The Secret is No Longer a Secret !

So I started reading "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. Supposed to be a motivating read and an eye opener to a simple concept that we have forgotten to notice. The bottom line that I have got so far from reading it is that "Law of attraction" has tremendous power. If we need success, we need to attract success, we need to act as if we are successful. This should be applied to everything we want in life. To some extent I agree with the author. Remember all those occasions where you know something's gonna happen (good / bad) both and indeed it did. We keep hearing to people say, I knew I was going to get it, I knew this would happen. When reading this book, all those incidents came back to me. I think it does make some sense. For example, think you are going into a crucial match and you are the only known good player, rest of them are out/injured/etc.. You have prepared day in day out for this one moment, although you have butterflies in your stomach, something tells you, "you are gonna make it".. and from nowhere you see this talent flowing like a river and before you know, you are tasting success... I have experienced this more than a few times. I had read something similar to this and would like to call this state as "The Zone". It is a time period, at which each individual is at his/her best.. he/she doesn't have to think whether he/she is going to succeed.. things just happen.. everything goes through so well that the individual is oozing confidence and if its a team event, the entire team is affected by this one person. Ofcourse, there's background to it - one has to have enough practice, training, etc. to be even in a position to experience this. I call the effect "Blanking effect" - it is where one can blank out all noise and purely focus on what he/she needs to achieve. A lot of what this book says is about believing! I agree, if one believes enough and has the confidence, he/she can achieve his/her goal. but ofcourse remember that confidence only comes by practice and natural ability. Believe it or not - I still believe that what Keanu Reeves showed in the movie "The Matrix" is possible. Call me crazy but I think human mind has that ability and power to make things happen + the fact that most of us use less than 10% of our brain!..

But some of what the author confuses me. For example, I was reading an article on the Cosi River Flooding in India. One lady said "We worship this river every day but still she did this to us - Why??" Interesting I felt... we all do, we all worship, land, air, water and any natural resource almost and sometimes as GOD! and the same thing we worship causes such damage that it baffles people ! Do people lose hope? stop worshipping? The author says - we attract what we want - it is our thoughts that go out into the universe and the universe delivers it to us - of course not magically but with our involvement. So my question is all those people who die in earthquakes, floods, hurricanes - did they attract death?? According to the author - they probably had negative thoughts floating more than positive thoughts..

Takes me back to my school/college days when I was forced into not going to long distance trips, "all thumba danger appa - hogbeda", "neera, beda kano... ", "mooru dina trippa?- no", but when it came to going to "Religious place" - not many qns asked ! Should I call this their Love personified as negative thoughts?? or just negative thinking which probably carries over into children??

So while I continue to read and analyze further to see how I can start believing in my goals, you start to think on what I have written and comment!