The Secret by Rhonda Byrne explains the power of positive thinking. It shows how affirmation, gratitude, and visualization can help change people’s lives.
Summary Of The Book
The Secret was first published in 2006, along with the release of a movie version of the same name. This self-help book aims to show people how they can change their lives for the better and achieve success in all aspects of their lives. This is the Tamil edition of the bestselling book.
According to the author, the power of thoughts can shape lives. If people have positive attitude and express gratitude for things they already have and visualize their desires, it opens up opportunities for those desires to become reality.
The author believes that the whole universe is governed by the law of attraction. The power of this law can help fulfil a person’s desire, if they tune into the right frequency through their thoughts. Thus, positive thoughts attract positive results.
Thoughts, both negative and positive, have the power to influence events. For instance, anger invites experiences that cause a person to feel aggressive. Positive feelings attract positive events. Carrying this further through visualization can help people actually get whatever they want, according to the author.
She places special emphasis on gratitude and visualization. The feeling of gratitude gives off a positive frequency that attracts good things. Visualization helps translate that power into objects that we desire.
For instance, if a person wants to own a car, they have to tune their thoughts so that it feels like they already have it. The visualizations have to take practical shape like thinking about test driving the car, deciding on where to park it, thinking of all the positive effects having a car can have on their life. According to the author, doing this will cause the frequency emitted by their thoughts to work with the law of attraction and create circumstances that will end up in the person actually getting a car.
The Secret elaborates on how these principles can be applied to various situations to change the reader’s life.
About Rhonda Byrne
Rhonda Byrne is an Australian writer and television producer who shot to fame with the publication of her book The Secret, and the release of a film by the same name.
Byrne followed this up with other books- The Magic, The Power, The Secret Daily Teachings, etc.
Her self-help philosophy is based on the New Thought movement that asserts that a higher, universal power pervades everything, and our thoughts can communicate with this power to change lives.
The Secret was featured in Oprah Winfrey’s show, and became highly popular. The book and the film together are said to have made around three hundred million dollars in profit.
