The Secret

The topic of a column in a local magazine this week was on Rhonda Byrne's The Secret.

To be honest, I didn't know it was such a hit worldwide till the column mentioned it. It's a self-help book with the basic theory that positive thoughts will attract and lead to positive outcomes e.g. if you want to lose weight, you must think of "thin" thoughts instead of "I must lose weight" thoughts. Have to say I'm still a bit sketchy on the details as I have not read the entire book. Self-help books are just not my thing.

Anyway, Kenneth Cole told me about the book because his mentor at work suggested it to him for leisure reading. Didn't think much about it until we chanced upon it at a bookstore one fine day. The Secret will open the doors to everything you ever wanted – wealth, success, even love – and browsing through the 'true-accounts' offered by a variety of people in the book, I find it hard to believe that this basic theory works...sounds a tad too easy.

I vaguely remember one of the stories I read in the book was how the Secret can help in the relationship department. This woman was practicing the Secret to look for her one true love. She did everything in a positive light from clearing one side of her garage to make room for HIS car to making her house more acceptable for living for TWO but it still didn't happen. Then she realised the only deterrent factor was that she wasn't sleeping on one side of the. She wasn't positively thinking to make room for a potential partner.

Her true look came as soon as she started to sleep on one side of the bed. Warped but apparently true. Who knows? My bed is a single.

~SeamonkeY~