Dear Oprah and The Teachers of the Secret....and Ms. Beck!
I wasn't prepared to become a "convert" and live the life as outlined in the book and DVD "The Secret" when I picked the DVD up in November of 2006 I was just curious, as I love these kinds of books ...I had been reading them for years. Key word "reading".

But one moment became clear when I watched the DVD - You do indeed get what you ask for you get - and I had been getting everything I asked for...I always said:

"I never have money" - Presto I never had money.

"I'll never find "THE" job! The one that's perfect for my gifts and purpose here on earth" It had been over 7 years - and I hadn't found the job that had me putting my feet over the edge of the bed each morning - looking forward to the work I was doing.

I decided to look at all my letters I had sent To Oprah - and Dr. Phil and reverse my complaints into requests to the Universe - To Ask - Believe and Receive...and as I like to say with Believe is TRUST that you will get what is needed when the time is right - it may not be on your calendar or schedule. But you do get what you ask for - in time. And that's the hard part - in time!

Then I decided to think as I already had the job and the money - and made vision bards and each morning and night said my believing statement.

Then I started my search with positive thoughts this time - I took action - and that is key. Not to sit back and hope.

I wrote down my perfect job - listed what it had to have.

In March 2006 I got a call from a place that I had applied to three times and even had an interview to get a job - made it to the last two candidates and lost out. ( I wasn't deemed professional enough slap!)

This was a call that I had envisioned in my daily affirmations. This job met my list perfectly.

I still write Oprah and Dr. Phil. but I also leave nothing to chance and do my vision boards, visualization and have written down my life as I want it as per "The Success Principles" (thanks Jack Canfield - love that book too).

My life is good and I am happy. That is a major improvement from where I was.

Now after the Martha Beck article in Oprah magazine this month - I am writing my list for "HIM" - "The ONE"

Can't wait for this show! I am taking off work early on Wednesday.

With thanks - Light and Love
Cheers!
Dianne
PS just started Oprah's new book club pick...already had spme "ah-hah" moments and I'm only on page 127.Love that Echardt is a Canadian author

It still amazes me at the number of people who discount the universal Law Of Attraction. There's no mumbo-jumbo magic involved. Just focused thinking and creating. As a personal trainer and weight loss coach I use the principles to help my clients achieve their weight loss goals. No magic but boy does it work!

Sandra L. Garth

I am excited that Louise Hay will be appearing on the Oprah show! Will it be on the 02/06/08 show? Louise is an incredible lady who has enlightened many of us to the power of our thoughts and words; and she helped to make gifted teachers, Esther and Jerry Hicks, ("The Teachings of Abraham"), available to seekers of Truth. Life is good.

The Secret really can change your life if you truly believe in the positive aspects of the Law of Attraction. Questioning the underlying ideas and doubt are negative and not creative - so if one focuses on that, The Secret won't work for those people. The Secret is working for me. I've been using The Secret in my everyday life for the past year and have been experience extra ordinary results in 2007: 1. Promised myself that I would sell my house when offered double what I paid for it. The papers were signed Jan 2007 with a 200% profit. 2. I had been complaining of being single for over a year but then focused my thoughts on having and experiencing a great relationship. He materialized in February 2007 3. I imagined my new home and had one built during the spring Feb-July. I moved in. 4. I imagined my life with triple my current salary and began steadily focusing on wealth and money. I received a huge promotion in July 2007. I went from a $34,000/yr salary to $85,000. 5. I then focused on having a spacious vehicle to take extended holidays with my family. The owner of a large chain dealership sold me a vehicle at their cost - but we also became friends earlier in the year and it sure paid off. You'll never know what connections will do for you in the future so BE NICE! 6. Being my own boss of a successful company was also appealing and was offered a management job at the largest company in my profession in Nov 2007. 7. Travel to a tropical locale was next on my list. I focused on having a wind fall of cash arriving to pay off my bills and finance the vacation. I just received a $21,000 bonus at work! 8. I am now focusing on a new life-changing idea for my business to improve customer service and satisfaction. I can see it already - and you'll know when it happens! You may just see it here! Ask... Believe... Receive. Always think positive and appreciate everything - SAY THANK YOU. When that negative idea creeps up, push it aside and move forward. Even if you really don't believe in The Secret, wouldn't it make your life, and others, more enjoyable (never having to listen to a complainer or negative person again!). Either way, you win. Be Happy, Copper J

Dear Oprah Thank you for these wonderful tools for living my best life. The last few years have been so turbulent and strange. I didn't listen to the whispers and signnals around me. I ignored the inner voice. I'm listening now.My thoughts are now in the present. I feel good in the present. The books you introduced has changed and is continuing to change my life. I read The Secret, I have the CD and I'm currently reading A NEW EARTH. Yes my purpose and spirit feels awaken. At first there was this jolt and repositioning and things I tried to hide and lie about were forced out. I felt completely purged from so many things. Then I felt light and liberated of other negative issues. I have to tell you I was so excited about these books. I purchased the books on tape so that I could listen when I wasn't able to read. Thank you again.

I love the "Secret" and have seen it work even before I ever read the book ( or the video) However I am very surprised that some people feel that you can't believe in God and the secret. (the priest at my friend's church equated it to magic, trying to be god like and the "Occult") I personally found this to be LOL funny. If you just change one word in the "secret" You'll see a whole new world. Rhonda Birne introduced us to something that is not only thousands of years old but also free. I thank her for renewing people's faith in prayer. That's right whether you use the word "Universe" or God. "Ask and ye shall recieve rings true" Ask the Universe (God made the universe) Believe (that God will answer) and then recieve. You will be guided toward what you want. Just as a side note for those of you who don't know: from what I've read of wicca is incorporates the Law of attraction into it's practise. If you are going to bad mouth a religion I suggest you google it first. God Bless +Simone+

With that title I thought that Esther Hicks was going to be on the show tomorrow. But from what I read just above Louise Hay is going to be on the show... that is a start! Oprah did interviewed Esther on her radio show.... THANK YOU for that! For those who doesn't know who Esther Hicks is... she was on The Secret (first version)... the reason why she wasn't on the extended version is too long to mention here. She (Abraham) is behind the teachings of a few teachers on The Secret.

I did apply Abraham's teachings into my life and it is scary how things started to happen... in ways I never thought it would. For instance, last year 2 of my close friends got separated and divorced. While that was happening I did envy them for getting their freedom back among other things. Guess what... my spouse left me 3 weeks ago. I was shocked at first and realized that I had a desire for it to happen and it did!

Another thing happened but not in a way I thought it would. I was pregnant with my second child and had asked to the Universe that this child be gifted with healing people. I lost my child after giving birth to him. He died 40 minutes after birth. But I had the priviledge to get to know him and hold him in my arm and spend the most previous time with him. A friend of mine made me realized that what I had asked to the Universe came true through that tragedy. I never was an emotionally opened person. I always kept my emotions inside, never talked openly about them. But since that tragedy, my friend told me how talkative I started to be about my emotions. My son came into my life briefly but long enough to heal me. That was his gift to me. I have never thought that the gift I asked for for my son was going to be applied towards his own mother.

All I have to say is.... BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR (even secretly)!!

Natalie

Hello. We were at the taping for follow up shows of "The Secret". I was wondering about the great illustrations that were on all the screens. Who is the artist and where can you get them? Thank you Kathleen

I was so excited to see the show this morning! Though my life is still at times a work in progress, I have seen the effects of "the secret" in my own life for years now without even knowing what it was. I was excited to snag the love of my life after believing for over a year that he would be the one I would marry. That was over 7 years ago now and just this past summer we stood before our family and friends promising our love for each other for the rest of our lives. Along the same lines, I had for years dreamt of having an outdoor wedding...in July...near Chicago. Risky, huh? Everyone warned me that it would be SO hot out and it could rain and be a complete disaster. But I stood my ground, imagining a picture perfect day. I never gave in and when the day came, it was beautiful! It was in the low 70's, a slight breeze and sunny as ever! After three years at a junior college, years upon years of meaningless jobs, and the struggle to create a career path in my life that would truly make me happy, I told myself before the New Year that I was going to find it very soon and I would stick with it. Not two weeks into the New Year while taking my dog for a walk, he was attacked by another dog, sending me into a frenzy. Luckily, he came out of it practically unharmed. I realized that this was the wake-up call that I needed. I knew for years that I love animals more than anything and would eventually end up working with them. I made the decision that day that I was going to become a dog trainer. I know now that the answers to all of our questions about life, love, and our purpose here are within arms reach, if we only extend our arms. Best of wishes to those who will try to begin using the Law of Attraction in their own lives. Never give up on your dreams and they won't give up on you!

OK, I'm signed up for the class, but I'm nervous; I've never done this before. When the time comes for the class, what do I do? Do I just sign on to the Oprah website and there it will be? Do I have to do something to my computer so this will work? I don't want to get to the time of the class and then miss it (or even the first minute of it) because I don't know how to get to it! Help!

Carol

Just 30 minutes before the show I sat crying in my living room. We moved to Chicago in the middle of December from Texas - (note to self should've picked July to relocate). It was a joint decision between my husband and myself. He has a great opportunity in front of him and while in Texas I devised a great plan for my career as well. I had a momentary collapse of faith this morning -- homesickness, missing family & friends and the great plan seemed better while I was in my comfort zone.

But the show this morning reminded me of all the things I already know (and practice). Its my choice everyday what kind of day I'm going to have. I've chosen this journey for a reason and as long as I keep positive I will find out what great opportunities there are ahead of me. I'm going to cherish the time I have right now in my new hometown and not stress over career plans. I am open to possibilties and my plan is still a good one - so one foot in front of the other and keep on going.

I have not read the Secret, but I was introduced to the concepts many years ago. After my divorce I took time to be with myself and figure out what it was that I wanted. I found watching the show today that I, like many of the others, had long ago made a list of the kind of man I wanted to be with. I put it away and let the Universe do it's thing. I believed that when I was ready it would bring me what I needed and wanted and deserved (that was always a big obstacle for me) and lo and behold that man came knocking at my door out of the blue one day last year. He has the spiritual hunger for growth that I had wanted in a partner and so many other attributes. The most important actions I took was to believe I deserved and released it to the Universe.

It is lovely to hear someone else talk about Ester and Jerry and Abraham. I found Abraham's teachings a year and half ago and it has just been amazing! I also went to Asheville, N.C. for their workshops, that experience was one of the most wonderful things I've ever done for myself. I love getting the CD's and now the DVD's. My life has totally changed, everyday is amazing. I have learned so much about myself and the Universe! Tricia

As I was reading on Oprah.com today about the Secret Behind the Secret I was so disappointed that nobody realized that everything these people are talking about is spoken about in the Bible. When she said to look in the mirror and tell yourself that you love yourself, instead we should look in the mirror and realize that we are made in God's Image, Genesis 1:26. We should love ourselves because God sees us worthy enough to Love and we are a reflection of him. The one woman spoke about forgiving her alcoholic father and the Bible in Matthew 5:23 tells us to leave our offering on the altar and go and be reconciled with our brother. Unforgiveness is a huge road block that stops God from using us and for our prayers to be heard. Positive thinking was spoken about over and over and the Bible calls us in Philippians 4:8 to think on what is pure, noble, admirable, lovely and excellent. I would call that positive thinking! Proverbs 21:21 tells us, " He who pursues righteousness and Love finds life, prosperity and honor". That is certainly taking action in your life to bring those good things to yourself. Jeremiah 29:11 tells us that "I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future." Mark 11:24 says whatever we ask for in prayer, believe we have received it and it will be ours. Does it get more positive than that! My concern with this program is that they talk about the "universe" not God, they talk about the power in us, not the power of the Holy Spirit in us. In other words they are not giving the Lord the glory, they are giving glory to man and not God. The fact is we can do nothing without him and anyone who thinks so is really deceiving themselves.

Hi Sandra, my name is Holly I live in Las Vegas,I just joined oprahs web sight in hopes of getting some advice,and read your blog,do you think the secret will help me with losing wieght and getting my life on track? I have lost my brother and father both to cancer in the last 2 years and i have gained alot of wieght and have been sad and stressed. I'm dealing with an alcoholic mother as well. Her and my dad were married for 56 years and he was the love of her life and the funniest most positive person I've ever known.I have a very possitive attitude as well that he has instilled in me.Everyone always tells me I'm so happy all the time but inside i feel very lost.I have a wonderful marriage,have raised 5 great kids,have 4 grandaughters,but have for the most part been a stay at home mom.and now am feeling useless and wondering what can i do with the 2nd half of my life. I cant keep worring about my mom, I have tryed everything to get her to stop drinking nothing has worked, she has said she just wants to go to bed and die. She lives in California, I speak with her everyday.I had to deal with loss at the age of 22 when my twin son was killed by a car,I had 3 other children depending on me I had to go on.Why now do i feel so helpless and alone I cry everyday about my dad and brother they were everthing to me.I feel ugly, ashamed at my apperence, just lost..Sorry for the cry for help,just dont know what to do!! Thanx , Holly