The Secret

In this presentation, I will consider the book entitled The Secret. You may also want to read the last five posts in which I shared my thoughts to some of the critiques posed by the authors of The Secret Revealed: Exposing the Truth About The Law of Attraction. Also, please go to “The Word Is…” on my website for an audio presentation on “What you think about you bring about.” This is a statement by Lisa Nichols in The Secret.

The Secret refers to the Law of Attraction which is a concept that is defined in the book (and the film of the same name), as “like attracts like.” (p.7) In this regard, The Secret emphasizes that positive thoughts will attract the positive into one’s life; while negative thoughts will attract the negative into one’s life. Therefore, proponents of The Secret advocate for keeping one’s thoughts positive. We will soon start the fall harvest season and with that in mind, I now include the following passage from the book (p.17):

Like all the laws of nature,
there is utter perfection in this law.
You create your life. Whatever you sow, you reap!
Your thoughts are seeds,
and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.

There may be some difficulty in seeing how the Law of Attraction has relevance in your life. But, more problematic is the blaming and fault-finding that may occur when even as you try to think positively, negative events happen nonetheless. Consider the following passage from the book (p.12):

As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction. It’s that easy. But then the most obvious question becomes, “Why isn’t everybody living the life of their dreams?

In general, the explanation is that the reason people don’t have what they want is because they are thinking about what they don’t want instead of what they do want. In other words, what a person wants to avoid will become manifest because those are the thoughts upon which the person is focused. But, I think there is a deeper reason for these circumstances and that reason is our inability to be aware of what we are thinking unconsciously. Our unconscious thoughts holds as much, if not more, power than what we are thinking consciously. It is the conflict between the conscious thought “I want to be successful” with the unconscious thought “I don’t deserve to be happy.” Which thought would you guess has more influence in a person’s life? And what thoughts are you holding in your own unconscious that may be holding you back?

Thank you. May this book be influential in your life on your own road to success. Please contact me if there is a particular book that you would like me to read and review.