I'm sure many of you have heard about the above book (click here for an extensive article on it from Newsweek). Millions of copies of it are in print. It basically deals with positive thinking. Neale Donald Walsch, who is the author of my favorite books, the Conversations with God series, was a consultant on this project, so I was quite familiar with the concepts expressed therein (I browsed the book, but felt no need to read it). For those unfamiliar, here are some excerpts from "The Secret", but Shhh...don't tell...
"When you visualize, then you materialize. Here's an interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes and had them run their event only in their mind, and then hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment. 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. If you've been there in the mind, you'll go there in the body."
"There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your purpose, your mission in life...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 will stand in judgment of it, now or ever." - Neale Donald Walsch
"When you visualize, then you materialize. Here's an interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes and had them run their event only in their mind, and then hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment. 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. If you've been there in the mind, you'll go there in the body."
"There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your purpose, your mission in life...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 will stand in judgment of it, now or ever." - Neale Donald Walsch
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Now I have not read it, but I have heard a lot about it, half say it's BS half say it's incredible.
I did hear one talking head speaking of an excerpt where "fat weren't fat because of over eating, it was because people didn't visualize thier body image correctly" or something like that.
That could be taken out of context....
Positivity does breed positivity and vice versa.
I started reading it and had to stop b/c of too much school work. It was a good concept, but sometimes when I read those books I think, "No duh".
If you can get a book to help me take the first step on something, then that's worth reading.
Isn't it funny how the same book keeps getting written over and over and over again, each iteration drawing its own rabid fans? I, too, loved Conversations with God. But it's just a repackaging of ideas you'll find elsewhere...dating back to (a non-traditional reading of) the Bible, and even beyond. All these spiritual writers...Williamson, Walsch, Byrne, Schuchmann, Zukav, et al...are saying the same thing: wake up and take control of your life. Everyone has a slightly different take on how that's done, but, well, as Tom Watts once said, at the retail level all religions look different, but when you go to the wholesale level you'll find they're all getting it from the same distributor.
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