How I’m moving beyond “The Secret”
A lot of releasing lately, and some substantial study to boot. This has led me to gradually see that there’s something “The Secret” missed.
I can’t say I’ve got it all nailed down write now, but I know there’s a loophole (or several) in the old authors which the Secret teachers have been quoting.
1. They say to control your feelings to control your thoughts – as thoughts become things.
There is a partial truth here. Not that this doesn’t work as stated. Feelings and emotions actually lie below the thoughts. Thinking is to justify or figure out why and/or how a person feels a certain way at a certain time.
But practically, thoughts and feelings are generated according to overly-complex patterns a person has saved in order to respond to their environment. The idea was to prepare by saving old memories so that one could have a ready response to any life-threatening situation.
However, there’s a difference between this and instinct. Instinct and Intuition are probably the same point. And both are better metaphysically and spiritually explained than any Science can. Essentially, these are direct connections to the Universal which bypass our thought processes.
Wattles approached this in his “Science of Getting Rich” (the actual inspiration for “the Secret”). While he talks about thought, he also points out that you have to get into a full harmony with this “formless substance” by getting a deep feeling of gratitude for whatever you are visualizing.
This brings up our second loophole:
2. Have good feelings and these will replace the bad.
Well, yes and no. While practice can create a practiced positive attitude, as Dale Carnegie and William James point out, this can also just layer itself on top of your other practiced and habitual thinking processes. So you’ll then have a negative thought and then immediately put a postive thought on top of it.
This just builds more thought on top of older patterns.
What you want to do is to use the Sedona Method to simply release or let go the original thinking. However, when you do this, you no longer actually have to create the positive thought on top of it. Releasing lets go of all thoughts and the feelings that created them.
So does this then screw up what we learned from the Secret about how to get things showing up in our life that we want? No. It actually simplifies them.
When you calm the mind of all these seemingly random and recurring thought patterns, you start to live a life of acceptance and peace. You no longer re-act to things around you, but see them as they are. Then you can simply act responsibly according to what is actually there, what is actually occurring.
The true underlying Secret of the Secret
Every person is constantly creating. And what you conceive occurs. Action is always before thought. You want to ignore (release) your thinking and get back to simply creating. Thinking only tends to stop action. Creation and Intuition prompt action.
Of course, this is where imagination comes in. Napoleon Hill talked about the difference between creative thinking and analytical thinking. Analytical was simply recombinations, while creative was actually new and original – closer to intuitive.
Now, we can use what these older authors have said if we simply discard their use of terms like “mind” and “thoughts” or “thinking”. Consider that when you release, you calm the mind (both conscious and subconscious) so that you no longer have to use this as a tool. What you are left with is quiet and acceptance and a profound peace. Imperturbability, as Levenson liked to refer to it.
Everything around you is just fine. At this point, nothing actually bothers you and you can change pretty much anything you like – if you actually consider that it needs to be changed. And anything you actually need will show up. Consider that you have something and it appears. Get the idea that you’d like to see something additional in this experience called life – and it shows up.
Once you get the mind out of the way, then anything and everything you consider is there.
Look this over, and you’ll see that the conditions which Haanel, Hill, Wattles, Nightingale, Carnegie, and all the teachers of “the Secret” – all these conditions they say must be met or dealt with are all now solved. Without the mind, you are constantly in harmony with the Universal.
You simply have to calm the mind, quit habitual thinking, and get back to your native creative and successful Self. By staying connected with the Infinite Universe at all times, you then have instant answers to any questions. You are connected to everyone around you at all times and so can deal with them on their level. Whatever you concentrate on creating becomes your new reality around you.
And concentration is easy, because you don’t have distractions. You’ve quit amassing all these records of thoughts and feelings, so you now can simply create your life the way you want it.
It’s just too simple, actually.
Where you start restudying these classics, as well as the Secret DVD which was based on them, you’ll find that they all back up this idea. You just have to get this “thinking” out of the way. And while you’re studying these, keep an eye open for all the historical mentions of people simply “letting go” of their old thought patterns and whatnot. You’ll find that this simple approach is present in our oldest philosophies and spiritual texts. (For instance, one translation of Huna’s first principle is that “Our ideas create reality.”)
Steps to do this:
- Understand releasing and get this as a constant action in your life.
- Devote some time daily to simply releasing. Work on getting down to core desires, your main attachments and aversions.
- Learn to live in the Now, with full acceptance and peace. As you release, you’ll be able to stay in this state longer and longer.
- Rely more on intuitional understanding, live from your heart and set the mind aside.
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