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 »

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 »

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 »

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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

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):

More Sex, Better Sex!

Is sex with your partner getting a little routine?  Would you like sex more often?  Have you been wanting anything different from your sex life whatsoever, that you just can't seem to get?  You can have the sex life of your dreams!!!  The Law of Attraction, which says "like attracts like," can and does do all things in our lives - so whether you realize it or not, you've attracted your current sex life through your thoughts and focus.  Now all you need to do is use the Law of Attraction in your favor to make some sex-life improvements!  Read the tips below to improve your sex life right now!  read more »

The Universal Principle - Like Attracts Like

Whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not, whether you like it or not, you have created everything in your life.  You've done this through the Law of Attraction, or simply, what you put your focus on.  Whenever you're thinking at all, you're using the Law of Attraction.  Whether you're in debt, going through divorce, overweight, been cheated, or whether you're business is booming, your creativity is flowing, your love is blossoming - whatever you are experiencing or have ever experienced - you attracted into your life by what you focused on either consciously or subconsciously.  (If you focus on something consciously, but your subconscious disagrees - you'll likely end up with what your subconscious believes - one reason some people don't seem to understand or believe in the Law of Attraction.)  read more »

Expanded Concepts - Part 3

Ask and you shall receive / Ask and it is given  read more »

Expanded Concepts - Part 2

Attitude of Gratitude:  until you're grateful for what you have and able to accept what is, you won't have room in your life for anything new that you want  read more »

Expanded Concepts - Part 1

The Secret:  The Law of Attraction - the universal principle that like attracts like, or in Oprah's words "what you think about expands"

Example from the movie "The Secret":  The gay man who is treated horribly at his office job, is booed off stage as a comedian, and is accosted by hateful strangers wherever he walks.  Then he changes nothing more than his thoughts - starts thinking well about himself and expecting others around him to treat him well also.  Within weeks, he was no longer hassled by strangers, all the mean people he worked with had either transfered or left him alone, and he became popular as a comedian on stage.

Wealth:  5 aspects - financially, physically, intellectually, relationally, and spiritually  read more »

A More In-Depth Look at the Oprah Show on "The Secret" - Does The Secret Conflict With Religion?

Favorite concepts from the movie, "The Secret" (based on the book by Rhonda Byrnes) and from the Oprah episodes on "The Secret"

The Secret:  The Law of Attraction - the universal principle that like attracts like, or in Oprah's words "what you think about expands"

Wealth:  5 aspects - financially, physically, intellectually, relationally, and spiritually

The universe is abundant, yet most people have a scarcity mentality

True forgiveness is saying, "thank you for giving me that experience"  read more »

How many times have you had the experience of getting something you "just knew would happen?"  It usually happens with the things we focus on a lot - whether we want it or not.  When you say to yourself over and over again in the morning, "I don't want to be late" - you're usually late!  And you're expecting to be late.  If you don't want to be late, just say "I want to be on time" - this will keep you more relaxed and more likely to be on time!  When you repeat anything to yourself over and over, it slips into your subconscious mind an  read more »

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