| I just watched "The Secret" again over the weekend. I | | | | first time. I was getting straight A's and awards in high |
| love this film, but this whole business over calling it "The | | | | school. And I had just come home from my first trip to |
| Secret" makes me laugh. It's not like "Think and Grow | | | | Europe. It was a very high vibration time. Until I was hit |
| Rich" or "The Power of Positive Thinking", or "The Law | | | | by a car, went into a coma, and came out with a |
| of Attraction" have been kept hidden by some cabal | | | | serious brain injury that destroyed my life for a few |
| of powerful business men. None of this is new, and | | | | years. I had to let go of everything I knew about |
| none of it's a secret. In fact these are the titles of | | | | spirituality at that time just to survive. In this instance, at |
| immensely popular and influential books over the last | | | | least, like did not attract like. |
| century. | | | | While I may quibble with the Law of Attraction, I |
| So what is the secret? | | | | choose to believe in a Law of the Highest Good: |
| Esther Hicks found hers and teaches message of | | | | everything happens for the highest good. Everything. |
| Abraham. Wayne Dyer found his and he teaches the | | | | You just have to survive it first. |
| Power of Intention. Byron Katie found hers and | | | | So what really is the secret? |
| teaches The Work. I found mine, and I teach Magic | | | | That area of your deepest pain is also the key to your |
| and Manifestation. | | | | heart's desire. Only the person who has been through |
| But even these aren't the real secret. | | | | your pain, walks on your path, and learns what you |
| Cause you can do everything "right"--the mantras, the | | | | learn will discover your secret. |
| meditations, the visioning, the positive thinking--and not | | | | There's a connection between mind and matter. |
| see a change in your circumstances. I've been that girl. | | | | There's a connection between you and the universe |
| Give yourself a break. You're not doing it wrong. | | | | itself. "As above so below." But how you access |
| You're not less worthy. You're just where you are. | | | | those connections is your unique experience. |
| Right now. We all take a turn in that dark night of the | | | | NOTHING works for everyone all the time. What you |
| soul. | | | | discover will probably look A LOT like what other |
| "Be a light unto yourself," the Buddha taught. Take all | | | | people have been saying for the last 10,000 years. |
| these teachings in, and take them all with a grain of | | | | And the stuff that looks different may be even more |
| salt. There's an old Irish adage that says you have to | | | | important. It's your contribution. In fact this may be what |
| do your own growing, no matter how tall your | | | | you're here to teach so others can discover their own |
| grandfather is. Nobody else's law is your law, not even | | | | secret. |
| the Law of Attraction. | | | | We all have to reinvent the wheel at some level for |
| I believe in a strong tendency of attraction. Don't get | | | | ourselves. I cannot presume to have your answers, |
| me wrong--I'm all about attraction. I think about | | | | only suggestions. The finger the teacher points at the |
| something and a few days later it shows up. But a | | | | moon is not the moon itself. |
| "law" of attraction? Like always attracts like? Not | | | | So go watch the movie. It's great. And if you like "The |
| really: | | | | Secret," pick up "Millionaire: Awaken Your Secret." It's |
| Twenty four years ago, I was in rapturous love for the | | | | different, similar, and you'll like it too. |