November 30, 2025 • 15 mins
Provide an extensive overview of the Law of Attraction and how to apply it to manifest desires. The text details the central tenet that thoughts are magnetic forces that attract corresponding experiences, emphasizing that humans are the creators of their own destiny through conscious thinking and feeling. It introduces a three-step Creative Process—Ask, Believe, and Receive—and highlights the importance of practices like gratitude and visualization to align one's emotional frequency with desired outcomes, impacting aspects like health, wealth, and relationships. Furthermore, the excerpts feature contributions and biographies of numerous teachers and experts who share personal stories and scientific explanations supporting the idea that one's current life is a reflection of past thoughts, but that this can be fundamentally changed by choosing positive focus.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the deep dive.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Okay, so today our mission is, well, it's pretty ambitious.
We're going to give you a really comprehensive sort of
narrative journey through Rhonda Burns the Secret.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, it's more than just a summary, right, We want
to trace the story she tells about this great secret
to life, how she found it and how it supposedly.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Works exactly, and her own story is kind of central
to it all. It kicks off about a year before
the book, apparently at a real rock bottom moment for.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Her, total burnout, her father passing away, suddenly, relationship chaos,
just you know, everything falling.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Apart, right, a period of real despair. But she frames
that as the trigger, the thing that led her to,
as she puts it, the greatest gift.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Which came in the form of this old, one hundred
year old book her daughter Haley gave her. And that
book contained a glimpse of the secret.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And crucially she didn't see it as some brand new thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, not at all. She positions it as a rediscovery
her research as presented in the book. This knowledge goes
way back. She claims, the greatest people in history knew
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're talking heavy hitters here, right, Yeah, oh yeah, people
like Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, even Einstein are mentioned.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Okay, wow, that's quite a list, which immediately makes you think, well,
if it's that powerful and known by those people, why
don't we all know about it? Why isn't it just
taught in schools?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's the big question, isn't it? The book suggests it
was often hidden, maybe deliberately, or passed down through secret circles.
But the secret itself, the thing connecting all these figures. Yeah,
it's the law of attraction. That's the name given to
this core principle.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Okay, the law of attraction. Let's unpack that. Yeah, the
basic idea is like attracts like but how does that
actually work?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
According to the book, Well, the mechanism described is, well,
it's quite direct. Everything that comes into your life, good
or bad, is supposedly attracted by the images and the
dominant thoughts you hold in your mind.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So thoughts aren't just abstract things.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Not, according to the Secret debscribed as having a real
tangible quality. They're magnetic apparently, and they even have a
measurable frequency.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A frequency. Okay, that might sound a bit out there
for some listeners. Is there maybe a psychological angle we
can see here, like how our brains tend to notice
things were already focused on.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You could definitely draw parallels. Psychologists talk about the reticular
activating system, how our brain filters reality based on focus.
Whether you see it as metaphysics or psychology, the described
effect is similar. You think a thought, it goes out
into the universe on a certain frequency, and.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It pulls in things on that same frequency.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Exactly, It magnetically attracts similar thing. And the absolute rule,
the one the book Hammer's Home, is that everything sent
out returns to the source, back to you.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They use that analogy of a human transmission tower, don't.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They a really powerful one, more powerful than any tech
we've built. Your thoughts set your frequency, and that frequency
creates the pictures of your life. If you don't like what's.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Showing, you can't just smash the screen, right, You have to.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Change the channel, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And this idea is used to explain some big historical
things like the Babylonians.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, the ancient Babylonians, famous for their wealth, the hanging gardens.
The book claims they knew and use this law. It
even suggests this is why a tiny percentage of people,
like one percent, earn almost all the money, like ninety
six percent, because they're consistently thinking thoughts of wealth.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It also sounds kind of impersonal, like the law doesn't
care if you're a good or bad person.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's a really crucial point the book makes. It's presented
as completely impersonal, like gravity. It just responds to your
dominant thought, whatever that vibration is.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So someone could think their way to wealth, lose it
all if they get scared, then get it back again,
just by shifting their thoughts back precisely.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The book gives examples like that the law responds to
the thought of wealth or the thought of lack. It
doesn't make moral judgments. It just reflects your dominant frequency.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay, that raises some questions, but it leads directly into
what the book sees as a major problem. Right, this
don't want.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Thing exactly that don't want epidemic. Most people apparently spend
their time thinking about what they don't want, and.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Because the law doesn't really hear that don't.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right, it just picks up on the subject of the thought.
So if you're thinking I don't want to be late.
The law registers late, focuses on the feeling and image
of being late, and helps bring that about. It can't
process negation.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Wow, okay, But to hang on sixty thousand thoughts a
day roughly trying to monitor every single one to make
sure it's positive sounds well impossible and incredibly stressful.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Totally impossible, And the book acknowledges that you can't possibly
police every thought. That's where the shortcut comes in, the
big Aha moment, which is your feelings, your emotions. There
your built in feedback system from the universe. They tell
you instantly what frequency you're currently broadcasting on.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So bad feelings, anger, fear, guilt, or like a warning light.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Exactly like a warning light, the universe basically saying hold on,
you're on a negative frequency. Change thinking now, or you're
going to manifest more of this stuff. It's a signal
that you're attracting things you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Don't want and good feelings, joy, excitement, gratitude.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That means you're bang on track, you're aligned with your desires,
you're on the frequency to receive good things. It's pretty straightforward.
Feel good attract good, feel bad attract bad.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Simple in theory, maybe harder in practice. What about the
most powerful feeling? Is there like a master frequency?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yes? According to the book, the absolute highest frequency you
could emit is love, the feeling of love. It's described
as the greatest power there is. If love is your
dominant state, the law responds with its greatest force.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, so we're constantly sending out these signals based on
our feelings. How do we start consciously choosing the signal?
How do we actually use this creatively?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Right? The creative process. The book uses the metaphor of
a Laddin slamp. You are alive and the universe.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is the genie, and the genie always says, your.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Wish is my command always. It doesn't question. It just
assumes that whatever you're thinking, saying, or doing is what
you want to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So how do we give our commands clearly? The book
lays out three steps, right, borrowed from ancient texts like
the New Testament.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's right, three simple steps. Step one is ask You
have to get crystal clear on what you actually want,
not vague wishes, specific desires, and the technique is to
write it down in the present tense as if it's
already happened. I am so happy and grateful now that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And you just ask once, like placing an order exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You don't need to keep asking and asking that implies
you don't think it heard you the first time, which
is lack of faith. Place your order clearly.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Once, okay. Step one, ask clearly present tense. Step two
is believe. This sounds like the tricky one.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It often is. You have to cultivate unwavering faith that
what you ask for is already yours, even though you
can't see it yet. It's about acting, speaking, and thinking
as if you're receiving it right now, and.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You're not so story about how it will happen.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Definitely not. That's the universe's department. According to the book,
trying to figure out how actually blocks the process because
it introduces doubt. Jack Canfield is quoted saying people who
achieve big things often did not know how they were
going to do it. They only knew they were going
to do it. You just trust the how.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Will appear right, so ask believe, uh huh. Step three
is receive Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
This is about feeling good now, getting yourself onto the
emotional frequency of having received your desire feeling the joy,
the gratitude, the relief in advance.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Is there a quick way to do that?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
A suggested technique is just to affirm feelingly, I am
receiving now, I am receiving all the good in my life. Now,
I am receiving your specific desire. Now feel that sense
of reception.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Did action play a part or do you just sit
and wait?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Action is often needed, yes, but it should feel like
inspired action, not forced struggle. It should feel light, effortless,
like you're being pulled towards it, not pushing against resistance,
like floating down a river rather than battling upstream.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, that makes sense, and the advice is to start
small to build that belief muscle exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Don't try to manifest a million dollars overnight if you
don't believe it's possible. Start with something small, like intending
to find a perfect parking spot or manifesting a free
cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Here's that story about the feather.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Right, Yeah, the young man who decided to test it
by asking for a very specific, unique feather, He visualized
it clearly, and then walking in New York City, a
place not exactly known for exotic birds, he apparently found
that exact feather at his feet that cemented his belief.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Okay, so once you get the hang of ask, believe, receive,
there are ways to boost the power turbo charge it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Two main ways highlighted. The first is gratitude just being thankful, yes,
but intensely and strategically. The book calls gratitude the single
most powerful way to shift your energy instantly and multiply
your blessings. James Ray, one of the teachers in the book,
apparently starts his day just saying thank you, thank you,
thank you as his feet hit the floor, really feeling it.
(09:11):
And crucially it's about being grateful for what you want
before you get it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ah, So using that I am so happy and grateful
now that phrase again exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It combines the ask with belief and preemptive gratitude. Yeah,
very powerful.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And the second turbocharger.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Visualization, creating detailed mental movies of having already achieved your desire, so.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Not just thinking about it, but really seeing it and feeling.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It precisely, dwelling on the end result, feeling the emotions
of having it now. They mentioned Olympic athletes using this
visual motor rehearsal, they run the race perfectly in their mind,
and studies show the same muscles fire as if they were.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Actually running, So the brain doesn't really distinguish between vivid
imagination and reality.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's the idea. Visualization creates the blueprint and the feeling
frequency to attract the real thing.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let's apply this to a big one money. The book
talks a lot about attracting wealth.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Jack Canfield story is a prominent example. He went from
making what eight thousand dollars a year, Yeah, something low
like that, and set a goal of one hundred thousand dollars.
He put a fake one hundred two thousand dollars bill
on his ceiling, looked at it every day, visualized having it.
Then weeks later he gets this inspired idea.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
To sell his book Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Right, aiming to sell four hundred thousand copies, which led
to massive success and eventually he did get that first
million dollar check. The visualization and belief came first.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So the practical tip for someone struggling with money or.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Debt, stop focusing on the debt that just attracts more lack.
Set up an automatic payment plan if you need to
then shift your entire mental energy to abundance and prosperity.
Change your language from I can't afford that to I
can afford that, or money comes easily and frequently feel wealthy.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Now, okay, what about health? How does the secret connect
thoughts to physical well being?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's pretty direct. The body is seen as a product
of thought. The placebo effect is used as prime evidence.
People heal because they believe they are receiving medicine, even
if it's just a sugar pill. Belief is presented as
a huge factor.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
In healing and illness or stress.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Comes from negative thought patterns held persistently. Stress literally weakens
the body. The book argues Kathy Goodman's story is powerful.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Here the breast cancer Recovery.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah. Diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, she decided against chemo
and radiation. Instead, she focused entirely on healing through joy
and gratitude, watched funny movies constantly to keep her spirits high,
affirmed thank you for my healing.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Relentlessly, and she recovered in three months.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
According to the book, Yes, completely healed. Then there's Morris Goodman,
the miracle.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Man, the plane crash survivor.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right totally paralyzed breathing on a ventilator. Doctor said he'd
never walk or talk again, but he set one goal
walk out of the hospital by Christmas. He visualized it,
constantly focus his entire mind on that outcome, and he
did it. He did walked out by Christmas. These stories
emphasize the mind's power over the body. Even aging.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Aging is just limited thinking.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's the perspective, since ourselves completely regenerate over time. The
book suggests aging is a belief system we've bought into,
reinforced by society. You manifest aging just like anything else,
through persistent thought.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is related to the idea of resistance, like fighting
against something actually strengthens it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Exactly what you resist persists because your focus is on
the thing you're resisting. The anti war movement example is classic.
Focusing on anti war keeps the energy and image of
war dominant.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Which is why Mother Teresa said she wouldn't attend an
anti war rally, only a peace rally.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Precisely shift the focus to what you do want peace
in that case.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
This all rests on a pretty fundamental belief about the universe,
doesn't it that there's no actual.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Lack Yes, The book calls the idea of limitation or
scarcity the lie. It argues that since your ability to
think is unlimited, the things you can think into being
are also unlimited. The universe isn't running out of stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
They mentioned an oil discovery.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, the Belize oil team story. They apparently used focused
intention and visualization, believing abundance was there and found huge
reserves where many others had failed because they operated from
a mindset of scarcity.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So, wrapping up the core philosophy, who are we in
this picture? What is the true you?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You are described as far more than just a physical body,
your eternal energy, a spiritual being, even God manifested in
human form. Critically, you're connected to everything and everyone through
the one universal mind.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Which means negative thoughts about others.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Ultimately only harm yourself. Because we are one, there's no
real separation.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So the final piece is letting go of all the
limiting beliefs we've picked up from the past from society,
I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Exactly, you have to release those past difficulties, cultural codes,
social beliefs all and replace them with the most powerful
creative words you possess. I am, I am anything you
put after I am becomes your command to the universe.
The book strongly recommends affirming regularly I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving,
(14:16):
harmonious and happy, claiming your inherent nature.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And the ultimate goal of all this. What's the point?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Joy, pure and simple. Your life's purpose is whatever you
declare it to be, but the underlying aim should be joy, love, freedom, happiness.
Doing things that make you feel good now is key,
because that feeling is what attracts more good things.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So to quickly recap the journey, the secret is presented
as this absolute, unwavering law of attraction. You activate it
through a three step creative process.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Ask, believe, receive right, and you turbocharge it with intense gratitude,
especially for things you want in advance, and focus visualization
feeling the end result. Now, this allows intentional creation in
all areas money, health, relationships, everything.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's a powerful narrative which brings us to final thought.
For you, the listener, the book states quite profoundly, the
Earth turns on its orbit for you. None of it
can exist without you.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
So, now that you've heard this, deep dive into the
story of the secret, this alleged truth of who you
really are. The question is how will you use it?
How will you choose to fill the clean blackboard of
your life, starting right now,
Welcome to the deep dive.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Okay, so today our mission is, well, it's pretty ambitious.
We're going to give you a really comprehensive sort of
narrative journey through Rhonda Burns the Secret.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, it's more than just a summary, right, We want
to trace the story she tells about this great secret
to life, how she found it and how it supposedly.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Works exactly, and her own story is kind of central
to it all. It kicks off about a year before
the book, apparently at a real rock bottom moment for.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Her, total burnout, her father passing away, suddenly, relationship chaos,
just you know, everything falling.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Apart, right, a period of real despair. But she frames
that as the trigger, the thing that led her to,
as she puts it, the greatest gift.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Which came in the form of this old, one hundred
year old book her daughter Haley gave her. And that
book contained a glimpse of the secret.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And crucially she didn't see it as some brand new thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, not at all. She positions it as a rediscovery
her research as presented in the book. This knowledge goes
way back. She claims, the greatest people in history knew
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're talking heavy hitters here, right, Yeah, oh yeah, people
like Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, even Einstein are mentioned.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Okay, wow, that's quite a list, which immediately makes you think, well,
if it's that powerful and known by those people, why
don't we all know about it? Why isn't it just
taught in schools?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's the big question, isn't it? The book suggests it
was often hidden, maybe deliberately, or passed down through secret circles.
But the secret itself, the thing connecting all these figures. Yeah,
it's the law of attraction. That's the name given to
this core principle.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Okay, the law of attraction. Let's unpack that. Yeah, the
basic idea is like attracts like but how does that
actually work?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
According to the book, Well, the mechanism described is, well,
it's quite direct. Everything that comes into your life, good
or bad, is supposedly attracted by the images and the
dominant thoughts you hold in your mind.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So thoughts aren't just abstract things.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Not, according to the Secret debscribed as having a real
tangible quality. They're magnetic apparently, and they even have a
measurable frequency.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A frequency. Okay, that might sound a bit out there
for some listeners. Is there maybe a psychological angle we
can see here, like how our brains tend to notice
things were already focused on.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You could definitely draw parallels. Psychologists talk about the reticular
activating system, how our brain filters reality based on focus.
Whether you see it as metaphysics or psychology, the described
effect is similar. You think a thought, it goes out
into the universe on a certain frequency, and.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It pulls in things on that same frequency.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Exactly, It magnetically attracts similar thing. And the absolute rule,
the one the book Hammer's Home, is that everything sent
out returns to the source, back to you.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They use that analogy of a human transmission tower, don't.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They a really powerful one, more powerful than any tech
we've built. Your thoughts set your frequency, and that frequency
creates the pictures of your life. If you don't like what's.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Showing, you can't just smash the screen, right, You have to.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Change the channel, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And this idea is used to explain some big historical
things like the Babylonians.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, the ancient Babylonians, famous for their wealth, the hanging gardens.
The book claims they knew and use this law. It
even suggests this is why a tiny percentage of people,
like one percent, earn almost all the money, like ninety
six percent, because they're consistently thinking thoughts of wealth.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It also sounds kind of impersonal, like the law doesn't
care if you're a good or bad person.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's a really crucial point the book makes. It's presented
as completely impersonal, like gravity. It just responds to your
dominant thought, whatever that vibration is.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So someone could think their way to wealth, lose it
all if they get scared, then get it back again,
just by shifting their thoughts back precisely.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The book gives examples like that the law responds to
the thought of wealth or the thought of lack. It
doesn't make moral judgments. It just reflects your dominant frequency.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay, that raises some questions, but it leads directly into
what the book sees as a major problem. Right, this
don't want.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Thing exactly that don't want epidemic. Most people apparently spend
their time thinking about what they don't want, and.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Because the law doesn't really hear that don't.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right, it just picks up on the subject of the thought.
So if you're thinking I don't want to be late.
The law registers late, focuses on the feeling and image
of being late, and helps bring that about. It can't
process negation.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Wow, okay, But to hang on sixty thousand thoughts a
day roughly trying to monitor every single one to make
sure it's positive sounds well impossible and incredibly stressful.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Totally impossible, And the book acknowledges that you can't possibly
police every thought. That's where the shortcut comes in, the
big Aha moment, which is your feelings, your emotions. There
your built in feedback system from the universe. They tell
you instantly what frequency you're currently broadcasting on.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So bad feelings, anger, fear, guilt, or like a warning light.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Exactly like a warning light, the universe basically saying hold on,
you're on a negative frequency. Change thinking now, or you're
going to manifest more of this stuff. It's a signal
that you're attracting things you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Don't want and good feelings, joy, excitement, gratitude.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That means you're bang on track, you're aligned with your desires,
you're on the frequency to receive good things. It's pretty straightforward.
Feel good attract good, feel bad attract bad.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Simple in theory, maybe harder in practice. What about the
most powerful feeling? Is there like a master frequency?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yes? According to the book, the absolute highest frequency you
could emit is love, the feeling of love. It's described
as the greatest power there is. If love is your
dominant state, the law responds with its greatest force.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, so we're constantly sending out these signals based on
our feelings. How do we start consciously choosing the signal?
How do we actually use this creatively?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Right? The creative process. The book uses the metaphor of
a Laddin slamp. You are alive and the universe.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is the genie, and the genie always says, your.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Wish is my command always. It doesn't question. It just
assumes that whatever you're thinking, saying, or doing is what
you want to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So how do we give our commands clearly? The book
lays out three steps, right, borrowed from ancient texts like
the New Testament.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's right, three simple steps. Step one is ask You
have to get crystal clear on what you actually want,
not vague wishes, specific desires, and the technique is to
write it down in the present tense as if it's
already happened. I am so happy and grateful now that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And you just ask once, like placing an order exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You don't need to keep asking and asking that implies
you don't think it heard you the first time, which
is lack of faith. Place your order clearly.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Once, okay. Step one, ask clearly present tense. Step two
is believe. This sounds like the tricky one.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It often is. You have to cultivate unwavering faith that
what you ask for is already yours, even though you
can't see it yet. It's about acting, speaking, and thinking
as if you're receiving it right now, and.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You're not so story about how it will happen.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Definitely not. That's the universe's department. According to the book,
trying to figure out how actually blocks the process because
it introduces doubt. Jack Canfield is quoted saying people who
achieve big things often did not know how they were
going to do it. They only knew they were going
to do it. You just trust the how.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Will appear right, so ask believe, uh huh. Step three
is receive Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
This is about feeling good now, getting yourself onto the
emotional frequency of having received your desire feeling the joy,
the gratitude, the relief in advance.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Is there a quick way to do that?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
A suggested technique is just to affirm feelingly, I am
receiving now, I am receiving all the good in my life. Now,
I am receiving your specific desire. Now feel that sense
of reception.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Did action play a part or do you just sit
and wait?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Action is often needed, yes, but it should feel like
inspired action, not forced struggle. It should feel light, effortless,
like you're being pulled towards it, not pushing against resistance,
like floating down a river rather than battling upstream.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Okay, that makes sense, and the advice is to start
small to build that belief muscle exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Don't try to manifest a million dollars overnight if you
don't believe it's possible. Start with something small, like intending
to find a perfect parking spot or manifesting a free
cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Here's that story about the feather.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Right, Yeah, the young man who decided to test it
by asking for a very specific, unique feather, He visualized
it clearly, and then walking in New York City, a
place not exactly known for exotic birds, he apparently found
that exact feather at his feet that cemented his belief.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Okay, so once you get the hang of ask, believe, receive,
there are ways to boost the power turbo charge it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Two main ways highlighted. The first is gratitude just being thankful, yes,
but intensely and strategically. The book calls gratitude the single
most powerful way to shift your energy instantly and multiply
your blessings. James Ray, one of the teachers in the book,
apparently starts his day just saying thank you, thank you,
thank you as his feet hit the floor, really feeling it.
(09:11):
And crucially it's about being grateful for what you want
before you get it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ah, So using that I am so happy and grateful
now that phrase again exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It combines the ask with belief and preemptive gratitude. Yeah,
very powerful.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And the second turbocharger.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Visualization, creating detailed mental movies of having already achieved your desire, so.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Not just thinking about it, but really seeing it and feeling.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It precisely, dwelling on the end result, feeling the emotions
of having it now. They mentioned Olympic athletes using this
visual motor rehearsal, they run the race perfectly in their mind,
and studies show the same muscles fire as if they were.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Actually running, So the brain doesn't really distinguish between vivid
imagination and reality.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's the idea. Visualization creates the blueprint and the feeling
frequency to attract the real thing.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let's apply this to a big one money. The book
talks a lot about attracting wealth.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Jack Canfield story is a prominent example. He went from
making what eight thousand dollars a year, Yeah, something low
like that, and set a goal of one hundred thousand dollars.
He put a fake one hundred two thousand dollars bill
on his ceiling, looked at it every day, visualized having it.
Then weeks later he gets this inspired idea.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
To sell his book Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Right, aiming to sell four hundred thousand copies, which led
to massive success and eventually he did get that first
million dollar check. The visualization and belief came first.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So the practical tip for someone struggling with money or.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Debt, stop focusing on the debt that just attracts more lack.
Set up an automatic payment plan if you need to
then shift your entire mental energy to abundance and prosperity.
Change your language from I can't afford that to I
can afford that, or money comes easily and frequently feel wealthy.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Now, okay, what about health? How does the secret connect
thoughts to physical well being?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's pretty direct. The body is seen as a product
of thought. The placebo effect is used as prime evidence.
People heal because they believe they are receiving medicine, even
if it's just a sugar pill. Belief is presented as
a huge factor.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
In healing and illness or stress.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Comes from negative thought patterns held persistently. Stress literally weakens
the body. The book argues Kathy Goodman's story is powerful.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Here the breast cancer Recovery.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah. Diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, she decided against chemo
and radiation. Instead, she focused entirely on healing through joy
and gratitude, watched funny movies constantly to keep her spirits high,
affirmed thank you for my healing.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Relentlessly, and she recovered in three months.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
According to the book, Yes, completely healed. Then there's Morris Goodman,
the miracle.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Man, the plane crash survivor.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Right totally paralyzed breathing on a ventilator. Doctor said he'd
never walk or talk again, but he set one goal
walk out of the hospital by Christmas. He visualized it,
constantly focus his entire mind on that outcome, and he
did it. He did walked out by Christmas. These stories
emphasize the mind's power over the body. Even aging.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Aging is just limited thinking.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's the perspective, since ourselves completely regenerate over time. The
book suggests aging is a belief system we've bought into,
reinforced by society. You manifest aging just like anything else,
through persistent thought.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is related to the idea of resistance, like fighting
against something actually strengthens it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Exactly what you resist persists because your focus is on
the thing you're resisting. The anti war movement example is classic.
Focusing on anti war keeps the energy and image of
war dominant.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Which is why Mother Teresa said she wouldn't attend an
anti war rally, only a peace rally.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Precisely shift the focus to what you do want peace
in that case.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
This all rests on a pretty fundamental belief about the universe,
doesn't it that there's no actual.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Lack Yes, The book calls the idea of limitation or
scarcity the lie. It argues that since your ability to
think is unlimited, the things you can think into being
are also unlimited. The universe isn't running out of stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
They mentioned an oil discovery.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, the Belize oil team story. They apparently used focused
intention and visualization, believing abundance was there and found huge
reserves where many others had failed because they operated from
a mindset of scarcity.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So, wrapping up the core philosophy, who are we in
this picture? What is the true you?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You are described as far more than just a physical body,
your eternal energy, a spiritual being, even God manifested in
human form. Critically, you're connected to everything and everyone through
the one universal mind.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Which means negative thoughts about others.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Ultimately only harm yourself. Because we are one, there's no
real separation.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So the final piece is letting go of all the
limiting beliefs we've picked up from the past from society,
I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Exactly, you have to release those past difficulties, cultural codes,
social beliefs all and replace them with the most powerful
creative words you possess. I am, I am anything you
put after I am becomes your command to the universe.
The book strongly recommends affirming regularly I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving,
(14:16):
harmonious and happy, claiming your inherent nature.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And the ultimate goal of all this. What's the point?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Joy, pure and simple. Your life's purpose is whatever you
declare it to be, but the underlying aim should be joy, love, freedom, happiness.
Doing things that make you feel good now is key,
because that feeling is what attracts more good things.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So to quickly recap the journey, the secret is presented
as this absolute, unwavering law of attraction. You activate it
through a three step creative process.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Ask, believe, receive right, and you turbocharge it with intense gratitude,
especially for things you want in advance, and focus visualization
feeling the end result. Now, this allows intentional creation in
all areas money, health, relationships, everything.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's a powerful narrative which brings us to final thought.
For you, the listener, the book states quite profoundly, the
Earth turns on its orbit for you. None of it
can exist without you.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
So, now that you've heard this, deep dive into the
story of the secret, this alleged truth of who you
really are. The question is how will you use it?
How will you choose to fill the clean blackboard of
your life, starting right now,
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