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Have you ever wished that you wanted something more out of life and felt that you deserved it?
But got nothing but crap, anger and loneliness instead? This is what The Secret tries to address. It shows you why you don’t get the stuff you want and how often that you get crap instead. You can find this video at various stores in Singapore now. Places like PageOne. The amazon link is http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Extended-Rhonda-Byrne/dp/B000K8LV1O/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5133933-6824767?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1186734040&sr=8-1
Its a condensation of many metaphysical concepts focus around attracting what you want from the universe. There are several ideas that it focuses on but not in too great a depth. The video is more a condensaton of ideas, the book I preseume would give you more concrete ideas. The video highlights the concepts and how various authors/motivation gurus view it and how they applied it to life. I’m not sure if this following highlights the correct ideas. But here goes.
1) First you have to be grateful for what you have. Nothing more will come in until you learn to be grateful in your life. They give a great idea on how to learn to be grateful. Take a rock, stone, pebble or anything unbreakable. (you don’t want to be stabbed accidently by it). Put it into your pocket, jeans, purse or whatever. Everyday, when you leave for work or return home. Take it out put into your pants, or take it out to put it onto the table. Think of one or more things that you are greatful that happened today. It could be something minor or major. It could have been simple as seening a butterfly resting on a flower, or someone opening the door for you, some kinds words you gave or recieved. Be grateful be thankful that you’ve seen a minor miracle, or that you’ve done something nice or somebody did something nice for you. Be thankful for the husband to irons the clothes, fixes the taps, or the wife who cooks, or cleans or even just buys food for you. Be thankful that someone made a unique gift that expresses their joy of your presense in their life. When you’re grateful and thankful, the universe and people will be more willing to give you even more to be thankful for.
2) Learn to think or control your thoughts. How many times have we groan and moaned about something in life. Everywhere we go, somebody is unhappy about something, or angry that they did not get a promotion, or got a bad job or don’t have a good relationship. We hear it in the office, in the canteen, at the dinner table at home and most of all we hear it in our thoughts day in and day out. Whats more, the media is always showing us negative things in the news, movies protray violence, the evil of money and power, the anger and jealousy of couples, unhappy children of breakups. The more we think of such things the more we will react EXACTLY the way they we see it. Its time we change the way we think. Its time to replace those thoughts with positive ones. See the relationship as a happy one, as a communicative one. See the positive side of a person and not always drag up the old errors that was intentional or not. If we keep focusing on the bad and negative stuff, all we do is look for more of it and in a way the universe and people will give you more of it because you expect it.
3) Focus, focus, focus. We need to have a focus in life. Most of us, say we want this and that. The next moment we want this and that with x variation then y variation. Its like visiting a cafe, ordering tea, but before the tea can arrive, you change it to Earl Grey, then before that can arrive, you change it to coffee and then cuppicino and so on. Then you complain that this shop never gives you what you want. How can it? How can anyone give you what you want if what you want is changing every single minute? Learn to focus on what you want, what you believe is possible. This doesn’t mean that you can’t change your mind. What it does mean is that you need to hold that thought, that desire for a reasonable length of time, to do some action to achieve that goal.
4) Finally learn to be thankful and grateful for the thing that you just focused your attention on. Feel every emotion, every joy, happiness, satisfaction that this want will bring. Most of all be grateful that it was provided. Don’t want it to happen, already know that it has happened and be grateful for it.
My only gripe about it is too short, but then what can you expect in a video. Not enough details to actually work with it. I guess you need the actual book to see the details. I like the fact that they put on many authors even the “Chicken soup for the soul” author on how he published his first book by applying the principle.
