Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Dec19/Jan20 Aspire Mag FINAL | Page 26

The Power of I DO: The Life Changing Power of Ritual BY THERESA CHEUNG Y ou have to have been living under a stone not to have come across the self- help concept of your thoughts having the power to create your world that was popularized by Rhonda Byrne and her million selling title: The Secret. There is profound truth in this concept but also a serious problem. Has positive thinking ever truly worked for you? Have you repeated your affirmations and decluttered all that negative thinking and sent cosmic orders out into the universe, but your life hasn’t improved or changed? Be honest now, has this lack of progress made you question whether positive thinking really works? I have often questioned the power of my thoughts to change my life until I had an ‘ah ha’ moment and understood what the problem was. 26 www.AspireMAG.net | December 2019 / January 2020