So What Is The Secret?
Odds are good that you have heard of the hit The Secret. It seems to be everywhere these days, but what is it?
The Secret is not really a secret at all. What The Secret is, is a cleaned up and very easy to understand version of the law of attraction. You are probably familiar with the law of attraction, like attracts likes.
Author Rhonda Byrne has put together this best seller as a hit book, audiobook and movie. The movie The Secret, gained its initial popularity by way of viral marketing. Prime Time Productions offers free use of the movie to certain organizations and viewings.
The Secret as a book is a New York Times best seller and over the Christmas season of 2006 was one of Amazon’s top five sellers.
The newest median for The Secret is on audiobook. This audiobook can be downloaded on the Internet and runs four hours. Listening to The Secret on audiobook is gaining popularity as you can listen to it during your down time. This is a great way to really absorb its principles.
The general idea of The Secret is that like attracts like. In other words, if you are over weight and want to lose weight you need to hang out with thin people, and visualize being thin. Basically you just put it out there to the universe and let a divine force work its magic. The story is told in a narrative style, much like that of the hit movie, What The Bleep Do We Know.
The story teaches us that most of us focus our energy on fears and reinforcing behaviors that have gotten us to where we are today. What we need to do is focus our thoughts and intentions on what we want in life, and to be the change we are looking for in life.
Rhonda Byrne originally got her idea for The Secret from reading the book The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles, written in 1910. Napoleon Hill also wrote the book Think and Grow Rich and there is also W. Clement Stones Believe to Achieve. All of these books have the same secret within their pages.
The idea of The Secret is also found in the Bible, in Mathew 7:7 Ask and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. And in Mark 9:23, All things are possible to him that believeth.
The Secret is so big, that it was even featured on Oprah for an entire episode. And we all know what kind of sales of books come from any that are featured on Oprah.
Naming the DVD and move The Secret was a brilliant marketing idea. Everyone wants in on a secret. A big part of what has made the book so big is that people were thinking that they were learning a new idea. These people have never visited the business section at Barnes and Noble or may not be familiar with the Bible.
The idea of The Secret is also found in the Bible, in Mathew 7:7 Ask and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. And in Mark 9:23, All things are possible to him that believeth.
I do feel that there are many truths to The Secret. Intention and visualization are powerful tools. This idea is also nothing new to anyone who believes in writing down their goals. This goes way back, the philosopher Seneca said, if a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
The way that I see The Secret is something that will benefit virtually everyone on some level. The ideas might be brand new and mind blowing to you, or it might just be a reminder on focusing on the things that are important to you and the changes you want in life.
The author recommends downloading The Secret as an audiobook from http://www.audiobookstoreportal.com
The Alchemist Lurking In The Audio Book
Are you ready for the next generation of the book? That is correct! It is available here and now. It is in your very computer waiting for you to look at your desktop monitor and a free sample of it from the very source that it comes from. All you need to do to get started, after doing due diligence, is to download it.
This mysterious but newly fascinating concept is the audio book. An audio book is a printed book that is transferred to splintered wire endings of your audible website you visit while book shopping, and ultimately to sound by a reader we will call, in this case, Jeremy Irons.
So, your eyes are not reading a book anymore because your ears now pick up a new function of reading the printed book by listening to Jeremy Irons. Let us take a typical case. Say you want to listen to a book with your ears rather than read it with your sleepy, tired eyes. No hands holding books or turning pages, no elbow leaning and mild back strain. Amazingly, no reading light needed either.
You go to an audio book website and start shopping around. You put in the keyword Alchemist at the source box at the top of the page and, lo and behold, a storybook type audio book shows as being listed on the web site.
The price will be less than a printed book because the same electrical impulses are stored on the computer file at far less cost. There is no shipping because the book is downloaded directly off of the web site.
You listen to a five minute free snippet of the book itself that is read to you by Jeremy Irons who will be your reader pal for the whole four hours and thirty minutes. The sample sounds interesting and contemplative to you and the price is right so you go to a basket and purchase the audio book called Alchemist at a great price.
You watch a video that shows you the simple instructions to download the Alchemist lurking in the audio book on the web site. You can do this! You download the audible book to your desktop.
You can open it and play it at this point. If you have good, strong speakers on your computer set up you can play the storybook and let Jeremy Irons be your partner in the listening to this book.
On the web site there was a testimonial about this fantasy book written by Paulo Coelho that says quote, this is a wise and inspiring fable about the pilgrimage that life should be, by M. Scott Peck,M.D. and author of The Road less Traveled. You think to yourself, perhaps this is a good book.
Paulo Coelho is an international best selling author whose books include The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, The Fifth Mountain and others. His publications have sold more than thirty million copies in one hundred and twenty countries. They have also been translated into forty seven languages. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
There is not a hurry to listen to it so you can listen to parts of the audio presentation in bites of fifteen or thirty minutes at a time. You can pick up where you left off at any time. This fine audio book, storybook can legally and ethically be burned onto a CD, transferred directly into iTunes and then to your ipod, if you choose.
You will find this story to be about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself King, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest.
No one knows what the treasure will be in the adventure of the storybook. The interesting part is finding and learning about the Alchemist lurking in the audio book itself.
This adventure journey turns into a meditation on the treasures found within. The story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts. Does this sound like your life quest at times?
Take some time each day to lay on the couch in the living room or set in the shade outside with your family. You can share this adventure together and share your own views of it as you listen to each segment of it.
It will take on individual meaning to each of you about your individual life journeys. You will be fascinated with the different impressions your family and friends have of it as it pertains to themselves.
James M. Lowe has thousands of audio books for you to view with free samples.
http://www.lisneen.com/
Prospecting for the Gold of a Miner’s Heart
Mining is such a rich subject fraught with meaning both metaphorical and actual. Mining is a metaphor for so many things, some of them opposites,womb, tomb, search, journey, riches, poverty, darkness, discovery, to name a few.
Certainly mining was a considerable factor in pioneering, building and establishing the character of our nation. Stories of miners abound. Some historical figures have pursued mining to the limits of prosperity and back down to the depths of despair and poverty.
Horace Tabor when he died, told his wife, Baby Doe, to hold onto the Matchless Mine, a silver mine in Central City, at all costs. She did that for thirty-five years after the death of Horace and was found dead, some say her arms in the shape of a cross, in the mine itself. Some science fiction movies use mining and its darkness as a metaphor for hell.
The adventure abounds, and to my way of thinking nowhere more engagingly and agreeably than in the book, Orphan Boy, A Love Affair with Mining by H. Court Young. What is so compelling about this book is its real life hero, Herbert T. Young.
He did his duty in adversity; he followed his passion in his marriage and profession; he bestowed a legacy and example of loving inspiration for his descendants; and consequently he harbored no regrets in old age. Is this not what we would all like to be able to say about our lives?
Herbert had a childhood which was dismal because his father, after the depression, deserted his mother and his other nine siblings. Yet Herbert turned this catastrophe to victory excelling in everything he did. He held jobs to help his family.
In high school he participated in sports and held a record in basketball that had not been broken when he died. He did not really want to fight in World War Two, but he saw it as his duty, enlisted and served in the famous fighting 17th which flew very dangerous combat missions in the Pacific Theater for several years of the war.
He married the love of his life whom he met at college and pursued the profession of mining after the war, out of his passion and penchant for adventure. He shared with his son, Court, the author of this book, many actual mining experiences and many stories about the nature and character of being a miner. He did not flinch from duty, but also he never gave up his dream.
When I think about life I find that very often I do not live close to the passion in my heart and in my soul. I love to find stories of people who pursue their life dreams and talents until the end. Herbert did that. From Oprah we get the idea of being able to make the connection, perhaps between our outward selves and our souls.
It is always a wonderful experience to read about people who take risks, who pursue the dream, which is sometimes wild and wooly, cracked and fractured, albeit frequently graceful and stunning as a mountain peak. Herbert was such a person who experienced all the highs and lows of following his ardor for mining. He made the connection between heart and mind, between vision and action. I think of him as reconciling the outer and inner man.
This book contains much more than just the story of Herbert. It tells about mining itself and how it works, and it informs the tourist of the fun of exploring the area by hike, bike, ATV and Four Wheeler.
But for me, I love the story of a man of The Greatest Generation who turned his passion and his pain into joy and giving. He led a generous life to himself, to his family, his friends and business associates, a life which can enliven and invigorate us all to follow our dreams.
Diana Burg is an author with several books. She writes novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and poetry. Her passion is writing. She is a partner in BurgYoung Publishing, Two Authors with One Vision. http://www.burgyoungpublishing.com
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