Although I expect that every thought we put out has a reaction that cannot always be foreseen, here's a positive spin on our capacity to create----

From
http://www.networkingtimes.com/secret-treasures/ ;

1. We all work with one infinite power

2. The Secret is the Law of Attraction

3. Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting

4. We are like magnets-like attract like. You become AND
attract what you think

5. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy

6. People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same

7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful
emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation

8. You attract your dominant thoughts

9. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak
most of prosperity have prosperity

10. It's different from "wishful" thinking

11. You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it

12. Choose your thoughts carefully ... you are the masterpiece of your life

13. It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon)

14. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted ... accept that fact ...it's true.

15. Your thoughts cause your feelings

16. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions.
It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad
feelings.

17. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the righttrack.  Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

18. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is
in the process of becoming

19. You get exactly what you are FEELING

20. Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances

21. You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there)... the universe will correspond to the nature of your song

22. What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you
attract into your experience

23. What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match-no exception

24. Shift your awareness

25. "You create your own universe as you go along" ~Winston Churchill

26. It's important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) )

27. You can change your emotion immediately Â. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience

28. When you get the hang of this, before you know it
you will KNOW you are the creator

29. Life can and should be phenomenal ... and it will be when
you consciously apply the Law of Attraction

30. Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly

31. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants:
"I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "

32. You don't need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself

33. LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the
positive feelings of having it NOW

34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move
towards what you want faster

35. The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt...

36. When the opportunity or impulse is there ... ACT

37. You will attract everything you require-money, people,
connections...PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you

38. You can start with nothing ... and out of nothing or
no way-a WAY will be provided.

39. HOW LONG??? No rules on time ... the more aligned you
are with positive feelings the quicker things happen

40. Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's whatyou wish)  We make the rules on size and time


41. No rules according to the universe ... you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond

42. Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck...etc.)

43. You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point

44. "All that we are is a result of what we have thought"-Buddha

45. What can you do right now to turn your life around? Be Grateful

46. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately

47. What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about

48. What are the things you are grateful for? Feel the gratitude...
focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for

49. Play the picture in your mind-focus on the end result

50. VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future

51. VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins

52. Feel the joy ... feel the happiness

53. An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one

54. "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists."
~ Alexander Graham Bell

55. Our job is not to worry about the "How". The "How" will show up out of the commitment and belief in the "Why"

56. The Hows are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream

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

58. Turn it over to the universe daily... but it should never be a chore

59. Feel exhilarated by the whole process ... high, happy, in tune

60. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being

61. They remember to do it all the time

62. Create a Vision Board-pictures of what you want to attract ... every day and look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants

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

64. Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you
deserve it, believe it's possible for you

65. Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want-and the
> > feeling of having it already
> >
66. Focus on being grateful for what you have already ... enjoy it!!
Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it

67. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve."
~W. Clement Stone

68. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind

69. When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it

70. How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!

71. 'Checks are coming in the mail regularly'... or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there... and get behind the feeling of having it.

72. Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas...

73. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things
appear

74. We are the creators of our universe

75. Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others.  Love yourself and you will be loved

76. Always cultivate a healthy respect for yourself

77. For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook
and write down positive aspects of each of those people

78. Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if your frequencies don't match

79. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good

80. You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of
needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children...

81. You are the only one that creates your reality

82. No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU

83. Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laughter,
stress-free happiness will keep you healthy

84. Your immune system will heal itself

85. Parts of our bodies are replaced every day, every week.
Within a few years we have a brand new body

86. See yourself living in a new body. Hope leads to recovery.
Happy leads to a happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the body

87. Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself

88. Learn to become still and take your attention away from what you don't want. Place your attention on what you wish to experience

89. When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life

90. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it.
You are here to create the world around you that you choose

91. And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well

92. People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy

93. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power,joy, happiness to go around

94. All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it's own infinite nature. There's enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. It will show up for you

95. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want. Get behind the good feelings of all your wants

96. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on them. Remove your attention from don't wants and place it on do wants

97. We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING

98. Don't define yourself by your body. You are an infinite being that's connected to everything in the universe

99. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities

100. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not, NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are, right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Did you sit down and write all these down from the film? You are patient.

I appreciate your saying it the way you did:

"...every thought we put out has a reaction that cannot always be foreseen"

sometimes it just doesn't make sense.

On the other hand, there's possibly much to be gained from giving it a try (without using it to judge the past).

So I assume you have the film? Before Esther hicks was edited out or after? Are you familiar with the Abrham Hicks stuff? Is this another version of that or is there something else here. Abraham go (goes?) in to a little more detail about how to do this. Seth discussed the power of positive thinking ( and the need to still examine negative beliefs). Abraham put a slightly different spin on the whole thing. Are the testimonials what make the movie worth the price?

Hi Lucy,

Better get in touch with DocM because I don't have the film. I forwarded that message from a friend.  Will ask her, though, if she has any further information on it.

Bets

Hi Lucy,

You went ahead and answered your own question, didn't you. 
I too think the big picture would show that the mundane, trivial stuff is used
to keep us safe, on track, loving---in whatever way it can, to serve our highest purpose.
We could make up some scenarios---
by missing your trip you missed a patch of ice on the road you would have taken that has slipped several cars into a ditch lately; or
by missing your trip you had a conversation with someone that was incredibly important even if you or they don't recognize it yet; or
etc.
I used to fight against such turns in fate---and then walk into the very situation that Guidance was trying to shield me from. 
Now I'm *trying* to learn to  'go with the flow.'
Love,
Bets

Apparently there is going to be an Oprah show on The Secret

This Thursday at whatever time your local station shows Oprah

That's Thursday February 08 2007


Oprah's place:

http://boards.oprah.com/WebX?13@@.f13d027!DYNID=
board messages on the Secret

http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml
main page (check out the nude grandmas!)

Thanks for that website, I will be looking for Oprah on Thursday for sure. It took a while for The Secret routines to really work for me, but they have been manifesting like crazy lately. All of a sudden. Like that teacher on The Secret says, you wait and wait and then you say, HEY THIS STUFF DOESN'T WORK and the little green shoot disappears back into the ground. I was careful not to give up...and it just really started to flow a month ago. Anyway! Thanks. Vanayssa

Hi Lucy,

Here's a report ----

The 5 guest speakers from the film emphasized having gratitude for current lessons and blessings, before then picturing and requesting changes that will improve the situation for others before yourself.  So it was all very selfless.

They also assured the audience that scarcity was not an issue because the energies of the universe are limitless and those energies can transform into anything that is needed/wanted.

Audience members who participated were pre-chosen and prepared, no off- the-cuff comments.

Any comments?

Bets

Hi Lucy. I just posted a note talking about my experience in manifesting using The Secret's teachings. I didn't know where to post it without getting into trouble, should have posted it right here, but anyway, I made a mistake I suspect and posted it in Afterlife Knowledge. If you want to go look at it, it's there, I addressed it to you in replying to this last post of yours. Hope it is interesting, just my efforts to change my thinking and manifest using these principles. Vanayssa

I'm posting a note to you on your PM, Bets. This story amazed me! I have one a lot like it! But it is off topic so I better put it somewhere else, though I'd love to share it! Vee

Mornin' Lucy. I guess the secret that has been kept secret, is that how we FEEL and our expectations dictate what we get. Maybe something like that. Now whether Ford and other multi millionaires or Mother Theresa, really knew they knew that, is something else. Maybe they knew it but didn't know they did. But along the line, probably there were some who did. And the Emerald Tablet...I must go look that up. What did it say? Did it give the secret so long ago? Somebody somewhere along the human line must have noticed the connection between how they felt and what they got...I have always noticed that people who grow up with wealth, always seem to attract more, even if they lose it, because they don't know how to think any other way, only wealthy thoughts and expectations color their lives. Anyway. The commercial thing, the way I have noticed it, is, I went onto some of their websites..well one in particular...won't say which...and they really have gone nuts on the Getting thing and they create a tremendous number of digital products which yours truly went and bought ad infinitum, thinking they would help me change my attitudes overnight, but most of them, you just read and then what? You still have to do all the work and it takes as long as it takes. I spent, frankly, more than a few hundred and wish I hadn't. One of the best sources of help with all this i found is Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting, a book by....hm, just forget her name but Amazon has it. It's so much about feelings and our expectations.  Anyway, that's my input. Vee

Hi Lucy,

You said:
'The specualtion is, how worse would it have been without this stuff?'

Maybe it did help get the US through some rough times, like wars and the depression. I know we haven't had wars on our own land so that makes a difference, but maybe it was those values of hard work and positive thinking that kept conquerors away.

So maybe it would have been alot worse?

Bets

Looking at things logically, it is not logical to go into something that you intend to win at with a losing attitude.  Also, I believe that we can always advance in skill no matter how old we are just so long as we practice that state of "Pure-Doubtless-Intent" that Bruce mentions in the Friday Harbor tape series.  Confidence is essential and very-much logical.

Let me share a success story of mine:  I am playing a game at an arcade room at a restaurant that me and my parents are going to dine at.  The game is a racing game; I lock my focus tight upon winning first place.  I start racing and even though I have rarely played this racing game, I take first possition at the last moment before the finish line.  I still have credits left in the game but I let some girls play out of kindness since it is time to be seated at a table.

PDI,
Steve Ed.

We got a copy from the library. It was interesting.

Definitely Hollywood. For folks who have never encountered any of these ideas (or more) before, that may be a good introduction. The melodrama of soldiers coming to take the scrolls from someone's hands was a bit funny to me, though I imagine things like that have happened.

I can't speak for Esther and Jerry, but I can see why they might have withdrawn from the project.

The real emphasis seems to be on material possessions. And though I do agree that the universe will answer in its own way, is there really enough to go around so that we all can have houses like the Chicken Soup for the Soul guy, what's his name ? Canfield?

I can take it that there is some way of being in the world, the understanding of which has not been completely shared, sometimes by design, and that to practice it would improve our lives in some way.

Hi Bets!! I haven't been on the board much lately, getting a house ready for the market shortely, glad to pop back in to say hello this morning. Yes, all these are great people, aren't they? I could happily meet any one of them at Denny's for breakfast and end up with a notebook full of great ideas. We can't take it with us when we leave, so that's not the point, I mean, the Canfields can't take that house with them to the Park or wherever they choose to go when they leave the physical, (referring to Lucy's post previous to yours, Bets) of course, but we know from the Monroe experiences that they can easily re-create Over There the house they want anyway. And eventually they will progress in form to be pure light anyway, which does not need any kind of house, but meantime, it is fun to build houses, let's face it.  My dad, who has been in the Park now for some time, has built himself a nice home there, I went in to visit him the other day and noticed how he has built the most beautiful black river rock into his steps leading to his door, smooth as silk, though I am so anxious I will lose focus that I only pop in to see him and my brother for a minute or so and whisk back home again, it is hard to maintain my focus, I can be visiting one of them There and suddenly am back here working on my lawn problem or something. But I can at least make contact that way and I am learning.
I wanted to mention that, some of you might remember that I did a healing on my depressed sister a while ago, I guess it is still on the Board menu there somewhere, and I didn't think about it afterward, if it helped her or not, but I talked to her daughter the other day, and discovered that she is very much better, enjoying life and her various interests again, so I was secretly very happy and thought, yes, it is worth the effort to offer the intent of loving healing. Well, maybe the healing had nothing to do with her recovery, but I like to think it helped at least a bit. The thought makes my heart SHINE. Vee