The Secret

August 24, 2008  - I am currently here at the Eugenio Lopez Center in Antipolo City, and will be here one more day for a series of seminars/sessions. However, that is not the secret.

At the end of our first day, we had a film viewing. What struck me as quirky and amusing (and also spawning a sequence of thoughts in that millisecond of knowing the "secret") is that the organizers showed the film "The Secret"...and in my mind, it related to one of my most favorite sayings..."Change your thoughts and you change your world..."

The film didn't really say that aloud, but for me it was a natural thought borne out of seeing it. I would interpret the  film's basic tenet i.e. the "Law of Attraction" as simply the idea of you being a magnet - your thoughts attract how the universe responds to you and the universe is going to arrange things for you (how? let's not go there please!) so that you will get what you want!

I can somehow accept the idea. Honestly!

I may not always get what I want all of the time, but I can certainly vouch for things happening or falling into place for me, even if I just mention it in passing (though its been going around and around my mind for days). It happened more often when I was much younger though. Or maybe I have not been noticing it?

If you've read about "blue feather" incident in one of the books which changed my way of thinking back in college i.e. "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach, then you'd probably understand better what I mean.

....and now as I write this...I remember one more incident which gives me the heevy-jeebies until now. This is about my finding one of my worn-often rings under a bunch of fallen star-apple tree leaves in our open porch in Mactan Island.

I had lost it during a trip to Baguio a month or so earlier and and I pouted over it like a sulky cat with fur rubbed the wrong way (meaning: I was on one of what I would term "I vant to ve alone.." Greta Garbo moods although I think I was probably 5 or 6 years old that time and didn't know who GG was). I was really stupefied when I found it...and I was scared enough not to mention it to either of my parents. Was it the universe or some other factor?

I could be thinking wistfully and talking about one of my college girlfriends to my mom because I haven't heard from the former for almost a decade, and voila! I either get some news about my friend on the same day or week or I get a call from the person herself. And I could be worrying endlessly about getting some task done, and the next thing I know its finished, without my mentioning the issue to anybody.

How many times do these kinds of things happen to me? Enough times for me to think it certainly isn't just a random brick thrown by the wacky universe my catty way.

A familiar incident retold during a particular Multiply group eyeball get-togethers is how  Cyfunk and I met each other in Sanfo when we were not able to touch base and make plans for eye-balling while I was on my US trip. I remember I was scrunching my forehead and saying I wish I could contact her even if it was just through a phone call, when I was on my way to the airport and leaving Cincinnati.The day after my arrival in Sanfo, Cyfunk and I met in Napa Valley of all places. I didn't even know that my friends would bring me to that place or that particular vineyard out of all the hundreds of vineyards in that area! And Cyfunk certainly didn't know that I was going to be in Sanfo by that date already! *cue "The Twilight Zone" theme*

*taps forehead*

....if my thinking about something... somehow makes the universe or cosmos bring that "it" to my doorstep...then bang! Think of the possibilities! And bang! if I think of something positive, visualize and accept the idea of  my wish list turning into reality, then wouldn't it happen sooner if I kept it in my thoughts in a positive way?

How does this relate to - change your thoughts, and you change your world thought?

Instead of saying "My debts have increased" how about if I say instead that "I will be making more money this year" (you need money to pay for these debts.....ooops....not going there, and not going to use that D-word)....

....and instead of saying "The available, heterosexual guys (read that as men of good dating caliber who can turn out to be good friends) whom I see around my environment these days are hopeless" - well, how about thinking "There are at least a hundred perfectly interesting and attractive men I have yet to meet and have a good conversation with this year". Maybe then, the universe will send more opportunities my way to earn income for the first case... and for the second, I will happen to bump into at least a dozen guys who can make me look forward to have a sparkling and witty conversation over an enjoyable shared meal.

I am just rambling on, while I wait for my hair to dry before going to sleep..and while I would like to visualize a hair dryer doing the job faster, just writing this down is certainly more fun..or at least cathartic for me, and gives me more food for thought.

I am not a promoter nor marketeer for the film, or maybe you have seen it already, but for those who have not seen the trailer, you can google or visit this site www.thesecret.tv.

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