Pros:
1. Unlike other methods, well-defined plans are not required to achieve our goals. No financial calculation is ever done in order for you to afford your dream car.

2. Able to tap in the other-worldly power of the universe to aid you.

3. Calms your nerves. Slightly increase happiness.

Cons:
1. Takes a lot of time compared to a simple mental reminder.

2. Your goals have to be consistent — for the next 15 years.

3. Requires suspension of disbelief. This makes the technique more suitable for impulsive people than for logical people.

I find this technique usefully when I have free leisure time to implement it. Otherwise, in my hectic environment, I prefer quicker methods.

It’s not magic in that sence that you will get what you want by chance tomorrow, but it will start a chain of events that will lead to opportunities.

I strongly suggest that you read “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles to get the point. Actually, thinking that The Secret is about “wishing” things and by that make it come true, is just a result of not being able to understand the idea.

The other side of that kind of thinking is poverty is something the poor have created. So is cancer for that matter. Someone said that to me this weekend and I nearly barfed, “cancer is associated with inner negativity”.

Humans are nuts.

1. Unlike magnets, the Law of Attraction is a vibratory method. Jack Canfield gives the practical example of taking a tuning fork in A and plucking it; placing another A fork next to it, the second one will start to vibrate. In this example, Like is attracting like…or rather like is vibing with like.

2. The end scope to the Law of Attraction is getting your mind in this vibe mode with your goals, not to give action steps to achieve those goals.

Matt, Crystal and Mark I applaud your comments!!!

Candice L.

The Secret holds to the notion that you can simply think about the goal more, and by that quantity of desire your quality of outcome will improve. That is an argument of straw. As far as how it ‘attracts’ opportunity, I cannot agree either. I hold strongly to Zig Ziglar’s description of the same phenomenon:

“It seems like the harder I work, the luckier I get.” — Zig Ziglar, c.1979

Supply VS Demand. Ahh, the age old corner stone of economics, the strict rule that governs our monetary systems. But how beat it? Well, on the supply side, we need to make the cost so negliable that we are practically selling hot air. Which is a great idea, why don’t we sell an idea… a way of life, a path for people to follow. We’ll preach, and people will pay, we’ll sell seminars, discussion groups and all the rest. Then to make sure that people can give us money, while listening to us from far away, we’ll make movies, books and CDs.

But how do we solve the Demand side of the equation. What would people pay to hear? We need something broad so that we can sell it to as many people as possible…. Oh I know, why bother coming up with an idea at all? We’ll just sell them their dreams right back to them. I mean, everyone has dreams right? We’ll just tell them that all their dreams can be theirs, they just need to listen to us speak and voila.

Now we need some market stroke of genius here. I mean, people aren’t just going to fork over hard earned cash for us to tell them “all their dreams will come true”. I mean, no sane person could ever believe that. So we’ll add a bit of mystic to our promotions, give it a name that people will instantly want to know more about. Like it’s some kind of Secret that only they are left out of. Then we’ll back it up, with loads of ridiculous statements, about how all successful people since the beginning of time have known about the secret, and YOUR left out.

So isn’t this a great business plan? Nothing to produce, nothing to create, you’ve just got to sell peoples hopes and dreams right back to them. Then compliment it with playing on their fears about missing out and not being part of “successful” society.

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So my view of the Secret is quite bad. That not to say that I don’t believe in positive thinking, but to package it up in a new glossy package and charge retail prices for it is crazy.

Everyone else in these comments seem to be talking about “hard work”. Although, i personally agree with this, I don’t think that it’s the sole answer to living out all your dreams. I mean, I’d consider myself living out a great dream, but I doubt that I work as hard as a sweatshop labour.

So the secret to success, probably isn’t going to be bundled up in a book at your local retailer, nor will you find it on the next Oprah segment. However if you send me $15USD available over three small payments I’ll gladly part with my secret of how to avoid dumb “get rich quick” schemes.

Interestingly, I’ve been listening to audio interviews with the people who appeared in the Secret and without exception, EVERY one of them said that it’s not magic, it’s not airy fairy voodoo, and that massive ACTION is required! And yet that was conveniently left out of the Secret movie.

The comment about not studying the Law of Attraction in physics class is comically off point. Physics deals exclusively with the “physical” and is neither intended nor able to deal with the realms of mind and spirit.

As far as I know, the only way to understand the universe is to study physics.

Can remember ever coming across the “Law of Attraction” when studying physics.

Will thinking and visualizing money make me rich? I’d venture to guess it is more likely I’ll get rich focusing and visualizing myself wealthy than I will by not focusing my thoughts and energies on it. But, besides the “Hard Work” everyone seems to demand we must do to become wealthy, there is a key component everyone leaves out – it is your beliefs and feelings about money. The mind is your power source, it is, whether you agree or not, a reality making machine. If you believe money is evil, or that you are impoverished and there is no way out of that situation, or believe that you have to work yourself to death to make a million, then no – you will never be wealthy.

The Secret is a first step only. The movie takes advantage of peoples Ego based desires to sell it – with the focus on material wealth, but the law of attraction works in every area of life.