Learning that what’s taken place in your life has happened because you’ve attracted it can be a difficult concept to accept. Yet, Byrne controversially states that like frequencies of thought attract like events. However, she goes on to suggest that once you’ve accepted this as truth, you can take full ownership of your life. Manson, Mark (26 February 2015). "The Staggering Bullshit of "The Secret" ". markmanson.net . Retrieved 6 October 2019. Byrne highlights the importance of gratitude and visualization in achieving one's desires, along with alleged examples. Later chapters describe how to improve one's prosperity, relationships, and health, with more general thoughts about the universe. [10] Reception [ edit ] Gross [ edit ] Through the Law of Attraction like attracts like. What you think about, you bring about. How is this so? The Power reveals the greatest force in the universe, and exactly how to use it - for better relationships and for everything you could ever want.

As you begin to change your thought patterns, powerful changes will take place in your life. One of the most beneficial steps to begin changing the way you think is to practice gratitude. Start by making a list of all the things you are grateful for. This will shift your energy and, thus, your thoughts. Make gratitude part of your daily routine, and you will see dramatic, positive changes in your life. By feeling more grateful for the things you already have, you start to attract more of the good things. TS may assign, license, or sublicense its rights hereunder. This release and license will inure to the benefit of any heirs, successors, representatives, assigns, and licensees of TS, and any such heir, successor, representative, assign, or licensee will be deemed a third party beneficiary under this release and license. In a newspaper, an article states that Heath asks for support against miners, this refers to the Conservative Prime Minister of UK Edward Heath. One of the measures Heath announced on December 13th, 1973 was the '3-Day-Week', which was in operation from 31 December 1973 to 7 March 1974. Chabris, Christopher; Simons, Daniel (24 September 2010). "Fight 'The Power' ". The New York Times. In the healing arts, the power of the placebo effect is well-known. It’s a powerful phenomenon in which patients are cured even when they’ve been given, for example, a sugar pill as opposed to a pharmaceutical drug. According to Byrne, this proves that by simply thinking and believing that you’ve been cured, you manifest it as a reality. She controversially believes that if you bring an abundance of positivity and love into your life, you can cure yourself of disease.Then two weeks ago my best friend told me that she was miserable and unhappy. I felt horrible for her and only wished there was something that I could do. That’s when I started thinking about the book again. I thought about it so much for 48 hours, hoping that I could give it to my friend. Unfortunately my coworker that I had loaned the book to had moved between June, when I gave her the book, and October when my best friend was really in need of it.

Byrne argues that if you resist your feelings, you prevent yourself from changing your reality. To change your reality, you must go within yourself and create a new frequency with your thoughts and feelings. By resisting something, you give more energy and power to it. The universe, therefore, sends you more of what you resist.Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. I always wanted to share one of my stories but it was difficult to choose which message would resonate with others and bring hope to those who might read my story. However recently something occurred that caused me to believe in The Secret and The Power more than I ever have, and I knew I needed to share it here.