How to stop a plane on a runway…

Kristin was sitting in her seat on the plane heading to a the annual Mother’s Day weekend that her family has had in Philadelphia every year for as long as Kristin can remember. It is a weekend that she would rather had stayed at home and cleaned toilets with a toothbrush as the later would have been a joy compared to the disaster she say ahead. Kristin though about the Law of Attraction and how she could change this weekend and make it be whatever she wanted. Kristin though, “I just want to go to my motel room and have a nice quiet evening by myself, relax and have room service bring me dinner before I see everyone tomorrow.” She thought it, imagined the pleasure it would bring and let it go. The plane was still sitting on the runway 5 minutes later and the announcement came, “this flight has been canceled.”  Kristin laughed; this was only the beginning of her miraculous weekend.

Kristin got off the plane with the rest of the passengers; there was no engine trouble, no bad weather, only a mention of an overbooked flight without enough attendants to take care of the passengers. As Kristin waited in line, she heard the clerk telling other in front of her that they would receive a $30 voucher for a hotel room and that was it. When Kristin got to the counter the clerk looked at her ticket and said, “We have a room reserved for you at the Hilton and here is a voucher for room service.” The passengers behind her and in front did not get the same royal treatment. Kristin called her fiancé, John and told him her flight was cancelled, his only replay was, “you didn’t.” John knew that Kristin had been reading the book “The Secret” just the night before and instantly knew that somehow she had stopped the plane.

My friend, Kristin is 21 years old; her fiancé is in his 50’s. Kristin’s family is very much against the wedding.  Her mother sends her very hurtful emails and lately her dad had joined in doing the same. They started sending emails after Kristin told her mom not to call her any more if she was only going to say hurtful things. 

I shared “The Secret” with Kristin several months ago and Kristin enjoyed some successes with small things, but did not apply the principals to her relationship with her family. I have seen Kristin crying after reading an email from her mom and wanted to help, but she did not seem to want to believe that the Law of Attraction applied to relationships. 

One day I came into her office and she was crying really hard, I went around the desk and hugged her and asked if it was an email from her mom, she told me her dad was now joining in the email writing. I told Kristin that it was time to change the channel on her relationship with her mom and dad. She was crying too hard to help so I grabbed her keyboard on her computer and started a document, I wrote, “what I really want…” I started typing as I talked to her; “a nice conversation with my mom, my mom and dad to be nice to me and all of us to be able to enjoy each others company; I want my parents to go to my wedding (they had refused to even talk about it before and had insisted that no one from the family would be there for the wedding). I typed more things as I talked to Kristin. Then I stopped and said, “WOW that feels better.” (It made me feel better even if it didn’t seem to help Kristin at the time). I told her to think about the relationship she would like to have and let it go.

One week later Kristin came by my office and borrowed my book “The Secret.” A few days later she went on her trip.

Kristin said that she had a wonderful time that night in the motel that everything she wanted to have happen did. She was happy and relaxed the next day and had decided to have a great time with all her aunts, cousins and mom. She said she felt like a princess and started out the rest of her weekend from that vibrational level. She said that everyone was nice to her, they all decided to come to the wedding, her mom decided to participate in the wedding and all around her wonderful things happened. Her every desire came true; she had a thought that she would like to have some special olives and her cousin came to her and asked if she wanted to go with her to this store that had some really special olives – Kristin laughed (every little thing she wanted was coming to her). The happier she was the more she got. All around her people were doing nice things for her, things that they would not normally do. They were even surprised that they had done some of the things.

The week before Kristin had gone on this trip, I told her about how I had learned to ask for something and let it go – focusing on enjoying the moment and realizing that I did not have to have anything specific, that I could allow God to take over and I always get “more than I could hope or imagine.” Kristin got more than she could hope or imagine.