The Secret summary

The main reason that people aren’t benefiting from the secret to life is this: they’re focusing mainly on what they don’t want instead of what they do want.

But the law of attraction doesn’t comprehend “don’ts.”

Your thoughts are like a TV transmission tower, constantly broadcasting your requests out into the universe. So if you don’t like what you’re receiving, you need to change the frequency! Or, put another way, your thoughts are like seeds. The more positive thoughts you plant, the more positive your life will grow.

In both scenarios, the message is the same: you are the creator of your universe, and you can start to shape the world that you want with these three steps:

When trying to ensure that positive thoughts are your most dominant thoughts, you might find yourself feeling overly anxious about any negative thoughts that threaten to emerge. But you needn’t fret. If you worry about negative thoughts, you’ll only make them worse. What you should do is let that negativity pass as effortlessly as you can, and instead focus on the good.

For instance, if you want to be wealthy, make that the focus of your thoughts. Grab a pen and write, “I am grateful to earn one hundred thousand dollars a year.”

Think that our emotions have no impact on our health and weight gain? Think again.

According to the author, to lose weight, the key is to avoid thinking “fat thoughts” and instead start thinking “thin thoughts.”

Imagine there’s a force in the universe that’s responsible for creating the world we live in. It has always been there and always will be. Similar language is often used to talk about God or to talk about energy, but choosing a specific name for this force is less important than realizing that it exists – and understanding your relation to it.

The secret to life is to recognize yourself as one with the universe, that you’re an energy field acting inside a larger energy field, where the goal is to be in harmony and not in competition.