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hey this is Leo for actualised org in this video we're going to talk about the secret alright let's talk about the secret so buy the secret I'm talking about the movie the secret so this is a personal velvet movie really the secret is if we just give away the punchline it's the law of attraction the law of attraction is the secret and you can find this movie floating around on the internet somewhere so it's been really popular in the last 5 or 10 years and I think it's been popular because it's somewhat controversial and I already have a video up there that's pretty popular about Law of Attraction where I talk about what Law of Attraction is and I kind of bring it down back to earth but I actually want to make some comments about the secret self because some people will watch that movie and will walk away misled or confused or with some sort of questions and I wanted to address some of those especially because I've studied so much personal element stuff and I've worked a lot with Law of Attraction in the last year is that you know I have some I have some ideas about where the secret is is misleading you so let's talk about that I actually to prepare for this for this video most videos I just shoot on the fly but this one actually sat down and rewash the secret I watched I hadn't watched it for maybe 2 or 3 years so I kind of remembered it but I wanted to sit down and watch it and like break it down point by point so that I was going exactly based off what they were saying and not misinterpreting what was being said in in the actual like language of the movie so a couple of first of all when I watched that movie you know I wanted to come in there and actually when I sat down to watch it it was interesting because I said to myself well the secret I kind of had a bit of a negative negative feeling about the secret and I wanted to basically start criticizing it right I started to watch the movie and try to pick it apart point by point and like saying well this is wrong here this is wrong here that's not quite right this is misleading and while I did do that eventually by the time I got to the end of the movie the message of the movie the overall message of it was was actually so powerful that I couldn't I couldn't even criticize it to myself I had to say well that's true like the the overall gist of the movie is completely true and this is what people need to know and well I think that is true I think Law of Attraction in and of itself is an amazing very powerful tool to advance your life to advance your career to advance your relationships to advance your personal development I think the way in which the secret gave it to you is not the best way in which to apply it all right so I actually I literally literally watered up my eyes watered up with tears as I was watching some of the scenes in the secret because I connected them with how I use the law of attraction in my own life and I saw like damn that's really powerful it does really it can't like it can actually work like that but I think also some of the metaphysics behind the secret and some of them kind of the marketing that's layered on top of the concept of Law of Attraction that comes with a secret that marketing is a it's you know it's a little bit kind of geared towards the mainstream and it can be definitely misleading because I know that I watch the secret like three years ago and after watching the secret I mean it can make you feel good it can inspire you but it doesn't actually really give you the techniques and the how-to of how to apply it it tends to be kind of like a motivational inspirational thing but then from that I see that most people fall through on it and actually don't start to use law of attraction their life and to me I'm much more concerned about how do you actually apply a law of attraction rather than some of the kind of airy-fairy stuff that goes around with it and just getting you kind of pumped up for a few hours after watching a video although that can be nice too so I think ultimately I have nothing really bad to say about the secret but I will criticize it on a couple of technical points so let's get into that so these are some of the things that I saw in the secret that I perceive as being misleading at least they can be unless you're very very educated about how this works and you've worked with law of attraction before if you're totally new to law of attraction you just watch it then I think you'll get misled by the following points so let's break into that point number one is that there's a suggestion it's not explicitly stated but there's this suggestion implication that there are paranormal paranormal forces at work that meant that make the secret manifest that make the secret work right but somehow there are like thought waves blasting through through the universe and like when you think a thought that somehow a wave comes out of your head and it hits some object and that object gets attracted to you magnetically that's not how law of attraction works at all at all so to take away that from the secret would be to be greatly misled so the law of attraction which actually let me state that for for those of you who aren't very familiar with it law of attraction simply states that whatever you think about you will get more of in your life and whatever you whether that's negative or positive so if you're thinking about something positive all the time you're going to tend to get those positive things if you're think about negative things all the time you're going to tend to attract those negative things not repel them so when you're worrying when you're constantly worrying about all the problems in your life actually what you're doing is you're attracting more of those problems and you're you're keeping them in your life and that the solution to that is to start start visualizing you start thinking about all the stuff that you want to create so I think that that message that's a very powerful message it's very true and this can totally transform your life if you start to live and act and alignment with it but this is not going to happen by some sort of paranormal psychic force this is going to happen by very ordinary plane mechanical laws so there's nothing really sexy to law of attraction right it's not some blue forces come out your head and pulling something towards you it's just a mechanical law think about it like this to explain this properly you know think about how does anything get accomplished in your life really think about this how does anything come into your life well you've got this body that's all you've really got to control right you've got this mind that's controlling this body and literally your your your mind is like kind of like a puppet master that's controlling this this body right here right so like you can move your arm up arm down hands feet like move your body twist around look in different places so realistically that's that's the only way that you interact with the world is mechanically through your body and that's the only way that you've interacted with the world and so that's enough you don't need any psychic forces or any special quantum energy or anything like that none of that all you need is you need your hands and your feet literally if you're if you're going to visualize a million dollars for yourself and you want to go out there and get that million dollars I mean fine that will totally work but realize that you are the one that's coming out there and getting it ultimately it's just going to be a long process right to get a million dollars realistically that's like start a business maybe climb the corporate ladder invest in something manage your money well like have multiple jobs or like create multiple projects so that's how you create a million dollars and when you visualize a million dollars then that will lead you towards a million dollars by taking all those actions but what's happening there I mean literally like it's your fingers right your fingers are typing on the keyboard to create that that business plan right it's your your eyes are looking around in the world and like looking for for people to talk to about it your mouth is moving literally words and sound waves are coming out and affecting other people which will then pay you the money ultimately that you're looking for your feet will actually walk you into into the office building where you're going to receive your check right so this is how it's happening mechanically mechanical ordinary physical Newtonian laws there's nothing crazy going on here nope paranormal forces at least nothing that's been scientifically proven so there's that part the next point is that there's this implication right off the bat with the secret just even by the title but right in the beginning in the intro is that they really suggest that the secret has been hidden from people form ordinary people for a long time and somehow millionaires and billionaires and like there's a sulli class of people in the world that somehow know the secret and they've been holding it back from the little guy right they were trying to press the little guy it's like this struggle between like the bigwigs and a little guy and the masses you know they don't have this knowledge of the secret that's that's total nonsense right no one's been holding back the secret from you in fact it's been it's been publicly available for in books and through various religions for for hundreds if not you know basically thousands of years so it's all out there the trick is is not that somebody is withholding information from you it's that really you're withholding from yourself it's that really that you're not believing in the power of visualization you're not believing in the power of what positive thinking can get you right you're not buying into the fact that this worrying that you're doing all the time that's actually attracting more of the bad stuff in your life you're not buying into that right if you really it takes time to really kind of get your mind to start thinking along the lines of the secret it did for me and I study this stuff incessantly so I can only guess how it would affect someone who hears it for the first time it takes a while to kind of get introduced to this idea to accept it and most people you know their egos won't let them accept it or there's such a victim in life that they don't want to accept the fact that actually they are responsible for a lot of the problems they're creating right it's easier to blame other people and in fact the secret kind of perpetuates that because it's blaming some like the bigwigs for holding back a secret which in fact no one's been holding it back for me so let's get that out of the way the next point is quantum physics so there are a couple of quantum physicists on the secret talking about stuff and there's this whole theory of quantum mind and some of the stuff that's been going on in quantum mechanics which is actually now a pretty old field it's basically over a hundred years old but but there's there's these notions that well the secret has been well proven scientifically the law of attraction has been proven scientifically by quantum physics in some way this is complete nonsense it's not been proven at all in fact there have been there's been a lot of kind of speculation about whether quantum effects are going on in the mind and really the leading consensus from scientists is that there are no quantum effects going on in the mind that in fact this is a this is kind of a philosophical mistreatment of the notion of quantum mechanics I mean we're talking about very different scales here right your mind operates on the scale of cells and you've got neurons and those are very very large big objects compared to what quantum mechanics talks about quantum mechanics talks about not even atoms but like subatomic particles within the atoms like quarks and stuff so the leading consensus is that your brain literally cannot like it doesn't function because of quantum effects I mean it's made up of quanta everything in the world is made up of monta just like everything in the world is made up of atoms but that doesn't really mean anything that doesn't mean that literally you're using like the quantum properties of those or atomic properties to to solve the problem in your life right I'm thinking right now and I'm talking but I'm not using quantum effects to do it in the same way that I'm not using nuclear I'm not using nuclear forces in my mind to do it even though my mind is held together literally by nuclear forces I mean what are nuclear forces those are forces between atoms so yes my mind is composed of atoms which are held together by nuclear forces but to say that I'm using nuclear forces right now to speak to you is kinda silly it's really a it's kind of a pop cultural kind of bro science ii type of idea so there's really no hard evidence for quantum effects in the brain in fact from all the research that i've kind of read on this stuff they say that the brain the temperature of the brain which is like what almost 100 degrees right a hundred degrees temperature in the brain that at that temperature any kind of residual quantum effects that could have been going on are totally negligible because the chaos and the temperature of the brain will will basically nullify any of those quantum effects i mean this is still kind of groundbreaking research but ultimately to say that it's been proven scientifically is nonsense so there's no quantum connection here and you don't need a quantum connection the fact that you even try to find a quantum connection is silly why do you need one mechanical laws just like i said your hands and arms moving and your feet moving in your mouth talking and your eyes blinking that's all you really need mechanical laws you don't need to go and get all crazy on it i think that there's a tendency to want to go into quantum mechanics and quantum physics because it sounds like it sounds very official right it sounds like oh well a quantum physicist said it so it must be real it must be true and you know there's no need to do that quantum physicist doesn't need to tell you that if you think about the things that you want you'll get those you'll tend to get those things and if you think about bad things you'll tend to get those things - I mean this is happen temeka niché's that's that's kind of on the level of psychology so a psychologist is a better person to ask about that that a quantum physicist the next point that I will criticize the secret on is focus on material things and I understand why they do this I mean I do this in my videos too sometimes and I'll you know if I'm talking about something I want to bring up an example I'll say money business career relationship or whatever and or your like your physical appearance losing some weight those are easy examples to use people can relate to them very easily but ultimately the secret is very focused about using law of attraction and it's talking about how you can use law of attraction to manifest a car to manifest you know a vacation house to manifest a like a trip to Hawaii to manifest a bicycle to like to manifest something tangible in your life and this is actually the worst way to use law of attraction that's not how I'll use Law of Attraction at all you don't want to be really attracting physical things to you you know it's easy to talk about those things but ultimately I use law of attraction every single day and I use it to work on myself what I want to attract to myself is I want to track more confidence I want to attract more discipline harder work ethic being more charismatic I want to attract more energy to go to the gym and to workout to do all the work that I have to do right I want to attract I want to attract better better reading skills I want to track better speaking skills I want to attract basically inner things things inside you intangibles that's so much more powerful than attracting tangibles because if you attract the intangibles and you work on that like a like I'm saying you know you once you learn to control your mind your own psychology then everything else will come to you you don't need to to dream for a million dollars dream for yourself to become someone who thinks like a millionaire and you'll get millions of dollars so I go kind of more direct I go to to me the cause of it the agent plus what's going to be nice about that is that once I build up the skills and those skills will will spill over to other areas of my life so if I'm if I'm trying to attract more energy more like physical energy to me that's not only you know help me at the gym and get me a nicer body but it's also going to help me in my relationship it's going to help me have great sex and it's going to help me work harder my business so it'll affect all those things so a little bit too much focus on material things I would say in the secret the next point I'm going to make is even that they really they have this quote that says that the universe will rearrange itself for you that the universe will rearrange itself for you based on your thoughts this is also I feel misleading that's not going to happen right I don't care how long you sit there and how much you think about having a million dollars the universe is not going to rearrange itself for you for that what's going to happen is that if you just sit and think about that stuff then it won't happen but if you then go out and follow up and take action then it will it potentially could happen so the action taking component is important and to somehow say that like well it's out of my hands I just visualize it so it's out of my hands now the million dollar style is going to magically luckily show up because I've been thinking about it that's that's a really a bastardization of how law of attraction works I mean something could come your way but that's not how you want to live your life is like this this kind of wishful thinking prayer type of mentality don't pray for things pray for yourself to be better to acquire those things you're going to acquire everything yourself it's not going to magically come to you from the universe and nothing's going to rearrange itself for you to your liking that's nonsense so the next point is yeah there's there's this there's this scene very vividly they show a boy who like wants to buy a new bicycle and he keeps thinking about this bicycle and drawing pictures about and stuff and then he doesn't get it but then one day he walks out and he realizes and he sees that his like his grandfather bought it for him and there it is sitting in the front lawn this bicycle so a scene like that I mean it's also misleading because the problem there is that it's it's it's kind of pushing you toward this idea that you should kind of expect things to just like magically appear for you right that idea of like synchronicity like you think about something and then all this in that person shows up you think about a new car and like BAM all sudden it's there again it's that kind of like magical wishful thinking prayer type of mentality that I don't like to encourage and go out there and like work for that bicycle right visualize the bicycle nothing wrong with that want the bicycle don't worry why you don't have a bicycle but the way you're gonna get that bicycle is by moving or your hands on your feet and ultimately going out there and buying it and the way you're going to buy it is by earning the money so we can earn the money is by going to a job etc right so there's going to be a very kind of non mystical explanation for how the bicycle actually landed at your doorstep so I hope you buy luck and the last point I would say is that they say that the process should be easy and effortless and you should always be feeling very good right and as soon as you're not feeling good then you're not in alignment with what you're going after and like let's say you want a million dollars you should be feeling good about that million dollars and if for some reason it's feeling effortless or difficult I mean if it's feeling effortful and difficult then you're not doing it right right and you have to kind of like force your mood etc so the point here is that if you're really even if you're of like a very grounded person right and you're very solid executor in life you're very like hard working and you know that you're like totally on on your life's purpose and you're do something that's very important for you in the world so this is very meaningful to you if you're doing that you're still going to face a lot of hardship a lot of struggle it's not going to be easy and it's not going to be effortless to set that kind of expectation is actually to create failure so yes you shouldn't be you know you should resonate with the goal that you want you should actually want the million dollars it shouldn't be just some sort of a goal that you're kind of lukewarm about you should actually want it I kind of imagine it get a get yourself emotionally involved with that goal but also realize that it's going to take work to get there right work not effortless sometimes it'll be effortless sometimes it will feel nice and be easy because you're on track with your life purpose and your goals that feels nice but a lot of times it's going to be mundane brute-force work and that's the point I'm going to end on is that I really was thinking about you know well is there a real secret is there a real secret to personal development is there a real secret to life and I think that if I was to say what my secret is you know after studying hundreds of thousands of dollars of personal development irreal hundreds of books all this stuff and trying a lot of stuff out myself and all my clients I would say the real secret is discipline discipline your mind that's the real secret to success and happiness in life is a disciplined mind and this this idea is not new this idea goes back to you know the ancient mystics this idea goes back to Buddha said you goes back to people like Lao Tzu and ancient Hindu texts and you know ancient Roman and Greek philosophy ultimately you know the ancients had it right is that you need to discipline your mind you need to master your mind you need to understand your psychology not just logically but also then practically you need to live that and when you do the rest of it will kind of take care of itself right and the fact is that you can't even do law of attraction properly the techniques of it I actually have a lot of techniques that I use and I didn't get to cover them here because just too much I cover them in other videos but ultimately you need incredible discipline to actually use law of attraction and this is the thing that the secret misleads us on the most is that they kind of have us think that well just something else um wishful thinking some visualizations but then they don't and then they say it's going to be easy and effortless but actually to properly apply Law of Attraction takes incredible discipline incredible control of your mind like ridiculous discipline and when I do law of attraction I do it religiously like a religious zealot and I'm not a religious person but I do this religiously every single morning I do my law of attraction work for half an hour I do it very religiously because I know of how powerful it is and that it is one of the most powerful tools to get what you want in your life but it's not easy and it's not effortless no way if it was easy and effortless everyone would have what they want so it's going to be hard and tough and there are things that you still don't know about how to really use Law of Attraction and for that you'll have to just check out some my other videos alright so this is it this is what I have to say about the secret I'm signing off go ahead post me your comments 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