| Is The Secret really a secret? Not anymore! | | | | conscious mind can accept or reject a thought, |
| The movie, "The Secret" released in March of this | | | | while the subconscious mind can only accept a |
| year has taken the world by storm. Distributed | | | | thought. The subconscious mind can not distinguish |
| by the internet using a viral marketing model, the | | | | fact from fiction or reality from fantasy. |
| film has been downloaded on computers across | | | | Starting at the beginning of life, our subconscious |
| the globe. In November, two episodes of Larry | | | | mind develops a certain set of beliefs or |
| King Live were devoted to "The Secret". | | | | paradigms. Thoughts impressed upon our |
| So what is The Secret? The secret is a Universal | | | | subconscious mind before are about eight years |
| Law known and practiced by secret societies of | | | | old are largely accepted because we have not |
| the rich and powerful for centuries. The "secret" | | | | developed the conscious mind. For example, if a |
| is the Law of Attraction, which teaches that | | | | child hears, "You'll never amount to much" before |
| whatever thoughts we hold in our mind, repeat, | | | | he or she developed a conscious mind, then the |
| and attach feeling to, we bring into our reality. It | | | | mind will believe that thought to be truth. Sadly, |
| works like a physical magnet to bring into our | | | | without retraining his or her mind, that paradigm |
| experience exactly what we think about and to | | | | or belief system will continue to create exactly |
| what we attach our emotions. If we think of | | | | that experience. |
| prosperity constantly for instance, the Law of | | | | Most of us...well all of us... have limiting beliefs that |
| Attraction says it must come to us. If we think | | | | we repeat constantly in our subconscious mind. |
| of lack and injustice, that will come to us as well. | | | | They are like a looping cassette tape constantly |
| While this might sound like mumbo jumbo, you | | | | repeating the same thoughts. The good news it |
| might be surprised to learn that secret societies | | | | we can retrain our minds to harness the incredible |
| have practiced The Law of Attraction for | | | | power of the Law of Attraction to bring new |
| centuries. Many of our nation's founding fathers | | | | experiences in our lives. We can just as naturally |
| were members of a secret society know as the | | | | create prosperous and joyful mental cassette |
| Freemasons. Great leaders such as Plato, Newton, | | | | tapes. The law works for everyone, and for |
| Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Einstein | | | | every thought, in exactly the same way. Good or |
| Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin reportedly all | | | | bad. Productive or destructive. It's all the same to |
| knew the secret and practiced it. Leaders have | | | | the Law of Attraction. The Law simply brings |
| also known the power of manipulating the | | | | thought (any thought) into form. It sounds simple, |
| thoughts of the masses through impressing | | | | but releasing old limiting beliefs is complex process, |
| emotion laden thoughts on their minds in order to | | | | because the subconscious mind fights change. |
| control them. | | | | I recently received an email from a man who |
| After learning about the Law of Attraction by | | | | said, "You mean to tell me if I glue a fake check |
| reading the 1920's classic "The Science of Getting | | | | for a million dollars to my ceiling and stare at it, I'll |
| Rich", the film's producer, Rhonda Byrne, sought | | | | get a million dollars?" I find that hard to believe." |
| out several modern teachers to learn the | | | | My answer was no and yes. The act of attaching |
| techniques that make the Law of Attraction work | | | | a check to the ceiling and staring at it is not likely |
| for us. The basic message is "what we think | | | | to create any changes. However, if he were to |
| about and attach our feelings to we bring about". | | | | consistently visualize what that money would do |
| So in order to retrain our thoughts we use | | | | for his life, and begin to "feel" what it would be |
| techniques such as visualizations and affirmations | | | | like to have that experience, then yes, it would |
| to create the feeling of having already having the | | | | come to him. |
| experience. We retrain our thoughts to focus on | | | | In takes about 30 days of consistent visualizing |
| our desired result rather than what we are | | | | and stating affirmations to change beliefs in the |
| experiencing through habit. | | | | subconscious mind. Once new thoughts are |
| To put the Law of Attraction to work, we must | | | | impressed upon it, we begin to act on those |
| first understand that we have two minds; the | | | | thoughts and create a new vibration that attracts |
| conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The | | | | a new experience. |