I'm going through the entire playlist right now. Powerfull stuff, review to follow...

Ok...I wouldn't count on The Secret for curing my cancer (if I had it), but positive thinking definitely works wonders. There's a book out and people are jumping on the bandwagon. This type of thought process can be beneficial...My parents taught me this theory a long time ago. Professionally I've taught classes on Emotional Intelligence, alot of this stuff really holds true: You are only as good as you think you are, create positive energy, avoid the negative. Visualize success to make it happen...

I see many upvotes.

then you'd see wrong. Rational people know that it isn't the wishing hard that makes things happen, it's the actions that you take,conscious or no, because of the wishing. It's a simple matter of self-hypnotism. If you constantly block out all other thoughts but the thing you want, your brain eventually decides that either it must get this thing or be stuck in a single minded hell.

The 'attraction' part of this is that if you are in single minded hell, your brain filters out non-relevant stuff making it appear that you are attracting what you want when you're just ignoring everything else. Can be a good thing, for focus etc, but it makes you a bastard to anything else vying for your attention.

As far as curing yourself physically with thoughts, people have been trying that for ages and it's never worked any better than chance. Ever. The best you can do is brainwash yourself into thinking certain aspects are not there, like pain etc, which may have some benefits I guess.

It's all just mind tricks though. The same tricks that can be enhanced by drugs, heavy meditation and other mind-alterations. Suckering your brain to satisfy your selfish desires.

I simply detest this woman, her video and her goddamn book.

Nothing what she says is a secret, it's common sense that has existed for eons. If it was called "Positive Thinking For the Win" no one would have bought the book, but it's called the Secret and sold off as being some ancient texts and rubbish like that becuase it's the same rehashed story you can find in Self-Help texts dating back to the 19th century.

It's just so vapidly stupid... Her entire case is that if you think about it hard enough it will happen? Oh yeah? Tell that to the people in Darfur or Iraq am sure they can just wish all the death and violence away.

Oh I found something that does a much better job...

Karin Klein, editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, called The Secret "just a new spin on the very old (and decidedly not secret) The Power of Positive Thinking [book by Norman Vincent Peale (1952)] wedded to 'ask and you shall receive'." The editorial, in one of its strongest criticisms, asserted Rhonda Byrne "took the well-worn ideas of some self-help gurus, customized them for the profoundly lazy, [and] gave them a veneer of mysticism..."

Journalist Jeffrey Ressner, reporting in Time, writes that some critics are concerned with the film’s attitude toward "using ancient wisdom to acquire material goods." In one example in the film, "a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler."

Jerry Adler of Newsweek notes that despite the film's allusions to conspiratorially suppressed ancient wisdom, the notions presented by the motivational speakers who make up the film's cast have been commonplace for decades. Adler notes that the film is ethically "deplorable," fixating on "a narrow range of middle-class concerns — houses, cars, vacations, followed by health and relationships, with the rest of humanity a very distant sixth." Noting that the scientific foundations of the movie are clearly dubious, the Newsweek article quotes psychologist John Norcross, characterizing it as "pseudoscientific, psychospiritual babble."

Tony Riazzi, columnist for the Dayton Daily News, also questions the merits of The Secret, calling Byrne's background as a reality TV producer a "red flag." He also said that "The Secret's" ideas are nothing more than "common sense. Take out the buzzwords and pseudo religious nonsense about what you 'manifest' for yourself, ignore the vague prose and you get the message that thinking positively serves you better than thinking negatively."

lol it has to be sead though this comunicates the idea of posative thinking to retards.
what i wonder is that i am in a socity where more people are thinking posative will i have to out think the other people? if you think one of the eliments of this that would work is if you are generaly a posative person then you are more likly to be able to convince other people of your belife evan if its a compleat lie sutch as religoin. but surely if everyone around u was just as posative as you then this wouldnot work becuse on avrage u rnt realy been posative.

Metaphysician? Does that mean he cures dead people?
as in, metaphysically-challenged = dead

And if I apply the "Secret", can I make things float just above my head too? Now, THAT would be cool.

Anyway, I don't think it works. I've been "thinking" about Carmen Electra for years now and I'm pretty sure she still doesn't even know my name.


BTW, didn't intend to pile on, mlx. :-)

No problem, fletch, I've been at the bottom of a pile before.

Perhaps you didn't see the Winky after "I see many votes." It was a joke. As for the methods used in this film, I agree they are panhandling to New Ageism through historical mysticism with nothing more but a new spin on Peale's book, but hey...it certainly worked for Byrne's dreams of success, hmmm?

I certainly don't believe that you can think yourself into health or success the way this film describes. I do however, think that you can have a powerful affect on your life with positive thoughts. My mother woke every day as if she had a chance to make it good, and it was. I definitely think that you can attract negativism if you constantly complain, and that negativism is a huge stressor on the human psyche. I avoid negativism (and sometimes even controversy) at almost all costs: I just don't waste my time dwelling on the negative aspects of every day situations or events. I certainly don't take all this as far as The Secret people do, I just know that I can control a very large part of my psyche, even my life, by harnassing positive energy. Generally I just choose to be happy and make it good. And for the most part...it works.

"Perhaps you didn't see the Winky after "I see many votes.""

Oh, I saw it, and I took it as such. What concerns me is that I DON'T see a Winky after "I've been at the bottom of a pile before". Things that make you go "hmmmm".

Second paragragh... wooooosh!

Third paragraph... absolutely agree, although I don't always remember to think positively when things are kind of sucky. I try, but it's definitely easier when it's easy.

The secret is as follows:

1. Come up with positive sounding self help idea
2. Create a fake conspiracy story.
3. Cheesy self help book
4. Make cheesy movie to make more money off the rubes.
5. Make an endless stream of follow on books and videos....
6. Profit!

The vote is against the secret nothing against you mlx....

That's not thinking very positively, Mr. bl968! I'd say it sounds rather negative and indifferent! Let's turn that frown upside-down, Mr. SassyPants!

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