The Rest of "The Secret"

I think that The Law of Attraction is like "the secret"....

It works as hard as you do!

But I suspect that since what we achieve in life depends on what we choose to FOCUS on, and people who are very successful ten to be rather OBSESSED even, that the message does have some validity, even if the packaging makes it look too easy.

Like they say, the harder you work, the luckier you get!

Interesting, probably the most frank description of this film I have come across. I've not seen the film, but I did see "What the Bleep Do We Know," and I imagine that film followed a similar marketing model.

Do you have a source for this? Did you read it somewhere? I would love to archive any source on this issue...because that is dishonest marketing, imo.

"The Secret" is a great introduction to the LOA. However, I agree that it has major shortcomings in that it oversimplifies and misleads people as to how creating your own reality works.

The real reason why most people who watch The Secret and use its methods are unsuccessful is one thing and one thing alone: Subconscious counter-programming.

It doesn't matter how badly you want something in life - if your subconscious wants something else (which is generally the case for most people), it will see to it that you never reach your goals - generally via procrastination/unfocused attention.

That being said, the LOA is still very real. When you truly start practicing the principles which support it, life starts taking on a whole new dimension. Not just in the way you think, but in syncronicity that cannot be explained by science.

Of course, the rub is that the ONLY way of proving that this is true, is by practicing yourself - not for a day or a week or two, but on a long term basis.

I dare anyone to practice these principles and not become a firm believer in a universal force at work behind the scenes.

It is my opinion that anyone who argues this point simply haven't done the work necessary to prove it to be true.

The law of attraction can not be proven scientifically any more than love can be (try proving scientifically that you love someone - you can't, yet it's still very real).

Just my 2 cents.

I'll do what I can in a post Ted, and point you
to The Abundance Course for the rest.

Think about something you want -

Now, notice any stress or tension you feel
related to HAVING THIS.

For example, make the declaration "I will
be a millionaire by the end of 2009."

Notice how you FEEL about that as REALITY.

What you feel is resistance.

Resistance is the accumulation of thoughts,
once conscious, that now reside in the
subconscious.

You wouldn't know those thoughts exist
without the feeling.

Here's what's cool - you don't need to deal
with and address the individual limiting
thought - just the feeling.

The feeling isn't real - it's something you
have chosen at some point in time to hold
on to.

EXERCISE:

Hold a pen or pencil in your hand.

Notice you have the choice to drop that
pencil.

Choose not to drop it, but instead to hold
on tighter and tighter until it becomes
uncomfortable to do so.

This is what we choose to do with feelings.

Now, open your hand and let the pencil
fall to the floor.

Notice your arm relax, and tension go.

If it's that easy to let go of a feeling, why
don't we let them all go?

Most we do -

But, imagine you replace that pencil with
a fragile and prized object - a fine piece of
china, a glass object - something you imagine
would shatter if you dropped it.

It's harder to let that fall isn't it?

Something happens in life, we attach a
meaning to it, if the feeling attached to
that meaning is strong enough we hold
on and stuff it away in the subconscious.

This then becomes resistance to having
what you want.

Release (let go of) the resistance and
you free up your energy to move forward
again.

Every time you feel stuck in making forward
progress, notice how you're feeling and
let the feeling go - this takes practice.

One way I practice this is to go outside
when it's cold and notice the feeling of
cold and how I resist being cold. When I
let go of resisting the cold I become
warmer. When I begin to resist the cold
again, I become more cold than before.

There's way too much to teach in post -
but it works.

All the best to you - X