I found this to be a mind opening book and movie. I do not believe that the universe bows to your thoughts or that you create everything in your life as they say in the book 100% of the time but I do think that it does about 90% of the time for those of us who have healthy minds and bodies and who live in the parts of the world that allow freedom of choice.
The notes below are things I jotted down from the book:
The Secret is the law of attraction. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you.
You are a magnet that attracts whatever you think about.
Like attracts like.
Thoughts become things
Thoughts have a frequency and attract the things on that frequency.
See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it.
You attract what you don't want by thinking about what you don't want.
Make your last thoughts before you go to sleep good thoughts because your mind will work on it while you are asleep.
What you focus on the most is what will appear in your life.
Your life is a mirror of the dominant thoughts you think
Good thoughts are more powerful than negative thoughts.
Think only good thoughts.
Practice Meditation. Only 3 to 10 minutes is incredibly powerful.
Say that I am the master of my thoughts
Monitor your thoughts through your feelings
The cause of the feelings are your thoughts.
You can't feel good and at the same time have negative thoughts so feel good.
To feel Good:
- Close your eyes and smile for one minute.
- Sing
- Put on good music
- Think of something beautiful like a baby
- Recall good memories
- Play beautiful music
- Think of positive future events
- Have pets
How to use the Secret
Step 1: Ask
Write it out in the present tense.
You must be clear about what you want.
Just ask once. Once you are clear in your mind you have asked.
Step 2: Believe
Believe that it is already yours.
Step 3: Receive
Feel the way you will feel when you receive the thing you want.
Feel good.
Say "I am receiving now." Feel it.
Test drive the car. Go see the house.
Inspired action does not feel like work. If you are trying to make it happen you have slipped backward.
Go with the current. It should not feel hard. If it feels like a struggle, you are not on the right track.
When the opportunity or impulse or intuitive nudge is there, act. Trust your instincts. Follow your intuitive feelings.
Think through how you want things to go in advance. Your day and everything else.
Create your day in advance. Create everything in advance.
Before going to bed at night replay the day. Replay whatever did not go as you would have wished the way you would like for it to have gone.
Create a vision board and look at it every day
Relationships:
Love yourself first. Treat yourself the way you want others to treat you.
For 30 days write down everything you appreciate about the person.
Focus only on things and people you love.
Make sure you thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings reflect what you want.
Health:
All disease comes from stress, which comes from negative thinking. Think positively.
Laugh often
See yourself as being well
Don't fight against or think about what you don't want. Anything you focus on you create. What you resist persists.
Energy flows where attention goes
What you resist you attract.
When you compete you compete against you.
Focus on only your dreams and your vision and take away competition
Everything is energy
Think: Money comes easily and frequently
Give money to get money
Use I am...
I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.
See what you want as absolute fact.
BE AWARE OF YOUR THOUGHTS
All your power is in your awareness of that power.
When you are aware you are in present and you know what you are thinking have gained control of your thoughts and that is where all your power is.
Ask:
What am I thinking now?
What am I feeling now?
Am I aware?
Remember to remember.
Ask yourself if you are aware. When you do then you are aware.
The real secret of power is consciousness of power.
Be aware of everything around you. The answers will come to you. A sign, a song, etc...
You must love yourself. To attract what you want you must transmit love. You can't do that if you don't love you.
Focus on the presence inside you.
All inventions and knowledge already exists. You just have to discover it.
See what you want as absolute fact.
Remember to remember.
Energy flows where attention goes
What you resist you attract because you are powerfully focused on it.
There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your mission, your purpose, in life.
Your purpose is what you say it is. Your mission is the mission you give yourself.
Do what brings you joy. If it ain't fun don't do it.
Inner happiness is the fuel of success.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors to you where there were only walls.
The only thing you need to do is to feel good now.
The more you use the power within you the more power you will draw through you.
Do what you love.
Charles Hannel's Affirmation that does it all:
"I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy."
See what you want at absolute fact.
