“The Secret” Misunderstood?
I’ve read a lot about what people have to say about The Secret. Unfortunately, a lot of people have common misunderstandings about this concept of “law”. For instance, it is mistaken that the secret is nothing more than a whole bunch of mumbo jumbo. You might have heard that The Secret is based on the Law Of Attraction. However, a lot of people have felt that in order for you to attract things in your life you just think about it as if it’s positive thinking. In reality it’s far from that.
Allow me to explain. If you think of something that you want to accomplish, you will start off by planning a goal and then moving towards it. However, if you just sat there and “hoped” to accomplish it, it’s obvious that you won’t be able to do anything. The crux of the matter is no longer in thinking, but thinking so that you can act. The universe rewards action.
The Secret itself is not really a secret. It’s merely a universal law. However, a lot of people have the mistaken assumption that this is the only universal law that exists. In reality, that’s very untrue. Take for instance, that you’re a police or law enforcement officer. Do you only have one law to abide by? You probably have an entire room book wishes to pay attention to, some of which conflict with each other.
If the law of gravity was the only law in physics, that would rule the world. The physicists are constantly looking out for new ways to explain the world. That’s why we have laws of thermodynamics. That’s why there are laws in quantum physics. If the secret behind the law of attraction were the only law in the world, it would be really simple for us to get anything and everything we wanted. However, it’s true that there are other laws in action. You could have the law of alignment, which is something that few people talk about or understand. There is a law of consistent action, which many people have talked about, but few are focusing on, because it entails lots of effort.
The fact is, no matter what you think of these Laws, they can work for or against you. The Law of Attraction is a powerful law and you could potentially achieve great things as a result of applying this in your life.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
I have read several of “Abraham” Hicks works concerning the Law of Attraction. I got started on the Law of Attraction via their articles and audio’s which I found on the internet.
The central idea of the Hicks teachings is that the Law of Attraction is the only Universal Law there is and that everything else that is called Law by science today are simply ‘agreements’ - for e.g., instead of the law of gravity or the law of thermodynamics, according to the Hicks goggles, they are the ‘agreement’ of gravity, etc.
I am an open-minded healthy sceptic leaning more towards practical agnosticism (whatever works for me, works; otherwise, there could be a lack in my understanding of things).
If you’ve read Mark Joyner’s book Simpleology, he speaks of a concept which he coined called UMF (Utilitarian Model Flexibility) - you create whatever models of the world, of reality, of your life, that you want, that suits you and works for you, without imposing it on others, and accordingly evolve that model as you go through life’s experiences and make new discoveries.
UMF perfectly describes the kind of attitude or philosophy of life that I subscribe to.
Many times we hear or read about those hypothetical experiments concerning entangled particles that can seem to communicate faster than light hence alluding to “a higher reality” in which all of matter and energy is interconnected.
Law of Attraction proposers and works such as “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” hail what is in reality only a hypothetical thought experiment as if it is already an empirically proven scientific fact.
Will the “Law of Attraction” ever be conclusively and scientifically proven to be a “Law” at all? I don’t know.