The Secret

And it’s this element that is used to manipulate and control people. Law of Attraction and manifesting have woven themselves through lots of scams. The Secret is the bible of the MLM industry.

‘Our scam didn’t work for you? It’s because you didn’t want it enough. You didn’t have the millionaire mindset. You listened to those boring envious people. Your vision wasn’t strong enough’.

The strong implication that things like illness, bereavement and infertility are as a result of not thinking in the right way/following the right path is pretty prevalent and very damaging.

Did you ever get the 50k? X

It's nice to think you have some control over things that are hard to control, so I see no harm in asking.
I asked the universe for something big once, that seemed absolutely impossible and I got it. I like to think my asking worked, but I obviously wouldn't give a seminar on the effectiveness of it 😅

I like to believe in this sort of thing. It doesn't hurt anyone or really cost anything and it can help provide confidence to take positive steps to improving things.

🤣🤣

Who woke me up ? I was peacefully sleeping, waiting to die.

It’s by Rhonda Byrne x

sort of @Newbie1999
basically say i wanted a new car.
Visualising my new car and acting as if i already had it helps me work towards my goal. This could be saving more money and looking around for a better time

I spent the past 2 days obsessing over the clothes I used to have and wondered why I binned them. Fiance takes down some suitcases from the attic looking for something unrelated and low and behold here is all my old clothes!

Is the idea that if you keep thinking, for example, ‘I want to buy a house’, that all smaller decisions will lead to this eventually, ie spending less and saving a deposit quicker because it’s constantly on your mind?

Maybe you did lol

So if this stuff is true (it's not) I caused coronavirus.

I was tired and fed up at work and wished there was some way I could have an extended period off work and still get paid. Along came coronavirus and I was furloughed for four months.

Sorry about that everyone.

@everybodysang
you sound very miserable
All law of attraction really is, is setting goals🤷🏻‍♀️

Never read the book but I have always set goals for mine and my family's life. Honestly, we have achieved them all. Nothing out of this world but things like living by the sea and having a pool, being financially secure, success, happiness.
My DB recently said that I'd always had delusions of grandeur and my reply was that they weren't delusional.
I believe in positivity breeding positivity.

Got totally obsessed by The Greatest Showman, ended up going to several screenings. Got sent a link to free tickets for a showing on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Leicester Square. My equally obsessed BFF and I decided this would be our last showing. Sitting in the cinema, I turned to her and said “Wouldn’t it be funny if Hugh Jackman turned up? Fingers crossed”

Five minutes later, Hugh Jackman was announced as the VIP guest! He’d stopped by in the way to the GQ Awards to say a special thank for making the movie a success.

I think it's an absolute pile of shite for naive plonkers.

But I guess as long as you're not doing anyone else any harm it doesn't hurt. Just know that when you bang on about it (I have a couple of acquaintances who are into it) you sound like an absolute fool.

Although when o say worked I don’t mean in a birthday wish kind of way, it worked in altering my mindset and the things I achieved out of life.

@notsodimwit -I have been practicing the Rosicrucian visualisation technique that the book seems to be based on for years but using it as an acceptance of a much wider hermetic philosophy and it’s worked for me.

If correlation is causation then yes, but we all know that they are very different things.

I have a lot of Friends who live by this, I'm a bit sceptical. I think if there's something that you want so much in your life then you work toward it, be it a new car (doing overtime) more time with family (adjust your current lifestyle) etc. That's not the universe, that's you adjusting.

Since reading this thread I have been reading up about it.. Has is worked for anyone on here?

What about crystals?

They’re becoming a celeb trend.

Because obviously your life’s success and happiness are all because of the ‘awfully mined’ fake crystal in your pocket rather than your attitude and life choices...

It's a version of "work towards your goal".

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I also get the feeling where the world slows down at pivotal moments in my life, no matter how innocuous the moment seems to be.

Re Jim Carey and MitziKs exh

I think there are 2 different things going on.

MitziKs ex convinced himself that he would get the job so just expected it to fall in his lap no matter how much of a jerk he was.

Whilst Jim Carey convinced that he would be a star then probably helped himself by talking to the right people, putting himself out there, not giving up and working hard to put himself in the limelight for what he thought would come.

Like the poster who wants £50,000 in her bank account by Christmas. It has given her drive to save harder and cut down on outgoings.

It might be BS but what harm can it do if you use it correctly.

If MitziKs ex had gone into the interview with the mindset of showing the interviewee how perfect he was for the job he would have probably got the job

It is about mindset and how you talk to people and if The Secret or Cosmic Ordering helps to change your mindset and focus you on what you want then it can’t do any harm if used with the knowledge that it is just one tool and nothing is going to fall in your lap if you don’t do anything or you piss people who could help off.
It isn’t going to give you a lottery win or pluck you from dangerous or life threatening situations but it might help you concentrate on what you do want

@serenada -which bit?