Why doesn’t Law of Attraction always work? How do I really do it? Why two versions of The Secret? | Andrea de Michaelis – Creating my own reality, one thought at a time

There’s still confusion over the 2 versions of The Secret DVD. I wrote in my Horizons Magazine blog post Why Does “The Secret” No Longer Contain The Secret? The Abraham-Hicks Back Story that the original version that contains Abraham-Hicks is the one with clear information on law of attraction, the least rhetoric and hyperbole. With new attention on James Ray and his connection to The Secret, I see a lot of comments and discussion online by people who have only seen the extended, revised version of the DVD, and not the original one with Esther Hicks. They still haven’t learned “The Secret” because the revised (they call it the EXTENDED version) DVD removed Abraham-Hicks, who were the only ones who actually explained law of attraction so it could be easily understood. The same with Rhonda Byrne’s book The Secret, which came later. The revised version is like being fed a beef soup minus the beef. It might be good, but you can’t call it beef soup if you leave out the cow.

Hear Esther Hicks on Oprah here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E1hZMZWJNY explaining in her own words

Of course you can’t think something into being on thought alone, there has to be the subjective element of desire, expectation and belief. You can’t fake those. You can desire it all you want. You can say your little affirmation all you want. Unless you believe it and expect it, you’re not going to see it. It’s as simple as that.

THE TECHNIQUE – MY EXPERIENCE
I find what works for me to attract something is simply focusing on what I like, focusing on what I want to happen, focusing on where I want to go. In a parachute, you look at where you land, you don’t look at the power lines, because where you look is where you’ll end up. And it’s that way in life.

If I look at things (the news, crime movies, economic pundits) that make me feel anxious about the state of the world, then I’ll feel anxious. When I feel anxious, my view of the world will be limited to only seeing things to worry about in every situation. My remedy is by beginning to change my focus to what there is around me that is good, right now. By looking for the opportunity in every stressful situation or disastrous event. Being in that habit goes a long way in keeping momentum going in focusing upon what I want to attract.

And that is what the original The Secret DVD clearly shows. But that’s not the version everyone has seen. So lots of folks who’ve seen the movie still don’t get it, so they can’t prove to themselves that it’s do-able. So they pay lots of dollars to go to a seminar to attract more dollars, given by a teacher who doesn’t really understand the material himself, although he promotes himself as an authority in the field.

As to the question of how did James Arthur Ray, one of The Secret teachers, attract this? In Steve Pavlina’s James Ray Interview in 2007, Ray stated: The results you have in the third dimension are a reflection of who you are in the spiritual realm. Read that again because it’s critical. So, he clearly knows how crucial it is to realize that the results we have in the real world – the third dimension – are a reflection of who we are in spiritual consciousness. Ray says the law of attraction” It guides and creates every single result I produce… For instance, there’s been a lot of teaching about visualizing in the last decade, so a lot of people have gotten pretty good at it. I can’t tell you how many people see me in The Secret and tell me “I’m sitting in my living room visualizing my new life every day.” Let me let you in on another secret… you sit around and visualize and they’ll come take your furniture away While this person may be able to think and feel their visualization in spades they’re not taking any action. It’s not going to happen.”

ANDREA: MY EXPERIENCE IS:
If you’re visualizing effectively, you get in the moment with the feeling and the vision at the same time, and from that place you will receive thoughts and ideas that propel you into action. If you are not receiving anything compelling enough to motivate you into action, you are simply not visualizing effectively, that’s all; you’ll get better as you practice. And action may be making a call, it may be opening a phone book, it may be cleaning your house, it may be taking your kid to the park or escorting your grandmother on a day of errands. But whatever it is, stay alert for clues.

AN ALTERNATE TECHNIQUE
Abraham-Hicks, the only effective teachers of law of attraction I know of, teaches that if you are unable to muster up a visual scene of something you desire, and are unable to at the same time generate within you a feeling of the successful having or doing or being of it, along with the feeling of expectation and belief that it is possible, you can try an alternate method. Try first focusing on another topic, something you love, something you are excited and hopeful about, something wonderful that is either happening now or has happened in the past. Hold those thoughts until you generate the feeling within you, and then redirect it to your topic, like a kick start. Spend just a few moments on the new topic, to get a foothold in the feeling place (while thinking the new thought) before moving on to something else. Don’t push it, don’t hurry it, just do that several times a day until it becomes easier to think the thought and feel the feeling. Get in, feel good, get out.

So, if you feel that because you’ve failed at creative visualization that you’re incapable of applying law of attraction to work in your favor, that’s not true. You just need to find an effective technique. If you don’t feel motivated, it’s simply because the ones who taught you how to visualize do not know how to teach the technique to you. That’s all. People all the time promise to teach you things they themselves cannot do. Don’t get caught up in blame, simply strive to learn an effective technique. The sincerity of your wanting will attract different people to you, and you’ll be attracted to different websites, someone may send you an email, something will attract your attention and give you some help.

And don’t forget it’s all related.

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