The Secret

by Rhonda Byrne

The Secret is the law of attraction! Everything that’s coming into your life you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you.

Why do you think that 1 percent of the population earns around 96 percent of all the money that’s being earned? Do you think that’s an accident? It’s designed that way. They understand something. They understand The Secret,

They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.

Their predominant thoughts are of wealth. They only know wealth, and nothing else exists in their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law of attraction in action.

The law responds to your thoughts, no matter what they may be.

The law of attraction says like attracts like, and so as you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.

Have you ever started to think about something you were not happy about, and the more you thought about it the worse it seemed? That’s because as you think one sustained thought, the law of attraction immediately brings more like thoughts to you. In a matter of minutes, you have gotten so many like unhappy thoughts coming to you that the situation seems to be getting worse. The more you think about it, the more upset you get.

Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that’s the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.

If you see it in your mind, you’re going to hold it in your hand.

Thoughts become things!

What most people don’t understand is that a thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought. And so if you’re thinking that thought over and over and over again, if you’re imagining in your mind having that brand new car, having the money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate . . . if you’re imagining what that looks like, you’re emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.

See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time, with every person.

Here’s the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don’t want, and they’re wondering why it shows up over and over again.

The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don’t want than what they do want.

The law of attraction doesn’t care whether you perceive something to be good or bad, or whether you don’t want it or whether you do want it. It’s responding to your thoughts. So if you’re looking at a mountain of debt, feeling terrible about it, that’s the signal you’re putting out into the Universe. “I feel really bad because of all this debt I’ve got.” You’re just affirming it to yourself. You feel it on every level of your being. That’s what you’re going to get more of.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is impersonal and it does not see good things or bad things. It is receiving your thoughts and reflecting back to you those thoughts as your life experience. The law of attraction simply gives you whatever it is you are thinking about.

When you think of the things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your intention, then the law of attraction will give you exactly what you want, every time. When you focus on the things that you don’t want—“I don’t want to be late, I don’t want to be late”—the law of attraction doesn’t hear that you don’t want it. It manifests the things that you’re thinking of, and so it’s going to show up over and over and over again. The law of attraction is not biased to wants or don’t wants. When you focus on something, no matter what it happens to be, you really are calling that into existence.

If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring into your life more situations for you to complain about. If you are listening to someone else complain and focusing on that, sympathizing with them, agreeing with them, in that moment, you are attracting more situations to yourself to complain about.

The law is simply reflecting and giving back to you exactly what you are focusing on with your thoughts.

His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted to avoid, to focusing on what he did want.

If you thought that you were insignificant and had no power in this world, think again. Your mind is actually shaping the world around you.

You want to become aware of your thoughts and choose your thoughts carefully

One way to master your mind is to learn to quiet your mind. Without exception, every teacher in this book uses meditation as a daily practice.

Meditation

Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think the thoughts of it, emit the frequency, and your vision will become your life.

like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.

You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.

Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Our feelings let us know what we’re thinking.

The emotions are an incredible gift that we have to let us know what we’re thinking.

So your feelings are an immediate signal for you to know what you are thinking. You want to become aware of how you’re feeling, and get in tune with how you’re feeling, because it is the fastest way for you to know what you’re thinking.

When you celebrate the good feelings, you’ll draw to you more good feelings, and things that make you feel good.

If you’re worried or in fear, then you’re bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.

When you are feeling good feelings, it is communication back from the Universe saying, “You are thinking good thoughts.” Likewise, when you are feeling bad, you are receiving communication back from the Universe saying, “You are thinking bad thoughts.”

So when you are feeling bad it is communication from the Universe, and in effect it is saying, “Warning! Change thinking now. Negative frequency recording. Change frequency. Counting down to manifestation. Warning!”

You can shift your thoughts to what you want, receive confirmation through your feelings that you changed your frequency, and the law of attraction will grab hold of that new frequency and send it back to you as the new pictures of your life.

You can begin right now to feel healthy. You can begin to feel prosperous. You can begin to feel the love that’s surrounding you, even if it’s not there. And what will happen is the universe will correspond to the nature of your song. The universe will correspond to the nature of that inner feeling and manifest, because that’s the way you feel.

So what are you feeling now? Take a few moments to think about how you feel. If you’re not feeling as good as you’d like to, focus on feeling your feelings inside and purposefully lift them. As you focus intensely on your feelings, with the intention to lift yourself, you can powerfully elevate them. One way is to close your eyes (shutting out distractions), focus on your feelings inside, and smile for one minute.

When you’re feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music, or start singing—that’ll change your emotion. Or think of something beautiful. Think of a baby or somebody that you truly love, and dwell on it. Really keep that thought in your mind. Block everything out but that thought. I guarantee you’ll start to feel good.

If you think unkind thoughts about someone else, you will experience those unkind thoughts manifested. You cannot harm another with your thoughts, you only harm You. If you think thoughts of love, guess who receives the benefits—you!

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

To know what you’re thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.

The first step is to ask. Make a command to the Universe. Let the Universe know what you want. The Universe responds to your thoughts.

Step two is believe. Believe that it’s already yours.

Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”

If your thoughts contain noticing you do not have it yet, you will continue to attract not having it yet. You must believe you have it already.

If you do just a little research, it is going to become evident to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.

Most of the time, when we don’t see the things that we’ve requested, we get frustrated. We get disappointed. And we begin to become doubtful. The doubt brings about a feeling of disappointment. Take that doubt and shift it. Recognize that feeling and replace it with a feeling of unwavering faith. “I know that it’s on its way.”

Step three, and the final step in the process, is to receive. Begin to feel wonderful about it. Feel the way you will feel once it arrives. Feel it now.

This is a feeling Universe. If you just intellectually believe something, but you have no corresponding feeling underneath that, you don’t necessarily have enough power to manifest what you want in your life. You have to feel it.