The Secret - The Law of Attraction

The Secret, a film produced by Prime Time Productions, consists of a series of interviews and dramatizations related to “The Law of Attraction“. Distributed through DVD, and online (through streaming media), the film and the subsequent publication of a book by the same name and of the same topic as the film, has attracted interest from media figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Larry King as well as criticism from the mainstream press.

The Secret, which is described as a self-help film, uses a documentary format to present the “Law of Attraction.” This law is the “secret” that, according to the tagline, “has traveled through centuries to reach you.” The film features short dramatized experiences and interviews of a team of “personal transformation specialists”, “spiritual messengers”, “feng shui masters”, and moneymaking “experts”.As put forth in the film, the “Law of Attraction” principle posits that people’s feelings and thoughts attract real events in the world into their lives; from the workings of the cosmos to interactions among individuals in their physical, emotional, and professional affairs. The film also suggests that there has been a strong tendency by those in positions of power to keep this central principle hidden from the public. The previews or “clues” to the film, show men who “uncovered the Secret…”.

The film interviews “professionals” and “authors” in the fields of quantum physics, psychology, metaphysics, coaching, theology, philosophy, finance, feng shui, medicine, and personal development, which they refer to as “secret teachers”. Some of these individuals, at their Web sites, promote the film and their connection to it. A few of the individuals with only brief appearances do not specifically speak of the “Law of Attraction” in their interviews, so their support of the concepts is based on viewer assumption.

The core message is that if your thoughts can attract certain things in your life. If you think about positive things, those positive things will happen to you, if you think about your problems, they will occur again. I read few things about positive self development and positive psihology, but the whole movie sends the fairy tale messsage (by my opinion).

In order to succed in life you need to think positive, but not only to think, you need also to act. This is the only part of the Movie/Book I disagree. You cannot just think of being a CEO of a succesful company, or having Gisele Bundchen as a girlfriend :-), you need to act in this way in order to get it, not only sit at home and think something will fall from the sky!

Positive attitude toward life in general is I respect the most. You need to learn from your problems, mistakes, take them as they are and learn not to repeat them. Be optimistic and rise up everytime you fall. This is how you succed in life and achieve happines.

Beside my disagreement with the movie, I suggest you see it, or read a book. You will enjoy it, I’m certain