There will be times in your life when nothing seems to go right, when no one seems to care, when all that you touch turns to mud. This is the law of attraction—a negative spiraling effect—in action. We ask you to be on guard for these times. One negative thought leads to another, and down you go, round and round in the whirlpool, flailing until you think this state is all that is.
You do know better. You have experienced the opposite of desperation. Pure joy is your natural state. Do not ever give up hope that peace and joy can be yours. It is a matter of recognizing when you have entered the victim state. It truly is only a state of mind, but once there, believing you are a victim, your mind holds you there. Only ego plays the victim. It enjoys the role. Spirit knows that victimhood is a powerless state of forgetting how powerful you truly are.
To return to that powerful state of spirit requires not effort, but surrender. It seems a paradox, but it is not. Surrender to God, that Force that gives you life, strength, and love. Effort gives you nothing. Spirit is already present, but it requires recognition of this fact. Be the victim no longer. Be present and allow Spirit to take over. In an instant, the downward spiral reverses and you rise.