Feb 14 2007
Law of Attraction, The Secret and Wealth
In my travels around the web this morning, I stumbled across an article that contained a negative review of the February 8th Oprah show about The Secret.
The author asks: “Is The Secret just about getting money, losing weight, having better sex or finding your “soul-mate?” While I was watching the February 8th Oprah Show I received an email that said it was a shame that The Secret was all about getting money. The emailer was looking for a more “meditative experience” and was disappointed.”
This is a common argument that I’ve seen and heard repeatedly since The Secret’s debut. It does raise a valid point: that money isn’t everything and doesn’t necessarily guarantee happiness. With that, I can agree.
But at the same time, a question always comes to my mind when I see these types of arguments: “What’s WRONG with having MONEY?”
There are two basic points I want to cover regarding this topic today:
1) “The Secret” is NOT all about money, sex and losing weight. Anyone who has seen the movie might recall mention of abundant health and wellness, the importance of gratitude, and the choice to feel good as often as possible. Regardless of our financial status, sex life or body weight, focusing on being healthy and happy can drastically improve our quality of life!
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, don’t believe that it only covers money and material possessions. It’s a guide to creating more happiness and joy in your life, and that can certainly include more money, a better job and a thinner body.
2) Negative comments about money and possessions usually reveal one thing about the commenter: the belief that there is something wrong with being wealthy or prosperous.
Like many others, I was raised to believe that I didn’t need much. If I had a steady job and was making enough to get by, then I was doing good, and that’s all I should expect.
Thankfully, I’ve altered that belief. I decided I wanted to do more than “get by”. I wanted to create a life of ease and comfort for myself and my loved ones. I wanted the freedom to spend my days doing something I love, rather than trading hours for dollars at a job I didn’t like.
And as I’ve written many times before, when your core beliefs change, so do your external circumstances! 
Here’s another way to look at it. Ask yourself what you believe your life purpose to be, and which circumstances would allow you to fulfill that purpose in the best and most effective way.
In my situation, I know I’m here to write and share my words with others. Could I still do that if I was living in a cardboard box under a bridge? Sure! I don’t need money to share my words with others. Well, except that I wouldn’t be able to afford a computer, or an internet connection. If I tried to share my words with others in print rather than online, I’d have to find a way to afford paper and perhaps a manual typewriter. (or a notebook and pen?) Not to mention that I’d be spending so much time trying to forage for food and warm clothing that I’d have less time to write.
You get my point.
Perhaps the author of the aforementioned article doesn’t desire wealth and riches. That’s fine! Really, just like there’s nothing wrong with being rich, there’s nothing wrong with living a meager lifestyle - as long as it’s done by conscious choice.
Feeling powerless over your circumstances and yearning for something better serves no one. Choosing to take control of your creative power and direct it in ways that improve ANY aspect of your life is a good thing.
Want a deeper spiritual life? Want to feel joyful and content on a daily basis? The Law of Attraction can help you do that, and more.
It’s all about getting clear about what you want, and choosing to attract something better, whatever that may be.
P.S. Happy Valentine’s Day!!
Wendy
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Wendy Betterini has spent much of her writing career empowering people to transform their lives by changing their thoughts. All change begins within.
A given lifestyle may,as it is, be the fullfillment of a given
plan and provide the incentives to the acceptance of life,
as it is to create a consciousness of plenty and a sense of satisfaction that one need not look for money to create a sense of plenty, but to a sense of plenty built upon ideas, frugality, resourcefullness and most importantly, a sense of detachment from desire, producing a state of mind where one finds a sense of serenity and completeness and wholeness at peace with
all that is, as it is. This is where I find myself and all is
certainly well.—Respectfully, Doug Rosbury
Thanks Doug, I appreciate you stopping in and sharing your thoughts!
Wendy