by Rhonda Byrne
One of the most powerful uses of gratitude can be incorporated in the Creative Process to turbo-charge what you want. As Bob Proctor advised in the first step of the Creative Process, Ask, start by writing down what you want. "Begin each sentence with, I am so happy and grateful now that. . ." (and you fill in the rest).
When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe. That signal is saying that you have it already because you are feeling gratitude for it now. Each morning before you get out of bed, make it a habit to feel the feelings of gratitude /'// advance for the great day ahead, as though it is done.
From the moment 1 discovered The Secret and formulated the vision to share this knowledge with the world, 1 gave thanks every day for the film The Secret, which would bring joy to the world. I had no idea how we would bring this knowledge to the screen, but trusted that we would attract the way. 1 stayed focused and held to the outcome. 1 felt deep feelings of gratitude in advance. As that became my state of being, the floodgates opened and all the magic flowed into our lives. For the magnificent team of The Secret, and for me, our deep, heartfelt feelings of gratitude continue to this day. We have become a team that resonates gratitude with every moment, and it has become our way of life.
Visualization is a process that has been taught by all the great teachers and avatars throughout the centuries, as well as by all the great teachers living today. In Charles Haanel's book, 7/if Master Key System, written in 1912, he gives twenty-four weekly exercises to master visualization. (More important, his complete Master Key Si/stem will also help you become the master of your thoughts.)
The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want, you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visualization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it causes equally powerful feelings. When you are visualizing, you are emitting that powerful frequency out into the Universe. The law of attraction will take hold of that powerful signal and return those pictures back to you, just as you saw them in your mind.
DR. DENIS WAITLEY
1 took the visualization process from the Apollo program, and instituted it during the 1980s and '90s into the Olympic program. It was called Visual Motor Rehearsal.
When you visualize then you materialize. Here's an interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes
mid had them run their event only in their mind, mid then hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment. Incredibly, the same muscles fired in the same sequence when they were running the race in their mind as when they were running it on the track. How could this be? Because the mind can't distinguish whether you're really doing it or whether it's just a practice. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body.
Think about the inventors and their inventions: The Wright Brothers and the plane. George Eastman and film. Thomas-Edison and the light bulb. Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. The only way anything has ever been invented or created is because one person saw a picture in his mind. He saw it clearly, and by holding that picture of the end result in his mind, all the forces of the Universe brought Ms invention into the world, through him.
These men knew The Secret. These were men who had utter faith in the invisible, and who knew the power within them to leverage the Universe and bring the invention into the visible. Their faith and their imagination have been the cause of the evolution of humankind, and we reap the benefits of their creative minds every single day.
You may be thinking, "I do not have a mind like these great inventors." You may be thinking, "They could imagine those things, but I can't." You could not be further from the truth, and as you continue on this great discovery of the knowledge of The Secret,
you will learn that you not only have the mind they had, but much more.
MIKE DOOLEY
When you're visualizing, when you've got that picture playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the end result.
Here's an example. Look at the buck of your hands, right now. Really look at the back of your hands: the color of your skin, the freckles, the blood vessels, the rings, the fingernails. Take in all those details. Right before you close your eyes, see those hands, your fingers, wrapping around the steering wheel of your brand new car.
DR. JOE VITALE
This is such a holographic experience— so real in this moment —that you don't even feel as if you need the car, because it feels like you have it already.
Dr. Vitale's words brilliantly sum up the place you want to get yourself to when visualizing. When it feels like a jolt as you open your eyes in the physical world, your visualization became real. But that state, that plane, is the real. It is the field where everything is created, and the physical is just the result of the real field of all creation. That's why you won't feel as if you need it anymore, because you tuned in and felt the real field of creation through your visualization. In that field, you have everything now. When you feel that, you will know it.
Jack Can field
It's the feeling that really creates the attraction, not just the picture or the thought. A lot of people think, "If I think positive thoughts, or if I visualize having what I want, that will be enough." But if you're doing that and still not feeling abundant, or feeling loving or joyful, then it doesn't create the power of the attraction.
Bob Doyle
You put yourself in the feeling place of really being in that car. Not "I wish I could get that car," or, "Some day I'll have that car," because that's a very definite feeling associated with that. It's not in the now. It's in the future. If you stay in that feeling, it will always be in the future.
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Now that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an open doorway through which the power of the Universe will begin to express.
Mike Dooley
The "hows" are the domain of the Universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.
Dr. Joe Vitale
If you turn it over to the Universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.
The teachers of The Secret are all aware of the elements you bring into play when you visualize. As you see the picture in your mind and feel it, you are bringing yourself to a place of believing you have it now. You are also implementing trust and faith in the Universe, because you are focusing on the end result and experiencing the feeling of that, without giving any attention whatsoever to "how" it will come about. Your picture in your mind is seeing it as done. Your feelings are seeing it as done. Your mind and your entire state of being are seeing it as already happened. That is the art of visualization.
"What this power is 1 cannot say. All 1 know is that it exists."
Jack Can field
Our job is not to figure out the how. The how will show up out of a commitment and belief in the what.
Dr. Joe vitale
You want to do this virtually daily, but it should never be a chore. What's really important to the whale Secret is feeling good. You want to feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune, as much as possible.
Everyone has the power to visualize. Let me prove it to you with a picture of a kitchen. For this to work, first of all you have to get all thoughts of your kitchen out of your mind. Do not think of your kitchen. Totally clear your mind of pictures of your kitchen, with its cupboards, refrigerator, oven, tiles, and color scheme . . .
You saw a picture of your kitchen in your mind, didn't you? Well, then you just visualized!
"Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success."
Here's a tip about visualizing, which Dr. John Demartini shares in his Breakthrough Experience seminars. John said that if you create a static picture in your mind it can be diffi
cult to hold that picture, so create lots of movement in your picture.
To illustrate this, imagine your kitchen again, and this time imagine yourself entering that kitchen, walking to the refrigerator and putting your hand on the door handle, opening the door, looking inside, and finding a cold bottle of water. Reach in and grab it. You can feel the coldness on your hand as you grasp the bottle. You have the bottle of water in one hand, and you use your other hand to close the refrigerator door. Now that you are visualizing your kitchen with detail and movement it's easier to see and hold the picture, isn't it?
"We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers."
Marci Shimoff
The only difference between people who live in this way, who live in the magic of life, and those who don't is that the people who live in the magic of life have habituated ways of being. They've made a habit of using the law of attraction, and magic happens with them wherever they go. Because they remember to use it. They use it all the time, not just as a one-time event.
Here are two true stories that clearly demonstrate the powerful law of attraction and the immaculate matrix of the Universe in action.
The first story is about a woman named Jeannie, who bought a DVD of The Secret and was watching it at least once a day so that she would absorb the message right into the cells of her body. She was particularly impressed with Bob Proctor, and she thought it would be wonderful to meet him.
One morning Jeannie collected her mail, and to her utter amazement the mailman had accidentally delivered Bob Proctor's mail
to her address. What Jamie didn't know is that Bob Proctor lived just four blocks away from her! Not only that, but Jeannie's house number was the same number as Bob's. She immediately took the mail to deliver it to the correct address. Can you imagine her utter delight when the door opened and Bob Proctor was standing before her? Bob is rarely at home as he travels all over the world teaching, but the matrix of the Universe knows only perfect timing, from Jeannie's thought of how wonderful it would be to meet Bob Proctor, the law of attraction moved people, circumstances, and events throughout the Universe so that it happened.
The second story involves a ten-year-old boy named Colin, who had seen and loved The Secret. Colin's family made a weeklong visit to Disney World, and on their first day they experienced long lines at the park. So that night, just before Colin fell asleep, he thought, "Tomorrow I'd love to go on all the big rides and never have to wait in line."
The next morning, Colin and his family were at the gates of Epcot Center as the park opened, and a Disney staff member approached and asked them if they would be Epcot's First Family of the Day. As First Family they would be given VIP status, a special escort by a staff member, and walk-on passes for every big ride in Epcot. It was everything and more that Colin had wished for!
Hundreds of families were waiting to enter Epcot that morning, but Colin didn't have the slightest doubt as to why his family had been chosen First Family. He knew it was because he had used The Secret.
Imagine discovering—at the age of ten—that the power to move worlds lies within you!
"Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth—yourself."
James Ray
People hold that for a while, and they're really a champion at it. They say, "I'm fired up. I saw this program and I'm going to change my life." And yet results aren't showing. Beneath the surface it's just about ready to break through, but the person will look just at the surface results and say, "This stuff doesn't work." And you know what? The Universe says, "Your wish is my command," and it disappears.
When you allow a thought of doubt to enter your mind, the law of attraction will soon line up one doubtful thought after another. The moment a thought of doubt comes, release it immediately. Send that thought on its way. Replace it with "I know I am receiving now." And feel it.
JOHN ASSARAF
Knowing the law of attraction, I wanted to really put it to use and to see what would happen. In 1995 I started to create something called a Vision Board, where I take something that
/ want to achieve, or something that I want to attract, like a car or a watch or the soul unite of my dreams, and I put a picture of what I want up on this hoard. Every day I would sit in my office and I would look up at this hoard and I would start to visualize. I would really get into the state of having already acquired it.
I was getting ready to move. We put all the furniture, all the boxes, into storage, and I made three different moves over a period of five years. And then I ended up in California and bought this house, renovated it for a year, and then had all the stuff brought from my former home five years earlier. One morning my son Keenau came into my office, and one of the boxes that was sealed for five years was right at the doorstep. He asked, "What's in the boxes, Daddy?" And I said, "Those are my Vision Boards." He then asked, "What's a Vision Board7" I said, "Well, it's where 1 put all my goals up. 1 cut them out and I put all my goals up as something that I want to achieve in my life." Of course at five and a half years old he didn't understand, and so I said, "Sweetheart, let me just show you, that'll be the easiest way to do it."
I cut the box open, and on one Vision Board was a picture of a home that I was visualizing five years earlier. What was shocking was that we were living in that house. Not a house like it —I actually bought my dream home, renovated it, and didn’t even know it. I looked at that house and I started to cry, because I was just blown away. Keenau asked, "Why are you crying?" "I finally understand how the law of attraction
works. I finally understand the power of visualization. I finally understand everything that I've read, everything that I've worked with my whole life, the way I've built companies. It worked for my home as well, and I bought our dream home and didn't even know it."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
You can let your imagination go wild with a Vision Board, and place pictures of all the things you want, and pictures of how you want your life to be. Make sure you put the Vision Board in a place where you see it and look at it every day, as John Assaraf did. Feel the feelings of having those things now. As you receive, and feel gratitude for receiving, you can remove pictures and add new ones. This is a wonderful way to introduce children to the law of attraction. 1 hope the creation of a Vision Board inspires parents and teachers worldwide.
One of the people on The Secret website Forum put a picture of The Secret DVD on his Vision Board. He had seen The Secret but didn't own his own copy. Two days after he created his Vision Board, 1 felt inspired to post a notice on The Secret Forum giving away DVDs to the first ten people who posted. Fie was one of the ten! He had received a copy of The Secret DVD within two days of putting it on his Vision Board. Whether it is a DVD of The Secret or a house, the joy of creating and receiving is magnificent!
Another powerful example of visualizing comes from my mother's experience of buying a new house. Several people besides my mother had put in offers for this particular house. My mother decided to use The Secret to make that house hers. She sat down and wrote her name and the new address of the house over and over. She continued doing this until it felt as though it was her address. She then imagined placing all of her furniture in that new house. Within hours of doing these things, she received a phone call saying her offer had been accepted. She was so thrilled, but it didn't come as a surprise to her because she knew that house was hers. What a champion!
Jack Can field
, Decide what you want, believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it's possible for you. And then close your eyes every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you’re grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure
out how to manifest it.
Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don't expect the things you don't want.