The Secret

by Rhonda Byrne

Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you’re in the position to build bigger and bigger fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

the feelings of having it now.

When you feel as though you have it now, and the feeling is so real that it is like you have it already, you are believing that you have received, and you will receive.

If you have an intuitive or instinctive feeling, follow it, and you will find that the Universe is magnetically moving you to receive what you asked for.

if someone is overweight, it came from thinking “fat thoughts,” whether that person was aware of it or not. A person cannot think “thin thoughts” and be fat. It completely defies the law of attraction.

It is your thought that food is responsible for putting on weight that actually has food put on weight.

You most likely know of someone who is thin and eats like a horse, and they proudly declare, “I can eat whatever I want and I am always the perfect weight.” And so the Genie of the Universe says, “Your wish is my command!”

Now you might understand why a person who says, “I always get parking spaces,” gets them. Or why a person who says, “I am really lucky, I win things all the time,” wins one thing after another, all the time. These people expect it. Begin to expect great things, and as you do, you will create your life in advance.

“When you say to yourself, ‘I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,’ you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humor, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work ‘fixing up’ things good or bad in advance.”

important it is to think in advance every event in every day.

Make it a daily habit to determine every event in your life in advance, through your thoughts. Set the Universal forces ahead of you in everything you do and everywhere you go, by thinking the way you want it to go in advance. Then you are creating your life intentionally.

The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive. • Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked. • Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you’ve asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive. • Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.

To lose weight, don’t focus on “losing weight.” Instead, focus on your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will summon it to you.

“Desire connects you with the thing desired and expectation draws it into your life.” Expect the things you want, and don’t expect the things you don’t want.

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought.”

Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you re-create those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new pictures for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.

Gratitude

Most of them begin their day with thoughts and feelings of gratitude.

As soon as you start to feel different about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things. More of the things you can be grateful for.

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. Whether it is jealousy, resentment, dissatisfaction, or feelings of “not enough,” those feelings cannot bring you what you want. They can only return to you more of what you do not want.

When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe. That signal is saying that you have it already because you are feeling gratitude for it now. Each morning before you get out of bed, make it a habit to feel the feelings of gratitude in advance for the great day ahead, as though it is done.

It’s the feeling that really creates the attraction, not just the picture or the thought. A lot of people think, “If I think positive thoughts, or if I visualize having what I want, that will be enough.” But if you’re doing that and still not feeling abundant, or feeling loving or joyful, then it doesn’t create the power of the attraction.

it is not your job to work out “how” the money will come to you. It is your job to ask, to believe you are receiving, and feel happy now. Leave the details to the Universe on how it will bring it about.

When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don’t have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don’t have enough—“We don’t have enough for that, we can’t afford that”—then you’ll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don’t have. If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. Focus on prosperity.

Now that you know The Secret, when you see someone who is wealthy you will know that that person’s predominant thoughts are on wealth and not on scarcity, and that they have drawn wealth to them—whether they did it consciously or unconsciously. They focused on thoughts of wealth and the Universe moved people, circumstances, and events to deliver wealth to them. The wealth that they have, you have also. The only difference between you and them is that they thought the thoughts to bring the wealth to them. Your wealth is waiting for you in the invisible, and to bring it into the visible, think wealth!

A game I created that helped shift my feelings about my pile of bills was to pretend that the bills were actually checks.

Everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it’s just the result of thoughts. Set your thoughts and frequency on happiness. Radiate the feelings of happiness and joy within you, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your might, and you will experience true heaven on earth.

Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.

Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you’ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.

“Thinking perfect health” is something anybody can do privately within themselves, no matter what is happening around them.

When you open yourself to feel the abundance of the Universe, you’ll experience the wonder, joy, bliss, and all the great things that the Universe has for you—good health, good wealth, good nature. But when you shut yourself off with negative thoughts, you’ll feel the discomfort, you’ll feel the aches, you’ll feel the pain, and you’ll feel as if every day is painful to get through.

Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us know we have an imbalanced perspective, or we’re not being loving and grateful. So the body’s signs and symptoms are not something terrible.

As he laughed, Norman released all negativity, and he released the disease. Laughter really is the best medicine.

If our entire bodies are replaced within a few years, as science has proven, then how can it be that degeneration or illness remains in our bodies for years? It can only be held there by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness.

When we think negative thoughts we are cutting ourselves off from our rightful heritage.

I banished every bit of stiffness and lack of agility right out of my body. I focused on seeing my body as flexible and as perfect as a child’s, and every stiff and aching joint vanished. I literally did this overnight.

On the subject of health I would like to leave you with these illuminating words from Dr. Ben Johnson: “We are now entering the era of energy medicine. Everything in the Universe has a frequency and all you have to do is change a frequency or create an opposite frequency. That’s how easy it is to change anything in the world, whether that’s disease or emotional issues or whatever that is. This is huge. This is the biggest thing that we have ever come across.”

The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drug movement has actually created more drugs. Because we’re focusing on what we don’t want—drugs!

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood The Secret. Look what she manifested in the world.

the more you talk about what you don’t want, or talk about how bad it is, read about that all the time, and then say how terrible it is—well, you’re creating more of that.

Learn to become still, and to take your attention away from what you don’t want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place the attention on what you wish to experience. . . . Energy flows where attention goes.

As you focus on the good things you feel good, and you are bringing more good things to the world.

“The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind.”

Nothing is limited—not resources or anything else. It is only limited in the human mind. When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.

Lisa’s wise words, to “praise and bless” the things around you, are worth their weight in gold. Praise and bless everything in your life! When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.

Praising and blessing dissolves all negativity, so praise and bless your enemies. If you curse your enemies, the curse will come back to harm you.

Praise and bless everything in the world, and you will dissolve negativity and discord and align yourself with the highest frequency—love.

You will understand why your negative thoughts about someone else will return to harm only You. We are One! You cannot be harmed unless you call harm into existence by emitting those negative thoughts and feelings.

When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!