Our breakthrough…
Everything we tried helped a little. But we never experienced our big breakthrough until one of our old therapists mailed us a cassette tape. And that little cassette tape changed our lives.
I’m not sure we even listened to it at first. It might have sat around our house for months. But one day Kim was doing some housework, and she popped this cassette tape into a player and started listening. By the time it finished, she was begging me to listen to it too. (Sometimes the answer you’re looking for is right in front of you!)
Wow! If even half of what we heard on that tape was true, we had to check it out.
The tape said that God could change our core beliefs, those things that felt true, deep down, those things that control how we experience life. The tape said Kim could be free of panic. I could be free of the mind trap I was in—in the place of anger and anxiety, I could have peace.
It involved some kind of prayer, but different from any kind of prayer I had ever tried or experienced. We needed to find someone who knew how to do it. So we started our search.
A couple weeks later, we found Steve. Two days after the 9/11 attacks, we sat in his office. I spent the first hour grilling him. I wanted to make sure he was the real deal. When I decided he was safe, I stepped out of the room so he could pray with Kim.
A half hour later, Kim’s panic was gone. She didn’t have another panic attack for months, and has had only a handful in all the years from 2001 to present. Her need for medication went from a 9 to a 2.
This half hour on September 13, 2001 started a journey for us. We started meeting with God in a way we had never experienced before. In those meetings, we discovered a God who really, really likes us. And every time we meet with Him this way, we go away changed—stronger, healthier on the inside, more at peace, more whole, more put together.
What’s the result?
• Mr. X no longer bothers me. At all. In fact, I hardly ever think about him. When I do, I’m okay. I don’t need anything from him to be deeply at peace inside. And, no, I have no desire to punch him any more. I understand why he did what he did. Who knows? If I were in his shoes, I might have done the same thing. Or worse. That doesn’t make it right. That doesn’t make it okay. But I’m okay.
• Kim almost never experiences anxiety or panic attacks. Never say never, but the difference is night and day.
• I almost never worry about money. I even did a real estate deal that everybody thought was impossible. Without having a dime, I bought a million dollar property. Later I sold it. And no, I didn’t get rich, but I walked away with enough money to get out of debt and to put a substantial down payment on a new home.
• Our marriage is like 600% better. Wow. We like each other so much. We love hanging out together. We respect each other. We trust each other. More than ever before, we understand and love each other.
• I don’t shake any more when I’m sitting at the kitchen table. In fact, I’m so much more relaxed, at peace, okay inside. Again, night and day.
• My anger dissolved. I used to get angry a lot. I was always trying to control my anger around my family, often apologizing to my kids and my wife for losing my temper. That completely went away. I don’t need to TRY to control my anger any more. It just isn’t there. It’s gone.
• My relationship with God has come alive. Years ago, God felt remote, aloof, uncaring, unfeeling to me. That has totally turned around.
I have a name for all of this. I call it INNER WEALTH.
I’ve experienced INNER WEALTH, and you can too. I’ll show you how.
