[(ආකර්ෂණ නීතිය—සිංහල) සාරාංශය: මෙතැන ඔබන්න!]

“මීට අවුරුද්දකට කලින් මගේ ජීවිතය සහමුලින් ම කඩා වැටිණි. මා වැඩ කළේ අධික වෙහෙස මහන්සියකින්. මගේ පියා හදිසියේම මිය ගිය අතර මගේ සගයන් සහ ආදරණීයයන් සමඟ මාගේ සබඳතා මහා අවුල් ජාලාවක් බවට විය. ඒ වන විටත් මා ඒ රහස ගැන දැන සිටියේ නැත; අපේක්ෂාභංගත්වයයේ හිනිපෙත්තේ සිටිනා මා හට, හොඳ ම තෑග්ග ලැබීමට නියමිත වී තිබිණි.

RHONDA BYRNE — THE WRITER [Book & Documentary Film (2006)]

“A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I'd worked myself into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationships with my work colleagues and loved ones were in turmoil. Little did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the greatest gift.

මට මහා රහසක් - ජීවිතයට රහසක් පිළිබඳ දර්ශනයක් ලබා දී ඇත. මගේ දියණිය හේලි විසින් මට ලබා දුන් වසර සියයක් පැරණි පොතක ඒ දර්ශනය සටහන් විය. ඉතිහාසයේ මඟ සළකුණු හරහා රහස සොයා යෑමට මම පටන් ගතිමි. මානව ඉතිහාසයේ විශිෂ්ටත ම පුද්ගලයන් වූ: ප්ලේටෝ, ෂේක්ස්පියර්, නිව්ටන්, හියුගෝ, බීතෝවන්, ලින්කන්, එමර්සන්, එඩිසන් සහ අයින්ස්ටයින් වැනි සියලු දෙනා මේ රහස දැන සිටි බව මට අදහා ගත නොහැකි විය.

I'd been given a glimpse of a Great Secret — The Secret to life. The glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my daughter Hayley. I began tracing The Secret back through history. I couldn't believe all the people who knew this. They were the greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, and Einstein.

මට මාව ම අදහාගත නොහැකිව, මම මගෙන් ම මෙසේ ඇසුවෙමි, "ඇයි හැම කෙනෙක් ම මේක දන්නැත්තේ?" මේ "රහස" ලෝකය සමඟ බෙදාගැනීමේ දැවෙන ආශාව තුළ මා ගිලී ගිය අතර, රහස දන්නා, අද ජීවතුන් අතර සිටිනා මිනිසුන් සෙවීමට මම පටන් ගතිමි.

Incredulous, I asked, "Why doesn't everyone know this?" A burning desire to share The Secret with the world consumed me, and I began searching for people alive today who knew The Secret.

එකිනෙකා මතුවෙන්නට පටන් ගැනිණි. මම චුම්භකයක් බවට පත් විය: එසේ සෙවීමට පටන් ගත් කල, එක් ශ්‍රෙෂ්ඨ ජීවමාන විශාරදයෙකු (දක්ෂයෙකු) පසුපස තවකෙකු බැගින් මා වෙත ඇදී ආයේ ය.”

One by one they began to emerge. I became a magnet: as I began to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me.

When I discovered one teacher, that one would link to the next, in a perfect chain. If I was on the wrong track, something else would catch my attention, and through the diversion, the next great teacher would appear. If I "accidentally" pressed the wrong link on an internet search, I would be led to a vital piece of information. In a few short weeks, I had traced The Secret back through the centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of The Secret.”

{The Secret | Full Movie in ENGLISH | Writer—Rhonda Byrne | Law of Attraction | Director—Drew Heriot}

BOB PROCTOR 

PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR, AND PERSONAL COACH

The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness, health, and wealth.

DR. JOE VITALE

METAPHYSICIAN, MARKETING SPECIALIST, AND AUTHOR 

You can have, do, or be anything you want.

JOHN ASSARAF

ENTREPRENEUR AND MONEYMAKING EXPERT

We can have whatever it is that we choose. I do not care how big it is. 

What kind of a house do you want to live in? Do you want to be a millionaire? What kind of a business do you want to have? Do you want more success? What do you really want?

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH

VISIONARY AND FOUNDER OF AGAPE INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CENTER

I have seen many miracles take place in the lives of people. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing of relationships.

JACK CANFIELD

AUTHOR, TEACHER, LIFE COACH, AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER 

All of this happened because of knowing how to apply The Secret.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

PHILOSOPHER, CHIROPRACTOR, HEALER, AND

PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST

This is the Great Secret of Life.

"THE SECRET IS THE ANSWER TO ALL THAT HAS BEEN, ALL THAT IS, AND ALL THAT WILL EVER BE."

BOB PROCTOR: You've probably been sitting there wondering, "What is The Secret?" I’ll tell you how I've come to understand it. We all work with one infinite power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same laws. The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we don't even have any difficulty building spaceships, we can send people to the moon, and we can time the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second. Wherever you are — India, Australia, New Zealand, Stockholm, London, Toronto, Montreal, or New York — we're all working with one power. One Law. It's attraction!

Everything that's coming into your life you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you.

Wise people have always known this. You can go right back to the ancient Babylonians. They've always known this. It's a small select group of people. The ancient Babylonians and their great prosperity have been well documented by scholars. They are also known for creating one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Through their understanding and application of the laws of the Universe, they became one of the wealthiest races in history.

Why do you think that 1 percent of the population earns around 96 percent of all the money that's being earned? Do you think that's an accident? It’s no accident. It's designed that way. They understand something. They understand The Secret, and now you are being introduced to The Secret.

JOHN ASSARAF: The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.

BOB DOYLE 

AUTHOR AND LAW OF ATTRACTION SPECIALIST 

Basically put, the law of attraction says that like attracts like. But we're really talking at a level of thought.

JOHN ASSARAF: Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most but you also attract what you think about most.

BOB PROCTOR: If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand.

MIKE DOOLEY

AUTHOR AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER 

And that principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become things!

JOHN ASSARAF: What most people don't understand is that a thought has a frequency. Every though has a frequency.  We can measure a thought. And so if you're thinking that thought over and over and over again, if you're imagining in your mind having that brand new car, having the money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate... if you're imagining what that looks like, you're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.

DR, JOE VITALE: Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you.

BOB PROCTOR: See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works. It works every time, with every person.

JOHN ASSARAF: Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.

BOB DOYLE: The law of attraction doesn't care whether you perceive something to be good or bad, or whether you don't want it or whether you do want it. It's responding to your thoughts. So if you're looking at a mountain of debt, feeling terrible about it, that's the signal you're putting out into the Universe. "I feel really bad because of all this debt I've got." You're just affirming it to yourself. You feel it on every level of your being. That's what you're going to get more of.

LISA NICHOLS

AUTHOR AND PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT ADVOCATE

The law of attraction is really obedient. When you think of the things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your intention, then the law of attraction will give you exactly what you want, every time. When you focus on the things that you don't want — "I don't want to be late, I don't want to be late" — the law of attraction doesn't hear that you don't want it. It manifests the things that you're thinking of and so it's going to show up over and over and over again. The law of attraction is not biased to wants or don't wants. When you focus on something, no matter what it happens to be, you really are calling that into existence.

BOB PROCTOR: The law of attraction is always working, whether you believe it or understand it or not.

LISA NICHOLS: It's working as much as you're thinking. Any time your thoughts are flowing, the law of attraction is working. When you're thinking about the past, the law of attraction's working. When you're thinking about the present or the future, the law of attraction is working. It's an ongoing process. You don't press pause, you don't press stop. It is forever in action, as your thoughts are.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.

JACK CANFIELD: It's OK to notice what you don't want, because it gives you contrast to say, "This is what I do want." But the fact is, the more you talk about what you don't want, or talk about how bad it is, read about that all the time, and then say how terrible it is—well, you're creating more of that.

BILL HARRIS

TEACHER AND FOUNDER OF CENTERPOINTE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

I had a student named Robert, who was taking an online course I have, part of which entails email access to me. Robert was gay. He outlined all of the grim realities of his life in his emails to me. In his job, his coworkers ganged up on him. It was constantly stressful because of how nasty they were with him. When he walked down the street, he was accosted by homophobic people who wanted to abuse him in some way. He wanted to become a stand-up comedian, and when he did a stand-up comedy job, everybody heckled him about being gay. His whole life was one of unhappiness and misery, and it all focused around being attacked because he was gay. I began to teach him that he was focusing on what he did not want. I directed him back to his email that he sent me and said, "Read it again. Look at all the things you do not want that you're telling me about. I can tell you're very passionate about this and when you focus on something with a lot of passion, it makes it happen even faster!" Then he started taking this thing about focusing on what you want to heart, and he began really trying it. What happened within the next six to eight weeks was an absolute miracle. All the people in his office who had been harassing him either transferred to another department, quit working at the company, or started completely leaving him alone. He began to love his job. When he walked down the street, nobody harassed him anymore. They just weren't there. When he did his stand-up comedy routines he started getting standing ovations, and nobody was heckling him! His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted to avoid, to focusing on what he did want.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: You attract to you the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness, whether those thoughts are conscious or unconscious. That's the rub.

DR JOHN DEMARTINI: If you look very carefully when it comes to The Secret, and the power of our mind and the power of our intention in our daily lives, it's all around us. All we have to do is open our eyes and look.

LISA NICHOLS: You can see the law of attraction everywhere. You draw everything to yourself. The people, the job, the circumstances, the health, the wealth, the debt, the joy, the car that you drive, the community that you're in. And you've drawn them all to you, like a magnet. What you think about you bring about Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.

DR. FRED ALAN WOLF

QUANTUM PHYSICIST, LECTURER, AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

BOB PROCTOR: If you don't understand the law, that doesn't mean you should reject it. You may not understand electricity, and yet you enjoy the benefits of it. I don't know how it works. But I do knew this: You can cook a man's dinner with electricity, and you can also cook the man!

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: Oftentimes when people begin to understand the Great Secret, they become frightened of all the negative thoughts that they have. They need to be aware that it has been scientifically proven that an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. That eliminates a degree of worry right there.

LISA NICHOLS: Thank God that there's a time delay, that all of your thoughts don't come true instantly. We'd be in trouble if they did. The element of time delay serves you. It allows you to reassess, to think about what you want, and to make a new choice.

DR. JOE VITALE: You want to become aware of your thoughts and choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.

DR. DENIS WAITLEY 

PSYCHOLOGIST AND TRAINER IN THE FIELD OF MIND POTENTIAL 

The leaders in the past who had The Secret wanted to keep the power and not share the power. They kept people ignorant of The Secret. People went to work, they did their job, and they came home. They were on a treadmill with no power, because The Secret was kept in the few.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: We live in a universe in which there are laws, just as there is a law of gravity. If you fail off a building it doesn't matter if you're a good person or a bad person, you're going to hit the ground.

DR. JOE VITALE: Everything that surrounds you right now in your life, including the things you're complaining about, you've attracted. Now I know at first blush that's going to be something that you hate to hear. You're going to immediately say, "I didn't attract the car accident. I didn't attract this particular client who gives me a hard time. I didn't particularly attract the debt." And I'm here to be a little bit in your face and to say, yes you did attract it. This is one of the hardest concepts to get, but once you've accepted it, it's life transforming.

BOB DOYLE: Most of us attract by default. We just think that we don't have any control over it. Our thoughts and feelings are on autopilot, and so everything is brought to us by default.

DR. JOE VITALE: Now if this is your first time to hear this, it may feel like, "Oh, I have to monitor my thoughts? This is going to be a lot of work." It will seem like that at first, but that's where the fun begins.

MARCI SHIMOFF

AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER

It's impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you'd feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately there's an easier way, and it's our feelings. Our feelings let us know what we're thinking.

BOB PROCTOR: So, your thoughts cause your feelings.

BOB DOYLE: The emotions are an incredible gift that we have to let us know what we're thinking/attracting.

LISA NICHOLS: You have two sets of feelings: good feelings and bad feelings. And you know the difference between the two because one makes you feel good, and the other makes you feel bad. It's the depression, it's the anger, it's the resentment, it's the guilt. It's those feelings that don't make you feel empowered. Those are the bad feelings.

The flipside to that is that you have good emotions and good feelings. You know when they come because they make you feel good. Excitement, joy, gratitude, love. Imagine if we could feel that way every day. When you celebrate the good feelings, you'll draw to you more good feelings, and things that make you feel good. 

BOB DOYLE: It's really so simple. "What am I attracting right now?” Well, how do you feel? "I feel good." Well good, keep doing that.

JACKCANFIELD: Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.

BOB DOYLE You’re getting exactly what you're feeling about, not so much what you're thinking about. That's why people tend to spiral if they stub their toe getting out of bed. Their whole day goes like that. They have no clue that a simple shifting of their emotions can change their entire day — and life.

“WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE FEELING, IS A PERFECT REFLECTION OF WHAT IS IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING.” 

BOB DOYLE: You’re getting exactly what you're feeling about, not so much what you're thinking about.

That's why people tend to spiral if they stub their toe getting out of bed. Their whole day goes like that. They have no clue that a simple shifting of their emotions can change their entire day — and life. 

If you start out having a good day and you're in that particular happy feeling, as long as you don't allow something to change your mood, you're going to continue to attract, by the law of attraction, more situations and people that sustain that happy feeling.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: You can begin right now to FEEL healthy. You can begin to FEEL prosperous. You can begin to FEEL the love that's surrounding you, even if it's not there. And what will happen is the universe will correspond to the nature of your song. The universe will correspond to the nature of that inner FEELING and manifest, because that's the way you FEEL.

LISA NICHOLS: Your thoughts and your feelings create your life. It will always be that way. Guaranteed!

“WHAT YOU THINK, WHAT YOU FEEL, AND WHAT MANIFESTS IS ALWAYS A MATCH.”

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: It's hard to swallow, but when we can begin to open ourselves up to that, the ramifications are awesome. It means that whatever thought has done in your life, it can be undone through a shift in your awareness.

“YOU CREATE YOUR OWN UNIVERSE AS YOU GO ALONG.”

DR. JOE VITALE: It's really important that you feel good, because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the Universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good, and are able to keep bringing you up higher and higher.

BOB PROCTOR When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music, or start singing — that'll change your emotion. Or think of something beautiful. Think of a baby or somebody that you truly love, and dwell on it. Really keep that thought in your mind. Block everything out but that thought. I guarantee you'll start to feel good.

JAMES ARTHUR RAY

PHILOSOPHER, LECTURER, AUTHOR, AND CREATOR OF PROSPERITY AND HUMAN POTENTIAL PROGRAMS

This principle of FEELING GOOD applies to your family pets, for instance. Animals are wonderful, because they put you in a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that great state of love will bring goodness into your life. And what a gift that is.

MARCI SHIMOFF: Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where all your power is.

JACK CANFIELD: Since I learned The Secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day-to-day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened, and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.

BOB PROCTOR: Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using The Secret.

How To Use The Secret?

JAMES RAY: If you think about 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!" 

The story now goes that there are three wishes, but if you trace the story back to its origins there's absolutely no limit whatsoever to the wishes.

 

Think about that one.

 

Now, let's take this metaphor and apply it to your life. Remember Aladdin is the one who always asks for what he wants. Then you've got the Universe at large, which is the Genie. Traditions have called it so many things—your holy guardian angel, your higher self. We can put any label on it, and you choose the one that works best for you, but every tradition has told us there's something bigger than us. And the Genie always says one thing:

 

"Your wish is my command!"

STEP 1: ASK

A NICHOLS: The first step is to ask. Make a command to the Universe. Let the Universe know what you want. The Universe responds to your thoughts.

BOB PROCTOR: What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, "I am so happy and grateful now that..." And then explain how you want your life to be, in every area.

DR. JOE VITALE: This is really fun. It's like having the Universe as your catalogue. You flip through it and say, "I'd like to have this experience and I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that." It is You placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy.

STEP 2: BELIEVE

LISA NICHOLS: Step two is believe. Believe that it's already yours. Have what I love to call unwavering faith. Believing in the unseen.

“The HOW is not your part in the Creative Process.”

DR. JOE VITALE: The Universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you. 

JACK CANFIELD: Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want, because toe can't see how it's going to manifest. 

BOB PROCTOR: If you do just a little research, it is going to become evident to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it. 

DR. JOE VITALE: You don't need to know how it's going to come about. You don't need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself.

BOB PROCTOR: You don't know how, it will be shown to you. You will attract the way. 

LISA NICHOLS: Most of the time, when we don't see the things that we've requested, we get frustrated. We get disappointed. And we begin to become doubtful. The doubt brings about a feeling of disappointment. Take that doubt and shift it. Recognize that feeling and replace it with a feeling of unwavering faith. "I know that it's on its way."

STEP 3: RECEIVE

LISA NICHOLS: Step three, and the final step in the process, is to receive. Begin to feel wonderful about it. Feel the way you will feel once it arrives. Feel it now. 

MARCI SHIMOFF: And in this process it's important to feel good, to be happy, because when you're feeling good you're putting yourself in the frequency of what you want. 

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: This is a feeling Universe. If you just intellectually believe something, but you have no corresponding feeling underneath How to Use the Secret 53 that, you don't necessarily have enough power to manifest what you want in your life. You have to feel it.

BOB PROCTOR: When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you're in the position to build bigger and bigger fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

BOB DOYLE: The law of attraction, the study and practice of the law of attraction, is just figuring out what will help you generate the feelings of having it now. Go test drive that car. Go shop for that home. Get in the house. Do whatever you have to do to generate the feelings of having it now, and remember them. Whatever you can do to achieve that will help you to literally attract it.

BOB DOYLE: It could be you wake up and it's just there. It's manifested. Or, you might get some inspired idea of some action to take. You certainly shouldn't be saying, "Well, I could do it this way, but man, I would hate that." You’re not on the right track if that's the case.

Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will just stop. You could do it all day.

DR. JOE VITALE: The Universe likes speed. Don't delay. Don't second guess. Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there, act. That's your job. And that's all you have to do.

BOB PROCTOR: You will attract everything that you require. If it's money you need you will attract it. If it's people you need you'll attract it. If it's a certain book you need you'll attract it. You've got to pay attention to what you're attracted to, because as you hold images of what you want, you're going to be attracted to things and they're going to be attracted to you. But it literally moves into physical reality with and through you. And it does that by law.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: You can start with nothing, and out of nothing and out of no way, a way will be made.

JACK CANFIELD: Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred to two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it.

"TAKE THE FIRST STEP IN FAITH. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THE WHOLE STAIRCASE. JUST TAKE THE FIRST STEP."

DR. JOE VITALE: Another thing people wonder about is, "How long will it take to manifest the car, the relationship, the money?" I don't have any rulebook that says it's going to take thirty minutes or three days or thirty days. It's more a matter of you being in alignment with the Universe itself.

BOB DOYLE: Size is nothing to the Universe. It is no more difficult to attract, on a scientific level, something that we consider huge to something that we consider infinitesimally small. The Universe does everything with zero effort. The grass doesn't strain to grow. It's effortless. It's just this great design. It's all about what's going on in your mind. It's about what we put in place, saying, ''This is big, it's going to take some time." And, "This is small. I'll give it an hour." Those are our rules that we define. There are no rules according to the Universe. YOU PROVIDE THE FEELINGS OF HAVING IT NOW; IT WILL RESPOND—WHATEVER IT IS.

BOB DOYLE: Some people have an easier time with little things, and so we sometimes say start with something small, like a cup of coffee. Make it your intention to attract a cup of coffee today. BOB PROCTOR Hold an image of talking to an old friend that you haven't seen for a long time. Somehow or another somebody's going to start talking to you about that person. That person's going to phone you or you'll get a letter from her.

DAVID SCHIRMER

INVESTMENT TRAINER, TEACHER. AND WEALTH SPECIALIST 

People are amazed at how I line up parking spaces. I've done this right from when I first understood The Secret. I would visualize a parking space exactly where I wanted it, and 95 percent of the time it would be therefore me, and I would just pull straight in. Five percent of the time I'd have to wait just a minute or two, and the person would pull out and I'd pull in, I do that all the time.

DR. JOE VITALE: A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances. Whatever your circumstances right now, that is only your current reality, and current reality will begin to change as a result of beginning to use The Secret.

LISA NICHOLS: When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking. Every time you look inside your mail expecting to see a bill, guess what — it'll be there. Each day you go out dreading the bill! You're never expecting anything great. You're thinking debt, you're expecting debt. So debt must show up so you won't think you're crazy. And every day you confirm your thought: Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Wiry? Because you expected debt to be there. So it showed up, because the law of attraction is always being obedient to your thoughts. Do yourself a favor — expect a check!

JAMES RAY Most people look at their current state of affairs and they say, "This is who I am." That's not who you are. That's who you were. Let's say for instance that you don't have enough money in your bank account, or you don't have the relationship that you want, or your health and fitness aren't up to par. That's not who you are; that's the residual outcome of your past thoughts and actions. So we're constantly living in this residual, if you will, of the thoughts and actions we've taken in the past. When you look at your current state of affairs and define yourself by that, then you doom yourself to have nothing more than the same in future. 

“ALL THAT WE ARE IS A RESULT OF WHAT WE HAVE THOUGHT.” – LORD BUDDHA.

The Powerful Process: Gratitude

DR. JOE VITALE: What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of things to be grateful for. This shifts your energy and starts to shift your thinking. Whereas before this exercise you might be focusing on what you don't have, your complaints, and your problems, you go in a different direction when you do this exercise. You start to be grateful for all the things that you feel good about.

MARCI SHIMOFF: Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.

DR. JOHN GRAY 

PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR, AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER 

Every man knows that when his wife is appreciating him for the little things that he does, what does he want to do? He wants to do more. It's always about appreciation. It pulls things in. It attracts support.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI: Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.

JAMES RAY: Gratitude has been such a powerful exercise for me. Every morning I get up and say "Thank you." Every morning, when my feet hit the floor, "Thank you." And then I start running through what I'm grateful for, as I'm brushing my teeth and doing the things I do in the morning. And I'm not just thinking about them and doing some rote routine. I'm putting it out there and I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude.

DR. JOE VITALE: As soon as you start to feel different about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things. More of the things you can be grateful for. You could look around and say, "Well, I don't have the car I want. I don't have the house I want. I don't have the spouse I want. I don't have the health I want" Whoah! Back up, back up! Those are all the things you don't want. Focus on what you already have that you're grateful for. And it might be that you have the eyes to read this. It might be the clothes that you have. Yes, you might prefer something else and you might get something else pretty soon, if you start feeling grateful for what you have.

LEE BROWER

WEALTH TRAINER AND SPECIALIST, AUTHOR AN D TEACHER 

I think everybody goes through times when they say, "Things aren’t working right," or, "Things are going had." Once, when there were some things going on in my family, I found a rock, and I just sat holding it. I took this rock, I stuck it in my pocket, and I said, "Every time I touch this rock I'm going to think of something that I'm grateful for." So every morning when I get up in the morning, I pick it up off the dresser, I put it in my pocket, and I go through the things that I'm grateful for. At night, what do I do? I empty my pocket, and there it is again. I've had some amazing experiences with this idea. A guy from South Africa saw me drop it. He asked, "What is that?" I explained it to him, and he started calling it a gratitude rock. Two weeks later I got an email from him, in South Africa. And he said, "My son is dying from a rare disease. It's a type of hepatitis. Would you send me three gratitude rocks?" They were just ordinary rocks I found off the street, so I said, "Sure." I had to make sure that the rocks were very special, so I went out to the stream, picked out the right rocks, and sent them off to him. Four or five months later I get an email from him. He said, "My son's better, he's doing terrific." And he said, "But you need to know something. We've sold over a thousand rocks at ten dollars apiece as gratitude rocks, and we've raised all this money for charity. Thank you very much." So it's very important to have an "attitude of gratitude."

"EVERYONE VISUALIZES WHETHER HE KNOWS IT OR NOT. VISUALIZING IS THE GREAT SECRET OF SUCCESS."

DR. DENIS WAITLEY: I took the visualization process from the Apollo program, and instituted it during the 1980s and '90s into the Olympic program. It was called Visual Motor Rehearsal. WHEN YOU VISUALIZE THEN YOU MATERIALIZE. Here's an interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes and had them run their event only in their mind, and then hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment. Incredibly, the same muscles fired in the same sequence when they were running the race in their mind as when they were running it on the track. How could this be? Because the mind can't distinguish whether you're really doing it or whether it's just a practice. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body.

MIKE DOOLEY: When you’re visualizing, token you’ve got that picture playing out in your mind, ALWAYS AND ONLY, DWELL UPON THE END RESULT. Here's an example. Look at the back of your hands, right now. Really look at the back of your hands: the color of your skin, the freckles, the blood vessels, the rings, the fingernails. Take in all those details. Right before you close your eyes, see those hands, your fingers, wrapping around the steering wheel of your brand new car.

DR. JOE VITALE: This is such a holographic experience — SO REAL IN THIS MOMENT — that you don't even feel as if you need the car, because IT FEELS LIKE YOU ALREADY HAVE IT.

"WE ALL POSSESS MORE POWER AND GREATER POSSIBILITIES THAN WE REALIZE, AND VISUALIZING IS ONE OF THE GREATEST OF THESE POWERS."

JACK CANFIELD: It's the FEELING that really creates the attraction, not just the picture or the thought. A lot of people think, "If I think positive thoughts, or if I visualize having what I want, that will be enough." But if you're doing that and still not FEELING abundant, or feeling loving or joyful, then it doesn't create the power of the attraction.

BOB DOYLE You put yourself in the feeling place of really being in that car. Not "I wish I could get that car," or, "Someday I'll have that car," because that's a very definite feeling associated with that. It's not in the now. It's in the future. If you stay in that feeling, it will always be in the future.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: Now that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an open doorway through which the power of the Universe will begin to express.

"WHAT THIS POWER IS I CANNOT SAY. ALL KNOW IS THAT IT EXISTS."

JACK CANFIELD: Our job is not to figure out the how. The how will show up out of a commitment and belief in the what.

MIKE DOOLEY: The "hows" are the domain of the Universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.

DR. JOE VITALE: If you turn it over to the Universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.

DR. JOE VITALE: You want to do this virtually daily, but it should never be a chore. What's really important to the whole Secret is FEELING GOOD. You want to feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune, as much as possible.

MARCI SHIMOFF: The only difference between people who live in this way, who live in the magic of life, and those who don't is that the people who live in the magic of life have HABITUATED ways of being. They've made a habit of using the law of attraction, and magic happens with them wherever they go. Because they remember to use it. They use it all the time, not just as a one-time event.

JAMES RAY People hold that for a while; and they're really a champion at it. They say, "I'm fired up. I saw this program and I'm going to change my life." And yet results aren't showing. Beneath the surface it's just about ready to break through, but the person will look just at the surface results and say, "This stuff doesn’t work." And you know what? The Universe says, "YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND," and it disappears; it’s going down.

JOHN ASSARAF: Knowing the law of attraction, I wanted to really put it to use and to see what would happen. In 1995 I started to create something called a Vision Board, where I take something that I want to achieve, or something that I want to attract, like a car or a watch or the soul mate of my dreams, and I put a picture of what I want up on this board. Every day I would sit in my office and I would look up at this board and I would start to visualize. I would really get into the state of having already acquired it.

I was getting ready to move. We put all the furniture, all the boxes, into storage, and I made three different moves over a period of five years. And then I ended up in California and bought this house, renovated it for a year, and then had all the stuff brought from my farmer home five years earlier. One morning my son Keenan came into my office, and one of the boxes that was sealed for five years was right at the doorstep. He asked, "What's in the boxes, Daddy?" And I said, "Those are my Vision Boards.” He then asked, "What's a Vision Board?" I said, "Well, it's where I put alt my goals up. I cut them out and I put all my goals up as something that I want to achieve in my life." Of course at five and a half years old he didn't understand, and so I said, "Sweetheart, let me just show you, that'll be the easiest way to do it."

I cut the box open, and on one Vision Board was a picture of a home that I was visualizing five years earlier. What was shocking was that we were living in that house. Not a house like it—I actually bought my dream home, renovated it, and didn't even know it. I looked at that house and I started to cry, because I was just blown away. Keenan asked, "Why are you crying?" "I finally understand how the law of attraction works. I finally understand the power of visualization. I finally understand everything that I've read, everything that I've worked with my whole life, the way I've built companies. It worked for my home as well, and I bought our dream home and didn’t even know it."

"IMAGINATION IS EVERYTHING. IT IS THE PREVIEW OF LIFE'S COMING ATTRACTIONS." – ALBERT EINSTEIN.

JACK CAN FIELD: Decide what you want. BELIEVE you can have it. Believe you DESERVE it and believe it's POSSIBLE for you. And then close your eyes every day for SEVERAL MINUTES, and VISUALIZE having what you already want, FEELING THE FEELINGS OF ALREADY HAVING IT. Come out of that and focus on what you're GRATEFUL for already, and really ENJOY it. Then go into your day and RELEASE it to the Universe and TRUST that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it.

"WHATEVER THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE."

JACK CANFIELD: The Secret was a real transformation for me, because I grew up with a very negative father who thought that rich people were people that had ripped everyone off and thought that anyone that had money must have deceived somebody. So I grew up with a lot of beliefs about money; that if you had it, it made you bad, only evil people have money, and money doesn't grow on trees. "Who do you think I am, Rockefeller?' That was one of his favorite phrases. So I grew up truly believing that life was difficult. It was only when I met W. Clement Stone that I began to shift my life.

When I was working with Stone he said, "I want you to set a goal that's so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind, and you would knew it's only because of what I've taught you that you would have achieved this goal" At the time I was making about eight thousand dollars a year, so I said, "I want to make a hundred thousand dollars in a year." Now, I had no idea how I could do that. I saw no strategy, no possibility, but I just said, "I'm going to declare that, I'm going to believe it, I'm going to act as if it's true, and release it" So I did that. 

One of the things he taught me was every day to close your eyes and visualize the goals as if it's already achieved. I had actually made a hundred-thousand-dollar bill that I'd put on the ceiling. So first thing in the morning I'd look up and there it was, and it would remind me that this was my intention. Then I would close my eyes and visualize having this hundred-thousand-dollar-a-year lifestyle. Interestingly enough, nothing major happened for about thirty days. I didn't have any great breakthrough ideas, no one was offering me more money. 

About four weeks into it, I had a hundred-thousand-dollar idea. It just came right into my head. I had a book I had written, and I said, "If I can sell four hundred thousand copies of my book at a quarter each, that'd be a hundred thousand dollars." Now, the book was there, but I never had this thought. (One of The Secrets is that WHEN YOU HAVE INSPIRED THOUGH, YOU HAVE TRUST IT AND ACT ON IT.) I didn't know how I was going to sell four hundred thousand copies.

Then I saw the National Enquirer at the supermarket. I had seen that millions of times and it was just background. And all of a sudden it jumped out at me as foreground. I thought, "If readers knew about my book, certainly four hundred thousand people would go out and buy it." 

About six weeks later I gave a talk at Hunter College in New York to six hundred teachers, and afterward a woman approached me and said, "That was a great talk. I want to interview you. Let me give you my card." As it turns out, she was a freelance writer who sold her stories to the National Enquirer. The theme from "The Twilight Zone" went off in my head, like, whoah, this stuff's really working. That article came out and our book sales started to take off. 

The point I want to make is that I was attracting into my life all these different events, including this person. To make a long story short, I did not make a hundred thousand dollars that year. We made ninety-two thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars. But do you think we were depressed and saying, "This doesn't work"? No, we were saying, "This is amazing!" So my wife said to me, "If it works for a hundred thousand, do you think it'd work for a million?" And I said, "I don't know, I think so. Let's try it." 

My publisher wrote me a royalty check for our first Chicken Soup for the Soul book. And he actually put a smiley face in his signature, because it was the first million-dollar check he'd ever written.

So I know from my own experience, became I wanted to test it Does this Secret really work? We put it to the test. It absolutely worked, and now I live my life from that every single day.

Focus On Prosperity 

DR. JOE VITALE: I can imagine what a lot of people are thinking: "How can I attract more money into my life? How can I get more of the green stuff? How can I get more of wealth and prosperity? How can I, when I love my job, deal with the credit card debt that I have, and the realization that maybe there's a ceiling on the money that can come in, cause it's coming to me through my job? How can I bring in more?" Intend it! This goes back to one of the things we've been talking about throughout the whole Secret. Your job is to declare what you would like to have from the catalogue of the Universe. If cash is one of them, say how much you would like to have. "I would like to have twenty-five thousand dollars, unexpected income, within the next thirty days," or whatever it happens to be. It should be believable for you.

BOB PROCTOR: Most people have a goal of getting out of debt. That will keep you in debt forever. Whatever you're thinking about, you will attract. You say, "But it's get out of debt." I don't care if it's get out or get in, if you're thinking debt, you're attracting debt. Set up an automatic debt repayment program and then start to focus on prosperity.

JAMES RAY: So many times people say to me, "I'd like to double my income in the next year." But then you look at their actions and they're not doing the things that are going to make that happen. They'll turn right around and they'll say, "I can't afford that." Guess what? "Your wish is my command."

LISA NICHOLS: When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don't have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don't have enough — "We don't have enough for that, we can't afford that" — then you'll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don't have. If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. Focus on prosperity.

DAVID SCHIRMER: When I first understood The Secret, every day I would get a bunch of bills in the mail I thought, "How do I turn this around?" The law of attraction states that what you focus on you will get, so I got a bank statement, I whited out the total, and I put a new total in there. I put exactly how much I wanted to see in the bank. So I thought, "What if I just visualized checks coming in the mail?" So I just visualized a bunch of checks coming in the mail within just one month, things started to change. It is amazing; today I just get checks in the mail. I get a few bills, but I get more checks than bills.

LORAL LANGEMEIER

FINANCIAL STRATEGIST, SPEAKER, AND PERSONAL AND CORPORATE COACH 

I grew up on, "You have to work hard for money." So I replaced that with, "Money comes easily and frequently." Now in the beginning it feels like a lie, right? There is a part of your brain that will say, "Oh you liar, it's hard." So you have to know it's this little tennis match that will go on for a while.

Give Money To Get Money

DAVID SCHIRMER When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mindset. It's all about how you think.

LORAL LANGEMEIER: I'd say 80 percent of the coaching that I do with folks is about their psychology and the way they think. I know when people say, "Oh, you can do it, I can't." People have the capability to change their inner relationship and conversation with money.

JAMES RAY: I find so many people who make a tremendous amount of money, but their relationships stink. And that's not wealth. You can go after the money and you might get rich, but it doesn't guarantee you'll be wealthy. I'm not suggesting that money isn't a part of wealth, it absolutely is. But it's only a part. And then I meet a lot of people who are "spiritual" but they're sick and broke all the time. That's not wealth either. Life is meant to be abundant — in all areas.

MARCI SHIMOFF: Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the great home, they want their businesses to work, they want all these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having these outer things does not necessarily guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we go for these outer things thinking they're going to bring us happiness, but it's backward. You need to go for the inner joy, the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer things appear.

The Secret To Relationships

MARIE DIAMOND

FENG SHUI CONSULTANT, TEACHER, AND SPEAKER 

The Secret means that we are creators of our Universe, and that every wish that we want to create will manifest in our lives. Therefore, our wishes, thoughts, and feelings are very important because they will manifest.

One day I went into the home of an art director, a very famous film producer. In every corner he had this beautiful image of a naked woman draped with a fabric, kind of turning away as if she were saying, "I don't see you." I said to him, "I think you might have trouble in your romance." And he said, "Are you clairvoyant?" "No, but look. In seven places, you have exactly that same woman." He said, "But I love that kind of painting. I painted it myself." I said, "That's even worse because you put all your creation and creativity in it."

Six months later I saw him and asked, "How is your love life?" "Great! Women call me, they want to date me." "Because that's your wish," I said. He said, "I feel great. I mean, for years I did not have a date and now I have three dates a week. They're fighting over me." "Good for you," I said. Then he told me, "I really want to stabilize. I want marriage now, I want romance." I said, "Well, then paint it." He painted a beautiful romantic relationship, and a year later he got married, and he's very happy. 

This is because he put another wish out. He wished it in himself for years without it happening because his wish could not manifest. The outer level of himself — his house — was contradicting his wish all the time. So if you understand this knowledge, you just start playing with it.

LISA NICHOLS: Inside relationships it's important to first understand who's coming into the relationship, and not just your partner. You need to understand yourself first.

JAMES RAY: How can you ever expect anyone else to enjoy your company if you don't enjoy your own company? And so again, the law of attraction or The Secret is about bringing that into your life. You’ve got to get really, really clear. Here's the question I would ask you to consider: Do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?

DR. JOHN GRAY: You become the solution for you. Don't point to another person and say, "Now you owe me and you need to give me more." Instead, give more to yourself. Take time off to give to yourself, and in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

LISA NICHOLS: I got into many relationships expecting my partner to show me my beauty, because I didn't see my own beauty. When I was growing up, my heroes or my "she-roes" were the Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, and Charlie's Angels. And while they're wonderful, they didn't look like me. It wasn't until I fell in love with Lisa — I fell in love with my mocha skin, my full lips, my round hips, my curly black hair — it wasn't until that happened that the rest of the world was able to fall in love with me as well.

BOB PROCTOR: There's something so magnificent about you. I have been studying me for forty-four years. I wanna kiss myself sometimes! Because you're going to get to love yourself. I'm not talking about conceit I'm talking about a healthy respect for yourself. And as you love yourself, you'll automatically love others.

MARCI SHIMOFF: In relationships we're so used to complaining about other people. For instance, "My coworkers are so lazy, my husband makes me so mad, my children are so difficult." It's always focusing on the other person. But for relationships to really work, we need to focus on what we appreciate about the other person, not what we're complaining about. When we're complaining about those things we're only getting more of those things.

Even if you're having a really hard time in a relationship things aren't working, you're not getting along, someone's in your face — you still can turn that relationship around. Take a piece of paper, and for the next thirty days sit down and write all the things that you appreciate about that person. Think about all the reasons that you love them. You appreciate their sense of humor, you appreciate how supportive they are. And what you'll find is that when you focus on appreciating and acknowledging their strengths, that's what you'll get more of, and the problems will fade away.

LISA NICHOLS: Oftentimes you give others the opportunity to create your happiness, and many times they fail to create it the way you want it. Why? Because only one person can be in charge of your joy, of your bliss, and that's you. So even your parent, your child, your spouse—they do not have the control to create your happiness. They simply have the opportunity to share in your happiness. Your joy lies within you.

DR. JOHN HAGELIN 

QUANTUM PHYSICIST AND PUBLIC POLICY EXPERT 

Our body is really the product of our thoughts. We're beginning to understand in medical science the degree to which the nature of thoughts and emotions actually determines the physical substance and structure and function of our bodies.

DR JOHN DEMARTINI: We've known in the healing arts of a placebo effect. A placebo is something that supposedly has no impact and no effect on the body, like a sugar pill. You tell the patient that this is just as effective, and what happens is the placebo sometimes has the same effect, if not greater effect, than the medication that is supposed to be designed for that effect. They have found out that the human mind is the biggest factor in the healing arts, sometimes more so than the medication.

If somebody is in a situation where they're sick and they have an alternative to try to explore what is in their mind creating it, versus using medicine, if it's an acute situation that could really bring death to them, then obviously the medicine is a wise thing to do, while they explore what the mind is about. So you don't want to negate medicine. Every form of healing has a place.

LISA NICHOLS: The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance. When you open yourself to feel the abundance of the Universe, you'll experience the wonder, joy, bliss, and all the great things that the Universe has for you — good health, good wealth, good nature. But when you shut yourself off with negative thoughts, you'll feel the discomfort, you'll feel the aches, you'll feel the pain, and you'll feel as if every day is painful to get through.

DR. BEN JOHNSON

PHYSICIAN, AUTHOR, AND LEADER IN ENERGY HEALING 

We've got a thousand different diagnoses and diseases out there. They're just the weak link. They're all the result of one thing: stress. If you put enough stress on the chain and you put enough stress on the system, then one of the links breaks.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI: Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us know we have an imbalanced perspective, or we're not being loving and grateful. So the body's signs and symptoms are not something terrible.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: The question frequently asked is, "When a person has manifested a disease in the body temple or some kind of discomfort in their life, can it be turned around through the power of “RIGHT THINKING?" And the answer is absolutely, yes.

CATHY GOODMAN — A PERSONAL STORY

I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I truly believed in my heart, with my strong faith, that I was already healed. Each day I would say, "Thank you for my healing." On and on and on I went, "Thank you for my healing." I believed in my heart I was healed. I saw myself as if cancer was never in my body.

One of the things I did to heal myself was to watch very funny movies. That's all we would do was just laugh, laugh, and laugh. We couldn't afford to put any stress in my life, because we knew stress was one of the worst things you can do while you're trying to heal yourself.

From the time I was diagnosed to the time I was healed was approximately three months. And that's without any radiation or chemotherapy.

DR. BEN JOHNSON: We all come with a built-in basic program. It's called "self-healing" You get a wound, it grows back together. You get a bacterial infection, the immune system comes and takes care of those bacteria, and heals it up. The immune system is made to heal itself.

BOB PROCTOR: Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state. Your body is casting off millions of cells every second, and it's also creating millions of new cells at the same time.

DR. JOHN HAGELIN: In fact, parts of our body are literally replaced every day. Other parts take a few months, other parts a couple of years. But within a few years we each have a brand new physical body.

BOB PROCTOR: If you have a disease, and you're focusing on it, and you're talking to people about it, you're going to create more diseased cells. See yourself living in a perfectly healthy body. Let the doctor look after the disease.

LISA NICHOLS: Let's say you have two -people, both stricken with something, but one chooses to focus on joy. One chooses to live in possibility and hopefulness, focusing on all the reasons why she should be joyful and grateful. Then you have the second person. Same diagnosis, but the second chooses to focus on the disease, the pain, and the "woe is me."

BOB DOYLE: When people are completely focused on what's wrong and their symptoms, they will perpetuate it. The healing will not The Secret to Health 133 occur until they shift their attention from being sick to being well. Because that's the law of attraction.

DR, JOHN HAGELIN Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our body.

DR. BEN JOHNSON Remove physiological stress from the body, and the body docs what it was designed to do. It heals itself.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH I've seen kidneys regenerated. I've seen cancer dissolved. I've seen eyesight improve and come back.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI: I always say that incurable means "curable from within."

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: You can change your life and you can heal yourself.

MORRIS GOODMAN (The Miracle Man)

AUTHORAND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER 

My story begins on March 10, 1981. This day really changed my whole life. It was a day I'll never forget. I crashed an airplane. I ended up in the hospital completely paralyzed. My spinal cord was crushed, I broke the first and second cervical vertebrae, my swallowing reflex was destroyed, I couldn't eat or drink, my diaphragm was destroyed, I couldn't breathe. All I could do was blink my eyes. The doctors, of course, said I'd be a vegetable the rest of my life. All I'd be able to do is blink my eyes. That's the picture they saw of me, but it didn't matter what they thought. The main thing was what I thought. I pictured myself being a normal person again, walking out of that hospital.

The only thing I had to work with in the hospital was my mind, and once you have your mind, you can put things back together again.

 

I was hooked to a respirator and they said I'd never breathe on my own again because my diaphragm was destroyed. But a little voice kept saying to me, "Breathe deeply, breathe deeply." And finally I was weaned from it. They were at a loss for an explanation. I could not afford to allow anything to come into my mind that would distract me from my goal or from my vision. 

I had set a goal to walk out of the hospital on Christmas. And I did. I walked out of the hospital on my own two feet. They said it couldn't be done. That's a day I will never forget.

For people who are sitting out there right now and are hurting, if I wanted to sum up my life and sum up for people what they can do in life, I would sum it up in six words: "Man becomes what he thinks about."

DR. JOHN HAGELIN: Quantum mechanics confirms it. Quantum cosmology confirms it. That the Universe essentially emerges from thought and all of this matter around us is just precipitated thought. Ultimately toe are the source of the Universe, and when we understand that power directly by experience, we can start to exercise our authority and begin to achieve more and more. Create anything. Know anything from within the field of our own consciousness, which ultimately is Universal consciousness that runs the Universe. So depending upon how we use that power, positively or negatively, that's the kind of body in terms of health, that's the kind of environment we create. So we are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of Universal destiny. We are the creators of the Universe. So there's no limit, really, to human potential. It's the degree to which we recognize those deep dynamics and exercise them, the degree to which we harness our power. And that really has to do again with the level at which we think.

LISA NICHOLS: People have a tendency to look at the things that they want and say, "Yes, I like that, I want that." However, they look at the things that they don't want and they give them just as much energy, if not more, with the idea that they can stamp it out, they can eliminate it, obliterate it. In our society, we've become content with fighting against things. Fighting against cancer, fighting against poverty, fighting against war, fighting against drugs, fighting against terrorisim, fighting against violence. We tend to fight everything we don't want, which actually creates more of a fight.

HALE DWOSKIN TEACHER AND AUTHOR OF THE SEDONA METHOD Anything we focus on we do create. So if we're really angry, for instance, at a war that's going on, or strife, or suffering, we're adding our energy to it. We're pushing ourselves, and that only creates resistance.

"WHAT YOU RESIST PERSISTS."

BOB DOYLE: The reason that what you resist persists is because if you're resisting something, you're saying, "No, I don't want this thing, because it makes me feel this way—the way I am feeling right now." So you're putting out a really strong emotion of, "I really don't like this feeling," and then it comes racing toward you.

JACK CANFIELD: The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drug movement has actually created more drugs. Because we're focusing on what we don't want — drugs!

LISA NICHOLS: People believe that if we really want to eliminate something, focus on that. How much sense does it make for us to give the particular problem all of the energy, as opposed to focusing on trust, love, living in abundance, education, or peace?

JACK CAN FIELD Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, "I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me." She knew. She understood The Secret. Look what she manifested in the world.

HALE DWOSKIN: So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're anti-hunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his opponent. Often elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are really against, because he's getting all the energy and all the focus.

JACKCANFIELD: It's OK to notice what you don't want, because it gives you contrast to say, "This is what I do want." But the fact is, the more you talk about what you don't want, or talk about how bad it is, read about that all the time, and then say how terrible it is — well, you're creating more of that.

JAMES RAY: So many times people say to me, "Well, James, I have to be informed," Maybe you have to be informed, but you don't have to be inundated.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: Learn to become still, and to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place the attention on what you wish to experience... Energy flows where attention goes.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI: I always say, when the voice and the vision on the inside become more profound, clear, and loud than the opinions on the outside, you've mastered your life!

DR. JOE VITALE: One of the questions I get asked all the time is if everyone uses The Secret, and they all treat the Universe like a catalogue, aren't we going to run out of stuff? Won't everyone just make a run for it and bust the hank?

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: What's beautiful about the teaching of The Secret is that there's more than enough to go around for everyone.

There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, "There's not enough good to go around. There's lack and there's limitation and there's just not enough." And that lie has people living in fear, greed, stinginess. And those thoughts of fear, greed, stinginess, and lack become their experience. So the world has taken a nightmare pill.

The truth is that there's more than enough good to go around. There's more than enough creative ideas. There's more than enough power. There's more than enough love. There's more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature.

JAMES RAY: Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

JOHN ASSARAF: And so just when we think that resources are dwindling, we find new resources that can achieve the same things.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI: Even though we say we have lack, it's because we don't open up our vision and see all of what is around us.

DR, JOE VITALE: You know when people start to live from their heart and go for what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't all want the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want... (Fill in the blank)

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.

LISA NICHOLS: Everything that you want — all the joy, love, abundance, prosperity, bliss — it's there, ready for you to grab ahold of it. And you've got to get hungry for it. You've got to be intentional. And when you become intentional and on fire for what you want, the Universe will deliver every single thing that you’ve been wanting. Recognize the beautiful and wonderful things around you, and bless and praise them. And on the other side, the things that aren't currently working the way you want them to work, don't spend your energy faulting or complaining. Embrace everything that you want so you can get more of it.

DR. DENIS WAITLEY: Most of the leaders in the past missed the great part of The Secret, which is to empower and share with others. This is the best time to have ever been alive in history. It's the first time we've ever had the power to gain knowledge at our fingertips.

DR. JOHN HAGELIN: When we look around us, even at our own bodies, what we see is the tip of the iceberg.

BOB PROCTOR: Think of this for a moment. Look at your hand. It looks solid, but it's really not. If you put it under a proper microscope, you'd see a mass of energy vibrating.

JOHN ASSARAF: Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.

D R. BEN JOHNSON: Everything is energy, and let me help you to understand that just a little bit. There's the Universe, our galaxy, our planet, and then individuals, and then inside of this body are organ systems, then cells, then molecules, and then atoms. And then there is energy. So there are a lot of levels to think about, but everything in the Universe is energy.

EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE IS ENERGY.

BOB PROCTOR: I don't care what city you're living in, you've got enough power in your body, potential power, to illuminate the whole city for nearly a week.

JAMES RAY: Most people define themselves by this finite body, but you're not a finite body. Even under a microscope you're an energy field. What we know about energy is this: You go to a quantum physicist and you say, "What creates the world?" And he or she will say, "Energy." Well, describe energy.

"OK, it can never be created or destroyed, it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed always exists, it's moving into form, through form and out of form." You go to a theologian and ask the question, "What created the Universe?" And he or she will say, "God." OK, describe God. "Always was and always has been, never can be created or destroyed, all that ever was, always will be, always moving into form, through form and out of form." You see, it's the same description, just different terminology.

So, if you think you're this "meat suit" running around, think again. You're a spiritual being! You're an energy field, operating in a larger energy field.

JOHN ASSARAF: We're all connected. We just don't see it. There isn't an "out there" and an "in here." Everything in the Universe is connected. It is just one energy field.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: Scripturally we could say that we are the image and the likeness of God. We could say toe are another way that the Universe is becoming conscious of itself. We could say that we are the infinite field of unfolding possibility. All of that would be true.

LISA NICHOLS: We often get distracted with this thing called our body and our physical being. That just holds your spirit. And your spirit is so big it fills a room. You are eternal life. You are God manifested in human form, made to perfection.

JAMES RAY: Every tradition has told you that you were created in the image and likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world, and you are.

Maybe you've created things to this point that are wonderful and worthy of you, and maybe you haven't. The question I'd ask you to consider is, "Are the results you have in your life what you really want? And are they worthy of you?" If they're not worthy of you, then wouldn't now be the right time to change those? Because you have the power to do that.

"ALL POWER IS FROM WITHIN AND THEREFORE UNDER OUR CONTROL."

JACKCANFIELD A lot of people feel like they're victims in life, and they'll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you're not so unique. 

My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My mother divorced him when I was six.... I mean, that's almost everybody's story in some form or not. The real question is, what are you going to do now? What do you choose now? Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want. And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don't want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears.

JACKCANFIELD: A lot of people feel like they're victims in life, and they'll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you're not so unique. 

My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My mother divorced him when I was six.... I mean, that's ALMOST EVERYBODY'S STORY in some form or not. The real question is, what are you going to do now? What do you choose now? Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want. And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don't want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears.

LISA NICHOLS: You are the designer of your destiny. You are the author. You write the story. The pen is in your hand, and the outcome is whatever you choose.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: The beautiful thing about the law of attraction is that you can begin where you are, and you can begin to think "real thinking," and you can begin to generate within yourself a feeling tone of harmony and happiness. The law will begin to respond to that.

DR. JOE VITALE: So now you start to have different beliefs, like, "There is more than enough in the Universe." Or you have the belief that, “Everything goes right for me”. "I'm not getting older, I'm getting younger." We can create it the way we want it, by using the law of attraction.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs, and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power within the world.

DR FRED ALAN WOLF: You may be thinking, "Well, that's very nice, but I can't do that." Or, "She won't let me do that!" Or, "He'll never let me do that." Or, "I haven't got enough money to do that." Or, "I'm not strong enough to do that." Or, "I'm not rich enough to do that." Or, "I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not." – 

EVERY SINGLE "I'M NOT" IS A CREATION!

"WHETHER YOU THINK YOU CAN OR THINK YOU CAN'T, EITHER WAY YOU ARE RIGHT."

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: Are there any limits to this? Absolutely not. We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on the planet, is unlimited.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, AND SPIRITUAL MESSENGER 

There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your purpose, your mission in life. There's no blackboard in the sky that says, "Neale Donald Walsch. Handsome guy who lived in the first part of the twenty-first century, who... " And then there's a blank. And all I have to do to really understand what I'm doing here, why I'm here, is to find that blackboard and find out what God really has in mind for me. But the blackboard doesn't exist.

So your purpose is what you say it is. Your mission is the mission you give yourself. Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

JACK CAN FIELD: It took a lot of years for me to get this point, because I grew up very much with this idea that there was something I was supposed to do, and if I wasn't doing it, God wouldn't be happy with me. When I really understood that my primary aim was to feel and experience joy, then I began to do only those things which brought me joy. I have a saying: "If it ain't fun, don't do it!" 

NEALE DONALD VVALSCH: Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter. That's what it is. And if you just experience joy sitting there and meditating for an hour, by golly, do that. If you experience joy eating a salami sandwich, then do that! 

JACKCANFIELD: When I pet my cat I'm in a state of joy. When I walk in nature I'm in a state of joy. So I want to constantly put myself in that state, and when I do, then all I have to do is have the intention of what I want, and what I want manifests.

DR. JOHN HAGELIN: So inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. Be happy now. Feel good now. That's the only thing you have to do. If that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest part of The Secret.

DR. JOHN GRAY: Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more. You are reading this book right now. It's you that drew this into your life, and it's your choice whether you want to take it and utilize it, if it feels good. If it doesn't feel good, then let it go. Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

"FOLLOW YOUR BLISS AND THE UNIVERSE WILL OPEN DOORS FOR YOU WHERE THERE WERE ONLY WALLS."

LISA NICHOLS: When you follow your bliss you live in a constant space of joy. You open yourself to the abundance of the Universe. You're excited to share your life with those you love, and your excitement, your passion, your bliss become contagious.

DR. JOE VITALE: That's what I'm doing almost all the time—following my excitement, my passion, my enthusiasm — and I'm doing it throughout my day.

BOB PROCTOR: Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!

MARIE DIAMOND: You will live in a different reality, a different life. And people will look at you and say, "What do you do different from me?" Well, the only thing that is different is that you work with The Secret.

MORRIS GOODMAN: And then you can do and have and be things that people once said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.

DR. FRED ALAN WOLF: We're really now moving into a new era. It's the era where the last frontier is not space, as "Star Trek" would say, but it's going to be Mind.

DR. JOHN HAGELIN: I see a future of unbounded potential, unbounded possibilities. Remember we're using, at mast, 5 percent of the potential of the human mind. One hundred percent human potential is the result of proper education. So imagine a world where people are using their full mental and emotional potential. We could go anywhere. We could do anything. Achieve anything.

BOB PROCTOR: See yourself with the good that you desire. Every religious book tells us that, every great book on philosophy, every great leader, all the avatars who have ever lived. Go back and study the wise ones. Many of them have been presented to you in this video. They all understood one thing. They understood The Secret. Now you understand it. And the more you use it, the more you'll understand it.

LISA NICHOLS: You've come to this juncture in your life, merely because something in you kept saying, "You deserve to be happy." You were born to add something, to add value to this world. To simply be something, bigger and better than you were yesterday. 

Every single thing you've been through, every single moment that you've come through, were to all prepare you for this moment right now. Imagine what you can do from this day forward with what you now know. Now you get that you are the creator of your destiny. So how much more do you get to do? How much more do you get to be? How many more people do you get to bless, simply by your mere existence? What will you do with the moment? How will you seize the moment? No one else can dance your dance, no one else can sing your song, no one else can write your story. Who you are, what you do, begins right now!

VEN. MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH: I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life. Regardless of how young or old you think you might be. The moment you begin to "think properly," this something that's within you, this power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now that is what I know, for sure!