read it and write down what you learn and write things to implement Let's look at using the Creative Process for those who feel they are overweight and who want to lose weight.

The first thing to know is that if you focus on losing weight, you will attract back having to lose more weight so get "having to lose weight" out of your mind. It's the very reason why diets don't work. Because you are focused on losing weight, you must attract back continually having to lose weight.

The second thing to know is that the condition of being overweight was created through your thought to it. To put it in the most basic terms, if someone is overweight, it came from thinking "fat thoughts/' whether that person was aware of it or not. A person cannot think "thin thoughts" and be fat. It completely defies the law of attraction.

Whether people have been told they have a slow thyroid, a slow metabolism, or their body size is hereditary, these are all disguises for thinking "fat thoughts." If you accept any of those conditions as applicable to you, and you believe it, it must become your experience, and you will continue to attract being overweight.

After I had my two daughters I was overweight, and I know it came from listening to and reading the messages that it is hard to lose weight after having a baby, and even harder after the second baby. I summoned exactly that to me with those "fat thoughts,"

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and it became my experience. I really "beefed up," and the more I noticed how I had "beefed up," the more "beefing up" I attracted.

With a small frame, I became a hefty 143 pounds, all because I was thinking "fat thoughts."

The most common thought that people hold, and I held it too, is that food was responsible for my weight gain. That is a belief that does not serve you, and in my mind now it is complete balderdash!

Food is not responsible for putting on weight. It is your thought that food is responsible for putting on weight that actually has food put on weight. Remember, thoughts are primary cause of everything, and the rest is effects from those thoughts. Think perfect thoughts and the result must be perfect weight.

Let go of all those limiting thoughts. Food cannot cause you to put on weight unless you think it can.

The definition of the perfect weight is the weight that feels good for you. No one else's opinion counts. It is the weight that feels good for you.

You most likely know of someone who is thin and eats like a horse, and they proudly declare, "I can eat whatever I want and I am always the perfect weight." And so the Genie of the Universe says,

"Your wish is my command!"

To attract your perfect weight and body using the Creative Process, follow these steps:





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Get clear on the weight you want to be. Have a picture in your mind of what you will look like when you have become that perfect weight. Get pictures of yourself at your perfect weight, if you have them, and look at them often. If not, get pictures of the body you would like to have and look at those often.

You must believe you will receive and that the perfect weight is yours already. You must imagine, pretend, act as if, make-believe, that the perfect weight is yours. You must see yourself as receiving that perfect weight.

Write out your perfect weight and place it over the readout of your scale, or don't weigh yourself at all. Do not contradict what you have asked for with your thoughts, words, and actions. Don't buy clothes at your current weight. Have faith and focus on the clothes you are going to buy. Attracting the perfect weight is the same as placing an order with the catalogue of the Universe. You look through the catalogue, choose the perfect weight, place your order, and then it is delivered to you.

Make it your intention to look for, admire, and inwardly praise people with your idea of perfect-weight bodies. Seek them out and



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as you admire them and feel the feelings of that—you are summoning it to you. If you see people who are overweight, do not observe them, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in your perfect body and feel it.

You must feel good. You must feel good about You. This is important, because you cannot attract your perfect weight if you feel bad about your body now. If you feel bad about your body, that is a powerful feeling, and you will continue to attract feeling bad about your body. You will never change your body if you are critical of it and find fault with it, and in fact you will attract more weight to you. Praise and bless every square inch of your body. Think about all the perfect things about You. As you think perfect thoughts, as you feel good about You, you are on the frequency of your perfect weight, and you are summoning perfection.

Wallace Wattles shares a wonderful tip about eating in one of his books. He recommends that when you eat, make sure you are entirely focused on the experience of chewing the food. Keep your mind present and experience the sensation of eating food, and do not allow your mind to drift to other things. Be present in your body and enjoy all the sensations of chewing the food in your mouth and swallowing it. Try it the next time you are eating. When you are completely present as you eat, the flavor of the food is so intense and magnificent; when you let your mind drift.





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the flavor virtually disappears. I am convinced that if we can eat our food in the present, entirely focused on the pleasurable experience of eating, the food is assimilated into our bodies perfectly, and the result in our bodies must be perfection.

The end of the story about my own weight is that I now maintain my perfect weight of 116 pounds and I can eat whatever I want. So, focus on your perfect weight!

DR. JOE VlTALE

Another thing people wonder about is, "How long will it take to manifest the car, the relationship, the money?" I don't have any rulebook that says it's going to take thirty minutes or three days or thirty days. It's more a matter of you being in alignment with the Universe itself.

Time is just an illusion. Einstein told us that. If this is the first time you have heard it, you may find it a hard concept to get your head around, because you see everything happening—one thing after the other. What quantum physicists and Einstein tell us is that everything is happening simultaneously. If you can understand that there is no time, and accept that concept, then you will see that whatever you want in the future already exists. If everything is happening at the one time, then the parallel version of you with what you want already exists!

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It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. Any time delay you experience is due to your delay in getting to the place of believing, knowing, and feeling that you already have it. It is you getting yourself on the frequency of what you want When you are on that frequency, then what you want will appear.

BOB DOYLE

Size is nothing to the Universe. It is no more difficult to attract, on a scientific level, something that we consider huge to something that we consider infinitesimally small.

The Universe does everything with zero effort. The grass doesn't strain to grow. It's effortless. It's just this great design.

It's all about what's going on in your mind. It's about what we put in place, saying, ''This is big, it's going to take some time." And, "This is small. I'll give it an hour." Those are our rules that we define. There are no rules according to the Universe. You provide the feelings of having it now; it will respond—whatever it is.

There is no time for the Universe and there is no size for the Universe. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars. It is the same process, and the only reason why one may come faster and the other may take longer is because you thought that a million dollars was a lot of money and that one dollar was not very much.

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BOB DOYLE

Some people have an easier time with little things, and so we sometimes say start with something small, like a cup of coffee.

Make it your intention to attract a cup of coffee today.

BOB PROCTOR

Hold an image of talking to an old friend that you haven't seen for a long time. Somehow or another somebody's going to start talking to you about that person. That person's going to phone you or you'll get a letter from her.

Starting with something small is an easy way to experience the law of attraction with your own eyes. Let me share a story with you of a young man who did exactly that. He watched The Secret and he decided to start with something small.

He created a picture of a feather in his mind/ and he made sure this feather was unique. He created particular markings on the feather so he would know without any doubt that if he saw this feather, it had come to him through his intentional use of the law of attraction.

Two days later, he was about to walk into a high-rise building on a street in New York City. He said he did not know why, but he just happened to look down. There at his feet, at the entrance to a high-rise building in New York City, was the feather! Not just any feather, but the exact feather he had imagined. It was identical to the picture he had created in his mind, with all of its unique markings. In that moment he knew, without a shred of doubt, that this



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was the law of attraction working in all its glory. He realized his amazing ability and power to attract something to himself through the power of his mind. With total faith, he has now moved onto creating much bigger things.

DAVID SCHIRMER

INVESTMENT TRAINER, TEACHER.

AND WEALTH SPECIALIST

People are amazed at how I line up parking spaces. I've done this right from when I first understood The Secret. I would visualize a parking space exactly where I wanted it, and 95 percent of the time it would be therefore me and I would just pull straight in. Five percent of the time I'd have to wait just a minute or two, and the person would pull out and I'd pull in, I do that all the time.

Now you might understand why a person who says, "I always get parking spaces," gets them. Or why a person who says, "I am really lucky, I win things all the time," wins one thing after another, all the time. These people expect it. Begin to expect great things, and as you do, you will create your life in advance.







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You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in advance, right down to the next thing you are doing today Prentice Mulford, a teacher whose writings share so many insights into the law of attraction and how to use it, demonstrates how important it is to think your day in advance.

"When you say to yourself 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey/ you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humor, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending

unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts,

or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in

advance."

Prentice Mulford wrote those words in the 1870s. What a pioneer!

You can see clearly how important it is to think in advance every event in every day. You will no doubt have experienced the oppo-How to Use the Secret 67

site of thinking your day in advance, and one of the repercussions of that is having to rush and hurry.

If you are rushing or hurrying, know that those thoughts and actions are based in fear (fear of being late) and you are "fixing up"

bad things ahead for you. As you continue to rush, you will attract one bad thing after another into your path. In addition to that, the law of attraction is "fixing up" more future circumstances that will cause you to rush and hurry. You must stop and move yourself off that frequency. Take a few moments and shift yourself, if you don't want to summon bad things to you.

Many people, particularly in Western societies, chase "time" and complain that they don't have enough time. Well, as someone says that they don't have enough time, so it must be by the law of attraction. If you have been chasing your tail with thoughts of not having enough time, from now on declare emphatically, "I have more than enough time," and change your life.

You can also turn waiting into a powerful time to create your future life. Next time you are in a situation where you are waiting, seize that time and imagine having all the things you want. You can do this anywhere, anytime. Turn every life situation into a positive one!

Make it a daily habit to determine every event in your life in advance, through your thoughts. Set the Universal forces ahead of you in everything you do and everywhere you go, by thinking the way you want it to go in advance. Then you are creating your life intentionally.



• Like Aladdin's Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.

• The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive.

• Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked.

• Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you've asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive.

• Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.

• To lose weight, don't focus on "losing weight." Instead, focus on your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will summon it to you.

• It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.

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• Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action.

Powerfully intend to attract something small As you experience the power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much bigger things.

• Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.













DR. JOE VITALE

A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances. Whatever your circumstances right now, that is only your current reality, and current reality will begin to change as a result of beginning to use The Secret Your current reality or your current life is a result of the thoughts you have been thinking. All of that will totally change as you begin to change your thoughts and your feelings.

"That a man can change himself... and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."

(1866-1954)

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LISA NICHOLS

When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking. Every time you look inside your mail expecting to see a bill, guess what — it'll be there. Each day you go out dreading the bill! You're never expecting anything great. You're thinking debt, you're expecting debt. So debt must show up so you won't think you're crazy. And every day you confirm your thought: Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Is debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Wiry? Because you expected debt to be there.

So it showed up, because the law of attraction is always being obedient to your thoughts. Do yourself a favor—

expect a check!

Expectation is a powerful attractive force, because it draws things to you. As Bob Proctor says, "Desire connects you with the thing desired and expectation draws it into your life." Expect the things you want and don't expect the things you don't want. What do you expect now?

JAMES RAY

Most people look at their current state of affairs and they say, "This is who I am." That's not who you are. That's who you were. Let's say for instance that you don't have enough money in your bank account, or you don't have the relationship that you want, or your health and fitness aren't up to par. That's not who you are; that's the residual outcome of your past thoughts and actions. So



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we're constantly living in this residual, if you will, of the thoughts and actions we've taken in the past. When you look at your current state of affairs and define yourself by that, then you doom yourself to have nothing more than the same in future.

'"All that we are is a result of what we have thought."

I would like to share a process with you that came from the great teacher Neville Goddard in a lecture he delivered in 1954, entitled

"The Pruning Shears of Revision." This process has had a profound effect on my life. Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you re-create those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new pictures for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.









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DR. JOE VITALE

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of things to be grateful for. This shifts your energy and starts to shift your thinking. Whereas before this exercise you might be focusing on what you don't have, your complaints, and your problems, you go in a different direction when you do this exercise. You start to be grateful for all the things that you feel good about.

"If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony

with the creative energies of the Universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.'

MARCI SHIMOFF

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DR- JOHN GRAY

PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR, AND

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER

Every man knows that when his wife is

appreciating him for the little things that he does, what does he want to do? He wants to do more. It's always about appreciation. It pulls things in. It attracts support.

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.

JAMES RAY

Gratitude has been such a powerful exercise for me. Every morning I get up and say "Thank you." Every morning, when my feet hit the floor, "Thank you." And then I start running through what I'm grateful for, as I'm brushing my teeth and doing the things I do in the morning. And I'm not just thinking about them and doing some rote routine.

I'm putting it out there and I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude.

The day we filmed James Ray sharing his powerful exercise of gratitude is one I will never forget. From that day on, I made James's process my life. Every morning, I do not get out bed until I have felt the feelings of gratitude for this brand new day and all I am grateful for in my life. Then as I get out of bed, when one foot touches the ground I say, "Thank," and "you" as my second foot touches the ground. With each step I take on my way to the bath-76 The Secret

room, I say "Thank you." I continue to say and feel "Thank you" as I am showering and getting ready. By the time I am ready for the day, I have said "Thank you" hundreds of times.

As I do this, I am powerfully creating my day and all that it will contain. I am setting my frequency for the day and intentionally declaring the way I want my day to go, rather than stumbling out of bed and letting the day take control of me. There is no more powerful way to begin your day than this. You are the creator of your life, and so begin by intentionally creating your day!

Gratitude was a fundamental part of the teachings of all the great avatars throughout history. In the book that changed my life, The Science of Getting Rich, written by Wallace Wattles in 1910, gratitude is its longest chapter. Every teacher featured in The Secret uses gratitude as part of his or her day. Most of them begin their day with thoughts and feelings of gratitude.

Joe Sugarman, a wonderful man and successful entrepreneur, watched the film The Secret and contacted me. He told me his favorite part was the gratitude process, and that his use of gratitude had contributed to all he had achieved in his life. With all the success Joe has attracted to himself, he continues to use gratitude every day, even for the smallest things. When he gets a parking space he always says and feels, "Thank you." Joe knows the power of gratitude and all it has brought to him, and so gratitude is his way of life.

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rything else. If you only do one thing with the knowledge of The Secret use gratitude until it becomes your way of life.

DR. JOE VITALE

As soon as you start to feel different about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things. More of the things you can he grateful for. You could look around and say, "Well, I don't have the car I want. I don't have the house I want. I don't have the spouse I want. I don't have the health I want" Whoah! Back up, back up! Those are all the things you don't want. Focus on what you already have that you're grateful for. And it might be that you have the eyes to read this. It might be the clothes that you have. Yes, you might prefer something else and you might get something else pretty soon, if you start feeling grateful for what you have.

"Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude."

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.

Whether it is jealousy, resentment, dissatisfaction, or feelings of

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They can only return to you more of what you do not want. Those negative emotions are blocking your own good coming to you. If you want a new car but you are not grateful for the car you have, that will be the dominant frequency you are sending out.

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. You will have locked into the frequency of gratitude and all good things will be yours.

"The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to

you."

LEE BROWER

WEALTH TRAINER A N D SPECIALIST,

AUTHOR. AN D TEACH ER

I think everybody goes through times when they say, "Things aren 't working right," or,

"Things are going had." Once, when there were some things going on in my family, I found a rock, and I just sat holding it. I took this rock, I stuck it in my pocket, and I said,

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that I'm grateful for." So every morning when I get up in the morning, I pick it up off the dresser, I put it in my pocket, and I go through the things that I'm grateful for. At night, what do I do? I empty my pocket, and there it is again.

I've had some amazing experiences with this idea. A guy from South Africa saw me drop it. He asked, "What is that?" I explained it to him, and he started calling it a gratitude rock.

Two weeks later I got an email from him, in South Africa.

And he said, "My son is dying from a rare disease. It's a type of hepatitis. Would you send me three gratitude rocks?"

They were just ordinary rocks I found off the street, so I said,

"Sure." I had to make sure that the rocks were very special, so I went out to the stream, picked out the right rocks, and sent them off to him.

Four or five months later I get an email from him. He said,

"My son's better, he's doing terrific." And he said, "But you need to know something. We've sold over a thousand rocks at ten dollars apiece as gratitude rocks, and we've raised all this money for charity. Thank you very much."

So it's very important to have an "attitude of gratitude."

The great scientist Albert Einstein revolutionized the way we view time, space, and gravity. From his poor background and poor beginnings, you would have thought it impossible for him to achieve all that he did. Einstein knew a great deal of The Secret, and he said, "Thank you" hundreds of times each day. He thanked all 80 The Secret

the great scientists who had preceded him for their contributions, which had enabled him to learn and achieve even more in his work, and eventually become one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived.

One of the most powerful uses of gratitude can be incorporated in the Creative Process to turbo-charge what you want. As Bob Proctor advised in the first step of the Creative Process, Ask, start by writing down what you want. "Begin each sentence with, I am so happy and grateful now that..." (and you fill in the rest).

When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe. That signal is saying that you have it already because you are feeling gratitude for it now. Each morning before you get out of bed, make it a habit to feel the feelings of gratitude in advance for the great day ahead, as though it is done.

From the moment I discovered The Secret and formulated the vision to share this knowledge with the world, I gave thanks every day for the film The Secret, which would bring joy to the world. I had no idea how we would bring this knowledge to the screen, but trusted that we would attract the way. I stayed focused and held to the outcome. I felt deep feelings of gratitude in advance. As that became my state of being, the floodgates opened and all the magic flowed into our lives. For the magnificent team of The Secret, and for me, our deep, heartfelt feelings of gratitude continue to this day. We have become a team that resonates gratitude with every moment, and it has become our way of life.









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Visualization is a process that has been taught by all the great teachers and avatars throughout the centuries, as well as by all the great teachers living today. In Charles Haanel's book, The Master Key System, written in 1912, he gives twenty-four weekly exercises to master visualization. (More important, his complete Master Key System will also help you become the master of your thoughts.) The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want, you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visualization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it causes equally powerful feelings. When you are visualizing, you are emitting that powerful frequency out into the Universe. The law of attraction will take hold of that powerful signal and return those pictures back to you, just as you saw them in your mind.

DR. D E N I S WAITLEY

I took the visualization process from the Apollo program, and instituted it during the 1980s and '90s into the Olympic program. It was called Visual Motor Rehearsal.

When you visualize then you materialize. Here's an interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes 82 The Secret

and had them run their event only in their mind, and then hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment.

Incredibly, the same muscles fired in the same sequence when they were running the race in their mind as when they were running it on the track. How could this be? Because the mind can't distinguish whether you're really doing it or whether it's just a practice. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body.

Think about the inventors and their inventions: The Wright Brothers and the plane. George Eastman and film. Thomas Edison and the light bulb. Alexander Graham Bell and the tele-phone. The only way anything has ever been invented or created is because one person saw a picture in his mind. He saw it clearly, and by holding that picture of the end result in his mind, all the forces of the Universe brought his invention into the world, through him.

These men knew The Secret. These were men who had utter faith in the invisible, and who knew the power within them to leverage the Universe and bring the invention into the visible. Their faith and their imagination have been the cause of the evolution of humankind, and we reap the benefits of their creative minds every single day.

You may be thinking, "I do not have a mind like these great inventors." You may be thinking, "They could imagine those things, but I can't." You could not be further from the truth, and as you continue on this great discovery of the knowledge of The Secret,





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you will learn that you not only have the mind they had, but much more.

MIKE DOOLEY

When you 're visualizing, token you 've got that picture playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the end result.

Here's an example. Look at the back of your hands, right now.

Really look at the back of your hands: the color of your skin, the freckles, the blood vessels, the rings, the fingernails. Take in all those details. Right before you close your eyes, see those hands, your fingers, wrapping around the steering wheel of your brand new car.

DR. JOE VITALE

This is such a holographic experience—so real in this moment—that you don't even feel as if you need the car, because it feels like you have it already.

Dr. Vitale's words brilliantly sum up the place you want to get yourself to when visualizing. When it feels like a jolt as you open your eyes in the physical world, your visualization became real.

But that state, that plane, is the real. It is the field where everything is created, and the physical is just the result of the real held of all creation. That's why you won't feel as if you need it anymore, because you tuned in and felt the real field of creation through your visualization. In that field, you have everything now. When you feel that, you will know it.









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JACK CAN FIELD

It's the feeling that really creates the attraction, not just the picture or the thought. A lot of people think, "If I think positive thoughts, or if I visualize having what I want, that will be enough." But if you're doing that and still not feeling abundant, or feeling loving or joyful, then it doesn't create the power of the attraction.

BOB DOYLE

You put yourself in the feeling place of really being in that car. Not "I wish I could get that car," or, "Some day I'll have that car," because that's a very definite feeling associated with that. It's not in the now. It's in the future. If you stay in that feeling, it will always be in the future.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH

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Now that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an open doorway through which the power of the Universe will begin to express.

"What this power is I cannot say. All know is that it exists."

JACK CANFIELD

Our job is not to figure out the how. The how will show up out of a commitment and belief in the what.







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MIKE DOOLEY

The "hows" are the domain of the Universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.

DR. JOE VITALE

If you turn it over to the Universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.

The teachers of The Secret are all aware of the elements you bring into play when you visualize. As you see the picture in your mind and feel it, you are bringing yourself to a place of believing you have it now. You are also implementing trust and faith in the Universe, because you are focusing on the end result and experiencing the feeling of that, without giving any attention whatsoever to

"how" it will come about. Your picture in your mind is seeing it as done. Your feelings are seeing it as done. Your mind and your entire state of being are seeing it as already happened. That is the art of visualization.

DR. JOE VITALE

You want to do this virtually daily, but it should never be a chore. What's really important to the whole Secret is feeling good. You want to feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune, as much as possible.



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Everyone has the power to visualize. Let me prove it to you with a picture of a kitchen. For this to work, first of all you have to get all thoughts of your kitchen out of your mind. Do not think of your kitchen. Totally clear your mind of pictures of your kitchen, with its cupboards, refrigerator, oven, tiles, and color scheme . . .

You saw a picture of your kitchen in your mind, didn't you? Well, then you just visualized!

"Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success."

Here's a tip about visualizing, which Dr. John Demartini shares in his Breakthrough Experience seminars. John said that if you create a static picture in your mind it can be difficult to hold that picture, so create lots of movement in your picture.

To illustrate this, imagine your kitchen again, and this time imagine yourself entering that kitchen, walking to the refrigerator and putting your hand on the door handle, opening the door, looking inside, and finding a cold bottle of water. Reach in and grab it. You can feel the coldness on your hand as you grasp the bottle. You have the bottle of water in one hand, and you use your other hand to close the refrigerator door. Now that you are visualizing your kitchen with detail and movement it's easier to see and hold the picture, isn't it?







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"We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers."

MARCI SHIMOFF

The only difference between people who live in this way, who live in the magic of life, and those who don't is that the people who live in the magic of life have habituated ways of being.

They've made a habit of using the law of attraction, and magic happens with them wherever they go. Because they remember to use it. They use it all the time, not just as a one-time event.

Here are two true stories that clearly demonstrate the powerful law of attraction and the immaculate matrix of the Universe in action.

The first story is about a woman named Jeannie, who bought a DVD of The Secret and was watching it at least once a day so that she would absorb the message right into the cells of her body. She was particularly impressed with Bob Proctor, and she thought it would be wonderful to meet him.

One morning Jeannie collected her mail, and to her utter amaze-ment the mailman had accidentally delivered Bob Proctor's mail 88 The Secret

to her address. What Jeannie didn't know is that Bob Proctor lived just four blocks away from her! Not only that, but Jeannie's house number was the same number as Bob's. She immediately took the mail to deliver it to the correct address. Can you imagine her utter delight when the door opened and Bob Proctor was standing before her? Bob is rarely at home as he travels all over the world teaching, but the matrix of the Universe knows only perfect timing.

From Jeannie's thought of how wonderful it would be to meet Bob Proctor, the law of attraction moved people, circumstances, and events throughout the Universe so that it happened.

The second story involves a ten-year-old boy named Colin, who had seen and loved The Secret. Colin's family made a weeklong visit to Disney World, and on their first day they experienced long lines at the park. So that night, just before Colin fell asleep, he thought, "Tomorrow I'd love to go on all the big rides and never have to wait in line."

The next morning, Colin and his family were at the gates of Epcot Center as the park opened, and a Disney staff member approached and asked them if they would be Epcot's First Family of the Day. As First Family they would be given VIP status, a special escort by a staff member, and walk-on passes for every big ride in Epcot. It was everything and more that Colin had wished for!

Hundreds of families were waiting to enter Epcot that morning, but Colin didn't have the slightest doubt as to why his family had been chosen First Family. He knew it was because he had used The Secret.







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Imagine discovering—at the age of ten—that the power to move worlds lies within you!

"Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth—yourself."

JAMES RAY

People hold that for a while; and they're really a champion at it. They say, "I'm fired up. I saw this program and I'm going to change my life." And yet results aren't showing.

Beneath the surface it's just about ready to break through, but the person will look just at the surface results and say, "This stuff doesn 't work." And you know what? The Universe says,

"Your wish is my command," and it disappears.

When you allow a thought of doubt to enter your mind, the law of attraction will soon line up one doubtful thought after another.

The moment a thought of doubt comes, release it immediately.

Send that thought on its way. Replace it with "I know I am receiving now." And feel it.

JOHN ASSARAF

Knowing the law of attraction, I wanted to really put it to use and to see what would happen. In 1995 I started to create something called a Vision Board, where I take something that The Secret

I want to achieve, or something that I want to attract, like a car or a watch or the soul mate of my dreams, and I put a picture of what I want up on this board. Every day I would sit in my office and I would look up at this board and I would start to visualize. I would really get into the state of having already acquired it.

I was getting ready to move. We put all the furniture, all the boxes, into storage, and I made three different moves over a period of five years. And then I ended up in California and bought this house, renovated it for a year, and then had all the stuff brought from my farmer home five years earlier. One morning my son Keenan came into my office, and one of the boxes that was sealed for five years was right at the doorstep.

He asked, "What's in the boxes, Daddy?" And I said, "Those are my Vision Boards/' He then asked, "What's a Vision Board?" I said, "Well, it's where I put alt my goals up. I cut them out and I put all my goals up as something that I want to achieve in my life." Of course at five and a half years old he didn't understand, and so I said, "Sweetheart, let me just show you, that'll be the easiest way to do it."

I cut the box open, and on one Vision Board was a picture of a home that I was visualizing five years earlier. What was shocking was that we were living in that house. Not a house like it—I actually bought my dream home, renovated it, and didn't even know it. I looked at that house and I started to cry, because I was just blown away. Keenan asked, "Why are you crying?" "I finally understand how the law of attraction



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works. I finally understand the power of visualization. I finally understand everything that I've read, everything that I've worked with my whole life, the way I've built companies.

It worked for my home as well, and I bought our dream home and didn 't even know it."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

You can let your imagination go wild with a Vision Board, and place pictures of all the things you want, and pictures of how you want your life to be. Make sure you put the Vision Board in a place where you see it and look at it every day as John Assaraf did. Feel the feelings of having those things now. As you receive, and feel gratitude for receiving, you can remove pictures and add new ones. This is a wonderful way to introduce children to the law of attraction. I hope the creation of a Vision Board inspires parents and teachers worldwide.

One of the people on The Secret website Forum put a picture of The Secret DVD on his Vision Board. He had seen The Secret but didn't own his own copy. Two days after he created his Vision Board, I felt inspired to post a notice on The Secret Forum giving away DVDs to the first ten people who posted. He was one of the ten! He had received a copy of The Secret DVD within two days of putting it on his Vision Board. Whether it is a DVD of The Secret or a house, the joy of creating and receiving is magnificent!



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Another powerful example of visualizing comes from my mother's experience of buying a new house. Several people besides my mother had put in offers for this particular house. My mother decided to use The Secret to make that house hers. She sat down and wrote her name and the new address of the house over and over. She continued doing this until it felt as though it was her address. She then imagined placing all of her furniture in that new house. Within hours of doing these things, she received a phone call saying her offer had been accepted. She was so thrilled, but it didn't come as a surprise to her because she knew that house was hers. What a champion!

JACK CAN FIELD

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it's possible for you. And then close your eyes every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you're grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it.



Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don't expect the things you don't want.

Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your desires and sends a more powerful signal out into the Universe.

Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

At the end of every day, before you go to sleep, go back through the events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you wanted, replay them in your mind the way you wanted them to go.

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"Whatever the mind . . . can conceive it can achieve."

JACK CANFIELD

The Secret was a real transformation for me, because I grew up with a very negative father who thought that rich people were people that had ripped everyone off and thought that anyone that had money must have deceived somebody. So I grew up with a lot of beliefs about money; that if you had it, it made you bad, only evil people have money, and money doesn't grow on trees. "Who do you think I am, Rockefeller?'

That was one of his favorite phrases. So I grew up truly believing that life was difficult. It was only when I met W.

Clement Stone that I began to shift my life.

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When I was working with Stone he said, "I want you to set a goal that's so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind, and you would knew it's only because of what I've taught you that you would have achieved this goal" At the time I was making about eight thousand dollars a year, so I said, "I want to make a hundred thousand dollars in a year."

Now, I had no idea how I could do that. I saw no strategy, no possibility, but I just said, "I'm going to declare that, I'm going to believe it, I'm going to act as if it's true, and release it" So I did that.

One of the things he taught me was every day to close your eyes and visualize the goals as if it's already achieved. I had actually made a hundred-thousand-dollar bill that I'd put on the ceiling. So first thing in the morning I'd look up and there it was, and it would remind me that this was my intention.

Then I would close my eyes and visualize having this hundred-thousand-dollar-a-year lifestyle. Interestingly enough, nothing major happened for about thirty days. I didn't have any great breakthrough ideas, no one was offering me more money.

About four weeks into it, I had a hundred-thousand-dollar idea. It just came right into my head. I had a book I had written, and I said, "If I can sell four hundred thousand copies of my book at a quarter each, that'd be a hundred thousand dollars." Now, the book was there, but I never had this thought. (One of The Secrets is that when you have an inspired thought, you have to trust it and act on it.) I didn't know how I was going to sell four hundred thousand copies.

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Then I saw the National Enquirer at the supermarket. I had seen that millions of times and it was just background. And all of a sudden it jumped out at me as foreground. I thought,

"If readers knew about my book, certainly four hundred thousand people would go out and buy it."

About six weeks later I gave a talk at Hunter College in New York to six hundred teachers, and afterward a woman approached me and said, "That was a great talk. I want to interview you. Let me give you my card." As it turns out, she was a freelance writer who sold her stories to the National Enquirer. The theme from "The Twilight Zone" went off in my head, like, whoah, this stuff's really working. That article came out and our book sales started to take off.

The point I want to make is that I was attracting into my life all these different events, including this person. To make a long story short, I did not make a hundred thousand dollars that year. We made ninety-two thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars. But do you think we were depressed and saying, "This doesn't work"? No, we were saying, "This is amazing!" So my wife said to me, "If it works for a hundred thousand, do you think it'd work for a million ?" And I said,

"I don't know, I think so. Let's try it."

My publisher wrote me a royalty check for our first Chicken Soup for the Soul book. And he actually put a smiley face in his signature, because it was the first million-dollar check he'd ever written.

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So I know from my own experience, became I wanted to test it Does this Secret really work? We put it to the test. It absolutely worked, and now I live my life from that every single day.

The knowledge of The Secret and the intentional use of the law of attraction can be applied to every single subject in your life. It is the same process for everything you want to create, and the subject of money is no different.

To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough. Focus on not enough money, and you will create untold more circumstances of not having enough money.

You must focus on the abundance of money to bring that to you.

You have to emit a new signal with your thoughts, and those thoughts should be that you currently have more than enough. You really do need to call your imagination into play and make believe you already have the money you want. And it is so much fun to do!

You will notice as you pretend and play games of having wealth that you feel instantly better about money, and as you feel better about it, it will begin to flow into your life.

Jack's wonderful story inspired The Secret Team to create a blank check available as a free download on The Secret website, www

.thesecret.tv. The blank check is for you, and it is from the Bank of the Universe. You fill in your name, the amount, and details, and place it in a prominent place where you will see it every day. When



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you look at the check, feel the feelings of having that money now.

Imagine spending that money, all the things you will buy and the things you will do. Feel how wonderful that is! Know it is yours, because when you ask, it is. We have received hundreds of stories from people who have brought huge sums of money to them using The Secret check. It's a fun game that works!

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts. Every negative thought, feeling, or emotion is blocking your good from coming to you, and that includes money. It is not that the money is being kept from you by the Universe, because all the money you require exists right now in the invisible. If you do not have enough, it is because you are stopping the flow of money coming to you, and you are doing that with your thoughts. You must tip the balance of your thoughts from lack-of-money to more-than-enough-money. Think more thoughts of abundance than of lack, and you have tipped the balance.

When you need money, it is a powerful feeling within you, and so of course through the law of attraction you will continue to attract needing money.

I can speak from experience about money, because just before I discovered The Secret my accountants told me that my company 100 The Secret

had suffered a major loss that year, and in three months it would be history. After ten years of hard work, my company was about to slip through my fingers. And as I needed more money to save my company, things just got worse. There seemed no way out.

Then I discovered The Secret, and everything in my life—including the state of my company—was totally transformed, because I changed the way I was thinking. As my accountants continued to fuss about the figures and focus on that, I kept my mind focused on abundance and all being well. I knew with every fiber of my being that the Universe would provide, and it did. It provided in ways I could not have imagined. I had my moments of doubt, but when the doubt came I immediately moved my thoughts to the outcome of what I wanted. I gave thanks for it, I felt the joy of it, and I believed.

I want to let you in on a secret to The Secret. The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now! It is the fastest way to bring money and anything else you want into your life. Focus on radiating out into the Universe those feelings of joy and happiness. When you do that, you will attract back to you all things that bring you joy and happiness, which will not only include an abundance of money, but everything else you are wanting. You must radiate out the signal to bring back what you want.

As you radiate out those feelings of happiness, they will be sent back to you as the pictures and experiences of your life. The law of attraction is reflecting back your innermost thoughts and feelings as your life.





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DR. JOE VITALE

/ can imagine what a lot of people are thinking: "How can I attract more money into my life? How can I get more of the green stuff? How can I get more of wealth and prosperity?

How can I, when I love my job, deal with the credit card debt that I have, and the realization that maybe there's a ceiling on the money that can come in, cause it's coming to me through my job? How can I bring in more?" Intend it!

This goes back to one of the things we've been talking about throughout the whole Secret. Your job is to declare what you would like to have from the catalogue of the Universe. If cash is one of them, say how much you would like to have. "I would like to have twenty-five thousand dollars, unexpected income, within the next thirty days," or whatever it happens to be. It should be believable for you.

If you have held thoughts in the past that the only way money can come to you is through your job, then let that go immediately. Can you appreciate that as you continue to think that, it must be your experience? Such thoughts do not serve you.

You are now coming to understand that there is abundance for you, and it is not your job to work out "how" the money will come to you. It is your job to ask, to believe you are receiving, and feel





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happy now. Leave the details to the Universe on how it will bring it about.

BOB PROCTOR

Most people have a goal of getting out of debt. That will keep you in debt forever. Whatever you're thinking about, you will attract. You say, "But it's get out of debt." I don't care if it's get out or get in, if you're thinking debt, you're attracting debt. Set up an automatic debt repayment program and then start to focus on prosperity.

When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay you cannot focus on those bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity despite the bills around you. You have to find a way of feeling good, so you can bring your good to you.

JAMES RAY

So many times people say to me, "I'd like to double my income in the next year." But then you look at their actions and they're not doing the things that are going to make that happen. They'll turn right around and they'll say, "I can't afford that." Guess what? "Your wish is my command."

If the words "I can't afford it" have passed your lips/ your power to change that is now. Change it with, "I can afford that! I can buy that!" Say it over and over. Become like a parrot. For the next