Wisdom is the believer's quest, wherever he finds it, he picks it. (Hadeeth. i.e. saying of Prophet Muhammad, peace Be Upon Him). Translated by RAMOI *With additions between asterisks* to present the Islamic perspective. Do not use font size larger than 22. ******
A year ago my life had collapsed around me.
I'd worked myself into exhaustion,
My father died suddenly
and my relationships were in turmoil.
Little did I know at the time
out of my greatest despair
was to come the greatest gift.
Translated by RAMOI *With additions between asterisks* to present the Islamic perspective. Asterisks ****** were also added at the bottom when comments were numerous, possibly requiring to stop playing the file momentarily. ******
I've been given a glimpse of a great secret.
Hadeeths and Aayahs of the Quran were mentioned as much as possible, and many were mentioned at the end of this presentation. ******
I began tracing The Secret back through history
The main goal is the listener’s benefit. We notice some fumblings, when they try to explain the reasons for success and so on, ******
mainly because of the insistence to avoid ascribing matters to God. So we added the necessary texts to explain and clarify the true reasons for success, from the magnificent Islamic perspective. ******
The steps and techniques mentioned are successful, such as gratitude, optimism, persistence, etc. but many of their explanations are neither necessary nor scientifically rooted, although attractive and even refreshing at times. ******
We notice the persistent avoidance to mention God, to cater to non-believers and reach a wider market. ******
The Holy Hadeeth (Qudsi): I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me, whether good or bad. Explains how good and bad happen to those expecting it, while they explained it through a pseudo-scentific Law of Attraction ******
And the Hadeeth: Do work, for each person’s way is made easy toward what he was created for is well known, but due to its subtlety and because they do not know it, they could not see the implications of God’s Knowledge, unbounded by time and mistook it for the predetermination that they are negating. ******
And so on for the remaining concepts here such as optimism, continuous gratitude, and determination, the foundations of which are crystal clear to the believer, whatever his religion. ******
So the benefit from this viewing is to persist on optimism and gratitude, the continuous faith that prayers will be answered, and the sustained rejection of negative thoughts. ******
I couldn't believe all the people who knew this.
They were the greatest people in history.
(Whispers) Why doesn't any one know this?
All I wanted to do was to share this secret with the world.
I began searching for people alive today who know The Secret.
One by one they began to emerge.
You know this Secret gives you everything you want.
Happiness, health and wealth.
You can have, do or be anything you want.
We can have whatever that is we choose. I don't care how big it is.
What kind of a house do you wanna live in? Do you wanna be a millionaire?
What kind of a business do you wanna have? Do you want more success?
What do you really want?
I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives.
Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing,
mental healing, healing in relationships...
All of this happen because of knowing how to apply The Secret.
This is the great Secret of life.
You've probably been sitting there wondering what is this Secret.
I'll tell you how I have come to understand it.
We all work with one infinite power.
We all guide ourselves by exactly the same laws.
The natural laws of the Universe are so precise
That we don't even have any difficulty building spaceships,
we can send people to the moon,
and we can time the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second.
I don't care if you're in India,
if you're in Australia, New Zealand,
Stockholm or London,
or Toronto, or Montreal, or New York...
We all working with one power,
one law.
It's Attraction.
The Secret is the Law of Attraction.
Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life.
And it's attracted to you by virtue of the image as you're holding in your mind.
It's what you're thinking.
You see, whatever is going on in your mind
you are attracting to you.
Now, wise people have always known that.
You go right back to the ancient Babylonians
they've always known this.
It's a small select group of people.
Why do you think that 1% of the population
earns around 96% of all the money that's being earned?
Do you think that's an accident?
It's no accident.
It's designed that way.
They understand something.
They understand The Secret.
And you are being introduced to The Secret.
The simplest way for me to look at the Law of Attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet. *Hope or what you desire and it will be, for rarely was it said “it was” without it becoming a reality - Verses often quoted by the Prophet P.* ******
And I know that a magnet will attract to it.
Very basically put, the Law of Attraction says that like attracts like. *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me, whether good or bad - Hadeeth* ******
But we're really talking at the level of thought.
Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want,
make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want
and from there we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe
and that's the Law of Attraction.
You become what you think about most,
but you also attract what you think about most.
If you see it in here
you're gonna hold it here.
And that principle can be summed up in three simple words:
thoughts
become
things.
What most people don't understand is: a thought has a frequency.
Every thought has a frequency.
We can measure a thought.
It's if you're thinking that thought over and over and over again
or if you're imagining in your mind
having that brand new car,
having the money that you need, building that company,
finding your soul mate;
if you imagine what that looks like
you're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.
Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal
that is drawing the parallel back to you.
See yourself living in abundance
and you will attract that.
It always works. it works every time
with every person.
Here's the problem:
most people are thinking about what they don't want
and they're wondering why it shows up over and over and over again.
The Law of Attraction doesn't care whether you perceive something to be good or bad
or whether you don't want it or whether you do want it it's responding to your thoughts. *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me, whether good or bad - Hadeeth* ******
So if you're sitting there, looking at a mountain of debt
feeling terrible about it,
that's a signal you're putting out into the Universe. *I disavow him, whoever allows sadness to overcome him – Meaning of a Hadeeth* *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me... – Holy Hadeeth* ******
"Wow, I feel really bad because of all this debt I've got."
You're just affirming it to yourself,
you feel it on every level of your being,
that's what you're gonna get more of.
So, when you're looking at that thing you want
and you're saying yes to it,
you're activating a thought
and the Law of Attraction is responding to that thought and bringing you things that match that *Hope for what you desire and it will be... – Verse often quoted by the Prophet P.* *Hope for the good and you will find it - Hadeeth* *Do not pretend illness for it may then befall you, and do not dig your own graves for you may then die. - Hadeeth* ******
But when you're looking at something that you do not want
and you shout no at it
you're actually not pushing it away.
Instead, you're activating the very thought of what you do not want *God allows to dominate the son of Adam, only those whom he fears; and if the son of Adam fears none but God, then God would not empower anyone over him - Hadeeth* ******
and now Law of Attraction is lining those things up for you also. *One should not pray against oneself - Hadeeth* ******
This is a Universe that is based upon attraction.
Everything is about attraction.
The Law of Attraction is always working
whether you believe it or understand it or not.
It's always working. *Al Fudayl said to Sufyan: God’s response to His obedient subject is such that if he tells this mountain to move, it will move. The mountain moved, and Al Fudayl said to it: Quiet down, I did not want to move you, I only drew you as an example* ******
You might be thinking about past
or the present, or the future,
but whether you're remembering or observing, or imagining
still in that process you are activating thought
and Law of Attraction, which is the most powerful law in the Universe,
is responding to your thought.
Creation is always happening.
Every time an individual has a thought
or a prolonged, chronic way of thinking
they're in the creation process,
something is gonna manifest out of those thoughts.
Law of Attraction says:
"We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on."
So, if you're complaining about how bad it is
were you creating ... more of how bad it is.
I had a student named Robert. Robert was a gay man *Apparently, he contradicted the Hadeeth: If you are afflicted by sins, be discrete.* ******
and he was taking an on-line course I have,
a part of which entails e-mail access to me.
And he outlined all of the grim realities of his life.
In his job, all the people ganged up on him.
And it was constantly stressful because of how nasty they all have been.
When he walked down the street, he said,
in every block he was accosted by homophobic people
who wanted to abuse him in some way.
He was wanting to become a stand-up comedian.
And when he went out and did the stand-up comedy job
everybody hackled him
about being gay.
And his whole life was one of a lot of unhappiness and misery *Obviously, he contradicted the Hadeeth: If you are afflicted by sins, be discrete.* ******
and it all focused around this idea of being attacked because he was gay. *The cause of these attacks is “publicizing” his sin* ******
I began to teach him that he was focusing on what he did not want.
I have directed him back to his e-mail that he sent me and I said,
read it again,
look at all the things you do not want that you're telling me about,
and I can tell you're very passionate about this;
when you focus on something with a lot of passion
it makes it happen even faster.
And then he really started taking this thing about focusing on what you want, to heart. And he began really trying.
What happened within the next 6-8 weeks
was absolutely a miracle.
He said that all the people in his office that had been harassing him
either transferred to another department
or quit working at the company
or started totally leaving him alone.
And he began to love his job.
He noticed that when he was walking down the street
that nobody came up to him and harassed him anymore.
They just weren't there.
When he went and did his stand-up comedy
he started getting standing ovations and nobody was hackling him.
His whole life changed
because he changed from focusing on what he did not want,
what he was afraid of, what he wanted to avoid,
to focusing on what he did want. *The “technique” works, but adding to our sins only gets us “more rope” to hurt us later* ******
So we may be very positive in our outlook and orientation,
and we tend to attract positive people and positive events and circumstances.
When we're very negative in our orientation, or very angry,
in which case we tend to attract negative, angry people
and negative , angry circumstances.
And so you end up attracting to you
the predominate thoughts that you're holding in your awareness.
Whether those thoughts are conscious
or whether they're unconscious,
that's the rub.
If you look very carefully
when it comes to The Secret, and the power of our mind,
and the power of our attention in our daily lives
it's all around us.
All we gotta do is open our eyes
and look.
You see Law of Attraction evidenced in your society
when you see that the one who speaks most of illness - has it,
when you see that the one who speaks most of prosperity - has it.
Law of Attraction is evident everywhere around you
if you're understanding what it is.
It has to do with you being a magnet,
attracting thought, attracting people,
attracting events, attracting life style.
Indeed everything that you bring into your experience,
you bring because of this powerful Law of Attraction. *The Prophet P. clarified:* *Hope for what you desire, and it will be* *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me...* ******
I mean, I'm not talking to you from the point of view of just
wishful thinking
or imaginary, craziness.
I'm talking to you from a deeper basic understanding.
Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery.
It says that you can't have a Universe
without mind entering into it.
that the mind is actually shaping
the very thing that is being perceived.
Now, if you do not understand, that doesn't mean you should reject that. You don't understand electricity properly. *** correct *** So it is not necessary for him now to delve into pseudo-scientific details, as we will see ******
First of all, no one even knows what electricity is.
And yet you enjoy the benefits of it.
Do you know how it works? I don't know how it works.
But I do know this:
that you can cook a man's dinner with electricity and you can also cook the man. ****** Thus it is not necessary to explain vibrations, electrons, galaxies and "name drop" Quantum Physics: The benefit for listeners is the “technique” of optimism, etc. and not guessing how it works. ******
People oftentimes when they begin to understand the great Secret,
become frightened of all of these negative thoughts that they have.
Two things you need to be aware of.
One: it has been proven now scientifically
that an affirmative thought
is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. *Do you know God’s Prayer? It is: My Mercy is faster than my Dis-Pleasure - Hadeeth* ******
So, that eliminates a degree of worry right there. *The good deed is worth ten, the bad deed counts as only one - Hadeeth* ******
You live in a reality where there is this buffer of time.
And truly, that serves you.
You're really not wanting to be in an environment where
your thoughts manifest immediately.
The evidence is long and coming and that is really a good thing.
So, you want to become aware of your thoughts,
you want to choose your thoughts carefully
and you wanna have fun with this.
Because, you are the masterpiece of your own life.
You are the Michelangelo of your own life.
The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts.
The leaders in the past (*except the Prophets*) who had The Secret
wanted to keep the power, and not share the power.
So, they kept people ignorant of The Secret.
People went to work, they did their job,
they came home.
They were on a treadmill
With no power, because The Secret was kept in the few.
We live in a Universe in which there are laws.
Just as there's Law of Gravity;
if you fall off the building,
it doesn't matter whether you're a good person or a bad person,
you're gonna hit the ground.
Everything that's around you right now in your life,
including the things you're complaining about,
you've attracted.
Now, I know at first blush, that's gonna be something that you hate to hear.
You're gonna immediately say
I didn't attract the car accident,
I didn't attract this particular client,
I didn't particularly attract the debt,
I didn't attract...whatever it happens to be that you're complaining about.
And I'm here to be a little bit in your face
and to say "yes, you did attract it". *Not absolutely so* ******
And this is one of the hardest concepts to get.
But once you've accepted it, it's life-transforming.
This is part of the overall giant Secret here.
And most of us attract by default.
We just think that we don't have any control over it,
our thoughts are on auto-pilot, our feelings are on auto-pilot
and so everything is just brought to us by default.
Now, if this is your first time to hear this
it may feel like:
"oh, I have to now monitor my thoughts, this is gonna be a lot of work".
It will seem like that at first,
but that's where the fun begins.
We do not encourage that you try to monitor your thoughts.
That would sort of make you crazy.
There are so many thoughts
coming to you from so many different directions
about so many different subjects.
That's where your emotional guidance system comes in.
Your emotions,
your emotional guidance system
is what helps you to understand what you're thinking.
So, your thoughts cause your feelings.
The emotions are this incredible gift that we have.
To let us know what we're attracting.
There are only two emotions from our perspective.
One feels good and one feels bad.
You call them all sorts of different things,
but essentially all of those negative emotions,
whether you call it guilt
or anger, or frustration,
all feel much the same - they do not feel good.
And all of those, are "guidance" saying:
that which you are thinking about right now
is not in line with what you are really wanting.
On another level, it's called "bad frequency"
or "bad vibes" or whatever you wanna call it.
The one that feels good,
that feeling of hope or happiness or love,
that good feeling,
that positive emotion is, guidance saying,
that what you're thinking right now
is in alignment with what you're want.
So, it's really so simple. It's right there. The answers are:
what am I attracting right now? How do you feel? I feel good.
Well good. keep doing that.
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us
about whether we're on track or not,
whether we're on course or off course.
The better you feel, the more in alignment you are.
The worse you feel, the more out of alignment you are.
What you are doing as you are moving through the variety
of your day-to-day experience;
is you're offering thoughts
that are literally formulating
your future experience.
And you can tell by the way you feel
if the things that you're moving toward
will please you when you get there.
And you're getting exactly what you're feeling about,
not so much what you're thinking about.
That's why people, if they stub their toe, out of bed, they tend to spiral.
The whole day goes like that, you know.
They have no clue
that a simple shifting of their emotions
can change their entire day, and life.
If you start out having a good day
and you're in that particular happy feeling,
as long as you don't allow something to change your mood,
you're gonna continue to attract, by the Law of Attraction,
more situations, circumstances, people
that sustain that happy feeling.
Good days, bad days, rich get richer, poor gets poorer...
it's all about what these people are predominately and continually feeling.
You can begin, right now, to feel healthy.
You can begin to feel prosperous.
You can begin to feel the love that's surrounding you
even if it's not there.
And what will happen is the Universe will correspond
to the nature of your song,
the Universe will correspond to the nature of that inner feeling
and manifest, because that's the way you feel.
So basically, what you focus on with thought and feeling
is what you're attracting to your experience
whether or not it's something you want.
Every single time.
No exception.
It's hard to swallow,
but when we can begin to open ourselves up to that
the ramifications are awesome.
It means that whatever thought has done in your life,
it can be undone
through a shift in your awareness.
It's really important that you feel good.
Because this "feeling good" is what goes out as a signal into the Universe
and starts to attract more of itself to you.
So, the more you can feel good,
the more you will attract the things that help you feel good
and all they keep bringing you up, higher and higher.
When you're feeling down,
do you know that you can change it like that.
Put on a beautiful piece of music. Start singing. That'll change your emotion. *The Muslim has the treasures of the Quran and Azhkaar (supplications)* *Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find peace – Quran 13:28* ******
Or think of something beautiful.
Think of a baby,
maybe one you love,
and dwell on it.
Really keep that thought in your mind,
block everything out but that thought.
I guarantee you'll start to feel good.
This principle applies to your family pet, for instance
which I believe they're wonderful
because they put you in a great emotional state.
***And the Muslim has treasures that revive his heart beyond any comparison*** ******
When you feel love for your pet that's a great state of love
that's going to bring goodness into your life.
What a gift that is.
And when you begin to get the hang of this,
when you begin to guide your thoughts based upon the way they feel,
and you begin to notice
the correlation between what you're feeling and thinking
and what's coming back to you,
before you know it,
you will know that you're the creator of your own reality.
And those who are watching from a distance
will stand in amazement
at the perfect life you live.
Since I learned The Secret and started applying it to my life,
my life has truly become magical,
I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of
and I live on a day-to-day basis.
I live in a $4.5 million mansion,
I have a wife to die for,
I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world,
I've climbed mountains, I've explored, I've been on safari...
And all of this happened, and continues to happen,
because of knowing how to apply The Secret.
Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be.
And it will be
when you start using The Secret.
Well, a lot of people ask me what their job is in the creative process
and what the job of the Universe is.
So let's look at that for a moment.
Let's use this metaphor: if you think about Aladdin and his lamp,
you've probably heard of that one,
Aladdin picks up the lamp, he dust it off
and out pops the genie.
And the genie always says one thing:
"Your wish is my command."
If you trace the story back to its origins,
you know, we now think that there's three wishes,
but if you if you trace the story back to its origins,
there's absolutely no limit whatsoever to the wishes.
Think about that one. ÊÝßÑ Ýí Ðáß
Now, let's take this metaphor, blow it up and apply it to you and your life.
Remember, Aladdin is the one who always asks for what he wants.
Then you've got the Universe at large which is this grand genie.
And traditions have called that so many different things -
the holy guardian angel, your higher self, I mean we can put any label on it,
and you choose the one that works best for you.
But every tradition has told us there's something bigger than us.
And the genie always says one thing:
"Your wish is my command."
So, we'd like to say to you that the creative process
is a three step process.
Step one is: you must ask for what you want.
You do not need use words to ask.
In fact, the Universe is not even hearing the words from you.
The Universe is responding completely to your thought.
What is it you really want?
Sit down and write it on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.
You might begin by writing, "I am so happy and grateful now that..."
and then explain how do you want your life to be
in every area.
And this is really fun.
This is like having the Universe as your catalogue
and you flip through, and you go "well, I'd like to have this experience,
and I'd like to have that product,
and I'd like to have a person like that",
it is you just placing your order with the Universe. *Wish for what you desire, and it will be - Verses often quoted by the Prophet P.* ******
It's really that easy. *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me... - Hadeeth* ******
The second step is: answer. An answer to what you're asking.
And that is not your work in your physical form.
The Universe will do that step for you. (*by the Power of God*) ******
All of the Universal forces are responding with the thoughts that you set in motion.
"Your wish is my command."
And the Universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.
Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want
because we can't see how it's going to manifest.
If you do just a little research, it is gonna become evident to you
that anyone that ever accomplished anything
did not know how they were gonna do it, they only knew they were gonna do it.
You do not need to know how it's gonna come about.
You do not need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself.
You don't know how.
It'll be shown to you you will attract the way.
So, then our friends say, something must be going terribly wrong.
Because, I know I am asking so where is my stuff.
And we say, you are asking, you are completing step one,
you can't help but do that.
The Universe is answering, every time. No exception.
But there is another step that you must understand,
and it is called step three, which is the receiving step
which means, you must bring yourself into alignment with what you're asking for.
When you're in alignment with what you want, you feel wonderful.
That's where the enthusiasm is, that's where joy is,
that's where the appreciation is, that's where that feeling of passion is.
(his father bought it for him!) ******
But when you are feeling despair, or fear, or anger,
those are strong indications that you are not right now in alignment
with what you're asking for.
And so, when you begin to realize that the way you feel is everything,
and you begin to direct your thoughts based upon how they feel,
little by little you can find the feeling place of it,
and now you are one with it,
and now it must manifest into your experience.
And when you turn that fantasy into a fact
you're in the position build bigger and better fantasies
and that, my friend is the creative process.
So, the Law of Attraction, the study and practice of the Law of Attraction
is just figuring out what will help you generate the feelings of having it now.
Go test-drive that car. Go shop for that home, get in the house,
do whatever you have to do to generate the feelings of having it now
and remember them.
Whatever you can do to do that will help you to literally attract it.
It could be, you wake up and it's just there, it's manifested.
Or you might get some inspired idea of some action to take.
You certainly shouldn't be going, "well, I could do it this way but man I hate that"
'cause you're not on the right track if that's the case.
Action will sometimes be required,
but if you're really doing it in line with what Universe is trying to deliver,
it's gonna feel joyous, you're gonna feel so alive,
time will just stop, you could do it all day...
The Universe likes speed.
Don't delay, don't second guess, don't doubt,
when the opportunity's there, when the impulse is there,
when the intuitive nudge from within is there - act.
That's your job.
And that's all you have to do.
You will attract everything that you require.
If it's money you need, you'll attract it.
If it's people you need, you'll attract it.
If it's a certain book you need, you'll attract it.
You've got to pay attention to what you're attracted to.
Because, as you hold images of what you want
you're gonna be attracted to things, and they're gonna be attracted to you.
But it literally moves into physical reality with and through you.
And it does that by law.
You can start with nothing.
And out of nothing, and out of no way
the way will be made.
Think of this: a car driving through the night,
the headlights only go 100-200 ft forward,
and you can make it all the way from California to New York
driving through the dark, 'cause all you have to see is the next 200 ft.
That's how life tends to unfold before us.
And if we just trust that the next 200 ft will unfold after that,
and the next 200 ft will unfold after that...
your life will keep unfolding,
and it will eventually get you to the destination
of whatever it is you truly want, because you want.
Well, another thing people wonder about is - how long this is gonna take.
How long it will take to manifest the car, the relationship, the money,
or whatever it happens to be...
Well, I don't have any rule book
that says it's gonna take you 30 minutes, or 3 days, or 30 days.
I think it's more a matter of you being in alignment with the Universe itself.
Sizes - it's nothing to the Universe.
It is no more difficult to attract, on a scientific level, something that we consider huge,
to something that we consider infinitesimally small.
The Universe does, everything it does with zero effort.
Grass doesn't strain to grow, it's effortless. It's just this great design.
It's all about what's going on up here. It's about what we put in place,
saying, this is big - it's gonna take some time,
this is small - oh, I'll give it an hour.
You know, those are our rules that we define.
There are no rules according to the Universe. *God’s Power Has no limits* ******
If you provide the feelings of having it now, it will respond. *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me... - Hadeeth* ******
Some people have an easier time with little things.
So we sometimes say, we'll start with something small, like a cup of coffee.
Make it your attention to attract a cup of coffee today.
Hold an image of talking to an old friend that you haven't seen for a long time.
Somehow another someone is gonna start talking to you about that person.
That person's going to phone you or you'll get a letter from him.
People were amazed how I line up car parks.
And I've done this right from when I first understood The Secret. *Hope or what you desire and it will be... - Verses often quoted by the Prophet P.* ******
I would visualize a car space exactly where I wanted *Hope or what you desire and it will be... - Verses often quoted by the Prophet P.* ******
and 95% of the time it would be there for me, and I'd just pull straight in. *Hope or what you desire and it will be... - Verses often quoted by the Prophet P.* ******
5% of the time I'd have to wait just a minute or two *Hope or what you desire and it will be... - Verses often quoted by the Prophet P.* ******
and the person would pull out and I'd pull in.
So I do that all the time.
*I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me; whether good or bad - Hadeeth* ******
*God allows to dominate the son of Adam, only those whom he fears; and if the son of Adam fears none but God, God would not empower anyone over him. And the son of Adam is left to whoever he has faith in; and if he has faith but in God, God Will not Leave him to other than Him - Hadeeth: Tirmizhi* ******
A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their current circumstances.
And I'm trying to point out that, whatever your circumstances right now,
that is only your current reality.
And current reality will begin to change as a result of watching this
and beginning to use The Secret.
But sometimes it feels like you're stuck
because you continue to think the same thoughts over and over again.
And so you tend to get the same results over and over again.
And the reason is because:
most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they observe
You see, if you're just looking at what is then you're just thinking about what is.
And when you think about what is, Law of Attraction gives you more of it.
And then, if you just observe what is, then you're just thinking about what is.
And Law of Attraction gives you more of what is.
And then, if you just observe what... We've been over this, have we?
You have to find a way that you are approaching what is
through a different vantage point.
Most people look at their current state of affairs, and they say,
"this is who I am".
That's not who you are.
That's who you were.
You see, if you look at your current state of affairs right now,
let's say, for instance, that you don't have a lot of money in your bank account,
or you don't have the relationship that you want,
or your health and fitness isn't up to par,
that's not who you are.
That's the residual outcome of your past thoughts and actions.
So we're constantly living in this residual, if you will,
of the thoughts and the actions we've taken in the past.
When you look at your current state of affairs and define yourself by that
then you doom yourself to have nothing more than the same in the future.
OK, what can you do right now to begin to turn your life around?
I'll tell you two or three things.
Start making a list of things to be grateful for.
Start with that, because this shifts your energy,
it starts to shift your thinking.
Where before this exercise you might be focusing on what you don't have,
and you might be focusing on your complaints,
and you might be focusing on ... whatever the problems are;
when you do this exercise you start to go in a different direction,
you start to be grateful for all the things that you feel good about.
Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life. *If you thank, I will give you more (S14:A7)* ******
Every man knows, that when his wife's appreciating him for the little things he does,
what does he wanna do? He wants to do more.
It's always about the appreciation. It pulls things in, it attracts support.
I've said for many years that whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about.
Because that's that feeling that you have to have, you know,
and so for me, it's been such a powerful exercise every morning
to get up and say "thank you". When my feet hit the floor "thank you".
And then I start running through what I'm grateful for
as I'm going to brush my teeth and do the things I do in the morning.
And I'm not just thinking about them and doing some rote routine but I'm putting it out there and I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude. *...and know that God Will not answer a prayer from an inattentive and playful heart - Haddeeth* ******
Because as soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have,
you will start to attract more of the good things,
more of the things you can be grateful for.
Because, you can look around and say,
"well look, I don't have the car I want, I don't have the house I want,
I don't have the health I want, I don't have the spouse I want..."
Back up. Back up.
Those are all the things that you don't want.
Focus on what you already have that you're grateful for.
And it might be, you have the eyes to watch this.
It might be the clothes that you have.
Yes, you might prefer something else and you might get something else pretty soon
if you start feeling grateful for what you have.
I think everybody goes through times when they say,
"oh man, things aren't working right" or "things are going bad".
And there were some things going on in my family...
and I found a rock.
And I'm just sitting here holding this rock, you might see me carrying it around.
I found a rock. I stuck it in my pocket.
And I said, "you know what, every time I touch this rock
I'm gonna think of something that I'm grateful for".
And so every morning, when I get up in the morning, I pick it up off the dresser
and put it in my pocket,
and I go through the things that I am grateful for.
At night, what do you do? You empty your pocket
and there it is again.
And I've had some different experiences with that.
I've had some amazing experiences.
I had a guy from South Africa. He saw me dropping it.
He said "what is that"?
What's that?
I explained it to him, so he started calling it a "gratitude rock".
Gratitude rock.
Two weeks later I got an e-mail from him from South Africa.
He said, "my son is dying from a rare disease,
it's a type of hepatitis".
"would you send me three gratitude rocks?"
They were just rocks I found off the street, you know,
so I said, "sure".
I had to make sure that the rocks were very special.
And so I went out to the stream, looked, picked up the right rocks
and sent them off to him.
Four or five months later I get an e-mail from him.
He said, "my son's better, now he's doing terrific"
and he said, "you need to know something"
he said, "we've sold over a thousand rocks at $10 a piece
as gratitude rocks, and we raised all this money for charity, thank you very much".
And so it's very important to be in an attitude of gratitude, as I call it.
Another thing that I would suggest that you do right now to turn your life around,
and this is so huge,
that I can't find the words to describe
just how powerful this can be for you...
I took the visualization process from the Apollo programme
and instituted it during the 1980's and 90's into the Olympic programme.
It was called "Visual Motor Rehearsal".
When you visualize, then you materialize.
And the interesting thing about the mind is
we took Olympic athletes
and then hooked them up to sophisticated bio feedback equipment.
And had them run their event only in their mind.
Incredibly, the same muscles fired
in the same sequence, when they were running the race in their mind
as where they were running it on the track. How this could be?
Because the mind can't distinguish whether you're really doing it
or whether it's just a practice.
I think, if you've been there in the mind, you'll go there in the body.
When you're visualizing,
when you've got that picture playing out in your mind,
always, and only, dwell upon the end results.
Here's an example:
look at the back of your hands right now. Really, look at the back of your hands.
The colour of your skin,
the freckles, the blood vessels, the rings, the fingernails, the fake fingernails...
take in all those details right before you close your eyes.
And then see those hands, your fingers wrapping around the steering wheel
of your brand new car.
This is such a holographic experience, so real, so real in this moment,
that you don't even feel like you need the car
because, it feels like you already have it.
It's the feeling that really creates the attraction, not just picture of the thought. *Supplicate God while being certain of the answer - Hadeeth* (so if this “feeling” does not happen, then there was no “certitude”) ******
I think, for a lot of people, they think, "well if I think the positive thoughts or if I visualize having what I want
that'll be enough",
but if you're doing that and still not feeling abundant, or loving and joyful
then it doesn't, for my mind, really create the power of the attraction.
This is where The Secret actually moves into action.
You put yourself in a feeling place of really being in that car,
not "oh, I wish I could get that car", or "someday I'll have that car".
Because, that's a very definite feeling associated with that.
It's not "in an hour", it's not, you know, "it's in the future",
- if you stay in that feeling, it will always be in the future.
Feel the joy, feel the happiness.
No matter how silly it seems in that dark and quiet room,
you're going "woohoo!"
Do it!
A lot of people will say, "you know come on, do I have to do that?"
How bad do you want change?
Now, that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an open doorway
through which the power of the Universe will begin to express.
*Believers, whatever their religion, do not hesitate a second about this* ******
Our job is not to figure out the how.
The how will show up out of the commitment and the belief and the what.
The hows are the domain of the Universe.
It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way
between you and your dream.
If you're turning over to the Universe you will be surprised and dazzled
by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen. *If you rely properly on God, He Will Provide for you as He Provides for birds: They leave with empty stomachs in the morning and return full in the evening - Hadeeth* ******
I would say that you wanna do this virtually daily, but
my disclaimer is: this should never be a chore.
What's really bottom line importance here to the whole Secret is feeling good.
You wanna feel exhilarated by this whole process.
You wanna be high, happy, in tune as much as possible.
The only difference between people who really are living this way
and people who aren't living in the magic of life
is that the people who are living in the magic of life
have habituated ways of being.
They have habituated this process
and magic happens with them wherever they go.
Because they remember it and they do it all the time,
not as a one-time event.
People hold that for a while, and they're really a champion at it,
and they say, "you know what, I'm fired up, I saw this programme
and I'm gonna change my life.
And yet, you know, results aren't showing, results aren't showing."
And beneath the surface it's just about ready to break through.
And someone will look at the surface results and go, "this stuff doesn't work!"
And you know what, the Universe says "your wish is my command". *The subject (‘s prayers) will always be answered … unless he hastens - Hadeeth* ******
And it goes down.
Knowing the Law of Attraction
I wanted to really put it to use and to see if... you know... what will happen.
And in 1995 I started to create something called "the vision board",
where I take something that I would want to achieve
or something that I'd want to attract,
like a car, or a watch or the soul mate of may dreams,
and I'd put a picture of what I want right up on this board called "the vision board".
And every day I would sit in my office
and I would look up at this board
and I would start to visualize, I'd really get into the state
of having already acquired it.
I was getting ready to move
and so we put all the furniture, all the boxes in the storage.
And I made three different moves over a period of five years.
And I ended up in California
and bought this house, renovated it for a year,
and then had all the stuff brought from my former home five years earlier.
One morning, at 7.30 in the morning, my son comes into my office
and one of the boxes that was sealed for five years
was right at the doorstep.
And my son came in and was sitting on the box, banging away at the box.
And I said, "sweetheart, will you please stop, I'm doing some work here", and he says
"What's in the boxes, daddy?"
And I said, "well honey, those are my vision boards."
"What's a vision board?"
I said, "well, it's where I put all my goals up, I cut them out
and I put all my goals up as something that I want to achieve in my life".
And of course, at 5 and a half years old he didn't understand.
And so I said, "sweetie, let me just show you, that'll be the easiest way to do it."
And so I cut the box open
and when I pulled up the vision boards, there was the picture on there of a home
that I was visualizing five years earlier
and what shocking to me was we were living in that house,
not a house like it.
I had bought my dream home, renovated it and didn't even know it.
But I looked at that house and I started to cry,
'cause I was just blown away.
"Why are you crying?"
"Honey, I finally understand how the Law of Attraction works,
I finally understand the power of visualization,
I finally understand everything that I've read, everything that I worked with,
my whole life, the way I built companies -
it worked for my home as well.
And I bought our dream home and didn't even know it."
Decide what you want, believe you deserve it,
and believe you can have it, believe it's possible for you *(That God Will not deprive you of it because of your sins)* *... and He forgiveth much (S42:A30)* * If God were to punish mankind according to what they deserve, He would not leave a living creature on the surface of the earth* (S35-A45) ******
and then close your eyes every day for a several minutes
and visualize having what you already want
and feeling the feelings of already having them.
Come out of that, and focus on what you're grateful for already.
And really be enjoyed.
And then go into your day and release it to the Universe
and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it.
You know, The Secret was definitely a real transformation for me
'cause I grew up in a family where my dad was very negative.
He thought that rich people were people that would rip everyone off,
he thought that anyone who had money must have deceived somebody,
so I grew up with a lot of beliefs about money; that if you had it, it made you bad,
that only evil people had money,
and that money doesn't grown on trees, that was the big one,
"who do you think I am, Rockefeller?", that was one of his favourite phrases.
So, I grew up truly believing that life was difficult,
that it was hard, that you have to struggle,
and it was only when I met W. Clement Stone
that I literally began to shift my life.
When I was working with Stone
he said, "I want you to set a goal that's so big that if you achieved it
it would blow your mind.
And you would know it's only because of what I've tought you
that you would have achieved this goal".
Well, at the time I was making about $8.000 a year.
And for some reason, I wanted something that it was really measurable,
so I said, "I wanna make $100.000 in a year".
And I had no idea how I can do that,
I saw no strategy, no possibility,
but I just said, "I'm gonna declare that, I'm gonna believe it,
I'm gonna act as if it's true and release it".
And so I did that.
And one of the things he tought me was
every day to close your eyes and visualize the goal as if it's already achieved. *Pray God while certain of the (positive) response - Hadeeth* ******
And I had actually made a $100.000 bill that I put on the ceiling,
so the first thing I'd see whenever I woke up,
I'd look up and there it was, and it would remind me that this was my intention.
And then, I would close my eyes and visualize having this $100.000 a year life style.
And interestingly enough, nothing major happened for about 30 days.
I didn't have any great breakthrough ideas, no one was offering me more money.
And all of the sudden, I was in the shower, it was about 4 weeks into doing it
and I had a $100.000 idea, it just came right into my head.
I had a book I had written
and I said, "if I could sell 400.000 copies of my book at a quarter each,
that would be $100.000"
Now, the book was there, but I'd never had this thought.
And one of the secrets I think is that
Now, I didn't know how to do that,
I didn't know how I was gonna sell 400.000 copies, we'd never done that.
And then I saw the National Enquirer at the supermarket.
I'd seen that millions of times, and it was just background.
And all of a sudden it jumped out on me as foreground
and I thought, "wow, if readers knew about my book,
certainly 400.000 people would go out and buy it.
In about 6 weeks later I gave the talk at Hunter college in New York.
to 600 teachers, and this lady comes up at the end and she says:
"That was a great talk, I'd like to interview you.
Let me give you my card."
I said, "who do you write for?"
"I'm a freelancer, but I sell most of my stuff to the National Enquirer."
You know, I had this little theme from "Twilight Zone" go off in my head "ner-ner-ner-ner..."
Wow, this stuff's really working.
So, that article came out and our book sales started to take off,
but the point I wanna make is that
I was attracting into my life all these different events, including this person
and to make a long story short,
I did not make $100.000 that year, we made $92,327
but do you think we were like depressed and going, "this doesn't work"?
No, we were going, "wow, this is amazing!"
And so, my wife said to me,
"wow, if it works for $100.000 do you think it would work for a million?"
And I said, "I don't know, I think so, let's try it"
My publisher actually wrote me a check, it was a wealthy check
as a royalty check for our first "Chicken Soup For The Soul" book
and he actually put a smiley face in the signature
'cause it was the first million dollar check he'd ever written.
And so, I know from my own experience,
because I wanted to test it does this Secret really work,
and we put it to the test and it absolutely worked.
And now I live my life from there every single day.
Well I can just imagine what a lot of people that are watching this are thinking,
and that is - how can I attract more money into my life?
How can I get more of the green stuff?
How can I get more of wealth and prosperity?
How can I, when I love my job, deal with the credit card debt that I have
and the realization that maybe there's a ceiling on the money that can come in,
'cause it's coming to me through my job,
how can I bring in more?
Intend it.
This goes back to one of the things we've been talking about
throughout the whole Secret:
your job is to declare what you would Like to have from the catalogue of the Universe.
Well, if cash is one of them, say how much you would like to have.
I would like to have $25.000 unexpected income within the next 30 days,
or whatever it happens to be. It should be believable for you.
Most people have a goal of getting out of debt.
That'll keep you in debt forever.
Whatever you're thinking about, you will attract.
You'll say, "but it's get out of debt"
I don't care if it's "get out" or "get in",
if you're thinking debt you're attracting debt.
Set up an automatic debt repayment programme and then start to focus on prosperity.
So many times people say to me,
"well, I'd like to double my income in next year."
But then you look at their actions
and they're not doing the things that are going to make that happen. *- Did you tie your camel? - (No) I rely on God. - Tie it, then rely on God - Hadeeth* ******
And they turn around and around and go, "well, I can't afford that."
OK, guess what - your wish is my command.
As you are fussing about not having enough money,
as you are talking to your friend about not having enough money,
as you are feeling unhappy about not having enough money,
you're actually activating within yourself or continuing the activation of the thought
that is very different from the desire that you have launched.
What it just comes down to is
you just can't want more money and focus upon not enough.
When I first understood The Secret I was getting bills every day,
I would get a bunch of bills in the mail.
And I thought, "this is... how do I turn this around"
The Law of Attraction states that what you focus on, you'll get.
So, I got a bank statement, I whited out the total
and I put a new total in there,
I put exactly how much I want to see in the bank.
So I thought what if I just visualized checks coming in the mail?
So, I just visualized a bunch of checks coming in the mail.
Within just one month, things started to change.
And it is amazing.
Today I just get checks in the mail.
I get a few bills, but I get more checks then bills.
I grew up on "you have to work hard for money", "you have to work hard for money"
And so, I replaced that with "money comes easily and frequently"
Now, in the beginning it feels like a lie.
Right? There is a part of your brain that will say, "no you liar, it's hard"
So, you have to know this little tennis match that will go on for a while.
When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mind set.
It's all about how you think.
I'd say 80% of my coaching that I do one-on-one with folks
is about their psychology and the way they think.
And I know people when they listen will say, "oh you can do it and I can't"
Every person has the capability to change the way,
their inner relationship and conversation with money.
I find so many people who maybe make a tremendous amount of money,
but their relationships stink.
That's a technical term, by the way.
And that's not wealth, it really isn't.
You know, you can go after the money and you might get rich,
but it doesn't guarantee you'll be wealthy.
I'm not suggesting that money isn't a part of wealth, it absolutely is
but it's only a part.
And then I meet a lot of people who are "spiritual",
but they're sick and broke all the time.
That's not wealth either.
Life is meant to be abundant in all areas.
Many people in Western culture are striving for success.
They wanna have a big home, they want their business to work,
they want all of these things.
But what I found in my research is that having those things
certainly doesn't guarantee what we really want, which is happiness.
And that's when all those outer things come.
They don't come from going after them first to get happiness - it's backwards.
You go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first
and then all the other things from the outside appear.
The Secret means for me actually that we are creators of our Universe.
And that every wish of what we want to create will manifest in our life.
Therefore, it's very important what you wish, what your thoughts are, what your feelings are
because it will manifest.
Now, one day I went into somebody's home
and he was art director of a very famous film producer.
And in every corner he had this beautiful image of a woman,
a naked woman dressed with a fabric kind of doing this, kind of saying,
"I don't look at you, I don't see you"
And I said, "I think you have trouble in your romance."
"Are you a clairvoyant or something?"
"No, but look, in seven places you have exactly that woman."
"But I love that kind of painting. I painted it myself."
"That's even worse", I said,
"because you put all your creation and your creativity in it."
Now, here's this gorgeous looking man, he has all these actresses around him
because that's the work he does, and he doesn't get romance.
I said, "what do you want?"
"Well, I wanna date three women a week."
"OK, paint yourself with three women and hang it in every corner."
*(The success or failure of any “technique” obviously does not address the moral issues associated with it)* ******
Six months later I see him in Europe. I said, "how is your love life?"
"Great! They just call me, they all wanna date me."
"Because that's your wish."
"Now I have like three dates a week. They're fighting over me."
"Good on you."
"But I really wanna stabilize it a little bit. I want marriage, and I want romance."
"Well paint it, OK?"
So he painted a beautiful romantic relationship.
And a year later he got married. and he's very happy.
Because he put another wish out. But he wished it in himself for years.
But it did not happen, because his wish could not manifest
because the outer level of himself: his house, was just contradicting himself all the time.
So, if you know this knowledge, you should start playing with it.
Inside relationships it's important to first understand who's coming into the relationship.
And I don't mean about your partner, I mean about you.
How can you ever expect anyone else to enjoy your company
if you don't enjoy your own company?
And so again, the Law of Attraction, or The Secret
is about bringing that into your life and you've gotta get really, really clear.
Here's the question I want to ask you to consider:
do you treat yourself the way that you want other people to treat you?
You become the solution for you.
Don't ... like, "now you owe me, and you need to get me more",
instead, give more to yourself. Take time off to give to yourself.
in a sense, to fill yourself up to fullness,
where now you can overflow in giving.
I got into many relationships, expecting my partner to show me my beauty.
I needed to see him showing me my beauty.
Because I didn't feel beautiful.
Because when I was growing up, my "sheroes" were
Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, and though they were wonderful women
none of them looked like me.
It wasn't until I stopped and I fell in love with Lisa,
full lips, round hips, mocha skin, Afro,
that the rest of the world began to fall in love with Lisa.
There's something so magnificent about you.
I have been studying me for 44 years. I wanna kiss myself!
Because, you're gonna get to love yourself. I'm not talking about conceit.
I'm talking about a healthy respect for yourself. *(Appreciating God’s blessings upon you)* ******
And as you love yourself (by appreciating God’s blessings upon you), you'll love others.
Sometimes people will say, "those people at work are so negative",
or, "the man I live with is so angry",
or, "my children are so worrisome to me",
and we say, "you must orient yourself to the best part of those people who surround you."
We encourage that you get a notebook,
and that you make a list of the positive aspects of the people that you spend a lot of time with.
There could be someone that you have a terrible experience with,
a terrible relationship with.
And in the privacy of your own mind, and with quite a bit of work, we will admit,
as you focus upon things that you like most those people will become that mostly to you
And even though you cannot create in their reality,
if they are in the mood or in attitude
that doesn't match the mood or attitude that you have about them,
they'll zig while you zag.
Law of Attraction will not put you in the same space together,
your frequencies don't match up.
If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different
so that you can feel good.
You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility
of needing to control the world
or control your mate
or control your child.
For no one else can think for you,
no one else can do it.
It is only you.
Every bit of it you.
It's important to recognize that our body is really the product of our thoughts.
We're beginning to understand in medical science
the degree to which the nature of thoughts and emotions actually determines
the physical substance and structure and function of our bodies.
We've known in the healing arts of the placebo effect.
A placebo is something that supposedly has no impact and no effect on body.
Like a sugar pill or something.
You tell the patient that this is just as effective,
and what happens is the placebo has he same effect, if not greater effect than
sometimes, the medication that is supposed to be designed for that effect.
So, they found out that the human mind is the biggest factor in the healing arts.
More so then sometimes the medication.
If somebody is in a situation that they're sick,
and they have an alternative to try to explore what is in their mind creating it,
versus using medicine,
if it's an acute situation that could really bring death to them
then obviously the medicine is the wise thing to do
while they explore what the mind is about.
So you don't wanna negate medicine, every form of healing has a place.
There is only a stream of well-being that flows, you know.
It is a stream of pure positive energy.
And the Universe, all that we know, is abundant with only that.
This is a world that is based upon well-being,
a well-being dramatically abounds.
And when you're allowing that stream to flow in its fullness, you feel very, very good. *… whosoever follows My guidance, will not go astray nor come to grief… (S20:A123)* ******
And when you are pinching it off a bit you feel not so good. *… and whosoever turns away from My message, his life will be harshly tight… (S20:A124)* ******
There is only a stream of goodness or well-being which you are allowing or not,
and your magnificent emotions are telling you what the mix is,
how you're doing in your allowing or your resisting of this connection. *Consult your heart, even if they give their (religious) opinion - Hadeeth* ******
You know people who have had terminal disease.
Stop and think of the word: dis-ease. Hyphenate the word.
That's a body that's not at ease.
We've got a thousand different diagnoses and diseases out there.
They're just the weak link. They're all the result of one thing:
stress.
When you put enough stress on the chain, you put enough stress on the system
and one of the links breaks.
Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us know
we have an imbalanced perspective and we're not loving, and we're not grateful.
So the body signs and symptoms are not something terrible.
The question that's frequently asked is
when a person has a manifest of a disease in the body temple
or some kind of discomfort in their life,
through the power of right thinking can it be turn around?
And the answer is absolutely yes.
On November 23 I was diagnosed with the breast cancer.
I truly believed in my heart, with my strong faith, that I was already healed.
During the day, all day long, I would just say thank you for my healing.
On and on and on I went, "thank you for my healing."
I believed in my heart I was healed.
I saw myself as if cancer was never in my body.
One of the things I did to heal myself was to watch very funny movies.
That's all what we'd do, we'd just laugh, laugh, laugh.
We couldn't afford to put any stress in my life because we knew
stress was one of the worst thing you could do
while you're trying to heal yourself.
From the time I was diagnosed, which was November 23
to the time I was healed totally, was approximately 3 months.
And that's without radiation and chemotherapy.
We come with a basic programme. It's called self-healing.
You get a wound, it grows back together.
You get a bacterial infection,
your immune system comes and takes care of those bacteria, and heals it up.
The immune system is made to heal itself.
Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.
Your body is casting off millions of cells every second,
and it's creating millions of new cells.
In fact, literally, parts of our body are replaced every day.
Other parts take a few months, other parts a couple of years,
but within a few years we have a brand new physical body.
If you have a dis-ease, and you're focusing on it
and you're talking to people about it, you're going to create more dis-eased cells. *If I test my believer subject and he does not complain against me to his visitors, I will release him from my shackles (due to his ill actions so far) then I exchange his flesh with better flesh and his blood with better blood, then he resumes work - Hadeeth: Hakim and Bayhaqi* ******
See yourself living in a perfectly healthy body.
Let the doctor look after the dis-ease.
Can you feel the difference between
having painful arthritis in your hips and feeling fearful about it,
or having painful arthritis in your hips and feeling hopeful about it,
The difference between fearful and hopeful
is the difference between recovery or not.
Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry,
a happier, healthier body.
Negative thoughts, stress, have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain.
Because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling,
reorganizing, recreating our body.
Remove physiological stress from the body and the body does what it was designed to do.
It heals itself.
I've seen kidneys regenerated, I've seen cancer dissolved,
I've seen eyesight improve and come back.
I always say that "incurable" means "curable from within".
You can change your life and you can heal yourself.
Well, my story begins on March 10, 1981
It really changed my whole life, it was a day I would never forget.
I crashed an airplane.
I ended up in a hospital completely paralysed.
My spinal cord was crushed,
I broke the first and second cervical vertebrae.
My swallowing reflex was destroyed, I couldn't eat or drink.
My diaphragm was destroyed, I couldn't breath.
All I could do was blink my eyes.
The doctor of course said that all my life I'll be a vegetable,
all I'll do was blink my eyes the rest of my life.
That's the picture they saw me in, but it didn't matter what they thought of me,
the thing was what I thought.
I pictured myself being a normal person again
walking out of that hospital.
The only thing I had to work with in the hospital was my mind,
and once you have your mind you can put things back together again.
I was hooked to a respirator and they said I'd never breathe on my own again
because my diaphragm was destroyed.
But this little voice kept saying to me, "breathe deep, breathe deep".
Finally I was weened from it.
They were at a loss for an explanation.
See, I could not afford to allow anything to come in my mind
that would distract me from my goal and from my vision.
Well I'd set the goal to walk out of the hospital on Christmas, that was my goal.
Eight months later I walked out of the hospital on my own two feet.
They said it couldn't be done.
That's a day I will never forget.
For people that are sitting out there right now watching this programme that are hurting,
if I'd want to sum up my life and sum up for people what they can do in life
I would sum it up this way, in six words:
"man becomes what he thinks about."
We noticed that there are so many people who are living life in a very conditional way,
they look out and they see things that are wonderful and they say,
"yes we want more of those, we would vote for that,
we would support that with our time and energy and money."
But then they look out and they see things that they do not want,
terrible things that they do no want to live
and that they do not want to see others live.
And they say, "we've got to do something about getting rid of those things."
But they don't realize that as they push against the unwanted
they add power to it.
In this world, there is a war against poverty,
and a war against cancer, and a war against teenage pregnancy,
and a war against terrorism, and a war against violence,
and a war against terrorism,
did we mention that there was a war against terrorism?
And all of this pushing-against is only adding-to,
Because, you can't say no and make it go away.
When you shout no Law of Attraction is lining that up.
The reason that "what you resist, persists" is because if you're resisting something,
you say, "no, I don’t want this thing because it makes me feel this way
the way I'm feeling right now."
And so, you just putting out this really strong emotion of,
"wow, I don't really like this feeling",
and it's there, it's racing towards you.
You know, anti-war movement creates more war.
The anti-drug movement has actually created more drugs.
Because we're focusing on what we don't want - drugs.
People would say, "well shouldn't I focus upon that, that is true"
And we say, that is like saying
"because someone gave the attention to something they did not want,
long enough that now it has manifested
I should do it too."
And we say, "we don't really understand that reasoning."
Mother Teresa was brilliant.
She said, "I will never attend an anti-war rally,
if you have a peace rally, invite me."
You know, she knew. She understood The Secret.
I mean, look what she manifested in the world.
So, if you're anti-war, be pro-peace.
If you're anti-hunger, be pro people having more than enough to eat.
If you anti particular politician, be pro his opponent.
Often elections are tipped in the favour of the person that people are really against
because he's getting all the energy and all the focus.
You wanna focus on what you want and not what you don't want. *(So when asking God: “Protect me from…”, concentrate on God’s Mercy, not on your problem)* ******
It's OK to notice what you don't want because that gives you contrast to say, "this is what I do want." *(When asking God: “Protect me from…” concentrate on God’s Mercy, not on your problem)* ******
But the fact is that the more you talk what you don't want, *If your steed stumbles do not say “Woe to Satan” for he will grow boasting… but say In the Name of God The Most Merciful the Most Compassionate and he will dwindle down... - Hadeeth* ******
or you talk about how bad it is, *If your steed stumbles do not say “Woe to Satan” for he will grow boasting… but say In the Name of God The Most Merciful the Most Compassionate, and he will dwindle down... - Hadeeth* ******
read about all of that all the time and then say, "oh how terrible it is", *If your steed stumbles do not say “Woe to Satan” for he will grow boasting… but say In the Name of God The Most Merciful the Most Compassionate, and he will dwindle down... - Hadeeth* ******
well you are creating more of that. *If your steed stumbles do not say “Woe to Satan” for he will grow boasting… but say In the Name of God The Most Merciful the Most Compassionate, and he will dwindle down... - Hadeeth* ******
You know, so many times people say to me, "well James, I have to be informed."
Maybe you have to be informed, but you don't have to be inundated.
Learn to become still
and to take your attention away from what you don't want
and all the emotional charge around it,
and place the attention on what you wish to experience.
I always say when the voice and the vision on the inside
become more profound and more clear and loud
than the opinions on the outside
you've mastered your life.
You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it to be,
you are here to create the world around you that you choose,
while you allow the world as others choose it to be
to exist also.
One of the questions I get almost all the time and is probably on somebody's mind right now,
if it's not on yours,
and that's the idea that, "well, if everybody uses The Secret
and they all treat the Universe like a catalogue,
aren't we gonna run out of stuff?
Won't everybody just make a run for it and bust the bank?"
What's so beautiful about the teaching of the great Secret
is that there is more than enough to go around for everyone. ****** (... ...it is relatively nothing compared to God’s Dominion... ...) ******
There is a lie, that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity
and that lie is, "there's not enough good to go around,
there's lack, and there's limitation and there's just not enough."
That lie has people living in fear, greed, stinginess,
and those thoughts of fear, greed, stinginess and lack
become their experience.
So, the world has taken a nightmare pill.
Now, the truth is there's more than enough good to go around,
there's more than enough creative ideas,
there's more than enough power,
there's more than enough love,
there's more than enough joy...
All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. *(… that is aware of God’s infinite Power and Generosity)* ******
Every great teacher who's ever walked the planet has told us
that life was meant to be abundant.
And so, just when we think that resources are dwindling,
we find new resources to achieve the same things.
And so, even though we say we have lack
it's because we don't open up our vision and see all what's around us.
You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart and go for what they want,
they don't go for the same things.
That's the beauty of this.
We don't all want BMWs,
we don't all want the same person,
we don't all want the same experiences,
we don't all want the same clothing,
we don't all want...fill in the blank.
There's enough for everyone.
If you believe it, if you can see it if you act from it - it will show up for you.
That's the truth.
So let the variety of your reality thrill you
as you get to choose from among of those things that you're wanting.
And when you see something that you want in your experience,
think about it, find a feeling place of it get inside of it, talk about it and write it down,
write a script about it,
make it your reality by becoming a match to it.
And when you see those things that you are not wanting in your experience
do not talk about them,
don't join groups of worry about them, don't push against them.
Do your best to ignore them,
remove your attention from the things that you do not want
while you give your undivided attention to the things that you do want. *…do not say “woe to Satan” … but say “In the Name of God…”… - Hadeeth* ******
Most of the leaders in the past missed the great part of The Secret,
which is empowering and sharing with others.
This is the best time to have ever been alive in history.
It's the first time we've ever had the power to gain knowledge at our fingertips.
God’s infinite power is obvious to any believer, whatever his religion. But this is a commercial product targeting the largest possible market, including non-believers too. So the following pseudo-scientific theories about our relationship with the universe serve to strengthen their confidence due to their attractiveness, even though, as the speaker specifically states, it is not necessary to understand them. ******
When we look around us, even at our own bodies,
what we see is the tip of the iceberg.
Think of this for a moment: take your hand and look at it.
Now your hand looks solid but it's really not.
If you put it under a proper microscope you'd see a mass of energy vibrating.
Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, whether it's the ocean
or whether it's a star.
Everything is energy.
And let me help you understand that just a little bit.
There is the Universe of course, and our galaxy, and our planet,
and then individuals, and then inside of this
body, are organ systems,
and then there are cells,
and then there are molecules,
and then there are atoms, and in there is energy.
So there are a lot of levels to talk about something on.
But everything in the Universe is energy.
I don't care what city you're living in
you've got enough power in your body, potential power, to illuminate the whole city for nearly a week *believers do not need these "assurances": God's Power activates the whole universe* ******
Most people define themselves by this finite body.
But you're not a finite body. Even under a microscope, there are energy fields. *(What's infinite is God's power)* ******
What we know about energy is this:
you go to a quantum physicist and you say, "what creates the world?"
And he/she will say, "energy."
Well describe energy.
It can never be created or destroyed,
it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed, always exists, *No: It must have had a beginning, otherwise any chain of events that led to our existence now, had eternity before it to happen before that!!!* ******
it's moving into form, through form and out of form. OK, great.
You go to a theologian and you ask the question, "what created the Universe?"
And he/she would say, "God."
OK, describe God.
Always was and always has been, never be can be created or destroyed
all there ever was, always will be,
always moving into form, through form and out of form. *Believers do not agree*
You see, it's the same description, just different terminology. *According to him; but according to believers, there is a definite distinction: God is not His creation*
And so, if you think you're this meat suit running around, think again.
You are spiritual being, *We are God's subjects, and He is the Infinite one, not us.*
you're energy field operating in a larger energy field.
We're all connected. We just don't see it.
There isn't an "out-there" and "in-here".
Everything in Universe is connected, it's just one energy field.
You are extensions of source energy. *We are manifestations of God's infinite Power*
You're here in these magnificent bodies, but your bodies have distracted you
for the most part, from who you really are.
You are source energy.
You are eternal beings (*no*), you are God force (*its manifestation*). You are that what you call God (*repulsive fumbling*). ******
Scripturally, we could say that we are the image and the likeness of God. *No: For Muslims "There is nothing like Him" (S42:A11)* ******
We could say we are another way that the Universe is becoming conscious of itself.
We could say that we are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. All that would be true.
Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. *What's common is only the NAMES of our attributes, not the attributes themselves* ******
That means that you have got potential and power to create your world. And you are. You are. *By God's Power, and continuous optimism* ******
And maybe you've created things to this point that are wonderful and worthy of you,
and maybe you haven't.
The question I'd ask you to consider is:
do the results you have in you life - are they what you really want,
and are they worthy of you?
If they're not worthy of you then wouldn't now be the right time to change this?
Because you have the power to do that.
You know, a lot of people feel like they're victims in life
and they’ll often point at past events,
perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family.
And I would add that most psychologists believe that about 85% families are dysfunctional.
So, it's like all of a sudden you're not so unique.
My parents were alcoholics, my dad abused me, my mother divorce him when I was 6
From the age of 13 to 18 I was involved in street gangs.
I had a severe motorcycle accident.
I was homeless at one point in Dallas, I lived in poverty for 15 years in Houston.
When I was a child, I had learning difficulties, and I was considered learning disabled,
and I was told I would never read, write or communicate,
never amount to anything, not go very far in life.
That's almost everybody's story in some form or not.
So, that's just called "so what".
The real "what" is what are you going to do now, what do you choose now.
Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want.
And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don't want falls away.
And that part expands, and the other part disappears.
We are wanting you to come to the place
where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately
where you're guiding your thought on purpose,
where you are creator of your own experience, because you are the manager of your own thought.
The beautiful thing about the Law of Attraction is that you can begin where you are.
And you can begin to think real thinking,
and you can begin to generate within yourself a feeling tone of harmony and happiness.
The Law will begin to respond to that.
So now you start to have different beliefs, like there is more than enough in the Universe,
or you have the belief that everything goes right for me.
Or you have the belief that "I'm not getting older, I'm getting younger."
We can create it the way we want it by using the Law of Attraction. *I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me...* ******
And you can break yourself free
from the hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs,
and prove once and for all that the power within you *that God's response to your optimism*
is greater than the power that's in the world.
Some of you may be thinking, "well that's very nice, but I can't do that",
or "she won't let me do that", or "he'll never let me do that",
or "I haven't got enough money to do that", or "I'm not strong enough to do that",
or "I'm not rich enough to do that", or "I'm not..."
I'm not...I'm not...I'm not...I'm not...I'm not...
Every single "I'm not" is a creation.
Are there any limits to this?
Absolutely not.
We are unlimited beings. *No: What's unlimited is God's power* ******
We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power
that is within every single individual on this planet is unlimited. *No: What's unlimited is God's power* ******
*They fumble previously and and what follows, because of their refusal to accept God's existence. This helps them to encourage, and to prevent helplessness, but believers arrive to a stronger result, knowing God's infinite Power* ******
There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written *His goal is to prevent helplessness toward predeterminted "fate"* ******
your purpose, your mission in life. *God's Knowledge is not restricted by time, thus He Knows what we will chose; obviously this does not mean that we will be forced to chose it* ******
There's no blackboard in the sky that says *Here is the Islamic perspective* ******
*The Prophet P. was asked: Has everything been already determined, or is there an "appeal"?* ******
*He said: Everything has been determined (God's Knowledge is not bound by time, so for Him, all actions and choices are already known)* ******
and then there's a blank, you know, and all I have to do *They said: So why should we work?* ******
is to really understand what I'm doing here, why I'm here *He answered: Do work, for each person’s way is made easy toward what he was created for. (So whatever we decide, we have the confidence that God - with His infinite Power - will make things easier toward my goal. No greater confidence can be attained)* ******
is to find that blackboard, *A non-believer said (arguing God's Will): I will cut this palm tree.* ******
and find out what God really has in mind for me. *The prophet P. said: So God Willed it.* ******
But the blackboard doesn't exist. *The non-believer answered: So I will not cut it.* ******
*So, your purpose is what you say it is. To which the prophet P. replied: So god Willed it. (Although the meaning is very subtle, yet it can be worded in it a very simple way: Nothing can be done AGAINST His Will, thus all is according to His will. Taking a little time to think about it will clarify the whole issue.).* ******
Your mission is the mission you give yourself. *So God's Knowledge of what we will chose and what will happen is by His Knowledge (for He is not restricted by Time) and not by compulsion upon us* ******
Your life will be what you create it as and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever *Thus the believer choses and relies that God, the Omni-Powerful, Has Made it easier for him; this produces much stronger confidence than their fumblings and denial.* ******
It took a lot of years for me to get this, 'cause I grew up very much with this idea *And his denial of "jugmement" is to prevent the hesitation* ******
that you know, there was something I was supposed to do *and insecurity caused by the fear from furutre judgement* ******
and if I wasn't doing it, I was like, "God wouldn't be happy with me". *But when the believer does what God Likes ******
What I really got that my primary aim is to feel and experience joy, *his resolve gets strengthened by knowing of the future judgement* ******
then I began to do only those things which brought me joy, *And their main error about judgement* ******
we have a saying, you know, "if it ain't fun, don't do it" *Is the law of every country and our accountability to it* ******
Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter, *Thus their advice is indefensible, to do whatever we like without restriction* ******
that's what it is. *for the limitations are obvious in this life* ******
And if, boy, if you just experience joy sitting here and meditating for an hour, *They also denied judgement in the hereafter as if they witnessed it; yet they did not* ******
by golly, do that. If you experience joy eating a salami sandwich, then do that. *and these are the features of a stubborn person without any proof to his argument, and not those of a logical rational mind* ******
When I pet my cat I'm in a state of joy, *For the believer's ultimate bliss is for his beloved Lord to be well-pleased with him, not accepting to "enjoy and eat just like cattle" (S47:A12)* ******
or when i walk in nature I'm in a state of joy, *For the believer's ultimate bliss is for his beloved Lord to be well-pleased with him, not accepting to "enjoy and eat just like cattle" (S47:A12)* ******
so I wanna constantly put myself in that state. *For the believer's ultimate bliss is for his beloved Lord to be well-pleased with him, not accepting to "enjoy and eat just like cattle" (S47:A12)* *End of this section of comments* ******
And when I do that, then all I have to do is have the intention of what I want,
and what I want manifests.
So, inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.
Anything that makes you feel good is always gonna be drawing in more.
You are listening to this right now,
it's you that drew this into your life.
and it's your choice whether you wanna take it and utilize it, if it feels good,
if it doesn't feel good, then you know, let it go.
Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.
*Consult your heart - Hadeeth* *Leave what you suspect (morally), in favour of what you do not suspect - Hadeeth* ******
Joseph Campbell said, "follow your bliss". We think those are the best words we've ever heard spoken from a human tongue. *Their opinion will change if they open their ears and hearts to the marvellous Quran and Hadeeth - words of the Prophet P.*
And if one could follow one's bliss, you would follow the trail
to abundance and well-being on all subjects.
Enjoy life with us, because life is phenomenal,
it's a magnificent trip.
You will live in a different reality, a different life,
when people will look at you and say, "what do you do different than me?",
well, the only thing that is different
is that you work with The Secret.
And then you can do, and have, and be things that people will say,
"it's impossible for you to do and have and be"
We're really now moving into a new era.
It's the era where the last frontier is not space, as "Star Trek" would say,
but it's going to be - mind.
I see a future of unbounded potential, unbounded possibilities.
Remember we're using at most 5% of the potential of the human mind.
100% human potential is the result of proper education,
so imagine a world where people were using their full mental and emotional potential.
We could go anywhere, we could do anything, achieve anything.
See yourself with the good that you desire.
Every religious book tells us that.
Every great book on philosophy,
every great leader,
all the avatars who have ever lived
Go back and study the wise ones.
Many of them have been presented to you in this programme.
You know what? They all understood one thing - they understood The Secret.
Now you understand it.
And the more you use it, the more you'll understand it.
And you may be feeling that it would be easier to be hearing these words,
if they had come to you the first day of your experience upon this earth.
And if we were talking to you on your first day of physical life experience,
we would say to you:
"Welcome to planet Earth!
There is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have.
You are magnificent creator
and you are here by your powerful and deliberate wanting to be here.
Go forward, giving thought to what you are wanting,
attracting life experience to help you decide what you want,
and once you've decided giving thought only onto that,
most of your time will be spent collecting data,
data that will help you decide what it is you want.
But your real work is to decide what you want
and then to focus upon it,
for it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it.
That is the process of creating."
I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you.
Regardless of what has happened to you in your life,
regardless of how young or how old you think you might be,
the moment you begin to think properly
this something that is within you,
this power within you that's greater than the world,
it will begin to emerge,
it will take over your life,
it will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you,
sustain your very existence
if you'll let it.
Now that is what I know
for sure.
I Am according to My subject’s opinion of Me; whether good or bad (Hadeeth: Tabarani, Abu Nu`aim and Ibn Majah) ******
The Prophet P. liked quoting these verses: Hope or what you desire and it will be for rarely was it said “it was” without it becoming a reality. ******
I disavow him, whoever allows sadness to overcome him. (Meaning of a Hadeeth) ******
God allows to dominate the son of Adam, only those whom he fears; and if the son of Adam fears none but God, God would not empower anyone over him. And the son of Adam is left to whoever he has faith in; and if he has faith but in God, God Will not Leave him to other than Him. (Hadeeth: Tirmizhi) ******
When a single disaster befalled you... you said: Why is this? Say: It is from yourselves (S3:A165) ******
Al Fudail said to Sufyan: Among God's possible reponses to his subject who obeys Him, is that if he says to this mountain "move", it will move. Upon which the mountain moved. Al Fudail said to it: Quiet down, I did not want to move you, I was only mentioning you as an example. (The "jist" is what's important, not whether it actually happened or not). ******
And when your Lord proclaimed: If you thank, I will give you more (S14:A7) ******
The Prophet's description in the Bible (quoted by a monk to Ali): His nation are the praising ones they praise God whether in good times or bad (Darimi and Ibn Asakir) ******
Pray God while certain of the (positive) response, and know that God Will not answer a prayer from an inattentive and playful heart. (Hadeeth: Tirmizhi and Haakim). ******
God answers you unless you hasten and say: I prayed but was not answered. (Hadeeth: Bukhari and Muslim). ******
God continues to answer the subject unless he prays for a vice or for breaking a blood tie, provided he does not hasten. They said: What is hastening? He said: To say "I prayed and I prayed but was not answered", so he gets weary and stops praying. (Hadeeth: Muslim, and Tirmizhi) ******
--- Effect of negative thoughts --- If you get sleepy while praying, leave (to your bed); for you may unconsciously pray against yourself. (Hadeeth. Malik, Bukhari, Muslim and others). We were warned against wishing death, or praying against oneself. (Several Hadeeths. Bukhari, Muslim, etc.) Do not pretend illness for it may then befall you, and do not dig your own graves for you may then die. (Hadeeth, extremely valuable although weak: Ibn Abi Hatim, and Al Daylami) ******
--- Optimism under all circumstances --- Sufyan Ibn U`yaynah said: Let not (the defects) you know about yourself prevent you from praying, for God answered the worst among creatures, Satan, when he said: Give me respite until the day they resurrect. (To which) He Said: You are of those given respite. (S7:A14-15) ******
--- Optimism under all circumstances --- Whatever of misfortune striketh you, it is what your right hands have earned. And He forgiveth much (S42:A30) * If God were to punish mankind according to what they deserve, He would not leave a living creature on the surface of the earth* (S35-A45) God Said: My Mercy is faster than my Wrath. (Hadeeth: Muslim) ******
--- Strength of certitude and resolve --- A bedouin said: ... but I followed you in order to be shot (with an arrow) here (and he pointed to his own throat) and die and enter paradise. The Prophet P. said: If you are truthful to God, He Will confirm your truthfulness. Later, an arrow hit him where he pointed, and the prophet P. said: He was truthful to God, and God confirmed his truthfulness. (Hadeeth: Hakim, Abdul Razzak, Tabarani) ******
--- Strength of certitude and resolve --- One Companion said in a siege: Put me on the catapult and throw me. He thus opened the castle's gate, and they talked to him about that issue, to which he answered: The Prophet P. mentioned to me that I will govern of Egypt; until now I did not govern it, and I will not die until I govern it. ******
The Prophet P. said: If your steed stumbles do not say “Woe to Satan” for he will grow boasting… but say “In the Name of God The Most Merciful the Most Compassionate” and he will dwindle down. (Hadeeth: Abu Dawood and Nasaa’i) ******
God Says: If I test my believer subject and he does not complain against me to his visitors, I will release him from my shackles (due to his ill actions so far) then I exchange his flesh with better flesh and his blood with better blood, then he resumes work. (Hadeeth: Hakim and Bayhaqi) ******
Be easy about this,
have fun with it.
There's nothing you're supposed to do,
only that what you want to do.
*We thank our Merciful Creator for bringing this about, and we send our special thanks, appreciation and best wishes to all those who made this movie. RAMOI.* ******