
I love this documentary!
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I actually bought this copy for a friend who has had the worst streak of bad luck a person can have. I try to watch it once a week, just to reaffirm what I need to be thinking about! It is difficult to change your thought patterns overnight, so it takes continuous practice.
I think this is a great movie that makes you feel so empowered by the end. My relationship with my husband has definitely grown since I first learned about The Secret, and I am now singing in a band (something I've always wanted to do) and studying to be a dog trainer (dogs are a passion of mine) in my spare time outside of my full-time job. I would have never pursued these things before with my previous thought pattern. My parents taught me to think that music and careers that didn't involve traditional schooling, like dog training, were a waste of time.
Now I don't think about the past and what my parents told me. I do what makes me happy. Period. And The Secret helped me break through to this level. I recommend to anyone who views it to take it with an open mind. It is true that you can do anything you visualize yourself doing with passion. That is how great things are accomplished in life. Don't take it as literally as you see it (girl thinks about having the necklace, and so someone buys it for her = improbable), but try to grasp the main concepts behind it (she keeps visualizing herself wearing that beautiful necklace and happens to catch the eye of her significant other staring at it through the window one day, so he buys it for her on her birthday = much more likely, and still within the confines of the secret).
Things don't just appear because we want them to. When we visualize having or doing things we really want with a lot of passion, our bodies and minds begin to automatically do the things needed to get us to that point. A couple of years ago, I was in grad school studying herpetology (reptiles and amphibians), and I found out that the 5th World Congress of Herpetology was in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Me and my collegue had never been before, and we both thought it would be a great opportunity to get to go. We presented the idea of presenting our thesis research at the conference to get our grant to pay for the trip. It was a long-shot and we were told it more than likely wouldn't happen but to go through the paperwork and see. We were so excited and determined - we weren't going to let anyone tell us no! We filled out the paperwork, defended everything that came our way, and we were approved for the trip! If we would have given up the first time we were told no, we would have never gotten to go. But we kept pushing, all the while excitedly talking and thinking about how cool South Africa would be. Everything ended up working exactly the way we wanted it to and we presented our research at the conference, and then went on a 10-day wildlife excursion afterwards. It was even more awesome than we thought it would be!
It is important to think about what you want with passion and intent. It really does work!!
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