The Secret Is No Secret

By now you've probably seen or heard of a moviebecome a multi-billionaire.
called The Secret.Many of these older books focus on how to use The
It has been prominently featured on the Oprah TVLaw of Attraction to attract wealth.
show and has been aggressively marketed online.Money is a medium of exchange that is used by all
The Secret is described as a self-help film and uses apeople in a civilized world for product or services.
documentary format to present "The Law ofMoney on its own is neither good nor bad. But maybe
Attraction". The movie has been reported as ayou have been taught that seeking money is bad?
"self-help phenomenon", a "publishing phenomenon" andPeople who associate money with greed and evil will
a "cultural phenomenon".never see the good money can do since the Law of
The Secret contains wisdom from modern-dayAttraction will not bring positive experiences involving
teachers - men and women who have used it tomoney into their lives. However, when you properly get
achieve health, wealth, and happiness. The movieinto the mindset of attracting wealth, money will come
makes you aware of your power to change by usingto you so fast and furiously that you'll wonder where
The Law of Attraction.it's been hiding all these lean years.
The Law of Attraction is the essence of the film'sIt is all to do with where your intention lies.
message. The Law of Attraction says that what youThe Secret is all about the power of intention. The
predominantly think about is what you attract in your"secret" is two-fold: first, the power of thinking good
life. It implies that anything is within your field ofthoughts, and second, the fact that we hold the key to
possibility if you desire it strongly, believe in it, and takeour happiness or unhappiness. The more you can feel
action towards it.your intention, the more power you are attracting it
The movie makes it sound like all of these revelationswith.
are new. However, they are not.You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power
The New Thought book The Science of Getting Rich,that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to
published in the early 1900s, is the source of inspirationevery aspect of your life.
for the film and even that book was preceded byIs all this really new information? I hope you can see
numerous other ones including the 1906 book Thoughtthat it is not.
Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the ThoughtAs long as you keep in mind that The Law of
World by William Walker Atkinson and The MasterAttraction has been known about and written about
Key System written in 1912 by Charles F Haanel.for thousands of years, The Secret does contain
It has been rumored that The Master Key Systeminformation that can be life altering but you can
was the book that Microsoft's Bill Gates read when hecertainly look elsewhere for the same information,
was a college student and paved the way for him tooften for free and in much more detail.