by Rhonda Byrne
The More You Give, the More You Receive
Giving opens up the door to receiving.
Give kind words. Give a smile. Give appreciation and love.
There are so many opportunities for you to give and thereby open the door to receiving.
– The Secret Daily Teachings
THE GIFT
I began reading The Secret in the airport the night I was returning home from a business trip. On the plane, I’d reached the section where readers are urged to imagine themselves driving the car of their dreams. I tried to envision the steering wheel with the emblem of the Jaguar, but a Porsche emblem kept appearing in my mind. Finally, I realized that the car I kept visualizing was the Porsche my husband always dreamed of owning.
I created it in my mind clearly: its color both inside and out; its perfectly preserved exterior and interior; its highly maintained mechanics. I knew that the car we could afford was a 1997 model. At the time that would have made it ten years old. I also knew that most cars with so many years under their seat belts would be more than showing their age. Yet I continued to envision this decade-old car as if it were brand-new, straight down to the mileage.
As I was envisioning all this, I found myself thinking of something I wanted much more – a renewed relationship with my son-in-law, Brandon. Tension and distance had come between us as my daughter’s dream wedding turned into a very rocky marriage. As a result, he and I had barely spoken in more than five months.
I told myself that I wanted an opportunity to meet with him alone, not to discuss their marriage but simply to listen and let him know I cared for him very much and believed in his ability to succeed.
As the plane landed, I was so excited about what I’d read in The Secret that I couldn’t wait to share it with my husband.
The next morning, I took my daughter and nephew out to breakfast. In the restaurant, my daughter got a call on her cell phone, and looking very surprised, she handed me the phone and said, “It’s Brandon. He wants to talk to you.”
Brandon, who a month before had taken a sales position with a local car dealer, told me he remembered that Ted, my husband, once said he’d love to have a Porsche Boxster. Then he excitedly began to describe this very unusual car that had arrived on his lot just that morning. There had been only one previous owner, who’d been very meticulous and driven it no more than a couple of blocks a day for the last ten years. Brandon used the term showroom perfect as he described this car that was just as I’d created it in my mind the night before. Needless to say, I told him not to let anyone near it, and I’d be right there.
When I arrived, it was truly the car – the color, showroom perfect, with fewer than 5,000 miles on it! I told him that I’d have to show it to Ted, who I was sure would be delighted, and Brandon said he was sure that would not be a problem as he asked for my driver’s license and went to get the keys.
When he returned, he reported that his manager had only one stipulation: Brandon would have to accompany me on the two-and-a-half-hour trip to and from my husband’s restaurant.
I was truly amazed: Both my requests had been manifested in less than twenty-four hours. My husband was receiving the car of his dreams, and on that drive to the restaurant, Brandon and I were healing a relationship that was very important to both of us.
Since that night on the airplane, I have given copies of the book to our dearest friends; we are filling our Gratitude Journals daily, and Brandon has the audio in his car as I write.
– Durelle P., Dallas, Texas, USA
Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. Gratitude attracts more gratitude. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.
– The Secret Daily Teachings
Keys to Relationships
You can change any so-called negative relationship by changing the way you see that person.
Look for the things you love and appreciate about the other person, and the relationship will change.
As with everything in life, when it comes to relationships, you need to believe you already have what you want in order to receive it.
When trying to attract or restore a relationship, make sure your actions reflect what you expect to receive.
To attract the perfect partner into your life, envision every detail of what that person is like and write it all down.
What you are feeling for another, you are bringing to you.
Feeling love can single-handedly transform the relationships in your life.
Love everything you can. Love everyone you can. Focus only on things you love.
The more you give, the more you’ll receive in your relationships and in your life.
The law of attraction is a powerful tool to summon the healing power within us, and can be used as an aid in total harmony with all of the wonderful medical procedures that are available today.
– The Secret Daily Teachings
How I Used The Secret for Health
I know that nothing is incurable. At some point in time, every so-called incurable disease has been cured. In my mind and in the world I create, “incurable” does not exist. Since the film The Secret was released, we have been inundated with miracle stories of all types of diseases dissolving from people’s bodies after they put The Secret into practice. All things are possible when you believe.
Change Your Mind, Change Your Health
DOCTORS SAY IT’S A MIRACLE
At twenty-four I was diagnosed with a mysterious, life-threatening heart condition. In fact, I was told that the chances of having this condition were one in a million. I was put on a couple of medications and had a defibrillator implanted in my chest. The thought of death was my daily companion.
Five years later, after a divorce and two failed heart surgeries, I began searching for answers. After watching The Secret and putting it into practice, I began a spiritual journey of discovery to figure out why I had this heart condition. It took a couple of years, but finally, I gained a new appreciation of life and no longer felt the need to harbor this condition. I decided to let it go.
I would tell myself, One day you are going to wake up and discover that you do not need your meds anymore. About six months later, I awoke one morning and threw on my tennis shoes to go to the farmers’ market. I was almost there when I realized I had forgotten to take my heart meds. A voice in my head said clearly, “Today is the day! You don’t need to take them anymore.”
I have not taken any medication since then, and I had the defibrillator removed six months ago.
Initially, the doctors hesitated to remove the device because there was no medical proof of how the condition was reversed, but neither could they find any proof that the condition still existed. They said it was a miracle and that there were no other documented cases of anything like this ever happening.
– Knight A., Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Naturally, any decision to discontinue prescribed medication or treatment should be made in consultation with a medical professional. But what this person and her doctors were able to achieve together demonstrates the power of the law of attraction when used in conjunction with traditional medicine.
Beliefs are simply repeated thoughts with strong feelings attached to them. A belief is when you have made up your mind, the verdict is in, you’ve nailed the door shut and thrown away the key, and there is no room for negotiation.
If you’ve developed negative beliefs about your health, go back to the negotiation table. It’s never too late to change your mind, which is essential if you want to change your health.
MY MIRACLE HEART
I received a call from a stranger about my inheritance. That’s how I found out about my father’s sudden death. He was fifty-three, and he died of an aortic aneurism from a rare genetic disease called Marfan syndrome. I went to the chief of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills and found out that I had Marfan syndrome too.
Marfan syndrome is a genetic condition fo
r which there is no cure; it often results in death from an aortic aneurism. It can strike people early in life, usually in their twenties. I was twenty-eight.
I was devastated. I had a first-degree heart block and a heart murmur. I would need a pacemaker as the heart block progressed to the second degree, but the real concern was my aortic valve and the possibility of a rupture. I wouldn’t be able to have children. I had always been extremely athletic in competitive sports, from volleyball to swim teams to college tennis. I was completely into nutrition and fitness. After the news, I was truly terrified. Where I used to view myself as strong and positive, I now saw myself as weak and fragile, with what I was told was a “ticking time bomb” in my chest. While I tried to stay my usual positive self, in the back of my mind I was always aware of the imminent danger and my inescapable mortality.
I lived with this fear, getting checked by my cardiologist twice a year for years, until I saw The Secret. I was due for another visit to the cardiologist right around that time. I was awestruck by the man who healed himself from the plane crash. I decided right then and there that I was going to heal my heart. I believed it and knew it was possible.
I quickly banished any negative thoughts about my heart and refused to let them enter my mind anymore. Every night as I lay down in my bed, I placed my right hand on my heart, and I visualized a strong heart. I rehearsed in my mind my heart beating strong, looking and sounding the way a strong healthy heart was supposed to. Every morning when I woke up, I said, “Thank you for my strong, healthy heart.” I visualized the cardiologist telling me that I was cured. I didn’t tell anyone what I was doing for fear of judgment or disbelief. I postponed my cardiologist appointment for about four months to give myself enough time to try this.
I went to the cardiologist with my medical file full of past electrocardiograms and echocardiograms confirming my physical heart problems. Nervous and excited, I tried to calm myself as I got hooked up to the EKG and then had the sonogram.
The cardiologist came in with the test results, completely dumbfounded. There was no sign of a first-degree heart block. There was no heart murmur. There was no expansion in my aorta. He checked and rechecked the old tests and the new one that showed a perfectly healthy heart with no physical symptoms of Marfan syndrome! He had no explanation. I was ecstatic, but honestly, I was not surprised. It was exactly as I had envisioned. I literally ran out of the cardiologist’s office across the lot to my car, feeling stronger and more alive than I ever have in my life.
I called my mom, whom I had previously bought a copy of The Secret, and told her how I had used its practices and now had a healthy, strong, normal heart. I’d never heard her cry so hard!
– Lauren T., Laguna Beach, California, USA
Allow the doctors you have chosen to do their work, and keep your mind focused on well-being.
Think thoughts of well-being. Speak words of well-being. And imagine yourself completely well.
– The Secret Daily Teachings
One Small Positive Thought at a Time
All stress begins with one negative thought. One thought goes unchecked, and then more thoughts come, and more, until stress manifests. The effect is stress, but the cause was negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought. No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it . . . with one small, positive thought and then another.
BEAUTIFUL HEALING
Since I listened to the CD of The Secret, many amazing things have occurred in my life, but none more so than my healing of the ulcerative colitis that had plagued me for years.
Born and raised in a Pentecostal-type home, I grew up a very anxious child, terrified of hell and the return of Christ. In my heart, I questioned the Church. If God is love, like the Bible teaches, then why am I feeling so much fear? I was scared of everything.
My dad had ulcerative colitis, and my mom told me that if I continued to worry about needless things, I too would get it. At the age of twenty-three, I was, indeed, diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
I stopped dreaming and singing and started drinking heavily in my late twenties, when I settled into a relationship that was “good enough.” It was then that the ulcerative colitis really began to flare up.
Even after I left Mr. Good Enough and stumbled upon my “Made for Me” man, my gut continued to cramp and bleed daily. By then I was working full-time and single-handedly raising my young daughter and troubled teen son. My brilliant love affair made all the pain bearable, but my body was getting tired.
I lost my job, and with the love and care of my then-new husband, I was able to focus purely on healing my past and my body. Bleeding daily, I was badly anemic and very tired. Mentally, I was pretty beat up too. I visited a specialist, who told me that I would be on a high dose of prescription anti-inflammatories and would require periodic enemas for the rest of my life. Dejected and hopeless, I filled my body with medication and just dealt with it.
More than a year later, I was still bleeding almost every day. In every other way, I had a brilliant, perfect life, but I still felt physically and emotionally horrible. After a big debate with myself, I bought The Secret. Five minutes into the book, tears of joy were streaming down my face. I could not believe how my unspoken beliefs were now being confirmed.
That day my life changed. The colitis symptoms immediately let up. I Google Image–searched a healthy colon and would visualize that in me. I gave thanks for my healing and blessed my body continuously. I imagined water being healing for my body. I figured that our bodies are made up mostly of water and that adding to it would be beneficial, flushing out any unhealthy bacteria. So, I would drink water and give thanks. (It was only later, after listening to The Power, that I learned how water reacts to a positive environment.)
I continued to listen to The Secret daily. My body was healing and I was feeling the best I had ever felt in my life, and yet my health was still not where I wanted it to be.
Mentally, I struggled with letting go of my past and dealing with confrontations with loved ones. I had bouts of anxiety and was very frustrated that I could not be “calm and cool.” I was very hard on myself. I had all the tools and was getting everything I wanted. Why wasn’t my health perfect? I knew that I was so close to achieving full health, but I was still missing something.
After six months of listening to The Secret every day and reading books on spiritual growth and healing and gratitude, I bought The Power and discovered what I’d been missing. What I’d forgotten to put first before everything else was love. I instantly allowed myself to love everything, from the smallest to the biggest. Two days later, the colitis symptoms were gone.
I now start my days feeling love. I picture my family and friends and I give them love. I picture them happy and successful. I am blown away by how the Universe has reacted. Confrontations have cleared up. People around me became happier. I’m not doing anything more than imagining and feeling love. It is so easy to do. I now let myself feel love for everything! I give love to everything and everyone.
My biggest thing was finding the love in my past. If a memory comes up that causes me grief, I just find something I loved about that time and allow myself to feel it. Then that moment in time doesn’t ever bother me again.
Every area of my life is better than it’s ever been. The Secret opened the door to a brand-new way of thinking and life for me. On my birthday, two and a half years after I first listened to The Secret, the results of my biannual test showed that the ulcerative colitis I’d been plagued with for so many years was no longer there. All that remains is scar tissue. I am the healthiest and happiest I have ever been in my life.
– Jessica T., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.
The emotion of stress is saying strongly that you do NOT have what you want. Stress or tension is the absence of faith, and so to remov
e it, all you have to do is increase your faith!
– The Secret Daily Teachings
HOW THE SECRET EXPANDED MY LIFE
I have suffered from agoraphobia, anxiety disorder, and panic disorder most of my adult life and had basically given up on ever doing anything out of my comfort zone until I read The Secret and started to become very positive about everything.
I started with positive affirmations every day. Then I stopped talking about what I couldn’t do and just spoke about what I could do.
Finally, after thirty-three years of never getting on a plane or going overseas, I took my nine- and twelve-year-old sons on a two-week trip to Bali.
I went from being someone who could not even go into the local shopping center to being a world traveler. And it’s all thanks to The Secret!
– Karen C., Sydney, Australia
As Karen’s story shows, affirmations can help overcome fear and anxiety, and even panic disorders.
The effective use of affirmations depends entirely on how much you believe them when you say them. If there is no belief, then the affirmation is just words that have no power. Belief adds power to your words.
– The Secret Daily Teachings
There Is Nothing More Important Than Feeling Good
Being healthy means having a healthy body and a healthy mind. You can’t be happy or healthy if your mind is full of negative thoughts or negative beliefs. If you can keep your mind healthy, you will help the health of your body.
One way to keep your mind healthy is to simply not believe negative thoughts. No matter what is going on in your life, turn your mind to positive thoughts of beauty, love, gratitude, and joy, and you will give your body the panacea it needs.
