The Wish Factory! (Book Review of 'The Secret' by Rhonda Byrne)

“It’s not as easy as you think but not as difficult as you think”

In the midst of the great struggle of mankind to evolve, Rhonda Byrne makes it easier by revealing a 'Secret', so profound and intriguing, that our little brains would probably perceive it as 'Too good to be True'. It has anything and everything to help one get through life. So what is the Secret? Well revealing it in the first few lines doesn't seem wise enough on the account of 'The Secret' seeming so unbelievable. So let me first back it up a little. Remember Paulo Coelho's quote in The Alchemist-



"And, when you want something, the entire Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."



Let's consider the Placebo Effect. It’s quite a common observation, but we often fail to identify it with a name. Remember when our parents or our doctor probably tricked us in our childhood by giving a sugar pill or some other concoction claiming it will solve the present illness, and it indeed did! Let's dive in. The doctor or the parents claimed this pseudo medicine to be a real cure for illness and we believe in them, so we took the medicine. We already knew that it will cure the illness and we might tend to visualise a sound health, post administering the concoction. And like magic, our illness was cured. This effect can be reduced to a simple game of Wishing, Believing and Receiving.

Now that i have played a little make-believe, let's reveal the Secret. 

Of all the laws of the Universe, the greatest of them is the 'Law of Attraction'. Like attracts like. You wish for something, Universe is your genie, it will grant you your wish. All you need to know is the mechanism of making it a reality. So you want a great career? You can have it. You want a good parking space? You can have it. You want wealth? You can have it. All you need to do is Create thoughts about what you want. As you think of abundance in life, you will get abundance in life.

Think of yourself as the most powerful transmitting and receiving tower which when creates thoughts of a particular frequency, the universe will return events or occurring of the same frequency in your life by arranging and shifting events and making way for your desires.

Taking it up a notch, you have to understand the mechanism of this Wish-Factory Secret. This process can be divided into 3 steps- 

1. THOUGHT CREATION-



You need to think of what you want. Say-''I WANT..."



2. BELIEVE-



This is where the trick to making your wish come true comes up. Your mind is a reasonable and rational being. It will question such pretence as it does in fairy tales. This is where a concept propagated by Coleridge could be useful- ‘Suspension of Disbelief’. The term was coined in 1817 to negate the 'not real' factor in supernatural narratives, horror genres etc. In lay man terms, it means suspending or sacrificing one’s critical or questioning faculties to believe something that's hard to believe.

With such belief we move a step forward in our wish coming true.



3. RECEIVE-



You can’t receive your amazon package until you go to your door to receive the package. So how will you receive your wish once Universe knocks on the door of your life to deliver you your wish? To make this process easier, Visualise. You want good health, Visualise yourself being healthy. Act how you would, after being granted your wish.

Talking about the time in which our thoughts transform into reality, it would take as much time for the thought to manifest as you think it would. Ideally, it would take the same time to earn a million dollars as it would take to earn a dollar.

Another important aspect is No Negativity! If you think you are miserable, Universe will give you more of it because you have been focusing on all the negativity, your thoughts are inclined towards misfortune, and so will your life. If you think “I don’t want to fail”, the Universe will hear “I want to fail” and will help you do so. So beware of all the negativity in the cracks of your wish to attain a better life.

To apply ‘The Secret’ in real life, it takes a lot more to read a summary of the book. Our mind is complex. With all the good things it acknowledges it wants, it can also enjoy playing on the dark side. Your mind could often want to be miserable or believe that’s it’s not possible to excel at everything, without you knowing it. Therefore it’s important to keep our thoughts in check knowing that its more than just a mind, it’s a Mastermind, creating your life the way you want.

Now that you are equipped with The Secret, cultivate anything you want to in your life, self-love, dreams, health, wealth, perfection, power, abundance or peace.

Just remember,

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right.”