The Secret

Kay, so I picked up this book called The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words Publishing) last weekend, and it has been totally instrumental in helping me to see how my thoughts affect the outcome of my life.

The whole premise of the book is quite simply the secret to a happy life.
Which sounds pretty heavy and a little daunting at first - you think it will require you to do a lot of work on yourself and experience some kind of major upheaval to get where you want to be.
After all, if you have been relatively unhappy with your life, you know it took a lot of struggle, pain, and disappointment to get there.
Seems like it would logically be an uphill climb to get out of it.

The irony of it all though, is that it’s not!
It’s simple.
Who woulda thunk it.

The whole theory is based on the law of attraction, which is proven absolute.
It all comes down to how you think.
If you think things are bad and that you are never going to get what you want, that is exactly what you will get.
There is no other force at work besides your thought process.
No such thing as bad luck or the world conspiring against you - if you think that, the law of attraction states that you will experience those feelings continually.

The interesting thing about this is that it explains how powerful our thoughts as single beings really are.
Apparently, all our thoughts transmit a “frequency” of sorts out into the universe. And what we transmit, we receive right back. Like a radio or satellite signal.
The universe does not distinguish between what you want or don’t want, it just receives your thoughts whether good or bad, and sends it right on back to you.

So logically, all you must do is think of the things you want - say it out loud to the universe if you like - and it will come to you.

The only trick is that you really have to believe that you are going to get what you want. Almost to the point of faking yourself out to believe you already have it.
This comes down to dusting off the old faith button and giving it a good press.

The idea behind this is that when you fully believe you have something or are soon going to have it, your feelings follow suit.
You feel happy, fulfilled, and satisfied.
And those thought frequencies are broadcast out to the universe, the law of attraction kicks in, and you receive that which you want.

Pretty cool hey?

Now this complete change in thinking won’t happen overnight - after all, you’ve probably spent the majority of your life thinking another way completely, so it will take some time to adjust.
But the cool part is that you really catch yourself thinking negatively, and you are able to stop and turn it around right then in there.
Thought by thought, step by step.
Eventually in time, your whole thought process and view of life will be transformed for the better.

I know a lot of us are into instant gratification, and long term focus on changing your thinking may seem like a lot of work, but it’s not. It really comes down to one thought at a time.

A good analogy in the book related to headlights: “Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or 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, 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.”

This all seriously just makes so much sense.
We are not at the mercy of luck or some sort of god, or a set of circumstances laid out before we were born.
It comes down to us - we are in the driver’s seat from day one.

With that in mind, why not take the scenic route?
Stop and enjoy whenever you want, wherever you want, for as long as you want.