Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency and you will attract better things.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

Byrne encourages readers to write down things they are grateful for every day and to focus on positive emotions such as joy, love, and gratitude. The book is beautifully designed, with inspirational quotes and affirmations sprinkled throughout, making it a joy to read. 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 some one 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 p17 The book is inspired by the 1910 book, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles which Byrne received from her daughter when she was going through a tough time in her life, in 2004. The other thing that I want you to know is that every single time you feel gratitude and express gratitude, you are in that moment attracting more things to be grateful for. And so just think about that. Like, I am so grateful for this gorgeous day today or I am so grateful that my car is working really well or whatever you are grateful for… the moment you deliver that gratitude and you feel that sincerely in your heart, you are attracting more and more things to be grateful for. Something else that gratitude does is it causes you to let go of resistance. And one of the things that stops all of the abundance from coming into our lives is resistance. And so gratitude just has you kind of let go and relax and let go of that resistance. Let’s say you are… in the morning you wake up and you are going to do 10 things to be grateful for. I would suggest an absolute minimum you do 10 things to be grateful for. But I want to give you a tip that I use which was incredible a little bit later on. So 10 things to be grateful for, and you don’t say oh I’m grateful for this this this this this and this. No, that’s not the way that you do it. You say a whole sentence – “I am truly grateful for…” and then you say what it is – fill in the blank. Or you say “Thank you thank you thank you for… “and fill in the blank. And so you always do a full sentence with each thing that you’re grateful for. My problem was with the way this was written, first the format was very crappy; it is just quotes from experts on the law of attraction without good examples, without good explanations or good editing. The book gets redundant very fast because it has one idea only and it keeps running in circles around it! The authors claim that the law of attraction is like any scientific law and that is something I find impossible to believe. Scientific laws are easily interpreted and measured and have their equations and they can be quantified! I can improve their is gravity and show you good examples of it. If the best you can do is giving me stories about people, then that is not enough to convince me, I can write a book like this and come up with such examples from the top of my head very easily!

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The worldwide bestselling phenomenon that has helped millions tap the power of the law that governs all our lives to create—intentionally and effortlessly—a joyful life. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret I'm not sure if I will use it, have had it for a day and have been carrying it around - deciding if I will write in it or give it away as a gift to a true devotee. How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

Everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it’s just the result of thoughts.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret You are now receiving the knowledge that will enable you to create the most magnificent version of You. The possibility of that version of you already exists on the frequency of "the most magnificent version of You." Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think the thoughts of it, emit the frequency, and your vision will become your life.The grants, rights, and releases made hereby are irrevocable. Should any provision or part of any provision of this release and license be void or unenforceable, such provision or part thereof will be deemed omitted, and this release and license with such provision or part thereof omitted will remain in full force and effect.

This book has changed the way I view the world. I like to re-read The Secret at least once a year. I own the book, audio book, and film. I will openly admit that there are some ideas, phrases and quotes that cause me to laugh out loud, but the overall message of the book is one of optimism, gratitude, love and power. The sequel, The Power is likewise amazing. Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced . . . Now you are learning The Secret, and with this knowledge, you can change everything. Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a different light, when we find that "looking out for Number One", as directed by the Infinite, is really looking out for Number Two and is indeed the only way to permanently benefit Number Two. By all means, I'm all pro positive thinking. I'll go as far as to say that: yes, negative thinking gets you nowhere and that positive thoughts healthier for you - the glass is half full and all that.... BUT..... Jeez Luise! This book is just up there next to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: worst self-help fantasy BS ever written. One can see here how this approach makes life easy in a way. One doesn't have to understand or appreciate the world and the circumstances of other's lives. One can straight away be judgemental: they brought it on themselves, whether it is cancer, war, contagious disease, or bad architecture. But of course the something like the boom in London property prices or the Wall street crash and subsequent Great Depression do indeed demonstrate the power of positive thinking. The first could be nothing other than millions of people thinking positive thoughts in concentric rings and the other was the result of millions of people thinking negative thoughts - and what a hero Herbert Hoover was in his one man attempt to try and turn round the thought patterns of a nation by telling everybody that the economy was on the turn.If you want to change anything in your life, change the channel and change the frequency by changing your thoughts.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Well, I guess that's why this person is so insanely fat; she must believe that the food she eats has many calories and fat! Someone should have explained to her that it's 0 calories and good for her! Call me jaded, but these people have been drinking the kool aid. Don’t get me wrong- I embrace and appreciate the power of positive thinking and believe that an optimistic frame of mind can go a long way. But, The Secret is a bit extreme. The core of The Secret is the law of attraction, which basically says you attract what you think- think it and it will come. It says that you simply need to ask, believe, and receive whatever you want from the catalog of the universe. One part says, “It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.” What?! I could find one dollar from the change that has fallen into my couch cushions. I am hard-pressed to believe that there is one million dollars floating around in there. The Secret would tell me that the million dollars is not in there because I don’t think it is possible for it to be there. My frame of mind is inhibiting me from finding that million dollars. Even the biggest optimist has to get real somewhere along the line.