Do you want to know how to use the tools of "The Secret" the Christian way - in a way that allows you to maintain your Christian religious beliefs and achieve your desires?  It's totally possible and rather simple, (I find Joel Osteen's best selling book, "Your Best Life Now" to be an excellent inspiration and a helpful tool for both Christians and spiritual (non-religious) believers - Joel Osteen is a senior pastor at a growing congregation in Houston, Texas, and has a show on national and international television networks).  

Notice how similar Osteen's concepts are to "The Secret's" and how it doesn't matter what religion you are, you can use these tools in your own way to create the life you desire!  Here is a brief paraphrasing of the seven steps that Osteen outlines in his book, "Your Best Life Now:"  read more »

Tony Robbins outlines 6 types of things that we can do and how to improve them and therefore improve the amount of joy in our lives.

1. We can do things that are good for us, good for others, and that we enjoy.  (These are the best things we can do.)

2. We can do things that are good for us, good for others, and that we do not enjoy.  (These can be improved to #1 status.)

3. We can do things that are good for us, not good for others, and that we enjoy.

4. We can do things that are not good for us, good for others, and that we enjoy.

5. We can do things that are not good for us, good for others, and that we do not enjoy.

6. We can do things that are not good for us, not good for others, and that we do not enjoy.  (These are the worst things we can do.)  read more »

James Arthur Ray, from "The Secret" said on the Oprah show, if you sit around and visualize, they'll come and take your furniture!  While John Demartini (from "The Secret" and Larry King Live) said, if you're really ill, start medical treatment while you explore alternatives, like thinking yourself well.  

What they mean, is yes, the Law of Attraction does work and our thoughts do create our reality, but the rest of the world is going to keep moving forward whether you stop to create your reality or not.  You are still working on other people's time tables - the people you pay your mortgage to, your own body's cells that need healing, your husband who wants a divorce, your pet that needs to see the vet, etc.  So sometimes you need to take significant actions in the world, while you pursue creating your own reality on the side.  read more »

Why do some success coaches, Secret teachers, self-help gurus, and the like, say to EXPECT YOUR DESIRE without a doubt, while others say to DESIRE WITH DETACHMENT - desire without need?  Many of the teachers of "The Secret" say to expect your desire with unwavering faith, while other self-help and spiritual masters like Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer say to desire with detachment, intend without needing.  It's just two different ways of looking at or doing virtually the same thing and getting similiar, if not equal, results.

Example of Expecting Your Desire Without A Doubt:  read more »

Here are some helpful tips if you've been trying to manifest or achieve something, but it just isn't happening.

1.  Creating your own reality with your thoughts and feelings, is not about how hard you wish for something.  If you're wishing really hard for something and just not seeing it happen, you need to do one or more of the following:  read more »

Successful New York Times Best Selling Author, Wayne Dyer, has a book titled, "You'll See It When You Believe It," published years ago.  Although it was written quite some time before "The Secret" or "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" ever came out, it supports and discusses a lot of the same concepts.  The main idea is, "You'll see it when you believe it," and not the other way around as is commonly heard, "I'll believe it when I see it!"  In other words,if you don't believe something is possible first, you won't be able to see it or recognize it.  read more »

What is Positive Thinking?

Positive Thinking simply means to think about what you want throughout the day and avoid thinking about what you don't want.  For example, if I want to get hired for a new job I just interviewed for, I would think to myself things like "I am going to get that job," "They are going to hire me," "They totally want me for the job," "I'm the best applicant they had," etc.  read more »

What is the Law of Attraction?

The Law of Attraction can be described very simply in several different ways.  First of all, it's called a "law" because those who believe in it, know that it works all the time, without fail.  The Law of Attraction can be defined in the following ways:  1. The universal principle that like attracts like.  2. The principle that what you think about expands.  3. The principle that what you think about and feel about, you bring about.  4. The principle that you get what you believe subconsciously, or what you expect at the subconscious level.  5. The principle that energy flows where attention goes.  6. The principle that what you focus on grows.  7. The principle that you attract whatever you focus on, believe, or expect.  read more »

What Are the Various Methods For Journaling to Manifest Desires, Create Reality, and Achieve Goals?

The movie, "The Secret," and its supporters, in addition to many other self-help gurus and modern psychologists encourage writing in a journal to help create the life you desire and guide you in setting and achieving your goals.  Journaling is a general process that can involve several different, specific techniques.  Your journaling can be as flexible or structured as you like.  One of the most important parts about journaling is that you enjoy the process and you experience the positive feelings about what you write, so that it feels as though you're actually experiencing what you're writing about.  You can use any or all of the journaling techniques; you may find one or two techniques that specifically work best for you.  read more »

"The Secret" is both a book and a movie, written and produced by Rhonda Byrnes.  Due to its rapid underground popularity and because of its significant message, it was featured on the Oprah show twice in February 2007 with 5 guests from "The Secret" and 2 returning guests.  The first guests on Oprah's show were Rhonda Byrnes, Jack Canfield, Lisa Nichols, James Arthur Ray, and Reverand Dr. Michael Beckwith, with James Arthur Ray and Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith returning for the follow up show.

The movie features some 20 or so experts on "The Secret" from authors, entrepreneurs, etc. to doctors, quantum physicists, etc., all who successfully use The Secret in their lives.  It also features famous historic quotes from Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, and more (see http://goodkarma.org/node/150) that seem to support The Secret.  read more »

The movie, "The Secret" (about the Law of Attraction) explains two highly effective methods for achieving goals and creating your own reality:  a Vision Board and Visualization.  What is the difference between a Vision Board (aka Visualization Board or Treasure Map) and Visualization?  While a Vision / Visualization Board is a unified visual compilation of your desires in the form of pictures, drawings, and words, the practice of Visualization takes place entirely in your mind and body as mental images and feelings.  Each method is separately effective for creating your reality, manifesting your desires, and achieving your goals, employing the Law of Attraction, or like attracts like, but the two methods definitely work best together.  read more »

Why does Oprah's famous personal trainer, Bob Greene, think you have to exercise even though you hate it?  He allows Oprah to hate working out and makes her do it anyway!  I'm not saying that if you hate working out you should not workout, I'm saying, like Tony Robbins says, if you have to do something, find a way to make it enjoyable while you're doing it! 

The common way to do this is to determine a reward before hand to give yourself after you workout, so while you're working out you know you have a reward coming.  But there are other ways to learn to enjoy something you hate but have to do.  Instead of getting on the treadmill in your home or gym, go for a nice walk outside if you enjoy that more, or put a movie (that you like) on in your home while you exercise (just make sure you can be focused enough to still work hard).    read more »

Have you heard of Jennifer Nicole Lee (or JNL)?  She was a guest on the Oprah show a while back because, as an out of shape mother of 2 young boys, she signed up for a bikini contest, lost over 70 pounds naturally through diet and exercise, and won the title of Ms. Bikini America.  In recognition of her accomplishment and inspiration, she was also named the first ever Ms. Muscle and Fitness in its entire 67 years.  read more »

I like the two quotes Lisa Nichols from "The Secret" r(ecently featured on the Oprah Show) frequently uses.  One of them is something like, "when you're thinking about something it's like you're placing an order to the universe" and the other one is, "the universe doesn't hear that you don't want it".  Although she doesn't go into details, this is how I understand her two quotes.

We are all in the unusual restaurant called 'the universe' where everyone and everything is both a customer and a server all at once, since everthing shares one energy, there are no separate entities.  This restaurant has an infinite menu that you can order from and when you're ready to order, all you have to do is focus your thoughts on what you want.  Someone in the restaurant (it might be someone you know, a stranger, or even yourself) will bring you your order when it is ready.   read more »

Oprah's Home Edition & "The Secret" - the Law of Attraction

Although I do not subscribe to a particular religion, and Joel Osteen writes from the Christian perspective, his book "Your Best Life Now" supports many of the same concepts and beliefs that I believe and that are shared in "The Secret."  It's a positive, uplifting, and inspiring book that I am able to reread any section of again when I've had a rough day and I want to boost my spirits.  Although I wanted to read it end to end without putting it down once I started it, the material, like in "The Secret" is so powerful that you really just need to read a chapter at a time and let it all sink in slowly, then reread as you like!  If you're open to "The Secret" or "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" you will probably enjoy reading "Your Best Life Now" by Joel Osteen, and certainly if you are interested in the Christian religion you will enjoy it without a doubt!

After watching the Oprah shows on "The Secret" just recently, I realized that many people often misunderstand what it means to forgive.  Haven't you heard people say something like, "oh I've forgiven him already," but they say it with a tone that you suspect is still filled with anger, resentment, blame, etc.?  And then you just want to drop the subject all together because it doesn't seem like they're at peace with the subject and the conversation could take a very bad turn any second?  I know I've heard poeple talk like that.  read more »

This is a really cool movie, similiar in thought to "The Secret" but with actual actors and a plot incorporated into the theories about spirituality, God, quantum physics, and science.  There are many various interesting experts in "What the Bleep Do We Know" from the most spiritual to the most scientific of experts.  The movie is kind of a prequel to "The Secret" and also features a few of the same people in both movies (the quantum physics scientist, and another guy - I can't remember his name).  If you like "The Secret" you will likely enjoy "What the Bleep Do We Know" - it has more science and also more comedy, but presents the same theories in different ways.  I highly recommend both movies, and it doesn't feel like that much overlap even though they both support each other. 

What I like about Vision Boards (aka Visualization Boards and Treasure Maps):

My 16 Favorite Inspirational Quotes on Life, Action, Purpose, and Success

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Tony Robbins

There is no such thing as failure.  There are only results. - Tony Robbins

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward Phelps

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Tony Robbins

Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. - Henry Ford

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you prove you don't need it. - Bob Hope

Know what you own, and know why you own it. - Peter Lynch

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you. - Wayne Dyer  read more »