My son made a confession to me today. He secretly watched The Secret twice in as many days. A little background here: he likes to shut me down whenever I attempt to share what I’m learning about Universal Law. I used to be quite enthusiastic about my discoveries, but after awhile, he’s heard enough and tells me so.
Fair enough.
I know my knowledge is influencing him, though. We have quite a few other DVD’s to choose from. He chose to watch The Secret. Twice.
Interesting.
I began to share enthusiastically again today, but stopped short. I realized how we are each on our own path. There is a right time, a right season, for understanding new information. Sometimes we’re just not ready to absorb new ideas. That’s why you can come across a book for the first time that has been out for years but you’ve never seen it before. You just weren’t ready for it before. It hadn’t resonated with you.
Well, my son wasn’t ready to hear anything more than he was able to hear. I figured watching The Secret was a good start. I’ve learned so much more about Universal Laws and my own spirituality since first seeing the movie. And I know now, there is much more to deliberate creation than what was included in the movie.
When the movie first came out, I remember there being a lot of positive hype about it. Fans of New Thought loved seeing this information being exposed to a mainstream audience. There was also a lot of negative hype about it as well. People were quite critical of what seemed like just a sneaky way to manipulate the system to get more ’stuff’. Maybe I’m projecting, I don’t know! I do remember some people saying such things. With each negative comment, I had to consciously decided what I was going to do — was I going to buy in to the negativity and put the movie down? Or was I going to continue to shine my light on the movie and celebrate it for the positivity it has brought?
I chose the latter. I chose — and continue to choose — to celebrate the movie, even though I have since learned there is much more to the process than meets the eye in the movie. I choose to celebrate the movie because it is a great introduction into this new-to-the-masses thought. And change has to begin somewhere.
I choose for change to begin with me.
The Secret is not the big ol’ answer to all our problems. But I am eternally grateful that it was created. Around the time the movie came out, I was stuck in a belief that I created all the challenges I was having in my life as well. It was only recently that that belief began to be changed when changed my perspective due to something someone said. I chose to believe that we don’t necessarily create all the crummy situations in our lives. (Sitting here today I am feeling incredible gratitude. my so-called problems feel so small tonight.) I learned than we don’t create the situations but we always get to choose how we are going to respond to the situation. Crummy or not.
I was angry for a little while after this belief got busted. I felt like The Secret duped me! The Secret said “We create our reality”. No wonder I was still struggling. I felt like a failure for not manifesting the persons, places and things I desired. Man, I had it so backwards. As long as we are not loving of ourselves, we will continuously hold those things we desire away from us.
One step led to another and I started to love myself anyways, whether I had the desired items or not. They stopped mattering. And my relationship to the Divine deepened. Continues to deepen. Daily.
It feels like just yesterday when I was first excited about The Secret. I probably would have shut down myself if anyone had tried to explain Universal Laws to me in more depth. It’s a lot to take in and assimilate. When you’re ready for more, you’re ready.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”
