Three-Secrets for making The Secret Work for You
Everyone loves a secret; that’s one of the things that made the book and DVD, "The Secret," so popular. Everyone wants to know the "Secret." People naturally want things to be better; and they want to know how to do that. That’s why "How-to," and, "Self-Help" books are so popular. And if there’s a Secret that can do the trick for me, tell me the Secret!
Practical Prayer: Jessie’s Jeep
Several months after writing The Belief Formula, I was visiting with my parents and we were speaking about the power to create what we want with our thoughts or prayers. I was telling them that there are no limitations to what a person can create with their imagination; if a human can imagine a thing, it is a possibility. If a human continues to imagine a thing, it becomes a certainty.
I began to give examples of things we take for granted, but were thought up, imagined, and created by humans who believed in something that did not yet exist in the physical world. The airplane existed as a mere fantasy for a very long time before gaining enough mass to become a physical reality. Once people could see it, and therefore believe in the new technology, advances in aircraft technology literally skyrocketed – no pun intended. Belief is the attractive force which brings together the very real, physical mass of our new realities.
As we spoke, my niece, Jessica, came into the room and listened for a few minutes before asking, “So, you mean I could pray for a car and get it?”
Create Your Reality; Experience Self
Who creates your reality? Who defines who you are? Who decides, on a day-to-day basis, who you will "pretend" to be? A wife, a businessman, a school teacher, a homeless person? And where is this "person" who makes these decisions? And how are these things created, defined, and decided — including the various egos and labels we create for ourselves (our "pretend" selves — the part that is continuously changing)? I asked these kinds of questions — and many more — and was given a book to write. Where I had questions, I now have answers. Translating them, however, isn’t always easy; and living them is another story altogether.
The Z-Point Process: The One-Word Prayer You can use Anywhere!
Recently, in response to an article I had written on Forgiveness, I was contacted by a person who said, "Physiologically, the brain can’t forget; I’d like to forgive, but how can I forget what was done to a young child? How can I forget that trauma when I am alone at night in the dark…?" This person’s prayer was to forgive and forget the past; but they didn’t know how to release the thoughts that kept them stuck in the past.
The brain and body do indeed operate much like a computer — remembering and storing everything that happens to you. The brain seems to act like the central processor; while the rest of the body serves to store memories, input and output information, transmit electrical signals and commands, and execute, or perform, the programs sent by the brain. When everything is working smoothly, information is gathered, experienced, processed, assimilated, and released; but when we experience trauma, we can sometimes get stuck in a memory-loop that affects us much like a computer virus affects a computer — slowing it down, making some operations impossible, and shortening the life of the computer.
Change your Perception….Change your Reality
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, "Perception is reality." Perception, however, is only part of the picture. The greater part of REALITY lies beyond your perception and defies human definitions or explanations. Some ancient cultures speak of the ultimate reality — God — as that which cannot be spoken of or about. Thus, reality remains hidden and not only unknown, but unknowable. All we can really know — in a traditional sense — is that which isn’t hidden. All we can know are these passing, temporary, transient, illusory experiences that come out of "nowhere" and pass through our awareness on their way back into "nothingness."
Our path seems to be from "Nowhere to Now Here to Now There, which is where we started — Nowhere." Some cultures believe this is a continuous process and, like the tide, the seasons, day and night, and every other part of nature, we rise and fall — into and out of existence in this physical world. Cultures who believe in reincarnation believe that, like a spinning wheel, this cycle can be accelerated or slowed — we can add more energy, wisdom, etc, or we can lose energy and personal power — all through our own thought-inspired actions. In each part of the cycle, we are preparing for the next part; we are sowing seeds for the coming seasons. Who knows?
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The Belief Formula
