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The Secret | 
 enlarge | Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Category: Book
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Rating:  170 reviews
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Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 4
Pages: 4
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Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 074356619X
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780743566193
ASIN: 074356619X
Publication Date: January 2, 2007
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Condition: This a fantastic audio book and has worked for me - as it says you hold in your hands a great secret - used it and it works ... great buy
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 Thoughts on The Secret May 16, 2008
Someone brought it to my attention that a few people here mentioned my book Dance with Life as helpful to working with The Secret. Thank you whoever you are for associating me with such a great book!
In my opinion the secret of The Secret is that you really need to be in the right place to get where it's coming from. My recommendation is before applying what is in The Secret you first need to read Jill Bolte Taylor's "My Stroke of Insight" to understand how the mind works. Bolte Taylor's book explains the difference between right brain and left brain function and the beauty of it is that it speaks directly to the left brain to get us to a point where we can understand the universal consciousness that is the right brain. Dance with Life speaks directly to the right brain and is a right brain experience. In essence it is a reading meditation. Though a short book, because it is written in a fictionalised, poetic format it takes a long time to read as each bit hits the mind on a different level and subtly reprogrammes it to be more responsive to life changing thoughts. I don't want to hog space here for my own book, but I felt it was important to clarify what it's all about.
The gems of advice contained in The Secret work best when the left brain and right brain are clear about their different natures. Anything in life is possible and The Secret is a great distillation of the thoughts of some of the leading teachers, past and present, on how the laws of attraction and manifestation can radically alter our lives.
The only additional piece of advice I would emphasize is that when manifesting or attracting anything into your life it is vital to be absolutely clear about what it is you want to manifest. What you request should always carry the premise of 'if it is for my highest good' and equally what you focus on should never ever involve a request that could directly or indirectly bring harm to another.
Seeing is believing May 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The message of this book is virtually the same as that found in Barbara Mohl's book on cosmic ordering - if you want something, ask the universe for it and it will come to you - providing you believe it's possible.That means you must focus on the idea of having what you want already - being able to visualise it helps.
Regardless of whether or not this works in terms of the universe giving you what you want, I think it's a powerful psychological tool that can help you bring about change in yourself. For example, if you want to lose weight, imagine you're already slim and you'll probably find yourself acting like a slim person i.e. eating more healthily and being more active. This then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If I think about my own life, positive thinking and imagining myself having the things I want in life probably has worked for me - so I guess I do believe in this book's message. That said, I don't believe everything will fall into your lap just because you ask for it - I think you have to take action to make things happen.
If you life seems humdrum and you want it to change for the better, then I recommend that you buy this book and use it as a starting point.
Wendy Green - Author of The Greatest Slimming & Healthy Living Tips in the World
Truly Inspirational May 3, 2008
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Bringing awareness to my own life, I could see how many of things Rhonda writes about has happened to me. What stood out for me is the very first chapter. It is summed up on page 25 in Secret Summaries. "Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most most will appear as your life. I can see that when I believe I can do something I do and when I think I can't I don't.
The chapter, The Secret to Relationships, was also an eye opener. Dr John Gray says "You become the Solution for you" It was an eye opening idea that if my relationship isn't working the other person is not to blame and that I need to look at me. This brought to mind another book I've read and highly recommend:How To Create a Magical Relationship" Ariel & Shya's book is brilliantly written and guides the reader in how to have a Magical Relationship and how having a magical relationship is up to you and not your partner.
Thinking of both these books makes me smile. I highly recommend them both!
If you don't believe it, you'll never get it! April 27, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Firstly, I have yet to buy the movie and/or book/teeshirt etc. but I'll ask you to read some of the reviews here and see for yourself, exactly what the book is undoubtedly saying, as the many reviewers seem to be adamant that it's truly insightful OR adamant that it's utter nonsense.
A highly polarized mix of opinion indeed or is it just my perception? Hmmmm.....
This is a perfect example of the basic truth that YOU CREATE REALITY WITH YOUR MIND, regardless of the evidence, since it exists in favour of both sides in all cases, depending on who you choose to believe! That's not to say that there isn't an ultimate factual 'reality' but that's still highly subjective from our limited perspective.
Note that I didn't say you create reality with your brain, as that's 'just' the physical interface with the body for the MIND to control in this density or frequency range called matter. Ever tried to teach anyone something without their consent? Just doesn't happen! (as per negative reviews and people who say things like "I never done it. You done that" or the classic, "We was robbed!" after a bad football game).
Thusly, PROVING THE WHOLE POINT that you are indeed in control of your lot, PERMISSION must be granted first, AS CO-CREATOR OF YOUR OWN REALITY; demonstrating the power YOU have over YOUR life in a nutshell!
Consider the tortured prisoner, for example. Why so much force to extract a mere confession or data? Finally, under extreme duress and close to death, they nonetheless willingly submit their absolute and total POWER over their desperate and cruel captors (who are even disgusted by their own actions but are in fear of their 'superiors' and so on - yawn) and they sing like a bird, probably to die in vain anyway.
Those who know their true power, however, do not submit to mere misguided mortals but completely HUMBLE their captors with their secret knowledge of WHO THEY ARE AS THE CREATOR OF THEIR OWN REALITY (Sound familiar? J.C. by all accounts, bless him!).
This takes some guts though, as I'm sure you'll agree (have you SEEN The Passion of (The) Christ?!!!) but the point is that at some stage a decision must be made to relinquish their so far unbreakable will; one which would remain so for as long as they decided - even unto death or the illusion thereof - we shall see!).
What a metaphor for political corruption. Only by the will of the people, can even despots succeed! Hitler needed the Reichstag fire like Bush et al needed 911. Do your research; it's all on here. These apparent spiritual morons atleast know or were told that it takes collective consciousness to manifest global events like war and the subsequent financial rewards and control for it's masterminds. Not votes mind you, just beliefs. Votes can be and are rigged in such cases but it's your MIND that they need to enlist. That's why they go to such trouble. It's precisely BECAUSE YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF THEIR POWER. WITHOUT YOU THEY ARE NOTHING and they know it!
Pearl Harbour was no slip-up in intelligence. Well, you know what I mean!
They need YOU to do their dirty work at all levels of the lie. That takes your belief in the cause. "They bombed us first" etc. so now ANYTHING GOES! Even the mass murder of innocent civilians and the irreversible pollution of the planet with so called 'Depleted' Uranium munitions (that's nuclear weapons being used right now, today folks!)?????
Apparently so. That's how desperate they are and you'd better strap yourself in as it's gonna get wild until enough minds collectively say "ENOUGH ALREADY!"
Put Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld or Blair in Iraq or Afghanistan on the front line and watch them cry for their Mamas like the spiritual babies they are.
They, however are only able to be so 'evil' while we allow them. Cleverly 'they' (that means WE) have engineered a society of mistrust and fear in which 'we' will do anything to be protected from that evil of evils, you know, the 'T' word. Funny but the alleged 911, 7/7 or Madrid etc. 'T' ists couldn't have ever dreamt of a better result than the Fascist Dictatorships we all live under now as the excuse to 'Defend Our Freedoms". What freedoms? Go on, list them for me, I kinda forgot what they WERE.
Very simplistically, belief as they say, is everything. Those who doubt and scoff, are right. It doesn't work - for them......or does it? So powerful are you (that pesky MIND bit!) that you can convince your brain to filter, twist, distort, discount and ignore all data in conflict with your pre-conceived (formed before their rightful time), wait for it.........BELIEFS!
Those who are more humbled by their experiences, (the true purpose of 'karmic' events by the way - not as punishment but as clues along the path of life) and whom have an open mind, following the guidance given, (getting what they want in the process), are right. It does work - for them!
Funny that, isn't it!?
The Universe isn't a perfect clockwork mechanism, however, as the element of chaos is our free will and the will of 'The Gods' or those 'Mindfields' so vast as to create entire galaxies but that's another subject!
If you don't get it yet, don't get it! You've made YOUR CHOICE to believe what YOU want; to remain in ignorance! It's not an insult, it's a statement of fact. You're ignoring the abundant evidence so eloquently layed before you. You need more help to realise (make real) your responsibility. If it's all someone else's fault that you're disabled with AIDS and starving to death on welfare, what power have you? Absolutely NONE. It's all hopeless! Might as well give up now - and again, since trust me, you've done it many times before and will continue to do it until the penny drops and the Great Spirit of Almightly Allah, God or Jehovah kicks in and you start to ask for (and more importantly ACCEPT) help from those who have been here before a few more times and are merely offering to show you the way home, back to ONEness with GOD or YOU, it's the same thing really!
Prove to me that all is not one big lump of interconnected 'energy consciousness' or whatever that's indivisible when you look close enough and I'll admit I'm stupid. Seperation is the greatest illusion of all. On a sidenote, for GOD to exist 'it' must BE all that IS, yes? Otherwise it wouldn't know everything. Something might exist outside of itself. That's what 'GOD' is; the sum total of ALL THAT IS, including and indivisible from YOU and not limited to some guy with a grey beard laying on a cloud.
You are in any statement of victimhood or blaming others, giving away all of your creative response-ABILITY. Always and forever ask WHY. What lesson is to be learned from this experience? Think about it instead of blaming 'society' since they are but other apparent individuals like you, blaming eachother, (you included!), starting wars and engineering AIDS etc. and all manner of social ills through collective ignorance.
We collectively create our world but are individually responsible for our part. This is especially true of politicians and soldiers etc. who seem to have forgotten the basic purpose of their jobs as SERVANTS OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST and keepers of the peace........NOT DICTATORS!
One way or another, the collective 'Will be done' though, so be careful what you believe; not fearful, just very careful, as your mind is an aspect or part of the most powerful creative force in errrmmmmm, Creation!
If you do 'get it' however, get it.......
I'm sure it's very good!
Amazing! April 26, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Personally I think this book is amazing. I have read it over and over again so that I stay motivated and keep up my new way of thinking.
I recently watched the dvd too and following that believed a fabulous pair of shoes I had seen in a magazine would be mine. I certainly wasn't going to buy them though as I am a stay at home mum. I put a picture of them on my fridge and wrote on them 'my shoes.' I went on the shoes website and found they were running a competition to win a pair of shoes of your choice. 10 days later I owned the shoes.........I won the competition. I have never won anything in my life. I nearly fainted when I got the email telling me I had won.
I think people are reading it differently. For example when other people say they don't think you can lose weight just by believing you are a size 10, I believe you can. Not because the power of the universe will make you a size 10 even if you eat a cream cake every day..but because you believe you are a size 10 so you will then eat and live like a size 10.
It amazes me how many people are reluctant to believe that you can achieve what you want through positively believing you deserve it and will have it. It doesn't cost anything to believe your life can be better and that just about anything can be achieved.
Looking back at my life so far I can see this theory has worked already. We went through 2.5 years of infertility. then one day I just woke up and said "we are going to get pregnant this month" and I fully believed it. A few weeks later, I got my positive test and we have a beautiful son now. This was before I had even heard about the book.
what has anyone got to lose by being postive about what you can achieve? And what could be wrong with being thankful every day for what you already have?
Its a life changing book.
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