Is it Really a Secret?

My brother told me about a movie – The Secret. It’s web site dub's it a

...ground-breaking feature length movie presentation reveals The Great Secret of
the universe...

According to them (the movie), The Great Secret is knowing about and understanding what they call The Law of Attraction. In a nutshell, the Law of Attraction is that whatever you think and feel will most likely present itself to you in your life. For example, if you are always grumpy and get upset easily, then you will attract to you grumpy easily upsetable people in your life. On the other hand if you are a positive upbeat person, those types of people with ‘manifest’ themselves into your life.

The claim is you can also use this Law of Attraction to get things that you want such as

… unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have
ever wanted...

To make a $1,000,000, you need to start visualizing you already own a $1,000,000. The feelings you generate while visualizing you already own $1,000,000 will ‘project’ $1,000,000 thought energy which in turn will actually bring about situations or opportunities that will help you become a millionaire.

Interesting???? Of course it is. Skeptical??? A little.

I am already a firm believer that you are able ‘choose’ what happens to you in your life and that you always have the power to change anything about yourself by simply making the choice to do so. I also have long identified that the platitude “Good things happen to good people” tends to be more true then it is false so I find it an easy transition understanding the Law of Attraction and its proposal of 'positive thinking gains positive results'.

Just last night, after Kellee and I watched the movie for the first time, I asked and visualized for Braun, our new born son, to sleep better. This morning when I got up for work Kellee informed me that he slept from 12:30 am all the way though to 05:00 am. That’s good for him. Kellee was pleased that he was able to sleep more then 2 hours at a time. I know it’s a small thing and it may just be a coincidence but it was kind of neat to see it happen.

We were both very tired and did not watch the full movie so the verdict is still out as to whether or not I buy into the whole Secret thing. I have seen, heard, read about these ideas for years so nothing is really new to me and I just can’t shake the thought that someone has used the ol' cut & paste technique to create this secret thing just for money gains. It is true, in my mind, that positive thinking can make your life better but it just seems they are sticking the proverbial carrot out in from of you to get you to follow. Generally once people hop on a bandwagon, what ever it is, they tend to loosen up their purse strings and make the leader rich. Reminds me to much of church. We all know what they want when that basket is passed. I just can’t shake the feeling of religion when I look at this.

Tell you what, take a look for yourself and let me know what you think.