How "The Secret" Has Changed My Life
Posted by Rohit Rohila | Posted in Life | Posted on 24-04-2008
By now I am certain that everyone has heard about the revolutionary personal development philosophy known as The Secret. Wether you read the book, watched the DVD, or have viewed one of the numerous documentaries about it, the concept of the Law of Attraction has become extremely powerful.
I was first introduced to The Secret about 3 years ago and it has since changed my life. I have worked very hard to make the philosophies of The Secret a habit in my life. I wake up every morning and say aloud “Thank you for this day that I have been given to change the world for the better!” At night I say, “I am so thankful for_______” and then go about listing the events/people/places/etc in my life that I am thankful for or that positively impacted me that day.
Here are a few events that have happened in my life, all because of The Secret:
- Job: Last June I had a feeling that by the end of the year I would have an incredible job. I wanted a job where I would be in control of my future and I could help a company grow, where I did promotional presentations, and I wanted to make “X” amount of dollars per year. I got that opportunity in September when I had a job interview. During my interview, I told the interviewers that the job was already mine, and this was a formality, because I had been visualizing having this job now for months. I got the job and am now doing product promotions for a small software company named Microsoft.
- Romance: After I watched The Secret, I knew that it would work for me, but still I had a little bit of doubt left. So I started to visualize something so impossible, that if it happened, I knew The Secret worked. I began to visualize myself and a friend of mine in a relationship. Now neither her nor I had any interests in each other before, but this time we had The Secret on our side. Within 2 months, we got together for a short while.
- Place to Live: I wanted to move. I didn’t know where or any of the other details, only that it was time for a change. So one night I closed my eyes and thought about my new place. About the layout, the paint, the kitchen, the carpet, the placement of the power outlets, where I would park my car, where the sun would shine, everything, in great detail. I opened up my eyes and drew the layout of my new apartment on my whiteboard. A few months later, I was driving home from work, when I decided to just take some time and drive around and relax. I ended up only about 5 minutes from the freeway, but I found this incredible apartment complex. I went inside and got a map of their 2 bedroom apartment. The layout that they gave me matched my drawing exactly! She showed me the an apartment that just opened up the day before, and it was my apartment, same color, everything, EVERYTHING was the same.
- Money: One of the most exciting tips in that I found in The Secret
was the concept of attracting money to you. Who wouldn’t love to just have money coming to them out of the blue, right? Well I went about my day, thanking the Universe for the money that I was receiving. Everywhere I went, I thought about attracting money into myself. I said over and over again the Mantra of “I am a money magnet. Money comes to me easily and effortlessly”, as taught in the teachers of The Secret
. A few weeks later, I received a $50 gift card in the mail. Next I received a $119.37 check from my credit card for a billing error. In 3 weeks I had received $75 worth of donations on this website.So in the time span of a month, I had received about $225. Not bad at all
So does The Secret work? For me it is a resounding yes! I am living an abundant life because of this wonderful gift that I have received. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Universe for everything!

The Secret is the latest and by far the worst example of a HIGHLY profitable trend where self-help gurus with fabricated new age titles and little relevant education, credentials or legitimate expertise brainwash us into believing that they know what is best for us, our marriages and our families.
Often their only contribution to society is introducing some exotic sounding, new age philosophy. However, they often cleverly form an incestuous group of like-minded “experts” who cross-promote each other by swearing their success is due to following the beliefs of another member of their “cult!” All the while, they ply the airwaves jockeying for an ever-larger audience by appearing in the national media to garner third-party endorsements.
The Self-Help Movement has become the Self-Destruct Movement by diminishing or destroying our critical thinking skills to choose and evolve on our own. We have given up the freedom to build healthy lives, marriages and families based on our unique history and life experience. Instead many victims, blinded to the value of their own life experiences, are attracted to the latest secret in self-help, in an attempt to find out what they should think, feel and how they should act… this is the definition of a cult.
The solution is a return to our (common) senses! The best way out of this learned “self-helplessness” is to go cold turkey. Stop following ALL self-help gurus now. Begin, instead, to reclaim your natural, God-given ability to think for yourself. The common sense that was once readily available to all of us is still there free of charge and waiting to be applied to just about any challenge we might face in life… all you have to do is use it.
Please, let’s all work together to stop the flock of “sheepeople” who blindly move from one UNPROVEN concept to the next, looking for the answers to life’s challenges that you already possess and that is the OBVIOUS!
Thank you for leaving the comment John. I am sorry that you feel that The Secret is fraudulent. All I can do is share how it has changed my life. I leave my readers to draw their own conclusions. Your comment provides a tremendous opportunity for readers to be educated, not only in favor of The Secret, but also against it, thus providing them with information to draw their own conclusions.
I am deeply disturbed by The Secret. I don’t think any sort of New Age movement of self-help is going to pull people out of their misery and their sinful ways, or pull this nation out of its turmoil and financial/economic stress. The only thing that can ever truly save us is repentance and belief in God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, who died a terrible and wretched death on the cross to save us, not so we could turn around, believe in the mantra of our own thinking, which God allowed us to have, and believe if we keep our heads focused on good things, things will go our way. It is not about our way. It is about God’s way. He doesn’t ever promise everything will be white roses and daisies, but He does promise to protect us through storms. If everyone was “happy” and we all walked around thinking the same things (which essentially is what we would do if we all believed the Secret and thought of money, health, romance, etc.) then we would not be a diverse people with varying thoughts and opinions. The free expression of ideas in society today is something I value deeply. The free expression of religion is something I deeply fixate upon…because if it were not for this nation’s freedom of religion, I could not go worship the One True God every Sunday and not get arrested for it. I know that this Secret seems so real to you, but maybe it is because the Devil is deceiving you and making you think it is everything you’ve been so lonely for all this time. I know that you may not feel this way, but like I said, free expression of opinions is something I value. Just because I don’t agree does not mean anything other than differing opinions. Please do consider though if you have not turned to Jesus you only know “happiness” and not joy; you only know “materialism” and you do not know peace. Remember, He died for you.