![]() Or perhaps the problem is that millions of people are now putting in their orders and the universe’s servers have crashed. Perhaps the problem is signal interference from my husband, who keeps suggesting I manifest the word Ikea into my search engine and just order a damn desk. I’ve now spent six weeks visualizing this desk to no effect. Following The Secret’s precepts, I stopped wasting my time looking for it and instead expressed my gratitude for its arrival. Unfortunately, no one who manufactures desks also sees it. I had spent months dragging myself around to furniture stores and cruising the internet for the desk, which I can see quite clearly: It’s sleek and made of steel, L-shaped, with plenty of work space on top and storage below. And so it went with every alternative.įinally, the desk. ![]() ![]() Covering the floor with cork tiles would also require appliance removal and an outlay of about $3,500. Thankfully, he decided the job was too small and troublesome to be worth it. One concrete guy said if he came it to fix it, I’d have to remove all my appliances and baseboards, let him grind down the existing floor and pour a new surface, and pay him $4,000 to do it. I spent weeks attempting to find an easy, inexpensive way to resurface it. Instead it was made of some sort of epoxy, with a surface that looked as if my dog had fallen into a mud pit and then come inside and rolled all over it. And while it was a floor, it turned out to be neither acid-stained nor concrete. Remember being told in school that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire? My kitchen floor was supposed to be acid-stained concrete. So, as the book explains, if you summon the universe by saying, “I don’t want to spill something on this outfit,” the universe translates this as, “I want to spill something on this outfit.” If only Rhonda Byrne, the television producer who is the author of the book and creator of the DVD, had been there to counsel those negative authors of the Ten Commandments!īut look, I needed a kitchen floor, and if abandoning sick friends and loved ones was what was required-well, who really enjoys those bedside visits, anyway? We recently renovated our house, and everything went great except our kitchen floor. Apparently the universe has a language-processing disorder and doesn’t comprehend standard English usage of the words don’t, not, and no. Everything you want-money, power, comfortable shoes-is yours simply by wanting it enough. It works every time, with every person.” The appeal is obvious. … You must know that what you want is yours the moment you ask.” “See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. “It is exactly like placing an order from a catalogue. Through this “law of attraction” you “manifest” your desires. The book and movie simply state that your thoughts control the universe. ![]() 1 best-seller in Australia, England, and Ireland, and it is scheduled to be translated into 30 languages. Groups have formed to discuss how to best live by The Secret’s rules. A separate DVD version has sold at least 1.5 million copies. There are now 5.3 million copies of the book in print in the United States, and publisher Simon & Schuster says it is selling about 150,000 a week. But millions of you have already beaten me to this one. I wanted to see if applying the rules of The Secret to my life would bring me the perfect happiness that it promises. For the Human Guinea Pig column, I usually do things that readers are too embarrassed or too intelligent to do themselves-like entering a beauty pageant or entertaining at a kid’s birthday party. The last time I was this embarrassed at a bookstore was when I bought The G Spot, another best-seller that provided instructions for achieving bliss. When I bought it, I quickly stuffed it into a plastic bag, glancing around Barnes & Noble to make sure I saw no one I knew. So, I will acknowledge that I came to The Secret with a negative attitude. He died with nothing, living under an assumed name. I loved listening to him spin his theories about how things really worked-until either I got too old to believe him anymore, or his spinning took him further and further away from reality. ![]() He bought the books of his time that promised, like The Secret, to unlock these mysteries. He was aware there were people with esoteric knowledge who controlled all the wealth, had all the power, and were specifically excluding him from getting any. Decades before the best-seller was published, my father knew the secret of The Secret. ![]()
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