“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” — Henry Ford
Henry Ford is a genius. It’s one thing to understand this intellectually — and a whole new game to *really* understand it with all your being. It took 32 years for me to finally *get it*.
My 6.5 years of daily meditation certainly helped, but what flipped the switch was the audio version of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.
“Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo
This is why I love books. The right book at the right time changes everything. It happened so many times before, and it keeps happening. It’s like magic!
What changed for me?
- My feeling of lack is gone. I replaced it with a deep feeling of abundance. There is enough for everybody! Austerity is not required to solve the worlds problems.
- I developed a deep interest for space and the universe. I read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, Einstein by Walter Isaacson, and The Martian by Andy Weir.
- I realized we are already living on a spaceship — Spaceship Earth — flying through the black universe. How cool is that?
- “Is the Universe Friendly?” I love this question. I am with Einstein and came to the conclusion: Yes, this is a friendly universe! Everything else doesn’t make any sense.
- The sun is our giant fusion reactor, generating thousands of times the energy we will ever need. There is no energy problem. There’s only a harvesting problem — and technology will solve that eventually. Again, austerity not required.
- My purpose is unlocking my human potential through entrepreneurship. It all fits together. It all makes sense.
- My feelings tell me whether I’m on or off track. When I feel good, I know I am in sync and on track. When I feel bad, I know that my thinking is negative. Then I need to actively shift my feelings by listening to my favourite music or something like that.
- I see so many people stuck in negativity. Many of us (me included) have a deep habit of complaining, feeling like a victim, criticising and so on. While I would love to force those insights on them (and sometimes on myself when I’m off track), I know it’s not possible. For so many years I kept hearing “mindset is everything” and I just wasn’t ready to understand. The only way to change people is for them to change themselves. On their own time. And then — sooner or later — it’s Victor Hugo time, baby! “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
- I love the idea of Quantum Theory — that everything exists NOW, in parallel. The only difference might be your mindset. You could do and be everything, because all versions already exist in parallel. The only question is: Which version do you want? Fascinating thought experiment.
Key points from the book
- I have a choice. I can think I can, or I can think I can’t. Ultimately it’s my choice.
- MAN BECOMES WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT
- Everything — including you — is energy. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Thus: The energy you are made of has always existed and can never be destroyed!
- The last frontier is not space. The last frontier is MIND. (Or better: *Mindset*)
- We only use 5% of the potential of the human mind. Imagine a world where people were using their full mental and emotional potential.
- Every single thing you’ve been through, every single moment that you’ve come through, were to all prepare you for this moment right now. NOW you get that you are the CREATOR of your destiny. IMAGINE what you can do from this day forward!
The Secret : Book Notes
- The Law of Attraction (=law of the universe)
- “I am the most powerful magnet in the universe”
- What I think about the most, I will attract
- Thoughts attract like thoughts
- Thoughts become things
- Thoughts are magnetic
- Thoughts have a frequency (thus are emitted)
- If we want to change the pictures on the television, we need to change the channel (=change the frequency)
- I am a human transmission tower, more powerful than any tv transmission tower on earth. My transmissions create my life and world. I am transmitting into the universe, with my thoughts
- Think about what happened in your life before. You got what you thought about! The law works perfectly well!
- The law of attraction simply gives you what you were thinking about
- It is an ongoing process, forever, whether you know it or not. There is no pause button.
- The forces of attraction are still operating on our last thoughts as we fall asleep. Make your last thoughts before going to sleep good.
- Creation is always happening. Every time you think something, you are creating things. Something will manifest because of those thoughts.
- Because you are always thinking, you are always creating.
- What you think about the most (or focus on the most) is what is going to appear.
- Like all the laws of nature, there is utter perfection in this law. Whatever you sow, you reap. Your thoughts are seeds.
- If you are complaining, the law of attraction will bring you more things to complain about
- By this you can change every circumstance in your life, by changing the way you think.
- When you focus on something with a lot of passion, it will happen even faster
- Don’t focus on what you do not want, else you will get it. Focus on what you DO want.
- Power of our mind = power of intention
- Your mind thinks thoughts, and the pictures are broadcasted back as your life experience
- My mind is shaping the world around me
- Thank god there is a time delay. This serves you. Gives you time to reassess what you want and make a new choice.
- All of the power to create your life is available right now. Because right now is when you are thinking. Right now you can change your thinking. Time serves you.
- You want to choose your thoughts carefully. And you want to have fun with this. You are the Michaelangelo — the creator — of your own life.
- Meditation helps to quiet your mind. Every teacher in this book uses meditation.
- Meditate about “I am the master of my thoughts”
- My mission statement: I want to be a force for good in the universe
- Everything that is in your life right now — even the things you are complaining about — you have attracted. Most people do not want to accept this. YES you did. Once you accept this it is life-transforming.
- The law of the universe is impersonal. If you fall down a cliff you will hit the ground, no matter whether you are a good person or bad person. The sun is shining on everything, it doesn’t discriminate.
- It doesn’t mean people wanted bad things to happen. The frequency of the thoughts matched the events that happened. That is what attracted them to those events.
- You have a choice. Whatever you choose to think, will become your life experience.
- Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.
- We have 60.000 thoughts per day
- There is an easier way: Our feelings let us know what it is that we are thinking.
- Your feelings are your greatest tool to help you create your life. Observing our feelings lets us know what we are thinking.
- Emotions are a great tool to let us know what we are attracting
- Just stop and ask yourself: How am I feeling? (do it throughout the day to become aware how you are feeling and what you are thinking)
- It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time having good thoughts (!) This would defy the law.
- If you are feeling bad it’s because you are thinking thoughts that make you feel bad.
- Your thoughts determine the frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on.
- If you want to have a good life, you have to feel good! If you feel good, you are on track. If you are feeling bad, you are off track.
- What if your feelings are actually communication from the universe to let you know what you are thinking?
- Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to let us know whether we are on course or off course.
- Our thoughts are the primary cause of everything.
- Add feeling to what you want. This transmits an even more powerful frequency.
- You can begin right now to feel healthy, you can begin to feel prosperous, you can begin to feel the love that is surrounding you, even if it’s not there. What will happen is, the universe will correspond to the nature of your song. The universe will correspond with that inner feeling, and MANIFEST, because that’s the way you feel.
- Purposefully LIFT your feelings if you don’t feel as good as you wish.
- 1 min focus: Close your eyes, focus on your feelings, and smile for 1 min
- Your thoughts and your feelings will create your life
- Everything in your life can be undone, through a shift in awareness
- If you feel down, put on a song and sing along, think about a baby. It will lift your feelings.
- Create a list of secret shifters, things that can immediately shift your feelings. Beautiful memories etc.
- There is no greater power in the universe than lobe. Love is the highest frequency you can emmitt
- Wrap everything in love — Law of attraction = law of love
- You cannot harm another with your thoughts. You only harm YOURSELF. If you think thoughts of love, you will benefit first.
- The greater the love, the greater the power you are harnessing
- Einstein: Is this a friendly universe? (YES)
- Affirm: This is a magnificent universe! The universe is supporting me in everything I do. Know that this is a friendly universe.
- Affirm (Shout!): Life is so easy. Life is so good! Good things come to me.
- You deserve all good things. All good things are your birth-right.
- Genie in the lamp = genie is the law of attraction = “your wish is my command”; the genie never questions your commands
- 3 steps: (1) ask: make a command, let the universe know what you want; what do you really want? Write it down in the present tense; explain how you want your life to be, in every area; if you are not clear, the law of attraction cannot bring you want you want; what do you really want?; always ASK; just ask once; as you get clear in your mind, you have asked; (2) Believe: believe that it’s already yours; have unwavering faith; believe that you have received; have complete faith, relax and get on with your life; don’t fret and worry; think of it as yours; you have to emitt the feeling frequency that you have already received; feel and believe that they are yours; make believe; act as you have it already; the how is not your part in the creative process; you don’t need to know how you are going to get it; let the universe do it; don’t become doubtful; replace doubt with unwavering faith; (3) Receive: become to feel wonderful about it; feel good, be happy; “this is a FEELING universe”, you have to FEEL it; when you feel good, you are on the frequency of receiving; say “I am receiving now”, feel it. Feel it into existence. Just feel it. Then it manifests. Feel good now. Inspired action instead of just action. It needs to be effortless. Be in the flow of the universe. Trust your instincts. It’s the universe communicating with you. Follow your instictive feelings.
- I am a magnet
- Everything that has ever been invented has started with ONE thought. Then it manifested.
- Everything will unfold step by step. TRUST the process. Things will unfold.
- “You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”
- Begin to expect great things
- “I have more than enough time”
- Always focus on the positive outcome
- My current life is the result of my past thoughts. When I change my thoughts and feeling, my life will start to change.
- If you want to change your circumstances, you need to change your thinking first
- Expect the things you WANT, and don’t expect the things you don’t want
- Make a list of things you are grateful for. This shifts your energy and thinking. Start being grateful for the things that you feel GOOD about
- Appreciate the little things. Then people want to do more of them.
- Every morning, start by listing the things you are grateful for. FEEL it. Actively CREATE your day
- Use gratitude until it becomes your WAY OF LIFE
- Use gratitude to ASK the universe. Use “I am so happy and grateful now, that…” for every sentence when you ask for things.
- Create a vision board with pictures of your dreams and look at it every day
- If you want abundance and prosperity, then FOCUS on abundance and prosperity!
- When you receive a bill, pretend that you have received a cheque. “Yay, more money for me!” as you open the envelope.
- Change you attitude about money with “Money comes easily and frequently!”, “I am a money magnet.”, “I love money and money loves me.”, “I am receiving money every day”
- Wealth is a mindset
- Give money to get money, feel the abundance
- Prosperity is your birth-right
- You need to go for the inner joy, the inner peace, the inner vision first; and then the outer things appear.
- Everything you want is an inside job. The outside world is the result of your inner state, your thoughts.
- Paint a picture (literally!) of the things you want
- When you want to attract something into your life, make sure that your actions do not contradict your desires.
- Act as if you have already received what you want. If you want a partner, make space in your closet, sleep on your side of the bed etc.
- Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today.
- Do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?
- Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give to anybody. Tend to you first. People are responsible for their own joy.
- You need to love yourself first, before others can fall in love with you. It is impossible to feel good if you don’t love yourself. All positive things are on the frequency of feeling “good”. Start thinking about the wonderful things in you. Look for the positives in you.
- Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people you will treat you with love and respect
- For relationships to really work, we need to focus on what we appreciate about the other person. Not what we are complaining about. When we are complaining, we are only getting more of those things.
- No matter how bad the situation, you can turn around the relationship. For 30 days, sit down every day and write down what you appreciate about the other person. Think about all the reasons that you love them. When you focus on acknowledging and appreciating their strenghts, that’s what you’ll get more of. And the problems will fade away.
- Only one person can be in charge of your joy, your bliss. And that’s YOU! Other people to not have the control to create your happiness. Your joy lies within you.
- Placebo effect = power of thoughts, power of believing
- Human mind is central element for human health
- Think “Perfect health, “I am perfectly healthy”
- All stress begins with ONE negative thought
- Everything can be changed with ONE SMALL positive thought, and then another, and another
- Diseases are feedback to let us know that we have an imbalaced perspective, and we are not loving, and not being grateful.
- Love and gratitude will disssolve all negativity in our lives. Love and gratitude can dissolve ANY disease.
- Laughter (and joy) is the best medicine. Laughter releases all negativity
- Self-healing: we are made to heal ourselves. We are programmed that way.
- Disease cannot live in a body that’s in a healthy emotional state.
- Our body is constantly and automatically replaced. Within a few years we have a brand-new physical body. How can it be that a disease remains for many years? It can only be held by thought and the attention to the illness.
- Think thoughts of perfection. Illness cannot exist in a body with harmoneous thoughts.
- Imperfect thoughts are the cause of all humanities ills.
- Declare “I think perfect thoughts”, “I see only perfection”, “I am perfection”
- Feel young. Know that your body is only a few months old. Behave as you had the body of a child. Your body is brand-new!
- Celebrate your next birthday like your first birthday. Only put 1 candle. Your body is brand-new!
- Don’t talk about your illness. That way you keep focusing on it, which will create more disease cells. See yourself living in a perfectly healthy body.
- If you are not feeling well, DON’T talk about it, unless you want more of it. Know that your thoughts are responsible. Repeat as often as you can: “I feel wonderful. I feel so good.” and really FEEL it.
- You will invite illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. You focusing on other peoples illness, you are attracting it for yourself. If you want to help that person, change the conversation to good and positive and joyous things, or else walk away. Send positive thoughts to that person, and see them well. Then let it go.
- You have two people, both stricken with something. One chooses to focus on joy, thus choosing to live in possibility, in hopefulness. They focus on all the reasons why they should be joyful and grateful. The second person has the same diagnosis, but they chooses to focus on the disease, to focus on the pain.
- When a person focuses on what’s wrong and their symptoms, they will perpetuate it. The healing will not occur until they shift their attention from being sick to being well. That’s the law of attraction.
- Every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put in the body.
- Happier thoughts lead to a happier biochemistry, a happier and healthier body.
- Negative thoughts and stress seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain. Because it’s our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, recreating our body.
- Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy. Press the happiness button and keep it pressed!
- Let negative thoughts go, then your body will start healing itself. You don’t need to fight illness. Just let go of negativity.
- “I can see clearly” to improve your eye-sight
- Nothing is incurable. Your mind can cure anything. The human mind has unlimited potential.
- MAN BECOMES WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT
- All things are possible when you BELIEVE
- Era of energy medicine. Just change your frequency.
- Don’t fight. When you fight against cancer/poverty/terrorism etc. you are attracting more of it. We have the habit of fighting against anything we don’t want. STOP fighting. Focus on how you want it to be. Don’t add energy to negative things.
- What you resist persists. Don’t resist negative things. Don’t feed those things. Nothing can survive without food.
- Resisting things that are aready here doesn’t change anything. Change your mind, then wait for the outside world to update accordingly.
- The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drug movement creates more drugs
- Don’t focus on the problem. Focus on love, trust, abundance.
- Don’t be anti-war, be pro-peace. Don’t be anti-hunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat.
- Everything in this world began with ONE thought
- Focus on what you DO want.
- Focus on things that make you feel GOOD. If something doesn’t make you feel good (eg reading news) then STOP.
- Energy flows where attention goes. Choose wisely where you invest your attention.
- Learn to become still and to take away your attention from all the things you don’t want. And place the attention on the things you wish to experience.
- My job is to go with the flow of the universe. Nothing else.
- I am the master of my life. The universe is answering my every command.
- The universe is ABUNDANT. There is more than enough for everybody! There is more than enough good, there is more than enough creative ideas, there is more than enough power, there is more than enough love, there is more than enough joy.
- Your ability to think is unlimited
- You cannot think for other people. You cannot force your opinions on other people. You will only attract like forces to you. So let others create the life they want.
- Praise and bless your enemies
- Everything in the universe is energy. My hand is not solid, it’s vibrating energy
- All energy vibrates at a certain frequency. As humans are made of energy, you also vibrate at a certain frequency. And this frequency can be changed by thoughts and feelings.
- Everything is energy.
- You are an energy magnet
- You are energy (an energy field). Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form. The pure essence of you — the pure energy of you — has always been and will always be. You are eternal energy.
- The universe emerges from thought. All of this matter around us is just precipitated thought. We are the source of the universe. There is no limit to human potential. We literally are creating the universe. The limit is determined by the level at which we think.
- One universal mind. All knowledge already exists in the universal mind. We are all connected. Everything is just one energy field. We are one.
- There is an unlimited supply of ideas waiting for you to tap into.
- Every negative emotion is based on fear.
- When you compete, you can never win. Competition is based on scarcity and a lack mentality. As you compete, you attract many people and circumstances to compete against you. When you compete, you compete against yourself. You need to GET COMPETITION OUT OF YOUR MIND.
- Become a creative mind. Focus only on your dreams and visions. Take all competition out of the equation
- You are god, manifested in human form.
- “99% of who you are is invisible and untouchable.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
- Use “I am” (eg “I am creative”, “I am happy”, “I am abundant”, “I am love”, “I am filled with energy”)
- Powerful affirmation: “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy”
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, either way, you are right.” — Henry Ford
- “I am a genius beyond description”. You are part of the supreme mind. Become aware of who you really are.
- We are UNLIMITED beings.
- Gain control of your thoughts. STOP and ask: What am I thinking now? What am I feeling now? Am I aware?
- The universe has been answering you all of your life. But you cannot receive the answers unless you are unaware. Be aware of everything around you. You are receiving the answers ro questions every moment of the day. The channels those answers can come through are unlimited. They could be delivered in the form of a newspaper headline that attracts your attention. Or overhearing someone speaking. Or a song on the radio. Or anything else. REMEMBER TO REMEMBER. Become aware.
- You must love yourself. You need to emitt the frequency of love.
- Focus on the life presence within you. Love and bliss will reveal themselves. Always focus on and love the presence within you. This will turn of all negativity. When you feel negative, focus on the life presence within you. Perfection will manifest.
- You choose your own mission in life. Your mission is not predetermined. Nobody will judge you.
- If it ain’t fun, don’t do it.
- If you do not know what brings you joy, just ask the question: WHAT IS MY JOY?
- Inner happiness is the fuel of success
- BE HAPPY NOW. FEEL GOOD NOW. That’s the only thing you have to do.
- Enjoy life!
- The last frontier is not space. The last frontier is MIND.
- We only use 5% of the potential of the human mind. Imagine a world where people were using their full mental and emotional potential. We could go anywhere, we could do anything, achieve anything.
- We are truly unlimited.
- Every single thing you’ve been through, every single moment that you’ve come through, were to all prepare you for this moment right now. NOW you get that you are the CREATOR of your destiny. IMAGINE what you can do from this day forward!