The principals behind "the Secret" are pretty old, It is funny, my VERY insightful therapist has been telling me this for over 10 years-she didnt call it the secret, she called it the law of attraction..The new secret can only be good, though because it has been brought to the masses so if the masses are trying to think positively there is a lot more positive energy flying around than there was pre-secret! I too thought that there was alot of emphasis on material things, but I chose to look at it my way- A friend recommended "down the rabbit hole" which was the same idea, just made so that any person who wasnt a rocket scientist couldnt understand it! So I guess since most people can relate to bills, and worrying about how to pay them, Rhonda Byrne had the most popular way to get it out to a broad audience!

A client gave me the DVD of The Secret and another friend wrote a book called Vibration and Reflection which are the same principles as The Secret--hopefully, more people will think positively now!

Nothing wrong with thinking positive if fact I recommend it. However, I don't buy into if you think it it will magically appear at your door.

Goals and proper planning with positive atitude and hard work is more like it.

Agreed, King V., but thinking positively has changed my life so much for the better. I think the principles in these type of books and philosophies, as well as the attacking anxiety and depression program, are very helpful. I used to be such a negative thinker--no wonder I had so many problems, physical and emotional.

I agree Tigerlady it gave e hope to think in a positive manner will get me out of of this rut that i've been in for so long. only if more people would think this way the world would be abetter place

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Nothing wrong with thinking positive if fact I recommend it. However, I don't buy into if you think it it will magically appear at your door.

Goals and proper planning with positive atitude and hard work is more like it.

I love The Secret and you're right that it is a newer version of many older ones. "As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen might be the one you are referring to from the early 1900's?

Anyway, I was thinking that the version of this idea of thoughts becoming things that you might really enjoy from your Christian standpoint might be the classic "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Dr.Norman Vincent Peale...which you might already be aware of, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway!

Hey Songbird,

I agree with all of your post but, I'm still not a fan of the secret.

I recently read Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. I love his writing simple and straight forward. The Christian Quotes are great and not over done. So it will be good for everyone.

He has his own web site and you can read some of his material there.

The man lived to be 95 years of age so he may of known what he was talking about.

*** So it's clear to evryone I love positive thinking books or any books that make you feel great.***

I dislike books that are money grabbers and stretch the truth a little too far.

Thanks

I have read this book and think that it helped a lot.

I read the secret and it made a world of difference in my life. Some of my aspirations have come true. It really works. I highly recommend it I am also reading alot of other things related to the secret like Abraham-Hicks and just a world of information. I have made a vision board, and done the whole thing, it works!!!