Going Beyond The Secret Insights –Tone Magazine April 2008 by Patricia Wall

The Secret has introduced many people to the wonderful world of intention and the power of manifesting.  In lovely, simple terms it explains the concepts of intention, the Law of Attraction, and changing your life for the better.  Many people have wonderful successes using the principles provided, while others have either intermittent success, or struggle with the requirements.  Sometimes it’s difficult to change the ‘mind tapes’ that mire people in negative thinking, self-doubt and practical realities like bank balances and debt. 

The secret to going beyond The Secret is to tap into the power of your subconscious mind to change your mind tapes at the root cause.  With a root cause change, you’ve eliminated any requirement for willpower or discipline, and eliminated the handicap of cognitive awareness of debt and bank balances without any financial or emotional risk.  You don’t need to spend money you don’t have to witness manifesting, or to learn how to make manifesting work for you. 

Manifesting is simple and immediate when all the parts of your mind agree with your goal.  Problems occur when some parts of your mind are resistant to your goal because of subconscious fears, old programs, imprinting, or the influence of tribal requirements, expectations and judgments.   The trouble with subconscious fears is that they aren’t rational.  For example, your subconscious might fear wealth because it brings responsibility, or attracts attention from people who might want to take advantage of you, or requires a change of lifestyle.  Immediately you might think “I want the change of lifestyle,” but for your subconscious, change is a risk and it prefers to keep everything the same.  Your subconscious doesn’t care if you are happy – it resists even positive change. 

You can teach your subconscious to feel safe accepting positive change, so that you can manifest your goals.  The key is in learning what your subconscious needs, and meeting those needs.  This complex process can be dramatically simplified with the right tools and information.  For example, if your subconscious mind refuses to manifest wealth because you might be taken advantage of, there are several solutions.  You could keep your wealth a secret.  Or, you could have an unlisted phone number and a secretary to act as a buffer between you and would-be users.  Or, you could move to a gated community.  Or, you could put all the money in the bank and retain your current lifestyle.  You can hire a detective to investigate anyone new you meet to determine if they’re a con artist.  There are reasonable and outlandish solutions to all your subconscious fears: you can determine what makes sense to you. 

A lot of subconscious fears can be addressed simply by following them all the way to their natural conclusion.  Using the ‘what if’ chain of questions that comes naturally to young children, resist your desire to shut down the questions with ‘that’s just ridiculous!’ and allow yourself to follow them through to the end conclusion.  Despite feeling silly, this can literally eliminate some fears.  The silliness is often a product of that irrationality in the subconscious, and resisting exploring those fears keeps them active. 

For example, what if you were to win the lottery, and then robbers stole all your money?  Immediately your cognitive brain intercedes with judgments about how this is ridiculous, because of banks and security systems and so forth.  However, your subconscious is not rational, so allow it to pursue the thought.     

What if the robbers did steal all your money?  Well, perhaps you could get a job.  Or perhaps you could put a really big safe in your basement that the robbers wouldn’t know about, and hide some of your money there.  (It really can feel silly to cater to the subconscious, but it’s just thoughts, it’s not hurting anything – and it may help a lot.)  The key is to allow these irrational fears to be addressed with practical solutions that calm your subconscious, which can allow it to accept the goals you want. 

You can also reprogram your subconscious mind to be free of the fears that block attracting the life you want using simple tools.  Other articles in this column, which can be found on the website teachingselfmastery.com, contain some tool descriptions.

Tapping into the power of The Secret requires learning to meet your own needs, including your subconscious need to be safe with your goals.  Open your life to more by learning what is really directing your manifesting.   

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