The Secret Summary and Review by Rhonda Byrne

The Secret Key Idea #2: The law of attraction doesn’t listen to “don’ts” but to the principles of quantum mechanics.

The main reason that people aren’t benefiting from the secret to life is this: they tend to focus too much on what it is they don’t want, rather than what they actually do want from life. But the law of attraction doesn’t comprehend “don’ts.” If you spend most of your day preoccupied with the thought “I don’t want to fail the exam,” you’re actually telling the universe “I want to fail the exam,” since “don’ts” aren’t recognized. Therefore, in order to change the way things are currently going, the message you send out has to be positive. You need to tell the universe what you do want, like: “I want to pass the exam,” or, “I want to live debt-free.”  It’s even better if you can be as exact as possible in what you want – “I want to live debt-free by the end of the year.” This same ideology can easily be applied to the larger phenomena that happen in the world. Instead of anti-war protests, there should be more pro-peace rallies. Rather than anti-drug campaigns, there should be a bigger focus on pro-sobriety. It’s important to focus our energy on what we do want, rather than what we don’t want. So since the law of attraction doesn’t work according to “don’ts,” how does it work? Well, the way it works is that it actually follows laws that are similar to those that quantum physics follows. When we dissect the universe to the point of getting it down to the very smallest and most fundamental level, we’re left with energy. Energy vibrates at certain frequencies, and when things vibrate on the same frequency, they’re actually drawn toward each other through natural attraction. Following this same logic, when you change the things you think about, you’re also changing the vibrations and frequencies of your thoughts, which, in turn can influence the nature of what is drawn to you. So, this means that the things you spend the most time thinking about will be your dominant frequency, and will therefore determine what the universe sends in your direction.