The Secret - Meet the laws of nature
By DelMio Editor
March 27th, 2008 | Leave a comment
While clearing out some flowerbeds over the weekend, I came across something I never realized grew in the suburbs: poison ivy.Having spent my whole life in a rural area, I thought poison ivy only showed up in the woods. Who knew it could crash through the city limits? Apparently, I’m pretty naive.(I was working at the house I’m going to move into this fall after my dad and brother are done working their remodeling magic, but that’s another story.)Anyway, I had a nasty poison ivy outbreak in the spring and wasn’t about to have another one. Since it was growing in the exact spot where I had hoped to kneel down, I had no choice but to confront it.
I put on my gardening gloves, grabbed my little shovel, and popped each plant out of the ground. Then I saw the hives forming on my arm.
“Oh gosh. Here we go again,” I thought, recalling the tell-tale hives from my previous poison ivy encounter.
Then I remembered I’m supposed to be living by The Secret, so I changed my thinking.
“Perfect skin, flawless skin,” I repeated to myself.
I also went in the house after I was done and washed my arms with dish soap, but I’m not sure whether it helped, since I used the dish soap method the first time I ended up with poison ivy.
Now, I’m happy to report the hives went away, and I have no poison ivy. I’m no doctor, so the law of attraction is the only explanation I have for this one.
I’m chalking it up in my “win” column next to the miraculous weather change for my sister’s wedding.
