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Manifesting Using The Secret or Being PresentSome time a few months back I got the chance to watch The Secret, a 90-minute feature presentation that claims to teach the secret to manifesting everything – the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, etc. This film lines up a set of interviews with people who explain the law of attraction and how it can be used to improve their lives. This post will discuss how The Secret sometimes contradicts the idea of being still in the present moment just accepting things rather than working to alter them.
One of the main points of the law of attraction has often been called – what I resist, persists. This is true in our world, since so often we talk about the negatives in an attempting to reject them – disease, suffering, crime – but our attempts to reject them just make them into larger problems. However, whether resistance or positive regard, it does not matter. If our intention is focused at something then that thing becomes attracted to us whether our attention was positive or negative. Those who continue to focus on cancer, and hunger, and disease, are feeding those problems. How does someone get better? Focusing on the problem – or on the solution? The problem with the law of attraction as being presented as something all-positive lies in the failure to acknowledge our attachment to the past as a measuring tool for the present. The major supposition to look at in The Secret is that Mind over Matter is considered the most important function in the role of The Secret. Can the world – as The Secret suggests – focus on health, love and positives, and in doing so create a perfect existence? Is mental thought the one limitation? I believe our thinking can change our existence in profound ways, but I do not think thought and the Mind are the single components we should be taking into account. There is something else that participates in the experience of existence that is not based on thought. People can do profound things with the law of attraction to change thinking patterns but The Secret cannot provide the pristine experience of happiness and freedom – that is in the realm of spirit, not of mind. Pointing outward with our finger and stating what it is we want is another Materialistic notion and even though we might have the power to attract our desires, not knowing the reason we have those desires does not make us much more self-aware. The alternative to manifestation is being still in the present moment to discover how things are rather than shaping them how we want them to be. I do not have a conclusion about whether self-consciousness is incompatible with The Secret, whether both have an important role in our set of tools for living, or whether consciousness is not required at all and is subject to the intention of the mind. I would like to hear what You think however and what your personal experience has been. Please register and post your comments below. |
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