All language subtitles for The.Secret.2006

[dramatic spiritual music]

[Rhonda Byrne] 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.

[heart beating]

[exhales sharply]

I'd been given
a glimpse of a great secret.

[indistinct whispering]

I began tracing the Secret
back through history.

[whispering] History.

[choir chanting]

[chanting continues]

[music fades]

[echoing] Suppressed.

[music resumes]

[choir chanting]

I couldn't believe all
the people who knew this.

They were the greatest
people in history.

Why doesn't anyone know this?

All I wanted to do was share
the Secret with the world.

I began searching
for people alive today

who know the Secret.

One by one,
they began to emerge.

[music stops]

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 it is
that we choose--

I don't care how big it is.

What kind of a house
do you want to live in?

Do you want to be
a millionaire?

What kind of a business
do you want to 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 happened because

of knowing
how to apply the Secret.

[man] This is
the great secret of life.

[indistinct whispering]

You've probably been
sitting there wondering,

"What is the 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're all working
with one power, one law.

It's attraction.

[woman whispering] Attraction.

[indistinct whispering]

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 images
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 can 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

and I know that
a magnet will attract to it.

Very basically put,
the law of attraction says

that like attracts like,

but we're really talking
at a level of thought.

Our job as humans is
to hold onto the thoughts

of what we want,

make it absolute clear
in our minds what we want,

and from that,
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
going to hold it in here.

And that principle
can be summed up

in three simple words:

"Thoughts become things."

[John] What most people
don't understand

is a thought
has a frequency.

Every thought has a frequency.

We can measure a thought.

And so, if you're thinking
that thought over and over

and over again, or if
you're imagining in your mind,

"Okay, 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 it.

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.

So, if you're sitting there
looking at a mountain of debt,

feeling terrible about it,

that's the signal you're
putting out into the universe.

"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.

The law of attraction
is really obedient.

When you think of
the things that you want

and you focus on them
with all of your intentions,

the law of attraction will give
you what you want every time.

When you focus on the things
that you don't want...

-[horn honking]
-"I don't want to be late.

-I don't want to be late."
-[horn honks]

You really are calling
that into existence.

The law of attraction doesn't
hear that you don't want it,

and so it's gonna show up
over and over and over again.

The law of attraction
is not biased

to wants or "don't wants."

It manifests the things
that you're thinking.

The law of attraction
is always working,

whether you believe it
or understand it or not,

it's always working.

[Lisa] It's working
as much as you're thinking.

Anytime your thoughts
are flowing,

the law of attraction
is operational.

When you're thinking about the
past, present, or the future,

the law of
attraction is working.

It's an ongoing process.

You don't press "pause."
You don't press "stop."

It is forever in action,
as your thoughts are.

[rumbling]

[Michael] 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."

And so if you're complaining
about how bad it is,

what you're creating
is more of how bad it is.

Look, I cannot eat that!

[grunts]

I had a student named Robert.

Robert was a gay man,

and he was taking
an online course I have,

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.

-[squishes]
-[laughter]

And it was constantly stressful

because of how nasty
they were with him.

When he walked down the street,

he said 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 a stand-up comedy job,

everybody heckled him...

-Get off, you fag!
-[Bill] ...about being gay.

And his whole life was one of a
lot of unhappiness and misery,

and it all focused around
this idea of being attacked

because he was gay.

I began to teach him

that he was focusing on
what he did not want.

I directed him
back to his email

that he sent me and 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 it.

What happened within
the next six to eight weeks

was absolutely a miracle.

He said that all
the people in his office

that had been
harassing him

either transferred
to another department,

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.

[Robert]
I am a very, very gay man.

[Bill] When he went and did his
stand-up comedy routines,

he started getting
standing ovations

and nobody was heckling him.

[cheers and applause]

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.

So, we may be very positive in
our outlook and orientation,

and we tend
to attract positive people

and positive events
and circumstances.

We may be 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 predominant 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 intention

in our daily lives,
it's all around us.

All we got to do
is open our eyes and look.

[Lisa] You can see law
of attraction everywhere.

You draw everything to
yourself.

The people, the job,
the circumstances, the health,

the wealth, the debt, the joy,
the car that you drive,

the community
that you're in.

And you've drawn them all
to you, like a magnet.

What you think about,
you bring about.

Your life is a physical
manifestation of the thoughts

that go on in your head.

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
don't understand it,

that doesn't mean
you should reject it.

You don't understand
electricity, probably.

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.

People oftentimes,

when they begin
to understand the great Secret,

become frightened of all
of these negative thoughts

that they have.

Two things
they 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,

so that eliminates
a degree of worry right there.

And the second thing
is that, thank God,

there's a time delay,

that all of your thoughts
don't come true instantly.

We'd be in trouble if they did.

[elephant trumpeting]

The time delay serves you.

It allows you to reassess,
think about what you want,

and make a new choice.

[Joe] So, you want to become
aware of your thoughts,

you want to choose
your thoughts carefully,

and you want
to 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.

[Denis] The leaders in
the past 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
a law of gravity.

if you fall off a building,
it doesn't matter

whether you're
a good person or a bad person,

you're gonna hit the ground.

Everything that surrounds 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 know, 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.

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 autopilot,
our feelings are on autopilot,

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.

It's impossible to monitor
every thought we have.

Researchers tell us

that we have about
60,000 thoughts a day.

Can you imagine
how exhausted you'd feel

trying to control all
of those thoughts?

Fortunately,
there's an easier way.

And it's our feelings.

Our feelings let us know
what it is that we'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.

[Lisa] Think about it.

You have good feelings,
and you have bad feelings,

and you know
the difference between the two

because one makes you feel good

and the other makes
you feel bad.

It's the depression.
It's the guilt.

It's the resentment, the anger.
It's those feelings.

They don't
make you feel empowered.

Those are the bad feelings.

On another level,
it's called "bad frequency"

or "bad vibes" or whatever
you want to call it.

[Lisa] The flip side to that is
that you have good emotions,

good feelings.

And you know when they come

because they
make you feel good.

Excitement, joy,

gratitude, love.

Imagine if we can feel
that way every day.

When you celebrate
the good feelings,

more good feelings and things
that make you feel good.

[Bob] So, it's really
so simple. It's right there.

The answer, "What am I
attracting right now?"

"Well, 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.

[Marci] If you're feeling good,
then you're creating a future

that's on track
with what you're desiring.

If you're feeling bad,
you're creating a future

that's off track
with your desires.

As you go about your day,

the law of attraction
is working in every second.

Everything we think,

everything we're feeling
is creating our future.

If you're worried,
if you're in fear,

then that's bringing more
of that into your life

throughout the day.

♪

And you're getting exactly
what you're feeling about,

not so much
what you're thinking about.

[up-tempo music plays]

That's why people, if they
stub their toe out of bed,

they tend to spiral.

[reporter] On Tuesday,

the inquiry
into police corruption--

Ow!

Oh.

[Bob] 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 going
to 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 get poorer.

It's all about what these
people are predominantly

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.

It'll always be that way.
Guaranteed.

So, basically, what you focus
on with thought and feeling

is what you attract
into your experience,

whether or not
it's something you want.

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,

in order to keep bringing
you up higher and higher.

[Bob] When you're feeling down,

did you know that you
can change it like that?

Put on a beautiful
piece of music.

Start singing.

That'll change your emotion.

Or think of
something beautiful.

Think of a baby.

-[crying]
-Maybe one you love.

[coos]

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 are wonderful

because they put you in
a great emotional state.

When you feel love
for your pet,

that's a great state of love
that's going to bring goodness

into your life.

[laughter]

What a gift that is.

Once you begin to understand

and truly master your thoughts
and feelings,

that's when you see how
you create your own reality.

That's where your freedom is.

That's where all your power is.

That's when you see
how you can become

a deliberate
creator of your life.

And when you are a deliberate
creator of your life

and you use this
law of attraction,

you will have a life
that is beyond

what you can
possibly imagine right now.

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 dollar 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 safaris.

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.

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[woman vocalizing]

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.

I mean, Aladdin picks up the
lamp, and he dusts it off,

and out pops the genie.

[mysterious music]

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 trace the
story back to its origins,

there's absolutely no limit
whatsoever to the wishes.

Think about that one.

Now, let's take this metaphor
and blow it out

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, you know,
have called it

so many different things:
your 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.

[Lisa] There is
a creative process,

a three-step process, and it's
been around for 2,000 years.

The first step is to ask.

Make a command to the universe.

Let the universe know
what you want.

The universe
responds to your thoughts.

[rumbling]

What do you really want?

Sit down and write it out
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 you want
your life to be in every area.

And this is really fun.

This is like having the
universe as your catalog,

and you flip through it
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.

It's really that easy.

[Lisa] Step two is believe.

Believe
that it's already yours.

Have what I love to call,
"unwavering faith,"

believing in the unseen.

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
going to do it.

You don't need to know how
it's gonna come about.

You don't 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.

[Lisa] Most of the time,
when we don't see the things

that we've requested,
we get frustrated,

we get disappointed, and
we begin to become doubtful.

The doubt brings about
a feeling of disappointment.

Recognize that feeling
and replace it

with a feeling
of unwavering faith.

"I know like I know like I know
that it's on its way."

Step three and the final step
in the process is to receive.

Begin to feel
wonderful about it.

Feel the way you will
feel once it arrives.

Feel it now.

And in this process,
it's important to feel good,

to be happy because when
you're feeling good,

you're putting yourself
in the frequency

of what it is
that you're wanting.

This is a feeling universe.

So, if you just intellectually
believe something,

but you have no corresponding
feeling underneath that,

you don't necessarily
have enough power to manifest

what you want in your life.
You have to feel it.

♪

[triumphant music]

[woman vocalizing]

And when you turn that
fantasy into a fact,

you're in the position

to 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 manifest,

or you might
get some inspired idea

of some action to take.

But you certainly
shouldn't be going,

"Well, I could do it this way,

but, man, I would 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 the 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, a way will be made.

Think of this: a car
driving through the night.

The headlights only go
100 to 200 feet 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 feet.

And that's how life
tends to unfold before us.

And if we just trust that the
next 200 feet will unfold

after that and the next 200
feet 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 it.

[Joe] Well, another thing
people wonder about is,

"How long is this gonna take?"

How long will it take
to manifest the car,

the relationship, the money--

whatever it happens to be.

Well, I don't have any rulebook
that says it's gonna take you

30 minutes
or three days or 30 days.

I think it's more
a matter of you being

in alignment with
the universe itself.

Size is-- 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.

You provide the feelings
of having it now--

it will respond.

Some people have an easier time
with little things,

and so we sometimes say,
"Well, start with

something small,
like a cup of coffee.

Make it your intention 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 or another,
somebody's gonna start

talking to you
about that person.

That person's going
to phone you,

or you'll get
a letter from them.

People are amazed how I line up
car parks,

and I've done this right from

when I first
understood the Secret.

I would visualize a car
space exactly where I want it,

and 95% of the time,
it will be there for me,

and I just pull straight in.

Five percent of the time,
I have to wait just a minute

or two, and the person would
pull out, and I'd pull in.

So, I do that all that time.

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[vocalizing]

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.

[Lisa] When you want to change
the circumstances,

you must
first change your thinking.

Every time
you look inside your mail

expecting to see a bill,
guess what-- it'll be there.

Each day you
go out dreading the bill.

You're never
expecting anything great.

You're thinking about debt.
You're expecting debt.

So, debt must show up so
you won't think you're crazy.

And every day,
you confirm your thought.

"Is debt gonna be there?"
Yes, debt's there.

"Is debt gonna be there?"
Yes, debt's there.

Why? Because you expected
debt to be there,

so it showed up because
the law of attraction

is always being obedient
to your thoughts.

Do yourself a favor--

expect a check.

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 the ba-- in your bank
account, uh, 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.

Okay, 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.

Every man knows that, when his
wife's appreciating him

for the little things he does,
what does he want to do?

He wants to do more.

It's always about 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." Every
morning 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.

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." Whoa, back up. Back up.

Those are all the
things 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 was 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,
I put it in my pocket,

and I go through the
things that I'm 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 notice that--

he saw me drop it.

-He said, "What is that?"
-Whoa, what's that?

[Lee] I explained it to him,
so he started calling

-it a gratitude rock.
-[man] Gratitude rock.

[Lee] Two weeks later,
I got an e-mail from him,

from South Africa.

And he said, "My son is
dying from a rare disease.

It's a type of hepatitis.

He said, "Would you
send me three gratitude rocks?"

Now, they're 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 out
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.

He's doing terrific."

And he said, "But you need
to know something."

He says "We've sold
over a thousand rocks

at $10 apiece
as gratitude rocks,

and we've 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.

[Denis] I took
the visualization process

from the Apollo program
and instituted it

during the 1980s and '90s
into the Olympic program.

And it was called
"Visual motor rehearsal."

And the interesting thing
about the mind is,

we took Olympic athletes
and then hooked them up

to sophisticated
biofeedback equipment

and had them run their event
only in their mind.

[man]
Set...

Incredibly,
the same muscles fired

in the same sequence
when they were running the race

in their mind, as when they
were running it on the track.

How could this 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 result.

[upbeat music plays]

Here's an example.

Look at the back of
your hands right now.

Really look at the back
of your hands

the color 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.

[imitating engine rumbling]

♪

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.

[Jack] It's the feeling that
really creates the attraction,

not just the picture
or the thought,

and I think, for a lot of
people, they think,

"Well, if I think
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 feeling,
you know, loving

and joyful, then it doesn't,
from my mind,

really create the power
of the attraction.

This is where the Secret
actually moves into action.

You put yourself
in the 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 the now.

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

and you're going, "Whoo-hoo!"

Do it.

A lot of people will say,
you know, "Come on.

Do I have to do that?"
How bad do you want change?

[birds chirping]

[car alarm activates]

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.

[choir vocalizing]

[Jack] Our job is not to
figure out the how.

The how will show up
out of the commitment

and the belief in 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 turn it over to the
universe, you will be surprised

and dazzled
by what is delivered to you.

This is where magic
and miracles happen.

Well, I would say you want
to 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 want to feel exhilarated by
this whole process.

You want to be high, happy,

in tune as much as possible.

The only difference between
people who live in this way,

who live in the magic of life,
and those who don't

is that the people who
live in the magic of life

have habituated ways of being.

They've made a habit of using

the law of attraction,
and magic happens with them

wherever they go...

because they remember
to use it.

They use it all the time,

not just 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 program,
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,"
and it goes down.

You know,
knowing the law of attraction,

I wanted to really put
it to use and to see if it

was, you know,
what would happen.

And in 1995,
I started to create

something
called a vision board,

where I'd 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 my dreams,

and I put a picture of what I
wanted 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 would really get into
the state

of having already acquired it.

And I was
getting ready to move.

And so, we put all
the furniture, all the boxes,

put it into storage. And I made
three different moves

over a period of five years.

And then 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,
about 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 Keenan was
sitting on the box,

banging away at the box.

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.

It's something that I
want to achieve in my life."

And of course,
at 5 1/2 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 a picture
on there of a home that I was

visualizing five years earlier,
and what was 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.

I started to cry because
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've
worked with my whole life--

the way I've 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 can have it,

believe you deserve it, and
believe it's possible for you.

And then close your eyes every
day for several minutes

and visualize having
what you already want

and feeling the feelings
of already having it.

Come out of that
and focus on

what you're grateful
for already.

And really be-- enjoy it, okay?

And then go into your day and
release it to the universe,

and trust that the universe
will figure out

how to manifest it.

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[woman vocalizing]

You know,
the Secret was definitely

a real transformation for me,
'cause I grew up in a family

where my dad was very negative,
thought that rich people were

people that had ripped everyone
off, thought that anyone

who had money, you know,
must have deceived somebody.

And so I grew up with a lot
of beliefs about money that,

if you had it, it made you bad,
only evil people have money.

And you know,
money doesn't grow on trees--

that was a big one.

"Who do you think I am--
Rockefeller?"

That was one of his
favorite phrases.

So, I grew up truly believing
that life was difficult,

that it was hard,
you had 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 taught 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 was really measurable.

So, I said, "I want to
make $100,000 in a year."

Now, I had no idea
how I could 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 taught me was, every day,

to close your eyes
and visualize the goal

as if it's already achieved.

And I had actually made
a $100,000 bill

that I put on the ceiling.

So, the first thing I'd see
when I woke up-- I'd look up,

and there it was,
and it would remind me

this was my intention.

And then,
I would close my eyes

and visualize having this
$100,000-a-year lifestyle.

And interestingly enough,

nothing major happened
for about 30 days.

You know, I didn't have
any great breakthrough ideas,

no one was
offering me more money.

And all of a sudden,
I was in the shower.

It was about
four weeks into it.

And I had a $100,000 idea.

It just came-- shoo --
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'd be $100,000."

Now, the book was there,
but I 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 had seen
that millions of times,

and it was just background.

And all of a sudden, it jumped
out at me as foreground.

And I thought, "Wow,
if readers knew about my book,

certainly 400,000 people
would go out and buy it."

And about six weeks later,
I gave a 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.

[ding]

You know,
and I had this little theme

from The Twilight Zone
went off in my head.

♪ Na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na ♪

Like, "Whoa, this stuff's
really working."

So, that article came out,

and our book sales
started to take off.

But the point I want to 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,
"Whoa, this is amazing!"

And so, my wife said to me,
"Wow, if it works for $100,000,

do you think it'd 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 royalty check--

for our first Chicken Soup
For the Soulbook.

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.

It absolutely worked.

And now I live my life
from that, 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
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 catalog 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 program

and then start to
focus on prosperity.

So many times,
people say to me,

"Well, I'd like to double
my income in the next year."

But then you look at their
actions, and they're not doing

the things that are
going to make that happen,

and, you know, they'll turn
right around and go, "Well,

I can't afford that."
Okay, guess what--

"Your wish is my command."

[Lisa] When you focus
on lack and scarcity

and what you don't have, you
fuss about it with your family.

You discuss
it with your friends.

You tell your children
that you don't have enough,

"We don't
have enough for that.

We can't afford that."
Well, guess what--

you'll never be able to afford
it because you begin

to attract more
of what you don't have.

If you want abundance,
if you want prosperity,

then focus on abundance.

Focus on prosperity.

When I first understood the
Secret, I was getting bills.

Every day I would get-- I'd 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 will 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 wanted to see in the bank.

So, I thought,
"What if I just visualize

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 than 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,

"Oh, you liar. It's hard."

So, you have to know
it's 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 when people
are listening, they say,

"Oh, you can do it--
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.

[chuckles] 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.

[Marci] Many people
in western culture

are striving for success.

They want the home.

They want their own business.

They want
all these outer things.

But what we found in our
research is that having these

outer things does not
necessarily guarantee

what we really want,
which is happiness.

So, we go for these outer
things, thinking they're gonna

bring us happiness,
but it's backwards.

You need to go for
the inner joy, the inner peace,

the inner vision first,

and then all of the outer
things appear.

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[woman vocalizing]

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 an 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
"Oh, I don't look at you.

I don't see you," you know?

And I said, "I think you
have trouble in your romance."

Are you a clairvoyant
or something?

No, but look.

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, he's this
gorgeous-looking man.

He has all these
actresses around him

because
that's the work he does.

He doesn't get romance.

I said, "What do you want?"

Well, I want to date
three women a week.

Okay, paint yourself
with three women,

and hang it in every corner.

[classical French music]

Six months later,
I see him in Europe.

I said,
"How is your love life?"

Great. They just call me.

-They all want to 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 want to
stabilize a little bit.

I want marriage,
and I want romance.

Well, paint it, okay?

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 not your partner,
but to understand yourself.

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 got to get really,
really clear.

Here's the question I would 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 give me more." Instead,
give more to yourself.

Take time off to give
to yourself, in a sense,

to fill
yourself up to fullness,

to where now you can
overflow in giving.

I got into many relationships
expecting my partner to show me

my beauty because I
didn't see my own beauty.

See, when I was growing up,
my heroes, or my "Sheroes"

were the Bionic Woman,

Wonder Woman,

or Charlie's Angels.

And while they're wonderful,

they didn't look like me.

It wasn't until I fell in
love with Lisa-- my mocha skin,

my full lips, my round hips,
my curly hair-- it wasn't until

that moment that I fell
in love with me that the rest

of the world was able to
fall in love with me, as well.

There's something so
magnificent about you.

I have been
studying me for 44 years.

Mwah! I
want to 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.

And as you love yourself,
you'll love others.

[Marci] In relationships,
we're so used to complaining

about other people--

"My co-workers are so difficult
to work with."

"My husband makes me so mad."

"My children are so lazy."

It's always focusing
on the other person.

For relationships to
really work, we need to focus

on what we appreciate
about the other person,

not what
we're complaining about.

When we're complaining
about those things,

we're only getting
more of those things.

Even if you're having
a really hard time

in a relationship--
things aren't working.

You're not getting along.
Someone's in your face.

[distorted shouting]

[Marci] You still can turn
that relationship around.

Take a piece of paper,
and for the next 30 days,

once a day, sit down
and write all the things

that you appreciate
about that person.

Think about all the
reasons that you love them.

You appreciate
their sense of humor.

You appreciate how
supportive they are.

And what you'll find is that
when you focus on appreciating

and acknowledging their
strengths, that's what you'll

get more of, and the
problems will fade away.

[dog barking in distance]

We cannot control other people,
no matter how hard we try.

So, what you'll find is,

if somebody's come home
in a bad mood...

[man sighs]

[Marci] And you're actually
in a good mood,

you'll find yourself in
a different place from them

in that moment.

We create our own happiness
through the law of attraction.

Oftentimes, you give
others the opportunity

to create your happiness.

And many times, they fail to
create it the way you want it.

Why?

Because only one person

can be in charge of your joy,

of your bliss, and that's you.

So, even as a parent,
as a child,

as a spouse-- even the
people closest to you--

they do not have the control
to create your happiness.

Your joy lies within you.

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[woman vocalizing]

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 a placebo effect.

A placebo is something that

supposedly has no impact and no

effect on the body,
like a sugar pill

or something.

You tell the patient that this

is just as effective,

and what happens
is the placebo has

the same effect,
if not greater effect,

than sometimes
the medication that's supposed

to be designed for that effect.

So, they found
out that the human

mind is the biggest factor
in the healing arts,

uh, more so than sometimes
the medication.

If somebody is in a situation

where 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 a wise thing to do,

while they explore
what the mind is about.

So, you don't want
to negate medicine.

Every form of healing
has a place.

[Lisa]
The universe is a masterpiece

of abundance, good health,
and well-being.

When you open yourself up to
feel the abundance

of the universe,
you'll experience

the wonder, the joy, the bliss.

You'll experience all the great

things that the universe
has for you--

good health,
good wealth,

good nature.

When you shut yourself off
with negative thoughts,

you'll feel the discomfort.

You'll feel the aches.

You'll feel the pain.

You'll feel as if every day
is painful to get through.

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 disease out there.

They're just the weak link.

They're all the result
of one thing-- stress.

And 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's
signs and symptoms

are not something terrible.

The question that's
frequently asked is,

when a person
has, uh, manifested a disease

in their body temple or some
kind of discomfort

in their life, th-- through
the power of right thinking,

can it be turned around?

And the answer
is absolutely yes.

On November 23rd, I was
diagnosed with 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 we would do,
is just laugh, laugh, laugh.

We couldn't afford to put any
stress in my life,

because we knew stress
was one of the worst

things you can do while you're
trying to heal yourself.

From the time I was diagnosed,

which was November 23rd,

to the time I was healed,
totally,

was approximately three months.

And that's without radiation
and chemotherapy.

Well, we come
with a basic program.

It's called "self-healing."

You get a wound,
it grows back together.

You get a bacterial infection,
the immune system comes

and takes care of those
bacteria and heals it up.

Uh, the immune system
is made to heal itself.

Dis-ease 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.

See yourself living in
a perfectly healthy body.

Let the doctor look after
the dis-ease.

[Lisa] You have two people,
both stricken with something,

but one chooses
to focus on joy.

They choose to live
in possibility.

They choose to live in
hopefulness.

They focus on all the reasons
why they should be joyful

and grateful.

Then you have
the second person.

Same diagnosis, but they choose
to focus on the dis-ease.

They focus on the pain.

They focus on the "woe is me."

When a person is completely
focused on what's wrong

and their symptoms,
they will perpetuate it.

The healing will not occur
until they shift

their attention from being sick
to being well,

'cause that's the law
of attraction.

Happier thoughts lead
to essentially a happier

biochemistry--
a happier, healthier body.

Um, 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,

re-creating our body.

Remove physiological stress
from the body,

and the body does what it was
designed to do--

it heals itself.

I've seen, uh, kidneys
regenerated.

I've seen, uh, uh,
cancer dissolved.

I've seen, uh, eyesight improve
and come back.

I always say that "incurable"
means "curable from within."

You can change your life,
and you can heal yourself.

♪

[plane rumbling]

[Morris] Well, my story begins
on March the 10, 1981.

It really changed
my whole life.

It was a day I'll never forget.

I crashed an airplane.

[dramatic music]

[panting]

I ended up in the hospital
completely paralyzed.

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 breathe.

All I could do was blink
my eyes.

The doctors, of course, said
all my life I'd be a vegetable.

All I'd do is blink my eyes
the rest of my life.

That's the picture
they saw of me,

but it didn't matter
what they thought.

The main 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

'cause my diaphragm
was destroyed.

But this little voice kept
saying to me, "Breathe deep.

-Breathe deep."
-[gasping]

[rapid beeping]

[beeping slows]

Finally, I was weaned 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.

[emotional music]

Well, I'd set the goal to walk
out of the hospital

on Christmas.
That was my goal.

♪

[grunting]

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-- For people that are
sitting out there right now

watching this program
that are hurting,

if I wanted to sum
up my life and sum up,

uh, for people
what they can do in life,

I would sum it up this way
in six words--

"Man becomes
what he thinks about."

[eerie, indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[woman vocalizing]

People have a tendency to
look at the things

that they want and say,
"Yes, I like that.

I want that." However,
they look at the things

that they don't want, and they
give just as much energy,

if not more energy,
with the idea

that they can stamp it out.

They can eliminate it,
obliterate it.

In our society, we've become
content with fighting

against cancer,

fighting against poverty,

fighting against drugs,
fighting against terrorism,

fighting against violence.

We tend to fight everything
we don't want.

Anything we focus on,
we do create.

So, if we're really angry,
for instance, at a war

that's going on or strife
or suffering,

we're adding our energy to it.

We're pushing ourselves.

And all that only creates
resistance.

[choir vocalizing]

The reason that what you
resist persists is because,

you're resisting something,

you're saying, "No, I don't
want this thing because

it makes me feel this way,
the way I'm feeling right now."

So, you're just putting out
this really strong emotion of,

"Wow, I really don't like this
feeling," and it's there,

and it just comes racing
towards you.

You know, the antiwar
movement creates more war.

The anti-drug movement has
actually created more drugs,

because we're focusing on what
we don't want-- drugs.

How much sense does it make

for us to give the problem
all of the energy,

as opposed to focusing
on trust, love,

living in abundance,
education, peace?

Mother Teresa was brilliant.

She said, "I will never attend
an antiwar 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 antiwar,
be pro-peace.

If you're anti-hunger,
be pro people having more

than enough to eat.

If you're anti a particular
politician,

be pro his opponent.

Often, elections are tipped
in the favor of the person

that people are really against,
because he's getting all

the energy and all the focus.

You want to focus
on what you want,

not what you don't want.

It's okay to notice what you
don't want, because that gives

you contrast to say, "Well,
this is what I dowant."

But the fact is that the more
you talk about what you don't

want or talk about how bad
it is, read about all of that

all the time and then say,
"Oh, how terrible it is,"

well, you're creating
more of that.

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.

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.

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.

[Lisa] It's not your job
to change the world

or the people
around you.

It's your job to go with
the flow inside of the universe

and to celebrate it inside
the world that exists.

One of the questions I get
almost all the time,

and it's 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 catalog,

aren't we gonna run
out of stuff?

Won't everybody just make a run
for it and bust the bank?"

What's beautiful about the
teaching of the great Secret

is that there's more
than enough

to go around for everyone.

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.

[helicopter whirring]

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.

[inspirational music]

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 the-- 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-- 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.

[Lisa]
Everything that you want--

all the bliss, all the joy,
all the love,

all of the abundance,
all of the prosperity--

it's there,
ready and waiting for you

to grab a hold of.

Now, you got
to get hungry for it.

You have to want it.

You got to be intentional.

And when you become intentional

and on fire for what you want,

the universe will deliver you
every single thing

that you've been wanting.

Recognize the beautiful

and wonderful things around you

and bless and praise them.

And on the other side,
the things that aren't

currently working the way
you want them to work,

don't spend your energy
faulting or complaining.

Embrace everything that you
want so you can get more of it.

[Denis] 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.

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

[woman vocalizing]

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 would 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's 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's cells.

And then there's molecules,
and then there's atoms,

and then there is energy.

So, there are a lot of levels
to talk about something on,

but...

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.

Most people define themselves
by this finite body,

but you're not a finite body.

I mean, even--
even under a microscope,

you're an energy field.

What we know about energy
is this: you go to a quantum

physicist and you say,
"What creates the-- the world?"

And he or she will say,
"Energy."

"Well, describe energy."

"Okay, it can never be created
or destroyed.

It's al-- always was,
always has been.

Ever-- Everything that ever
existed always exists.

It's moving into form, through
form, and out of form."

"Okay, great."

You go to a theologian
and you ask the question,

"What created the universe?"

And he or she will say, "God."
"Okay, describe God."

"Always was
and always has been,

never can be created or
destroyed, all that ever was,

always will be, always moving
into form, through form,

and out of form." You see,
it's the same description,

just different
terminology.

And so, if you think you're
this meat suit running around,

think again.

You're a spiritual being.

You're an energy field
operating

in a larger energy field.

[John] We're all connected.
We just don't see it.

There isn't an "out there"
and an "in here."

Everything in the universe
is connected.

It's just one energy field.

[Lisa] We often get distracted
with this thing called our body

and our physical being.

That just holds your spirit,

and your spirit is so big,
it fills a room.

You are eternal light.

You're source energy.

You are God manifested in
human form, made to perfection.

Scripturally, we could say
that we are the image

and the likeness of God.

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 possibility.

All of that would be true.

[James] Every great tradition
has told you that you were

created in the image
and the likeness

of the creative source.

That means that you have God
potential

and power to create your world,
and you are. You are.

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 your life--
are they what you really want,

and are they worthy of you?

If they're not worthy of you,

then when would now be the
right time to change those?

Because you have
the power to do that.

[Jack] You know,
a lot of people

feel like they're victims
in life, and they'll often

point to past events,
perhaps growing up

with an abusive parent or
in a dysfunctional family.

And I would
add as a parenthesis

here that most psychologists
believe that about 85%

of 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 divorced him
when I was six.

From the age of 13 to 18,
I was involved in street gangs.

I had a-- a--
a severe motorcycle accident.

I was homeless at one point
in, uh, 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.

I mean, that's almost
everybody's story in some

form or another.

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.

[woman vocalizing]

[Lisa] You are the designer
of your destiny.

You are the author.

You write the story.

The pen is in your hand,

and the outcome
is whatever you choose.

[Michael] 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.

And you can break yourself

free from your hereditary
patterns, cultural codes,

social beliefs,
and prove once and for all

that the power within you
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."

"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.

[Michael]
Are there any limits to this?

Absolutely not.

We are unlimited beings.

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.

[woman vocalizing]

[indistinct whispering]

[heart beating]

There is no blackboard
in the sky on which God

has written your purpose,
your mission in life.

There's no-- There's no
blackboard in the sky

that says,
"Neale Donald Walsch...

a handsome guy....

who lived in the first part
of the 21st century, who:"

Then there's a blank, you know,
and-- and all I have to do i--

i-- to really understand
what I'm doing here,

why I'm here, is to find
that blackboard and find out

what God really
has in mind for me.

But the blackboard
doesn't exist.

So, your purpose is what you
say it is.

Your mission is the mission you
give yourself.

Your life will be what you
create it as,

and no one will stand in
judgment of it, now or ever.

It took a lot of years for me
to get this,

'cause I grew up very much
with this idea that,

you know, there was something
I was supposed to do,

and if I wasn't doing it,
I was like,

"God wouldn't be happy
with me," you know?"

When I really got that my
primary aim was to feel

and experience joy,
then I began to do only those

things which brought me joy.

We have a fu-- a-- a saying,
you know, "If-- If it ain't

fun, don't do it," you know?

Joy, love, freedom,

happiness, laughter--
that's what it is.

And if-- Boy, if you just
experience joy sitting there

and meditating for an hour,
by golly, do that.

If you experience joy eating a
salami sandwich, then do that.

[Jack] When I pet my cat,
I'm in a state of joy.

When I walk in nature,
I'm in a state of joy.

So, I want to constantly put
myself in that state.

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 want to 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.

[Lisa]
When you follow your bliss,

you live in a constant space
of joy.

You open yourself up to
the abundance of the universe.

You're excited to share
your life with those you love.

And your excitement,
your passion, your bliss,

it becomes contagious.

And that's what I'm doing
almost all the time,

is I'm following my excitement,
I'm following my passion,

I'm following my enthusiasm,
and I'm doing it throughout

-Joe's day.
-Enjoy life with us,

because life is phenomenal.

It's a magnificent trip.

[Marie] You will live
in a different reality,

a different life.

And 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.

[Morris] And then you can do
and have and be things

that people would say,
"That'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-- 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.

One hundred percent
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 program.

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.

[Lisa] You've come to this
juncture in your life merely

because something
in you kept saying,

"You deserve to be happy."

You were born to add something,
to add value to this world,

to simply be the best that
you can be.

[rousing music]

Every single thing you've been
through, every single moment

that you've come through,
were to all prepare you

for this moment right now.

Now you get that you are
the creator of your destiny.

Imagine what you can do
from this day forward

with what you now know.

What will you do
with the moment?

How will you seize the moment?

No one else can dance
your dance.

No one else can sing your song.

No one else can write
your story.

Who you are, what you do,
begins right now.

[Michael]
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 began to think
properly, there's something

that is within you,

there's 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 let it.

Now, that is
what I know for sure.

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[birds chirping]

[woman humming]

[woman vocalizing]

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