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About the Secret

About the Secret
By Will Edwards

The Secret is the title of a best-selling book by author, Rhonda Byrne and it is also the title of a full length movie that was released via the internet and based upon the book. According to Wikipedia, the movie was released in March 2006 though the Wikipedia entry does seem a little confused at present.

When I saw Rhonda Byrne interviewed, speaking about her personal experience of writing the book, it seems that she first became aware of the idea when she read The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles, back in 2004. After the death of her father, when she was at her lowest ebb emotionally, physically and financially, her daughter gave her the book to read and Rhonda commented that it gave her a first “glimpse of the secret.”

After that, she said that she spent hundreds of hours reading books, listening to audios, gradually learning more about the secret and tracing it back in history. She became passionate about sharing the secret, she appeared on the Oprah show and, what do you know, everything changed for her.

What is The Secret?

Quite simply, the secret is about the Law of Attraction. If you have never before heard of this, the law of attraction states that like attracts like. The idea is that it is operating, all of the time, whether you like it or not, to bring your future into reality. If your thoughts are full of negativity, then that’s what turns up in your life; if you think happy thoughts, you get a different life. It just sounds too good to be true – right?

When I ask people if they are optimists or pessimists at my workshops, I usually get a minority who admit to being pessimists. That is because, I believe, pessimists generally prefer the label ‘realist’. They often don’t see themselves as pessimistic, but realistic. It turns out that things don’t generally go too well for them in life, so they are not being pessimistic, but realistic, they say. Now isn’t that an interesting fact?

Similarly, when you question the optimists, you find out that they take the view that they tend to be naturally lucky, that things often do work out well for them and, if they don’t, they can always deal with the situation should it arise. The fact is that they do seem to be luckier and things do seem to work out well for them more often. Now, regardless of how this ‘law’ works, here we have a simple example (optimism/pessimism) that is very easy to corroborate.

There have been many studies on the benefits of optimism. Optimists and pessimists alike, according to proponents, are both making use of the same Law of Attraction to create their own versions of reality. However, optimists live in a much brighter world in which the universe seems favourable to their dreams and desires whilst pessimists continue to argue the toss that life is just not like that.

Where Did The Secret Originate?

There are a number of well known New Thought books, now in the public domain, that all advocate the same basic principle including:

  • As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
  • The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
  • The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Neither Wallace D Wattles nor James Allen directly refer to the principle as the Law of Attraction, however, both books are indeed based upon the concept. Both Charles Haanel and Napoleon Hill refer directly to the principle by name. The title of Allen’s book comes from the book of Proverbs and if you simply read the verse from which the title is taken, you can quite easily discern what was in the mind of the author.

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Of course, this brings up the fact that the principle appears in the Bible and not just in the book of Proverbs either. It apparently also appears in Hindu scriptures and I would not be surprised to find it elsewhere within religious texts because it is essentially, a correct principle.

Here is the principle, as I see it anyway, in the Buddist scriptures:

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” – The Dhammapada

It seems that a famous hadith of the prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) may support the proposal that the principle is also to be found in Islam:

“actions are by intentions, so each man will have what he intended.”

Religious texts are always open to interpretation of course, so if you see things differently, then that’s ok with me. You could certainly argue the above scriptures either way, but it seems to me that if the principle is correct, then we should expect to find it within religions writings. Thoughts, after all, are one form of prayer.

Application of The Secret

Now, this is the part that many people get wrong. Somehow, from the popular books, it seems that quite a number of people have got the impression that all you need to do is think about what you want and it will come to you without any effort on your part. None of the above writers say that this is the case.

Wattles says, on this very point, that people meet their ‘shipwreck’ when they fail to connect thought with action. James Allen says that people will only see the results and not the effort that went in to producing them, Napoleon Hill is a strong advocate of having a plan and then working it and finally, Charles Haanel says that thought is what we put out to the universe and thought is what is received.

All of the above-mentioned writers are in complete agreement that thought is an important part of the process of achieving success, but none of them advocate thinking alone as a mean of getting what you want in life. Without exception, they all advocate taking persistent, goal-focused action.

All you really need to know about the secret is that it essentially concerns the importance of constructing a vision for your life. When you have done that, you should to focus upon it regularly. If you are a religions person, then you obviously would arrive at your vision prayerfully because your future is bound up with what you believe God wants for your life. If you do this and arrive at a solid and detailed picture of what you believe is your future, then regardless of the mechanisms that are involved, like so many people before you, you will begin to find the way.

You will receive ideas that will illuminate your path and, if you are serious about achieving what you have envisioned, you will commit yourself to taking continuous action that will move you in the direction of your goal. If you do these things, nothing can prevent you from achieving success.

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Will Edwards is Founder of http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk

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The Body as the Reflection of a Mental State

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The Body as the Reflection of a Mental State

Author: Genevieve

This is an assumption that any person in his right mind would desire to live a happy and fulfilling life in all areas of his existence.

Napoleon Hill popularized the statement “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it achieves.” The mind is the origin of everything manifested in the material world. Health, wealth, beauty, lifestyle, education, job or career, relationships, appearances and everything that an individual experiences in his everyday life is a reflection of what is going on in his mind.

The mind is the seat of perception, creation and creativity, imagination and productivity, analyses of situations and any experiences in the material condition of an individual.

Whatever is the quality of the flow of thinking of a person is reflected in the quality of life he is experiencing in his material world. The contents and activities of the mind are enacted by the body and are also reacted by the surrounding including objects, incidents, and other human beings.

If the mind is disciplined to think only on beauty, wealth, health and creative works then these are also manifested in the lifestyle of the thinker. If the mind sees only beauty in the person regardless of any flaws then this person will look beautiful to everyone too. If the mind focuses on wealth as the person’s true state of being then this person will only see opportunities that he had never acknowledged before then he starts to act accordingly to success. If the mind sees the person healthy in every detail of his body then that is what this person becomes.

We are what and how we think. Everything we experience in our lives is just a reflection of our mental state. Our health and beauty, regardless of age and circumstances in life are the enactment and manifestations of the state of the mind.

Any shade of negative thoughts that become a dominating thought for quite some time reflects on the way we live in all areas; such as money or income, job or career, our chosen field of specialization, relationships.

Anyone who desires to live a fulfilling and successful life must first pay attention to his mental attitude in a moment by moment basis.

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I am Jenny, married, 56 years old, a College Professor for 20 years teaching Social Sciences and Business specifically Economics.

 

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The Internet of Minds

The Internet of Minds
By Gary Greenbank

There is growing evidence that we create reality with our minds and further more that our minds are connected as one in a way we as yet don’t understand. How is this possible?

One explanation is to do with the two hemispheres of the human brain. You have probably heard that the brain comprises of two halves, left and right hemispheres. What surprised me when I researched this subject is that the brain really is in two distinct halves that are separate from each other and only connected by the corpus callosum at the base. These two distinct halves have very separate roles and both process information differently. The left brain is the one we use for regular tasks such as logical, rational thought and time orientation. The left hemisphere is all about the past and the future. It takes all our experiences and information from the past and projects into the future to give us feedback on possible actions and results. It’s the ‘little voice’, the ego that gives us our sense of individuality. The separate identity of ‘I am’. It is the mechanism by which we separate ourselves from others.

Conversely the right hemisphere is used for intuitive thinking and kinesthetic feelings. It is connected to the energy all around us and operates in the moment as this energy streams in from external sources. The right hemisphere lets us know what the present moment looks like, feels like, smells like and tastes like. Is it possible that the right sides of our brains are all connected in some way that we don’t fully understand as yet? Could the right hemisphere of our brains be connected in something like an internet of brains where all knowledge is available to all those connected to it and all those connected to it are also connected to each other. After all we are capable of sending complex information wirelessly between mobile phones and computers on opposite sides of the world. Isn’t it therefore feasible, and even probable, that our brains are connected in some way that we do not understand at this point in our technological evolution?

Right and left brains A fascinating example of this idea in real life was experienced in 1996 when Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven year old brain scientist, suffered a major stroke. A blood vessel had ruptured in the left half of her brain. What made this event fascinating was that being a trained professional in matters of the brain she was able to understand what was happening as the left side of her brain began shutting down. During the experience, that took place in her home over four hours, she lost the ability to talk, walk, remember anything clearly or undertake simple cognitive tasks. The intuitive, kinesthetic and feeling right hand side of her brain continued to function normally. Ms Bolte Taylor has presented her experience to fascinated audiences throughout the world.

In summary when her left brain was shut down and only her right brain was functioning she felt a total sense of peace and joy. Her left brain was silent and she had no ‘little voice’, no ego, no cognitive functions. On the other hand because she was experiencing the world purely through her right hemisphere she felt at one with all the energy around her. She found that could not define the boundary of her body, where she ended and the external world began. She couldn’t identify her position in space and felt enormous. She describes the feeling as ‘nirvana’, a world filled with compassion and love. In reality she was experiencing her true essence. She was experiencing herself as she was before The Separation which made her forget and start feeling limited and separate.

When she survived this near death experience Ms Bolte Taylor realised that if she could find nirvana then everyone could find nirvana. She makes the point that everyone can choose who and what they want to be at any moment. Step into the right hemisphere and feel compassionate and connected to the energy and people all around you. Or step into the left hemisphere and become an individual ego totally separate from others.

I believe that the right hemisphere is what connects all of us to our Higher Self. When you look from the perspective of you Higher Self it is the same as choosing to experience the world completely through the right hemisphere of your brain. You can make the choice to enhance your life and it is a conscious decision.

The video of Ms Bolte Taylor’s presentation

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Give Love – Gather Love

Give Love – Gather Love
By Carolyn Porter

I’m sure that most of you, if not all of you reading this article know that love feels good, so much better than fear. And I imagine you know that there are only two emotions in the world – love and fear. Every feeling we experience originates from these two emotions. Both are powerful and steer your life according to the foundation upon which you build each thought and word – from love or fear.

Love expresses as compassion, understanding, appreciation, acceptance, forgiveness, abundance, peace, harmony, caring, commitment, expansion, freedom, magnificence, empowerment and joy, whereas fear expresses as anger, jealousy, criticism, judgment, lack, discord, unhappiness, procrastination, low self-worth, confinement, smallness, retaliation, guilt, hurt, blame and shame. It is obvious which expressions are more favorable and which ones you would rather experience.

You probably also know that whatever you send out every day – the energetic vibrations of your thoughts and actions – is what comes back to you many times over in the experiences of your life. Anger begets anger; judgment begets judgment. It’s a scientific fact that you cannot change the energy midstream and receive positive results from fear-based thinking. However, if you change your original base of thinking into positive thoughts from love, you can then shift your entire outcome into something good.

I know you’ve heard this many times before, but have you listened to it and accepted it as a truth? You may have great head knowledge and can spit out the perfect words that tell others you’ve got it, but do you really get it? Is the inner knowing of love-based thinking and actions really a core in your being so that everything you say and do has a root in love?

Some years ago as I was searching for the perfect decorator items for the opening of Where Miracles Happen Quantum Healing & Empowerment Center, I came across the words in the title of this article. It was scripted on a framed piece of art with the background the exact colors in the center. It was an instant internal knowing that this was something I had to purchase because the words were exactly the basis of everything the center stands for. I placed it in our downstairs restroom where individuals could see it as they washed their hands. Many people commented on what a great piece this is.

So let’s dig into this thought for a moment. Every thought you think is made of energy, and once that energy is formed, it continues to circulate around the universe picking up more of the same energy; it is constantly in motion and never dies. So if you’re thinking hateful thoughts about someone, maybe in the form of anger, that energy spins out from you and gathers all kinds of other angry thoughts, getting larger and larger in the process. Pretty soon there is a massive energy vortex of anger circulating around you and all the other beings with those thoughts. It will hover over you like a huge cloud of darkness because anger is dark energy based in fear.

On the other hand, if you are sending blessings to people and appreciating the individuals in your life, and thinking how blessed you are, you will radiate that energy out to the universe and it will attract more of the same energy of blessings and appreciation. It also will grow larger and larger as it collects the same energy and it will create a massive halo over you of light and goodness. So which would you prefer hanging over your head?

I feel sure you’d rather have love hanging over you than fear, but perhaps you find it hard to feel love or be love. In order to receive love you have to give love, so how do you do this in such a fear-based world?

It requires a big shift on your part, shifting you from negative thoughts to positive thoughts. It’s not an easy task since you’ve been programmed from fear all of your life, making much of your foundation negative. So the key for you is to step out of that old programming and create something new.

Your first step will be to pay attention to what you are saying, because your words were first thoughts, and your thinking is where the change has to take place. Listen to what you think about all day. Think about the words you speak. Are they thoughts and words that are loving, or are you judging, gossiping, criticizing, complaining, and feeling frustrated throughout your day? Here is your point of origin, for in order to change your life from fear-based to love-based, you have to change your thinking.

Like so many things, being able to give love is an internal job. Love isn’t about doing or saying; it’s about being. You cannot give what you do not have. So in order to give love, you have to be love. How can you be love?

You must love yourself before all else. Remember, you cannot give what you do not have! So in order to give love you must love yourself unconditionally just as you are. But many individuals don’t feel too good about themselves and suffer from low self-worth, something taught them through their programming, the “not enough syndrome” of: not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not wealthy enough; not able enough. So you find it difficult to value yourself or even love yourself because you feel defective.

However, every one of you is a priceless, unique, one-of-a-kind masterpiece worthy of all good. All of you are part of the same energy of the universe and were created from the essence of love. Love is your birthright and what you are made of, but when entering this world it is forgotten, and fear reigns.

Your task then is to return to your essence of love and create a life from that base, accepting your inborn power to create what you want and be the love. It will mean you must let go of all the old programming that says you are defective and have limits so that you can remember the love from whence you came.

How can you love yourself? Accept yourself as a perfect specimen of creation, born with the power to create the life you want. Appreciate who you are and all the gifts inside of you. Operate your life from a base of gratitude for everything, even the challenges. Practice forgiveness. Flow with life and whatever it brings you; quit resisting. Look for the opportunities in any challenge. Always help others.

Who do you gravitate to – the person with a scowl on their face and daggers darting from their eyes, or the individual who is smiling at you with sparkling, inviting eyes? Your answer is obvious. So it’s up to you to become the person wearing a beautiful, inviting smile that emanates from a heart filled with love. By being this individual, you can then attract the same unto you. Love is the only thing that ever heals, and it’s who you truly are in the first place.

If the harvest you dream of gathering for your life includes all the expressions of love, then begin today, right now, to shift your entire internal dialogue from a negative fear-based mindset to a positive, filled-with-love thinking. As you do this, you will gather the most amazing harvest of love!

Carolyn Porter, D. Div., is an internationally known speaker, author of multiple books, eBooks and audios that include “Angel Love”, “Healing with Color,” “Toxic America” and “Adrenal Fatigue: the Missing Pieces of Your Puzzle,” spiritual wholeness coach, trainer and angel channel whose passion is helping individuals move beyond their limitations and help them see they can do and be what they can envision. She is the owner of Where Miracles Happen Quantum Healing & Empowerment Center in Cumming, GA. For more information on her services, books and products,please visit her website at http://www.wheremiracleshappen.com.

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Religion and The Law of Attraction


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Religion and The Law of Attraction
By Christina T Moore

The Law of Attraction works if you believe in God or not. It works no matter who you believe God is. For some who follow The LOA, the Universe and all that is in it is God. The Divine energy is all things and has created all things and through this energy we continue to create and expand this force. There is no death or birth of a soul but a transition to and from physical. We can never be separated from this Divine force as we are small fragments of it, holographic images of the whole. There is no punishment, hell or damnation. There is no need for salvation from sin as we were born perfect and this world is perfect as it is.

That is a lot to digest if you are from a religious background. There is one divine source from which we all come. This source is the glue that binds us all together. It is the space that fills the Universe. It is the informational conduit that communicates to our souls. No matter what your religious preference is the energies around us are the mechanical cogs that get things done. This energy is how ‘God’ moves objects and circumstances to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. All of these processes are on autopilot. They coordinate across the vast expanse of space and time to bend to our will.

Sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it? We set the events in our lives on their mark and let them go. You can keep your faith, but you must accept the responsibility for most of what happens to you. Your choice of thoughts direct the circumstances in your life. Have your faith in God, that’s wonderful, but try to grasp this concept with the eyes of a child; God is Love. Nothing else exists but Love, when you witness anything other than that, it is merely resistance to Love. Let go of the resistance and Love will bring the situation power. Lets look at it from a scientific stand point.

When you apply strong emotion to imagination it produces electrical and magnetic potential that runs through our bodies and moves within the fluids across the membranes of our cells.

This process creates a vibrational signature that moves out of the body into the environment.

(1) Professor Hans Jenny explains that the higher the frequency of vibration, which is generated by pleasant emotions, the greater the environmental influence. Not just within the proximal location where you stand but simultaneously through the universe as a whole.

This feeling you have just produced effects other energies, cells, and DNA everywhere that has the same vibrational signature.

This amazing process, in my opinion, proves that there is a God. Who his is to you is up to you and what you are able to understand. When you are ready to grow the information will come.

(1) According to Hans Jenny, professor at Berkeley 1936, where he contributed his book, “Factors of Soil Formation” (1941). One of many articles can be found at; http://www.cymaticsource.com/articles/a1-article.html

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The Law of Attraction – Learning to Manifest Your Heart’s Desires

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By Michelle Kulp

The first step in manifesting the desires of your heart is that you first have to “ask” for what you want. Sometimes we forget that step. You see, without asking, you will receive no answer. It’s important, however, to note that before asking comes a sort of “pre-step” which is actually sitting down and figuring out exactly what the desires of your heart are. (We’ll go over that a little later.)

It says in Napoleon Hill‘s classic book, “Think and Grow Rich,” that “The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.” “It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.” This means that whatever you can “visualize” as being possible in your life, IF you believe, you can achieve it.

What is a belief? A thought that you repeat over and over until it turns into a belief. All thoughts carry a vibrational energy to them. That vibrational frequency is attracting that which you are “thinking” about. Unfortunately, many of us think about what we don’t want and therefore what we “don’t want” is drawn unto us.

What you currently have and are experiencing in your life is a direct result of the law of attraction. Just like the law of gravity works whether or not you believe in it, so does the law of attraction.

The Law of Attraction says, “that which is likened unto itself is drawn” or in other words, “you get what you think about whether your want it or not!”

According to Esther and Jerry Hicks, from the book, “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”: “Every thought vibrates, every thought radiates a signal, and every thought attracts a matching signal back.”

According to the authors and the teachings of Abraham from this book, there are 3 steps to the law of attraction and learning to manifest your desires.

 

3 STEPS:

You Ask – This is your work and it requires action on your part. That’s why it’s important to do the pre-step and sit down and write out what you really want in your life. Everything is possible.

The Universe Answers – The answer is given (not your work); Step 2 is the work of the “non-physical”, the work of the “God Force”. Although all questions are answered and every desire is given, it may be hindered because of your inability to complete Step 3…

You Allow it In – This is the application of what’s known as the “art of allowing. It has to do with the matching of the vibrational frequency of your Being to match the vibrational frequency of that which you desire. So unless you are in the receiving mode, then your questions and desires will not be answered or fulfilled (they were heard, but because your vibrations are not a match, you are in essence, not letting them in.)

So, let’s review… you only have 2 steps, the asking part and the allowing part. Seems pretty straight-forward, right?

It truly is, but here’s where most of us get hung up and these are the things that actually prevent us from manifesting the desires of our heart:

Telling your story – For example, the “I’m broke story.” You cannot continue to point out the absence of something you want without holding yourself in resistance to that which you want. So you need to stop talking about the story of “what is” if you want something to change.

Forgetting the time-gap – Often we ask for something we want and because there is a time gap from the time we ask to the time we receive, instead of focusing our attention purely on the desire itself, we go back to the “lack of” the desire and then we end up attracting that. When you are more aware of what you don’t want, then what you do want cannot come into your life.

Your Emotions – Our emotions will actually tell us exactly what is going on when it comes to the law of attraction. If we are feeling bad we are not in alignment with what we want; if we are feeling good about it, then we are in alignment with our desires.

Trying to Control your Thoughts – Instead of trying to “force” or “control” your thoughts, try simply reaching for a good feeling about that which you desire and that will guide your thoughts in a more natural way.

So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write down 3 things you want in your life. It can be for material things or a situation to improve, a relationship or a health issue. Write it down now.

Remember, you only have 2 jobs to manifest your desires (and you just completed the first job, which is asking.) Now your second job is to “allow” and how do you allow your desires in? By focusing on the desire (not the lack of it in your life) and to reach for good feelings as a way to guide your thoughts back to the desires of your heart.

Repeated thoughts = Beliefs.

Beliefs = Manifestation of our Desires.

I’ll end with a beautiful quote from Buddha:

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow; our life is the creation of our mind.”

Michelle Kulp, is known as the “6-Figure Woman Coach!” Michelle is passionate about helping Women make 6-figures and to turn their Passions and Pleasures into Online Profits. If you would like a FREE copy of Michelle’s FREE, ebook, “The Lazy Woman’s Guide to a 6-Figure Income”, please visit her website at: http://www.becomea6figurewoman.com

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