The Secret of the Strangest Secret
by Adam Tijerina
With all the hype and publicity about
"The Secret" nowadays I thought I'd take a few moments and let
you know about "The Secret" from the 1950s. The Strangest
Secret was originally a CD recording by Earl Nightingale given to a
seminar of insurance agents in his absence while he was away on
vacation. It went on to sell a million records with very little
publicity and some say became the foundation of the personal development
industry.
So what's the Strangest Secret anyways?
The Strangest Secret is that, "we
become what we think about." That's it. The beauty is it's
simplicity. It's like Ernest Hemingway's "fewest best words"
writing style. If that was all that the message said, that would be
enough.
Earl Nightingale was not the first to
discover this message either. Many of the great thinkers of our past had
made a similar discovery of how our thoughts affect our lives. This goes
for both positive thoughts and negative thoughts as well. Norman Vincent
Peale in the Power of Positive Thinking made a similar discovery and
helped millions change their thoughts and habits and lead better lives.
Plastic surgeon and author Maxwell Maltz explained all about how our
thoughts and self image had a lasting impact on our results in life in
his book Psycho-Cybernetics.
So how do we become what we think about?
The Strangest Secret is that we become
what we think about. What exactly does that mean and how does that
affect you? If all you feed your mind is negative thoughts and feelings
of sorrow and how you never get a break in life, you shouldn't be
surprised when you never get a break in life or get stuck on all the red
lights when you're already late for work. It's because that's all your
thinking about and what you think about you attract.
If you think about negativity, you will
attract it. If you think about positivity, that's precisely what you'll
get. That's the way the law of attraction works.
The one concrete idea that Earl uses to
get this message across is that your brain is a field and you can choose
to plant corn which is a healthy crop or you can plant nightshade which
is a deadly poison. Which would you rather plant? This is what you do
when you feed your mind with negative or positive thoughts. If you think
negatively you will be essentially poisoning yourself day after day as
long as you keep thinking this way. So you have to plant better crops or
thoughts if you want to get more out of life.
But, on the flip side, if you think
positively and fill your brain with positive thoughts and seeds you can
expect to get positive results in your life. It won't happen overnight.
It didn't take you a day to form a habit and it will take more than a
day to form a new positive habit of thinking positively and reaching
your goals.
So the secret of The Strangest Secret is
that you will become what you think about and that if you think bad
things keep happening to you they will and vice versa. It's amazing how
much control we actually have over our life and our own circumstances.
And if you don't like the circumstances in your life now, there's a way
to change them too...
About the Author
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