Two weeks ago I got my Time Magazine. And it was a Special Edition on The Mind and The Body. It can be found here.
The core of the issue was The Brain – A Users Guide with articles on consciousness, stress and memory. The article which I find relevant to The Secret is called “How The Brain Rewires Itself’ based on the book “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain”
I am not a believer in the concept of vibration or that the world changes for me. However, I do believe that by continuously focusing on what you want, your brain starts working unconsiously on the problem.
It happens in the shower, it happens as you are driving, it happens everywhere.
You start seeing opportunities everywhere. You start raising what you want in conversations. Then people respond to it. They tell you about things and people they know which can help
You start looking at every action that you do. You start asking yourself “Will this move me closer or farther away?”
What you want becomes your a non-stop focus. As Andrew Carnegie says – it becomes your obsession.
The article starts with a simple description of a simple piano teaching experiment. One group does the piano exercise – another group “thinks” about doing the exercise. The results were amazing. Both groups changed their Brain in exactly the same way. The lesson I take away – focusing and imagining what you want – the brain learns what it is like to have it.
The article describes phantom limb syndrome – and using your nose to scratch a missing hand. The Brain is able to create a reality for you. Then you can live in this new reality. Once you are there – everybody you meet and touch will enter into your reality. If you try to change natural laws – say by jumping off a building and expecting to fly – then you have gone too far. But in most cases – you can create the reality you live in. Just by changing your view of the world and what is to happen to you.
The author tdescribes a type of therapy called “Cognitive Behaviour Therapy” for people with mental illness. In this therapy patients are taught a form of meditation. The results in some cases were as good as those people taking drugs. But brain scans showed that the changes in the brain were different. The Cognitive therapy provided the support from the emotional and thinking parts of the brain. This is similar to the results promised by The Secret. And what is the process suggested by “The Secret” – mediation on the things you want.
What about regular people like you and me? The article describes an experiment comparing Buddhist monks and undergraduate students with no training in meditation. I quote:
“For the monks as well as the patients with depression or Obsessive-Compulsive Order, the consious act of thinking about there thoughts in a particular way rearranged the brain.”
I understand that I am making conclusions beyond the facts presented by the article. But these results are in keeping with what Andrew Carnegie stated in 1908 as quoted in the Andrew Cargenie As Told To Napoleon Hill
“All Riches and all material things that anyone acquires through self-effort, begin in the form of a clear concise mental picture of the thing one seeks.”
To me – the statements are equivalent and the implications on my actions obvious.
The can be found here – “How The Brain Rewires Itself”.
Have another great day!
Zale
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Hi Zale, ur article is really interesting, u made me think a lot, thanks for this.
>>Does Time Magazine Know Why “The Secret” Works?
I do…and so do you because you just spoke about it…the mind is incredibly malleable and because it works on a feedback loop it’s actually not too hard to quickly train it to obsess about a certain desire. When that happens is snowballs…you start to recognize things that you didn’t before looking at the same scenes (my friend is going to have a baby…he says that suddenly there are vans everywhere (because he wants one)).
From his perspective ‘the world gave him what he needed’…to learn more about vans and make vans available to him…welcome to the secret…the latest re-branding of existential philosophy.