The Secret

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne tells you the secret of the universe. The essence of the book is Law Of Attraction, yes the secret is LOA. Honestly, “The Secret” isn’t the first book to come up with the theory of the law of attraction, and any internet search will come up with thousands of articles and books on the subject. But it’s the first I’ve seen to put the law of attraction so simply. And it’s the first I’ve ever seen that has had so many quotes from so many sources (including the Bible) and so many contributors, including scientists, doctors, life and business coaches, authors, ministers, and metaphysicians from both the past and the present.

The Secret is The Law of Attraction. This is a concept that states that whatever is going on in your mind will be attracted into your life. Therefore, think thoughts of abundance and wealth – and let no contradictory thoughts in – and you can have anything you want. Likewise, thinking about negative things in your life will only produce more negativity. In essence, The Secret explains that the intentions in your mind send instructions to the Universe and you get exactly what you think about. The process is broken down into three steps: ask, believe, and receive.

The Law of Attraction goes beyond positive thinking. The book emphasizes the use of visualization techniques, gratitude, faith and affirmations to help focus your mental energy. The overall concept requires that the individual believes strongly in the process. Believing is defined as “acting, thinking and speaking as if you have already received what you are asking for.”

The book describes The Secret through the voices of many highly successful experts from many different fields including philosophers, psychologists, life coaches, motivational speakers, and business professionals. Each explains their understanding of the Law of Attraction and how it affects reality. The underlying theme is all the same: you are the creator of your own destiny. Your thoughts have the power to manifest your desires.

The Law of Attraction is no mystery. It always attracts exactly what we ask for. Wallace Wattles, one of the early authors on the Law of Attraction wrote: "There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made...which fills the interspaces of the universe... A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imagined by the thought.... In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind...."

This is what Quantum Physics is telling us now. That energy can be a wave or a particle, and Neils Bohr discovered that its form is totally dependent upon what the observer expects. And, if, while looking into a glass of waves, the observer is convinced that they are particles, they will change to suit his belief! What does this mean? It means that we are creators. We just need to apply the appropriate system to manifest whatever we want in our lives.

So why aren't we all rich and happy? Because we haven't learned to implement the system. Our lives are definitely manifested, but as our emotions flip-flop from day to day, so does our creation, our life.

Napoleon Hill was clear: “If you're one of those that believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It's not true! Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work alone! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to DEFINITE DEMANDS, based upon the application of DEFINITE PRINCIPLES, and not by chance or luck.” He was talking about the Law of Attraction although he never named it.

Hill, after studying almost 500 of the most successful people of his era wrote further: “Once you apply the process, when riches begin to come, they come so quickly, and in such great abundance that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”

The Energy of the Universe flows according to your thoughts. What you think you can, you can and what you think you can't, you can't. Your Thought becomes Things!