No eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor mind conceived what splendor is prepared for those who know. For the ones that understand a secret, soar like eagles, journey without tiring, and laugh with earnest abandon all the days of their glorious lives. Rhonda Byrne presents in “The Secret”, the essence, the means, the way to a full and fulfilling life. “The Secret” offers no less than the key to everlasting joy.
All of us poss ess or have access to a power few even realize exists. We use the power daily but remain oblivious to its nuance. It is as if we sit atop a horse, unaware of the reins in our hands or the stirrups on our feet. We do not recognize that the horse is responding to our every move, our every gesture, our every utterance. Awakening to the truth is realizing we are the rider and we have the means to control the trusty steed.
The secret hidden in plain sight: we create the life we experience, for better or for worse.
“The Secret” is a compilation of the wisdom of the ages presented through contemporary voices, people like Jack Canfield, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Bob Doyle – modern day enlightenment teachers. Rhonda suggests the greatest achievers of all time understood, intellectually or innately, the law of attraction and used that immutable force to realize the success they enjoyed.
The seeds of Rhonda’s own awakening were by way of late 19th and early 20th century authors: Prentice Mulford, Wallace Wattles, and Robert Collier among others. These men stressed that thought is the defining energy of human existence. Through thought human beings literally attract the circumstances they experience. Robert Collier wrote, “If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universe giving to you. It offers everything to everyone – there is no partiality.” The quality of one’s life is a matter of thinking.
Everything is energy. What we experience as matter is organized energy. Thought is a form of energy. Thoughts attract and shape the energy of the universe, bringing form into awareness. Thought is an unbounded power at your command. As Rhoda summarizes, “Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source – you.” Thoughts literally become things.
Not to be like children playing with fire, we possess tools for managing this awesome force. Feelings act as guides. Through what you feel in your body you can gauge whether your thoughts are serving you or setting you back. Good feelings point toward right thinking. Bad feelings, feelings of anxiety, discomfort, or disease suggest you are not thinking to your highest potential or for your ultimate benefit. Feelings of love, joy and happiness bring about and in affect are the supreme measure of success.
The law of attraction is functioning whether you take conscious control of it or not. As your thoughts attract every experience in life, why not put it to use to claim abundance, build rewarding relationships, and secure enduring health and vitality. Gaining positive control of the law of attraction – is not about changing anything or anyone out there. Mastery is about controlling self – the thoughts you think and the feelings you feel. By controlling your thoughts, you gain unqualified control over the reality you experience.
The means to draw on or exercise the power of the universe, the energy of thought, is by a three-step process: ask, believe, and receive. Ask by defining clearly what it is you seek to experience: wealth, relationships, achievement of any kind. Believe by visualizing the result as manifest now – demonstrate faith by living “as if”. And receive by maintaining a state of gratitude for circumstances already realized and as yet forming, and by making space in your life for the new reality.
You supercharge the process of creation by evoking passion – feelings of love and joy for positive results, or emotions of hate or anger for negative manifestations. The choice is yours. Your power is absolute. Use it wisely.
The secret is evident in every life. You can deny or embrace the truth, but denial will not make the law stop functioning. You are responsible for your life, your triumphs and your tragedies. Through your thoughts you bring experience to your awareness. The secret has been revealed to you. You must only decide whether you will consciously direct or chaotically react. Embrace the secret. Use the gift you possess to bring to life wonders yet unimagined.