It always amazes me how many skeptical people there are. Completely closed to new ideas they think they know what’s what and rubbish anything they can’t immediately understand.
For instance I came across a website for a publication called The Salon recently. They devoted no less than three whole pages to a mega-rant by someone called Peter Birkenhead on the The Secret and why Oprah Winfrey should not have mentioned it on her program. Now I reckon that Oprah Winfrey may be an influencial personality for those that watch that kind of thing, but she is human like the rest of us and is entitled to her beliefs and to air them publicly on her show.
In case you haven’t come across The Secret yet you can still access it for free here and have a look if you’re interested. I would describe it as a very uplifting feelgood kind of movie-documentary which, even if you don’t believe in any of it couldn’t posssibly do any harm to anyone and might just generate a whole new way of thinking. At the very least it gives the audience something to ponder on.
Why We Should Keep An Open Mind
Once upon a time there were people who believed the earth was flat. In the 1950′s there were plenty of people who stated publicly that TV would never catch on. There are still people today who believe in an actual place called ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’.
The thing is we don’t know what we don’t know, if that makes sense. If quantum physicists are now saying that matter can be moved or manifested just by the power of our thoughts then I would think that’s a good talking point and an even better idea would be to try it out. Clearly nothing (that we can see anyway) will happen in one day because our world doesn’t work that way. But since we all have many random thoughts throughout each day it would surely make sense to consciously direct those towards something that we want to have in our lives.
What Most People Don’t Want In Their Lives
The average person has several hundred thousand thoughts of one sort or another during a typical day. Some of these will just be idle reflections about nothing particular. But some thoughts will be filled with emotion and will linger to be gone over and over again. Depending on what kind of person you are you can monitor what you think about most of the time and guage how you react to certain situations.
For instance, the obvious one is media. Most of us buy a newspaper or watch the evening news to ‘keep up’ with what’s going on the world. I ask myself this. Unless world war 3 has broken out or the weather in my part of the world is about to be very disruptive, why do I need to know anything else.
Invariably news causes a reaction in most of us.
Oh my God – taxes/bills going up again
Oh my God – congestion charges and road tolls going up again
Oh my God – I don’t know how he (usually a politician) could say that – it’s all lies
Oh my God – that drunken driver has got away with murder
Oh my God – the world’s going to fry to a crisp
Oh my God – how come all these foreigners are getting free handouts
and so on and so on……..
It’s all gloom and doom. Newspapers wouldn’t sell if they didn’t report bad stuff. Evening News programs all compete with each other to get the latest scoop/lowdown on some scandal or other. Result? We are all outraged, angry, upset etc.
The bottom line is that there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about any of it. Scandals will carry on, injustices will occur, the earth will continue to warm up and governments will continue to take your money. So why inflict it on yourself. The one thing we can all do is to consciously make an effort to think about things we do want. In other words stop thinking about all the bad stuff that’s being pushed at you all day long. Because that’s the message in ‘The Secret’ – use your precious thoughts to think more passionately about what it is you do want more of in your life. You may just get it.
xemmie
