The Secret...

Being an avid watcher of the The Oprah Winfrey Show, my wife often tells me stories of what she saw on the show. Usually I don't really pay attention to them, but this one made me think a little...The Secret.

From what I got from it, if you think positive, positive things will happen to you, same goes for negative stuff. Being a highly optimistic person, I already knew this. But maybe this might help other people. So here are a few excerpts from the show, that I think make some sense.

The Secret is defined as the law of attraction, which states that like attracts like. The concept says that the energy you put into the world—both good and bad—is exactly what comes back to you. This means you create the circumstances of your life with the choices you make every day.

There is scientific evidence to back up the spiritual practices and laws defined in The Secret. "Science tells us that everything is energy, and so your thoughts are energy. Your body, your cash, your car—everything you think is solid, if you put it under a high-powered microscope, it's just a field of energy and a rate of vibration, and so are we. So if you think you're this meat suit running around, you have to think again."

The Secret isn't about contradicting religion—it supports it.

Instead of living a life preparing for some ultimate reward, you should live in the now. "When you're anticipating some future good, you're preventing that good that is all around you from expressing through you, [Don't] put life on the layaway plan and try to anticipate that it's going to get good in the future."

You can read the whole show with a few live examples here