The Key To The Secret

What is the key to The Secret? Many are asking this question about the hit DVD created by Rhonda Byrne, released in 2006. The Secret made it possible for a big shift in human consciousness to take place, through beautifully introducing the concept of the law of attraction. Out of the millions of people that have come across The Secret, many are now making an enquiry into the deeper aspects of this law of attraction - which can be called the key to the secret. And this may be said to have become the real secret... the key to the secret.

So here begins the exploration of the key to the secret. The modern introduction to the law of attraction through The Secret DVD is exactly that, an introduction, which has been and still is of tremendous value to so many people. However, by no means does it scratch the surface of what there is to be discovered and learnt around and behind this law of attraction. In further exploring the matter, it becomes a process that one undergoes, and not simply information that can be absorbed.

The knowledge of the law of attraction has been around for countless centuries on this planet Earth. However, it is just a tiny fragment that you learn when studying how the universe works by its laws and principles. This knowledge has been around since long before the time of the earliest modern history, which has been taught in almost all societies and cultures through the ages, but not openly. This knowledge has been kept by numerous orders and groups of spiritual and metaphysical nature throughout time.

The basic principle that humanity is rapidly beginning to understand en mass is that we as individuals and human beings create our own reality. Now it is one thing to hear the words - you create your own reality. It is another to really, truly, get it. It is yet another to really understand it, and another to implement it. Furthermore, you create your own reality whether you are conscious of it or not, in the same way that babies are affected by gravity, but knowing nothing about gravity. But simply knowing that you create your own reality is not the key to the secret.

You know the words, but not the music

So often, upon hearing that they create their own reality, people object by saying things along the lines of "If I create my own reality, why is there so much negativity in it?", generally referring to things like pain, suffering, poverty, war, violence, abuse and so forth. Or they say "If that is the case, then why do I not have more abundance, happiness, joy, laughter and love..." and so forth "...in my reality?". By this reasoning, the business of reality creation is often dismissed, because it seems absurd that people in general would choose to create a reality in which they have what they do not want, and where they lack what they do want. The truth is, you create your reality in its entirety, without exception. So what about all of the 'bad stuff'? Where does it come from? Why can't you change it? Why can't you seem to create more of what you want in your reality? The answers to these questions are an essential part of the key to the secret. In fact, without it, the knowledge of the law of attraction is not of much use to you, it still applies and affects you, as it always does.

What keeps your reality in place?

It is common knowledge that you have two parts to you - a conscious part and a subconscious part. The latter does not refer so much to the subconscious mind, but in this context, it refers to that which you are unaware of, or not conscious of, within yourself. It refers to all the attitudes and feelings and beliefs and conditions and conditioning you have on a very deep level. So deep, in fact, that you might likely deny it when someone accuses you of holding such an attitude or belief or so forth, because you are not aware of it, and in many cases completely oblivious to these things. We have somehow made the assumption that we know ourselves - who and what and how we are. In truth, that is not the case at all. This assumption leads us to look for the answers to many of our deeper questions outside ourselves, out there in the world, when we really, simply, have to turn our attention within.

Reality is a mirror

Moving further, it becomes clear that the external reality we perceive as being outside ourselves is simply a reflection of that which is within. It could be said that there is no out there, because whatever is 'out there' or otherwise perceived as external to ourselves is simply reflection of ourselves, and not the real deal. This concept, together with those deep attitudes, feelings, deep beliefs, judgements, conditioning and conditions you are unconscious of, goes very far in addressing the question mention earlier - If I create my reality, why is it that there are so many things in it that I do not want in it? Consciously you are aware that you do not want certain things, circumstances and aspects in your life, or reality. But what is holding those in place are all that of which you are unconscious of, and that which you do not want in your reality perceived as 'out there' are simply the external reflections of what you are unaware of within yourself.

For many that embark upon the journey of metaphysics, spirituality, esoterics or whatever name you want to give it, one of the most important shifts that they go through initially is to realize that their reality is not coming at them, but from them. Seen from a different angle, it is the realisation that they are not a product of their environment, but the cause of it. But this realisation is only the first step, and it does not mean that you have 'arrived'. Once this is truly, deeply, understood, the work only begins. The key to the secret is far more then people would expect. It is a journey of discovery that one takes up, a process that one goes through, and it is a path of personal growth in its true sense.

Becoming aware

It seems natural and intuitive that for those who choose to pursue this business of reality creation, the next step is to become aware of those things that keep their reality in place. This is because those corner stones cannot be addressed, worked with and changed as long as you are unaware of them within yourself. Thus it is a process of becoming conscious. More conscious. But this is not the case, it is not the next step and here a strange paradox occurs. Those unconscious cornerstones that keeps those unwanted aspects of your reality locked in place, you simply cannot see. And not just because you haven't looked for them. You quite literally cannot perceive them - at least for the time being.

We require energy for perception. Most people have their energy completely drained, and thus they cannot really look within themselves to find what there is to find, even if they tried. In order to become aware, more aware, you first have to understand an essential aspect of perception, how it works and how to expand it, in order to start reclaiming energy so that you can become aware of that which is unconscious in you that keeps your reality in place.

Only after this process of reclaiming energy begins, one goes to work with introspection, which leads to discovering the cause of everything that is 'out there'. This discovery is inevitably followed by taking responsibility for it, and then changing it. Perhaps you should read the previous three paragraphs again, as they contain much more then you can begin to imagine. And so it becomes clear that the key to the secret is, as I have mentioned, a process and a journey that one undertakes.