Seven Weeks Away From Mr. Right?
Why wait 7 years when you can find "the One" in 7 weeks?
Before The Secret, there was "The One." To be exact, there was a self-help bestseller titled Calling in "the One": 7 Weeks To Attract the Love of Your Life.
Seven weeks? I was dubious—but intrigued. I had never before read this type of book; never gone "new age" enough to actually purchase one. But I read my horoscope, I like sending out good vibes, and I'm all about the Golden Rule.
I saw no compelling reason why my one true love shouldn't be summoned like the book promised. Like so many single, hopeful romantics out there, I thought, "I've waited long enough."
Calling in "the One," (hereafter known as CITO) is a 49-day book with a plan for finding true love, based upon the über-popular Law Of Attraction. Published two years before The Secret swept the nation, is has a similar thesis: To get what you want, just think really hard about it and poof, the universe manifests it. Watch a video about using the law of attraction to find the one
Author and psychotherapist Katherine Woodward Thomas says, CITO "is not necessarily informational in nature, it's transformational." She also warns that there will be rough spots, mostly due to dredging up your past wounds in order to get over them, and she equates the CITO process with cleaning out your closet—after all, there isn't room for new stuff until you toss out the old.
I decided I was ready for some spiritual spring-cleaning, but I faced a dilemma: I was on deadline, and I didn't have 49 days. What to do? Speed-read the entire 325-page book and cram 49 days into 10, or carefully read and perform 10 days' worth of lessons?
Woodward emphasizes that you should work at your own pace and not rush to meet a strict one-lesson-per-day quota. Good plan, I thought.
According to my calculations, cleansing for 10 days would see me 20.4 percent of the way toward finding my "one," so the odds of some reward were in my favor. Now I just needed a partner—Woodward also encourages doing the course with a friend, or likeminded others.
Finding a full group is tricky, unless you are tied in to your local spiritual community—or take the time to read all the flyers at Whole Foods. So I half-enlisted my best friend, Melanie, who joined in via phone here and there. Together, we dove in.
Discussion
I found this to be an interesting and even mildly funny article but I overlooked it because of the picture on your magazine's homepage. I went to that author's website and she's not an African American woman. I don't get it, why is the author portrayed as a somewhat sad looking black woman?
