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“The ‘Secret Behind ‘the Secret’?” is the DVD program that features interviews with Jerry & Esther Hicks and Abraham (channeled by Esther). ‘The Secret’ of course is referring to Rhonda Byrne’s self help film entitled ‘The Secret’. ‘So what’s going on here?’ you ask. ‘I thought I already found out what ‘the secret’ is. It’s the ‘law of attraction right?’ Well, according to Esther and Jerry, ‘The Secret’ sold us all short and only gave us part of ‘the secret’. So what is going on here?

I bought ‘The Secret’ for my husband last Christmas (2006) on a whim. I had never heard of ‘The Secret’ and I was doing some Christmas shopping at a local new age bookstore. I was just about to check out, when I realized I still had not bought anything f0r my husband. I asked the owner of the shop if she had any ideas and she handed me ‘The Secret’ DVD and said to me ‘It’s really good’. I thought ‘What the heck, Ken and I are always open to something new’ and threw it in my basket.

The year 2006 had not been an easy year for us. Ken had quit a very stressful job at Christmas time the year before. He then became the full-time stay at home Dad for our 1 year old Son and part-time with our 4 year old daughter. I had been working part-time, but went back to working full-time to support the family. My Son’s first year of life had been a constant struggle with reflux and ear infections. He basically did not gain any weight from the age six months to one year. We just prayed everyday that he would eat ’something’. My husband had been spending the nights and weekends of 2006 trying to start a web based business. My full-time job was becoming increasingly stressful. In August of that year I went to the emergency room because I thought I was having a heart attack, it turned out to be an extreme anxiety attack.

Christmas day rolled around and lucky us, we all came down with a stomach virus. While the kids took their afternoon nap. Ken and I popped ‘The Secret’ into the DVD player and wallowed on the coach. I have to admit the opening was a bit hokey to me. The whole conspiracy of ‘the secret’ being hidden for thousands of years and what not. We stuck with it, and in fact, really enjoyed it. ‘The Secret’ is not perfect, it definitely has some flaws, but it also has a lot of good advice. The film is really very up lifting and my husband and I needed some lifting at that point. The secret being ‘the law of attraction’ was very interesting to me. This is what I took away from ‘The Secret’.

• Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.
• Be thankful for what you already have.
• You can have what ever you want.

All of these lessons are good in my mind. Of course, I don’t think if I actually sat here today and wished for a new luxury car that is suddenly going to appear. I think one actually needs to do something, like get a second job, to make such an event happen. When I really started to think about it, I realized I pretty much have obtained everything that I have wanted. Some things have taken longer than others, but eventually I did get it. That realization made me start thinking, what is it that I really want now? That is hard part, deciding what I want out of this grand life. After a lot of thought, I now think I have some pretty good ideas.

I have to say ‘The Secret’ helped turn things around for us in 2007, or at least it helped Ken and I to start looking at things a bit differently. I would guess, if Ken and I had just watched ‘The Secret’ once or twice and never talked about the philosophy of ‘The Secret’ with friends and family, probably nothing would have ever changed for us. But we are the type of people that love to sit around and talk about topics. As I have mentioned in my other blogs, we always have friends and family coming and going at our house. So, pretty much everyone we hang out with watched ‘The Secret’ the week between Christmas and New Years. My friend Barb had already heard about ‘The Secret’ and she told me the whole ‘Law of Attraction’ philosophy was introduced by a disembodied entity known as Abraham whom is channeled by a woman named Esther Hicks. ‘Well, how interesting’, I said. ‘Do tell more!’ I’m a pretty open mind individual and I had even been to a ‘channeler’ before, but I was not entirely convinced that such a thing could actually be possible. Needless to say, I was intrigued. Turns out, my friend Marie was also very familiar with Abraham’s ‘law of attraction’ and proceeded to educate me on the husband and wife team, Jerry and Esther Hicks. Marie had also heard that Esther was a big part of the original ‘The Secret’ film, but that Esther had been edited out due to some conflicts with the original agreement concerning the way the movie would be distribute. We did, by the way, get a hold of a copy of the original ‘The Secret’ that included Esther and we enjoyed watching this version very much too.

I’m not sure what happened between the Hicks and the ‘The Secret’ crew and at this point I really don’t care. I am just thankful to ‘The Secret’ for turning me on to Abraham. I have now read several of the Hicks’ books and have really enjoyed them. Where ‘The Secret’ falls short, Abraham’s teachings have it together. One interesting tidbit, is that a book called ‘Think and Grow Rich’, written by Napoleon Hill in the 1930s, was ‘the book’ that Rhonda refers to in ‘The Secret’ and was also a huge inspiration to Jerry Hicks starting back in the 1960s. Jerry Hicks, at one point in his life, actually made a career out of teaching the principles from the book ‘Think and Grow Rich’.

Back to this whole channeling business. Until recently I have thought, ‘Can Esther’s channeling of Abraham be for real?’ I know that there are tricksters and fakes in the world that are just looking to make a quick buck, but one can pretty much see right through those shams. The Abraham-Hicks message is very consistent. The message never changes, it just grows. The message is given with such love that I think ‘when something is done with such love how could it be fake?’ The Hick’s have been conduits for Abraham’s teaching since 1985. I don’t think anyone could do something like this for so long and have it all just be made up.

’What is the secret behind ‘The Secret’? In my own words based on what I read in their latest book, the Hicks feel that ‘The Secret’ missed the boat by leaving out the key to the ‘law of attraction, which is ‘Vibrational Alignment’. In order for the ‘law of attraction’ to work one must be vibrationally aligned with what one desires. How does one become vibrationally aligned? Well, here’s my very short answer. One must use their emotions to become aligned with one’s desires and stay connected to one’s source energy. If you want abundance in your life you have to stop feeling poor. You need to be grateful for what you have today, but also have a vision of where you want to be in the future. Easier said than done, I know. The Hicks have published many books that have actual exercises outlining exactly how to get vibrationally aligned with ones desires. I just completed the Hicks’ latest book ‘The Astonishing Power of Emotions’ and it has a great analogy for getting one’s emotions vibrationally aligned. Abraham compares vibrational alignment to a person in a canoe on a river. Abraham asks the reader to consider how hard it is to row against the current and then how easy it is to flow with the current. Being vibrationally aligned is like riding with the current.

I was very excited to watch ‘The Secret Behind ‘The Secret?’. I was curious to find out just what the Hick’s were going to say about ‘The Secret’, which surprisingly was very little. I’m not sure if they mentioned ‘The Secret’ at all. The DVD starts of with Jerry and Esther being interviewed, which did not meet my expectations of the Hick’s. I expected them to very polished and well spoken. They were actually a little goofy. The interview did not seem rehearsed at all. Their conversation kind of bounced all over the place. The interview really made them a bit more endearing to me. They just seem very sweet and it is obvious how much Jerry and Esther Hicks love and respect each other. The second part of the interview was with Abraham being channeled through Esther. Abraham speaks so differently from Esther. Abraham is polished, stays on topic and gives a very consistent message. What have I learned from Abraham?

• We are on this planet to experience Joy.
• We are all eternal beings.
• In order to receive what I want, I must ask for it and stay vibrationally aligned with my emotions.

In my opinion, all good things. How has my life changes since last Christmas? My son is healthy, both my kids are fantastic, my husband’s web business is actually making money, I have cut back my hours at work from full-time (40 to 50 hours a week) to part-time (33 to 40 hours a week). My job is still stressful, but I have learned to deal with it in much more healthy and productive way. I am less fearful, less angry and just plain happier.