Book Review: The Secret by Rhonda Bryne

A. Name of Book: The Secret


B. Author: Rhonda Byrne

C. Background of Author: (Education, work experience, other books that he has written):



Rhonda Byrne (born March 12, 1951) is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, The Secret—a book and a film by the same name. By the Spring of 2007 the book had sold almost 4 million copies, and the DVD had sold more than 2 million copies. She has also been a producer for Sensing Murder. According to an article published by Australia's Herald Sun, Byrne has also worked on the Australian TV series World's Greatest Commercials and Marry Me. In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of 100 people who shape the world.



D. Summary of Each chapter (100 words each): Mention each chapter – summarize in 100 words.

1. The Secret Revealed:

The great secret of life is law of attraction.

The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.

Thoughts are magnetic and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source i.e. you.

You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing the thoughts.

2. The Secret made simple:

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as important as the law of gravity.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

To know what you are thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.

It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.

3. How to use the secret:

Like the Aladdin genie, law of attraction grants our every command.

The creative process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe and receive.

Asking the universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind you have got what you have asked. Believing involves acting, speaking and thinking as though you have already received what you have asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events and circumstances for you.

4. Powerful process:

Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want and don’t expect the things you don’t want.

Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have and you will attract more good things.

Giving thanks to what you want in advance turbo changes your desires and sends more powerful signal out into the universe.

5. The secret to money:

To attract money, focus is on your wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on lack of it.

It is helpful to use your imagination and make believe you already have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you will feel better about it, more will flow in your life.

Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money back into your life.

6. The secret to relationships:

When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions and surroundings don’t contradict your desires.

Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.

Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.

7. The secret to your health:

The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and is cured.

“Focusing on perfect health” is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what may be happening on the outside.

Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cure.

8. The secret to the world:

What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused on it with the emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new signal with thoughts and feelings.

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the worlds negative events, you not only add to them but you also bring more negative things into your life.

9. The secret to you:

Everything is energy. You are a energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.

You are a spiritual being. You are energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed. It just changes its form. Therefore the pure essence of you has always been and always will be.





E. 3 key learnings from the book:



The Secret reminds us that there is a powerful connection between our thoughts and our actions.

The essence of The Secret is "the law of attraction."

You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet.





F. How would you apply this in your personal life?



The essence of The Secret is "the law of attraction." According to Byrne and the twenty-nine co-contributors whom she quotes extensively, everything in the Universe (which is always capitalized and usually synonymous for "God") vibrates on a particular frequency. When you think in harmony with the frequency of something, you attract it to you. If you think about wealth, you will receive wealth. If you think instead about your debt, you will receive more debt. You attract what you think about; your thoughts determine your destiny.

Byrne restates the law of attraction in various ways: "Nothing [good or bad] can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts" (p. 28). "Your thoughts are the primary cause of everything". "Your current reality or your current life is a result of the thoughts you have been thinking". According to the product description on the DVD, "This is The Secret to everything—the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.

Byrne promises with ironclad certainty: "There isn't a single thing that you cannot do with this knowledge. The Secret can give you whatever you want". By it "you will come to know how you can have, be, or do anything you want".

In the final analysis, The Secret is nothing more than Name It-Claim It, Positive-Confession, Prosperity Theology (without God and the Bible), built on a foundation of New Age self-deification. In other words, the book is just another version of what some TV preachers have taught for decades.





G. How could you apply these learnings in your professional life?

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as important as the law of gravity.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

To know what you are thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.

It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.

Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want and don’t expect the things you don’t want.

Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have and you will attract more good things.

Giving thanks to what you want in advance turbo changes your desires and sends more powerful signal out into the universe.