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Hagiotherapy came into my life just when I was at the very bottom of my life.
Already at an early age, I started looking for Love, but I looked for it in the wrong places, in idols, in music, in other people’s attention, praise, recognition, fame and material wealth.
My search for a ”perfect” world separated me from Him, although He was always by my side, I did not know it at the time. I did not think about God at all, I was too busy with myself and my pursuit of success and fame that I started to lose my soul.
I lived in idols such as music and dance, I longed for self-realization and success, for satisfaction of my ambitions and I was crushing over people just to achieve my goal. I was not aware of myself or my life, my whole life seemed perfect but it was far from that. In this desire to achieve myself and be liked by people, I found myself in a vortex of self-love, manipulation of people, fornication, arrogance, humiliation of others, fraud and idolatry.
With one difficult event in my life at the time, the Lord separated me from music, separated me from the place where I lived with my parents, took away everything I had. Then I began to sink even deeper into the abyss where the Evil One held me tightly. I began to wonder about the meaning of life, about human existence and mortality. Then a relative told me that I could go to the hagiotherapy lecture by professor Ivančić in Kinoteka because he was going to talk about God and the meaning of life.
Hagiotherapy was a God-given grace, it was my way to a new beginning. Through hagiotherapy I began to wake up, return to myself, to become aware of my mortality that I could not accept before.
Then I started thinking differently, speaking differently, doing differently. Step by step I allowed the Lord to enter my heart and begin to heal my deep wounds. Then I lost many friends. They did not believe that I could change so much. I left the old wordly system of values and started living in the Truth. I saw that it works, that many things change, that my life is no longer the same.
Indeed, hagiotherapy worked in every area of my life, in relationships with people, family, at the university. Cognitive therapy, as a part of hagiotherapy, had the greatest effect on my conversion, first of the intellect, after which everything very quickly ”settled” in the heart and then my life changed. At these meetings, I experienced vivid sharing of life and existential truths that completely shook my previous understanding of the world around me, which resulted in my complete change.
