. She was in so much pain that at | | | | herself within a few short weeks. A critical factor in |
| times she could barely walk. She went through a | | | | her recovery process was her realization that the |
| period when she was fainting almost weekly - | | | | body is continually renewing itself. |
| sometimes in the shower. | | | | However, she had been focusing on her illness so |
| Later, when she had children, her illness became an | | | | much that the blueprint she was providing her mind |
| even bigger concern. It was such a struggle to care | | | | was that of sick and disease-ridden body. She |
| for her two beautiful children when she was | | | | recognized that she had to provide her mind with a |
| struggling just to get through the day. | | | | healthier blueprint to work from. |
| She suffered insomnia because of the excruciating | | | | "When you change the way you look at things, the |
| pain and because she wasn't getting sufficient sleep it | | | | things you look at change." |
| impaired her body's ability to heal itself. She lacked | | | | Wayne Dyer |
| energy and vitality. It was a vicious cycle. | | | | She said that within days of shifting her focus she |
| In her book, "How I Used the Law of Attraction to | | | | began to feel much better. If just her little finger was |
| Heal Myself from Chronic Pain", she says that: | | | | pain-free then she focused on that. She took it as |
| "I was so sad and so aware of my pain every step I | | | | evidence that her body was fundamentally healthy. |
| took. I was 36 and imagined I felt as a 96 year old | | | | In fact, Jennifer devised an eight-step process for |
| would feel on a bad day." | | | | self-healing which she strictly adheres to. |
| She endured scan after scan, blood test, after blood | | | | "I had to keep myself immersed in the Law of |
| test. The doctors finally concluded that Jennifer had | | | | Attraction teachings to not go back to my negative |
| Benign Hypermobility Syndrome (BHMS) except that | | | | ways. I had to make time for self-reflection, |
| there was nothing benign about what this illness was | | | | meditation and learning no matter what else was |
| doing to her body. | | | | demanding my time." |
| And the prognosis was not good - a lifetime of | | | | She is aiming to use her system which has the |
| medication plus she might end up in a wheel chair. | | | | acronym "PAGING ME" to help her ditch the last |
| She was relieved to finally have a label to apply to | | | | remaining drug that she still has to take. |
| what she had been experiencing but also devastated. | | | | Jennifer says that now she is able to accomplish |
| What's more she realized that she had become her | | | | more in a day than she used to be able to |
| illness. | | | | accomplish in a week and that her relationships with |
| She was told that basically she would never regain | | | | her husband and children have also been transformed. |
| her health and counselled to hold a small funeral to | | | | Jennifer is living proof of the awesome potential of |
| formally bid goodbye to her old self. She felt that she | | | | the Law of Attraction and that miracles can and do |
| couldn't sink any lower. | | | | happen. |
| Then, something miraculous happened. A friend had | | | | |