Everyone is looking for The Secret recipe for happiness in life. Rhonda Byrne claims she has found it. The result is a step by step DIY book, The Secret, which claims that you can manifest into your life, whatever you think will bring happiness. “The Secret” is a good spiritual healing motivational book which is packaged to remind us of what we have always done unknowingly, for success in life. The book was released in Nov 2006.
The book is based on the saying: “Everything is possible for the person who believes. – Jesus, Mark 9:23.”
Rhonda Byrne has her own interpretation of the biblical quote: “The Secret is the law of attraction!”
She has simplified the process into Three Steps:
Ask
Believe
Receive
The main criticism of the book by skeptics has been that item 3 should have been “action” and item 4, Receive. According to them she has totally misled the gullible public that by just ‘asking’ and ‘believing’ you will ‘receive’ whatever you want i.e., wealth, health or happiness without any action or work to achieve it. In her defense I must mention that Rhonda Byrne has said once on page 55 that action to manifest what you are asking for is required. According to her, it’s an “inspired action” which does not seem hard because you will be enjoying doing it. This reference to action and hard work has not been emphasised, thus making the whole process look like Aladdin and his lamp. Aladdin picks up the lamp, dusts it off, and out pops the Genie. The Genie always says one thing:”Your wish is my command!”
In her subsequent books she has more than made up this lacuna by expanding on the theme of “The Secret”. In her second book “The Power” (2010) she deals with the Power of Love in our lives. The third book “The Magic” (2012) deals with the theme of Gratitude and its positive effect. The latest book “The Hero” (2013) deals with the lives of 12 successful people and the hard work they put in to realise their dreams.
Like millions of successful people, I too have firmly believed in this ideology even before I had read the book. I have seen its fruition in my own life many times when I have firmly believed in what I asked for and it would happen after I planned and worked hard for it. Of course there have been instances where my belief wasn’t strong enough or I didn’t work hard for it. Following three examples show when it worked for me.
Coming back in 1990 from our extended stay of more than 10 years in the Middle East, I had envisioned launching a Computer related enterprise in Mangalore. So when we built the house in Mangalore, we included a large room with plenty of electrical sockets and direct entry from the main door as well. I worked for many Architects teaching them the use of computers for their building design work. Eventually they wanted me to design and draw electrical systems for their buildings. I realised my dream of setting up a computerised engineering office in the very room I had envisioned.
Roaming in the streets of Bangalore, I saw many times the Honda City car. It was my desire to have one of my own. We had even built a two car garage and had one small car. Within a few years, we ultimately bought Honda City car in 2005 when its automatic transmission version was offered.
While I was dazzled by the Forum Mall in Bangalore, I wished that I too would be associated as an Engineer to build a similar Mall in Mangalore. Few years down the line in 2005, when the local promoters and the architect of a proposed first mall “Bharath Mall” in Mangalore called me to take up the electrical work, I could not believe that my wish had materialised. Later in 2006 I also went on to design an electrical system for a bigger mall than Forum Mall i.e., the “City Center” Mall.
I read the book The Secret several times to get the take home message. The message I got was this. Ask yourself exactly what you need, make a mental picture of it, know how you will use it and then take action and work for it to manifest it in your life. Such a simple theorem of success in life has been stretched to fill a book by Rhonda Byrne with the participation of 24 Spiritual Healers who all endorse that The Secret works. The book contains the main theme by the author interspersed with the inputs of the spiritual healers with their inputs, details and hints to make The Secret work for you.
I found many proverbs which also describe this process. God helps those who help themselves. Find the purpose and the means will follow. Where there is a will there is a way. So arm yourself with these positive affirmations and make your life a happy life.
The contents of the copyrighted book “The Secret” are abridged by Rhonda Byrne at end of each section in the book. However it is a revelation to read the entire book. The abridged contents are as follows:
The Secret Revealed
The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction.
• The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.
• Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source—you.
• You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.
• Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.
• Your thoughts become things.
The Secret Made Simple
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law of gravity.
Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.
To know what you’re thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling.
Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.
It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.
Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.
Secret Shifters, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favourite music, can change your feelings and shift your frequency in an instant.
The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.
How to use the Secret
Like Aladdin’s Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.
• The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive.
• Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked.
• Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you’ve asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive.
• Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.
• To lose weight, don’t focus on “losing weight.” Instead, focus ony our perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will summon it to you.
• It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.
Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action. Powerfully intend to attract something small As you experience the power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much bigger things.
• Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.
Powerful Processes
Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don’t expect the things you don’t want.
Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.
Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your desires and sends a more powerful signal out into the Universe.
Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of at-traction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.
To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being. Not just a one-time event.
At the end of every day, before you go to sleep, go back through the events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you wanted, replay them in your mind the way you wanted them to go.
The Secret to Money
To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it.
• It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you will feel better about money; as you feel better about it, more will flow into your life.
• Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life.
• Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to yourself, “I can afford that. I can buy that.” You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money.
• Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying,
“I have plenty.”• Visualize checks in the mail.• Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.
The Secret to Relationships
When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings don’t contradict your desires.
• Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.
• Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.
• When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you attract more people and situations that will continue to make you feel bad about you.
• Focus on the qualities you love about yourself and the law of attraction will show you more great things about you.
• To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints. When you focus on the strengths, you will get more of them
The Secret to Health
The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and is cured.
“Focusing on perfect health “is something we can all do within our-selves, despite what may be happening on the outside.
Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.
Disease is held in the body by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little unwell, don’t talk about it —unless you want more of it. If you listen to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful thoughts to seeing those people in health.
Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.
Do not listen to society’s messages about diseases and aging. Negative messages do not serve you.
The Secret to the World
What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused on it with emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings.
• You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world’s negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.
• Instead of focusing on the world’s problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education, and peace.
• We will never run out of good things because there’s more than enough to go around for everyone. Life is meant to be abundant.
• You have the ability to tap into the unlimited supply through your thoughts and feelings and bring it into your experience.
• Praise and bless everything in the world, and you will dissolve negativity and discord and align yourself with the highest frequency—love
The Secret to You
Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.
• You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed—it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence of you has always been and always will be.
• The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of our own destiny but also of the Universe.
• An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in your consciousness.
• We are all connected, and we are all One.
• Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.
• A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as absolute fact.
• Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words, “Remember to remember.”
The Secret to Life
You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want.• The only thing you need to do is feel good now.• The more you use the power within you, the more power you will
draw through you.• The time to embrace your magnificence is now.• We are in the midst of a glorious era. As we let go of limiting thoughts,
we will experience humanity’s true magnificence, in every area of creation.
• Do what you love. If you don’t know what brings you joy, ask, “What is my joy?” As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy.
• Now that you have learned the knowledge of The Secret, what you do with it is up to you. Whatever you choose is right. The power is all yours.
