135Beyond the Secret Law of Attraction
posted by sherliez on February 1st, 2011
The following passage in the book titled “The Secret” had a foreword that proved irresistible:
“A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I’d worked myself into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationship with my 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.”
“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 (“The Science of Getting Rich” written by Wallace Wattles in 1910). 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.”
“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.
“One by one they emerge. I became a magnet: as I began to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me. In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back through the centuries and I had discovered the modern practitioners of The Secret.”
The Secret that Byrne talks about in the entire book is the Law of Attraction, which she describes this way:
“If you can think about what you want in your mind and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”
According to her, “People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds. Their predominant thoughts are of wealth. They only know wealth, and nothing else exists in their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law of attraction in action.”
The Law of Attraction works in all aspects of our life, including our spiritual life.
Unfortunately, the book focuses mainly on attracting riches and wealth, which is what most people want to hear about and that is why the book has become so successful. Who does not want to be rich?
But there are other equally important hidden laws of nature that the book fails to mention or emphasize such as the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion, the Law of Compensation and the Law of Causality. Nevertheless, I must credit Byrne and congratulate her for bringing to a large number of people around the world the tremendous powers of human thought and emotion.
The Law of Attraction is simply explained as “like attracts like.” We attract what we are, or what we think we are. If you want to be loved, you must be lovable; if you want to be happy, you must think of happiness; if you want to be prosperous, you must think of prosperity.
That is exactly what Byrne is saying in “The Secret.”
From :
Jaime Licauco
First posted 20:41:05 (Mla time) December 03, 2007
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