The Power (The Secret, #2)

by Rhonda Byrne

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” John Henry Jowett (1864-1923) PRESBYTERIAN PREACHER AND AUTHOR

When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn’t matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things you’re receiving from life. Give thanks for your senses: your eyes that see, your ears that hear, your mouth that tastes, your nose that smells, and your skin that lets you feel. Give thanks for the legs you walk on, your hands that you use to do almost everything, your voice that enables you to express yourself and communicate with others. Give thanks for your amazing immune system that keeps you well or heals you, and for all your organs that maintain your body immaculately so that you can live. Give thanks for the magnificence of your human mind that no computer technology in the world can duplicate. Your entire body is the greatest laboratory on the planet, and there’s nothing that can come even close to replicating its magnificence. You are a miracle!

Give thanks for the sun, the water that you drink, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe; without any of them you wouldn’t be alive. Give thanks for the trees, the animals, the oceans, the birds, the flowers, the plants, blue skies, rain, the stars, the moon, and our beautiful planet. Give thanks for the transportation you use every day. Give thanks for all the companies that provide you with essential services so that you can live a comfortable life. So many human beings toiled and sweated so that you can turn on a tap and have fresh water. So many human beings gave their life’s work so that you can flick a light switch and have electricity. Think about the magnitude of human beings who slaved day after day, year after year, to lay the train tracks across our planet. And it’s almost impossible to imagine the number of people who did the backbreaking work of making the roads we drive on that form a connecting network of life for the world. “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) LUTHERAN PASTOR

To use the power of gratitude, practice it. The more you feel gratitude, the more love you give; and the more love you give, the more you receive. Are you grateful for your health when it’s good? Or do you only notice your health when your body gets sick or hurts? Are you grateful when you have a good night’s sleep? Or do you take those nights for granted and only think of sleep when you’ve been deprived of it? Are you grateful for your loved ones when everything is going well, or do you only talk about your relationships when there are problems? Are you grateful for electricity when you use an appliance or flick a switch? Or do you only think of electricity when there’s a power blackout? Are you grateful to be alive each day? Every spare second is an opportunity to be grateful and multiply the things you love. I used to think I was a grateful person, but I didn’t know what gratitude really was until I practiced it.

“Everything is possible for the person who believes.” Jesus (circa 5 BC-circa AD 30) FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY, IN MARK

If you’re talking about something in the past or the future, you’re imagining those things now, you’re feeling those things now, you’re on that frequency now, and that’s what the law of attraction is receiving. When you’re imagining your dream, the law of attraction is receiving it now. Remember, there is no time for the law of attraction. There is only this moment of now.

If you experience a time delay in receiving what you want, it’s only because of the time it takes you to get onto the same feeling frequency that your desire is on.

And to get onto the same frequency as your desire, you have to feel the love of having your desire now! When you get yourself onto the same feeling frequency and stay there, what you desire appears. “All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.” Neville Goddard (1905-1972) NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR When you are really excited about anything that has happened, and you feel amazing, capture that energy and imagine your dream. Quick flashes of imagining and feeling your dream are all you need to harness the power of your excited feelings for what you want! This is playing. This is fun. This is the joy of creating your life. POINTS OF POWER The Key of Love To use love as the ultimate power in your life, you must love like you have never loved before. Fall in love with life! See only love, hear only love, speak only love, and feel love with all your heart. There is no limit, no ceiling, to the amount of love you can feel, and it is all inside you! You are made of love. Tell the law of attraction what you love every day by singling out the things you love ...

The Key of Gratitude Every time you feel grateful you are giving love. Be grateful for everything you have received in your life (past). Be grateful for everything you are receiving in your life (present). Be grateful for what you want in your life, as though you have received it (future). Your gratitude will multiply everything in your life. Gratitude is the bridge from negative feelings to harnessing the force of love! To use the power of gratitude, practice it. When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn’t matter how small it is, say thank you. The more you feel gratitude, the more love you give; and the more love you give, the more you receive. Every spare second is an opportunity to be grateful and multiply the things you love. The Key of Play When you play you feel really good – and really good circumstances come into your life. Seriousness brings serious circumstances. Life is supposed to be fun! The law of attraction doesn’t know if you’re imagining and playing, so whatever you give in imagination and play will become real! Whatever it is you want, use your imagination, use every prop you can find, create games, and play. Act as if you have it no...

“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu (circa 6th century BC) FOUNDER OF TAOISM

Love Is Sticking Power

The force of love moves all the money and riches in the world, and it moves it according to law.

“This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.” Charles Haanel (1866-1949) NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

Love! Love is the attracting force that brings money, and love is also the power that makes money stick!

It has nothing to do with whether you are a good person or not. That aspect of you is beyond any question whatsoever, because you are far more magnificent than you realize. You have to give love and feel good about money to bring it to you and make it stick! Right now if you lack money, and your credit card debt is increasing, you have no sticking power and you are repelling money. It doesn’t matter what financial state you are in now. It doesn’t matter what financial state your business, your country, or the world is in. There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. There are people who lived during the Great Depression who thrived because they knew the law of love and attraction. They lived the law by imagining and feeling everything they wanted, and they defied the circumstances that surrounded them.

The force of love can break through every single obstacle or situation. World problems are no obstacle for the force of love. The law of attraction operates with the same power whether the times are up or down.

You can write across the front of a bill when you pay it, “Thank you – paid.” If you don’t have the money to pay the bill right away, write across the front of it, “Thank you for the money.” The law of attraction doesn’t question whether what you imagine and feel is real or not. It responds to what you give, period.

“You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.”

When you receive your salary, be grateful for it so it multiplies!

When some money comes into your hands, no matter how little it is, be grateful! Remember, whatever you’re grateful for multiplies. Gratitude is the great multiplier!

Feel love when you pay for anything! Feel love when you hand over money! Feel love with all your heart by imagining how much your money is helping the company and the staff who work for the company. It will make you feel good about the money you’re giving instead of feeling bad because you have less money. The difference between the two is the difference between having plenty of money and struggling with money for the rest of your life.

Your reaction to people, circumstances, events, and everything in life would be different. Because you would feel different! You would be relaxed. You would have peace of mind. You would feel happy. You would be easygoing about everything. You would enjoy every day, without giving any thought to tomorrow. That’s the feeling you want to capture. That is the feeling of love for money, and that feeling is magnetically sticky! “Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.” Neville Goddard (1905-1972) NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR