“The
Secret” was NEVER Secret!
by Janis
M. Betz, R.N., B.S.N.
Many of you know about the latest craze to
gain everything you want in life by applying the “Secret” (the law of attraction). I
personally watched the movie two times, and I read the corresponding book. The more I contemplated the principles of the
“Secret”, the more I was drawn to the original book about these principles, the
Bible. The book, “The Secret”, (2006),
was written by Rhonda Bryne. She uses quotes from a multitude of like
minded people, so I will italicize when I’m quoting from the book, and I will
put the originator of the quote in parenthesis behind the quote if different
from the author. When I quote from the
Bible, I will italicize and bold. I will
be quoting from the New King James Version.
There have been so many other books and
articles written on the very subject of “The Secret”, which is why “The Secret”
was never secret. For example, Bruce
Wilkinson wrote a book in 2000 called “The Prayer of Jabez”
Breaking through to the Blessed Life. He writes in this book how praying this
prayer can transform your life and attract a multitude of blessings and success
to you. This is the prayer Jabez prayed: “O,
that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory,
that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I
may not cause pain (harm)!” This was
written in 1 Chronicles
The basic principle of the secret is the law
of attraction. “The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a
thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.” The over riding principle in the whole book
and movie is that you can have anything you want by applying diligent intent,
positive thoughts toward what you want and visualizing having what you want,
then the “Universe” will respond in kind and materialize it for you and make it
happen. It is the genie in the bottle concept. What exactly in the universe is responding?
Personally, I ascribe to the Biblical
principle of the secret. Jesus states, “Therefore I say to you, whatever
things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have
them” (Mark
What is interesting, Rhonda Byrne writes in
her book, “The Secret”, that love is pivotal to attracting what you want. “It is
the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the
law of attraction.” (Charles Haanel) “There
is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency
you can emit. If you could wrap every
thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be
transformed.” There is a certain
truth to this concept. When a person has
love within them, they are joyful and happy, and they are healthier. On the other hand, when a person holds unto
negative emotions and thoughts, such as hatred, bitterness, and/or unforgiveness, they suffer more illnesses. These people attract sickness, and negative
energy and events to them, and their prayers may not be answered. They need to first unload all negative
emotions out of their mind and body in order to attract healing and what they desire. Start speaking and praying out the negative
emotions that you are feeling. Then,
speak and pray in what you desire. If
you have not forgiven a person for how they wronged you then forgive them. Forgive not only the person, but forgive want
they did, how they made you feel, and the lasting effects. To forgive means to cease to feel
resentment against; to pardon.
In the article A New Prescription: Mind
over Malady, from the Discover magazine (Feb, 1987), the researchers found that
Neuropeptides (biochemical units of emotion) affect
the production of hormones and of immune cells to fight infection, disease, and
cancer. Researchers have found that
positive, hopeful emotions, thoughts, and words elevated the immune system’s
function. On the other hand, negative,
hopeless emotions, thoughts, and words lowered the immune system’s function. Neuropeptides flow through
the same nerve pathways as Neurotrans-miters
(biochemical units of communication to and from the cells and brain). Researchers have found that these pathways
can be turned on and off by emotions, thoughts, and words, which can alter the
course of an illness. This research is called
phychoneuroimmunology (PNI).
The words you say make a difference in both
your life/health and the life/health of the person that the words are directed
towards. (See James 3:1-12.) In
the book, “The Hidden Messages in Water”, by Masaru Emoto,
(2001), it displays pictures of water crystals that form when words, music, or
energy is applied to them. When
edifying, good words were spoken, such as love and gratitude, the water formed
a beautiful crystal. The same water
crystal became distorted and dispersed when the words “you fool” were
spoken. The human body is made up of 70%
water, so the words you speak can affect your health and the health of
others. A good rule for speech to follow
is “Let
no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary
edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). Dr. Emoto writes
that words have their own individual and unique vibrational
frequencies. He found that negative
emotional words (“I’m going to die.”)
changed and distorted the water crystals and lowered the immune system. On the other hand, positive emotional words (“I’m going to heal.”) formed beautiful
crystal shapes and the immune system elevated.
Dr. Emoto correlated the connection of the
water in the human body to water on the earth and in the air, and when words
are spoken as a mass in the form of a chant, song, or prayer, it affects large
numbers of people. So when the Muslims
are chanting, “Death to
The emotion of empathy can sometimes cause
illness in your body because you take on the other person’s illness or pain
through transference just by talking with them and dwelling on their
illness. Empathy is defined as
experiencing the feelings, thoughts and experience of another. Transference is defined as the
transferring or redirection of feelings and desires of those
unconsciously. When people are talking
about their illnesses to you, it is very important that you do not have
excessive empathy because you may pick up that negative energy, which may make
you sick with the same thing. Empathy
calls in the energy of that sickness. When
a person starts to discuss their illness, listen to a point then gently change
the subject to a positive tone of how they could become well, offer to pray for
them to be well, and always walk away giving back a powerful positive thought
energy and prayer for them to be well.
The attraction of getting an illness works
the same way when we claim and worry that we are going to get ______ (high
blood pressure) because a parent had it.
This is actually calling in this energy, and you will have high blood
pressure. The constant talk, worry, and
obsession over an illness continually attract the very energy you don’t want,
more illness. DNA and chromosomal issues
for getting an inherited health problem needs to be managed differently.
Norman Vincent Peale wrote a really neat
little book in 1987 called “The Power of Positive Thinking”. I like how he addressed worry. He said, “Worry is as an unhealthy and
destructive mental habit that impedes the flow of mental and spiritual power.” In other words, worry, clogs up your
thinking, calls in energy of what you don’t desire, and prevents you from calling
in energy of what you do desire. Say the
opposite of what you are worried about.
For example, “I’m afraid of falling.”
Say, “I trust/believe that I will stand and walk just fine.” “My legs will be strong.” Avoid using the words not and no because
these are negative. For example, don’t
say “I will not fall.” You are still
concentrating on the word falling, which will call in the energy of
falling. Use words that call in the
energy of what you desire, i.e. strength in my legs. I tell my clients to convert every worry into
a prayer, and then release it. Do this
as often as the worry thought comes into your mind. For example, “Heavenly Father, take away my
worry and fear of falling, and give strength into my legs so I will walk and
stand just fine. Amen.” Speak, pray, and claim what you desire.
In the book, “The Secret”, Rhonda tells a
story about a young woman who had breast cancer, and she cured her own breast
cancer through her emotions and thought.
She had a strong faith in God, and she thanked Him everyday for her
healing. She also kept a positive,
stress free life and mind set. She would
watch only funny movies that would make her laugh and feel good. Rhonda also tells another self heal story of
Morris Goodman, who was paralyzed from the neck down and could only blink his
eyes. Morris used the power of imagery
and vision to heal himself. He pictured
himself as being a normal person again, walking out of the hospital,
and it happened. It took 7 months of
consistently using deliberate intent to step by step progress to the next
healing goal that he would set, and it worked.
He is no longer a quadriplegic. I
read a separate story about Pastor Joel Osteen’s mother, who was diagnosed with
end stage breast cancer in 1981, and she opted to trust and rely on God for her
healing. Mrs. Osteen adopted a strong
attitude of faith, hope, and belief that she was going to be healed. She hung pictures all over the house of when
she was healthy so her focus was on the state that she will become again. She listened to and meditated on healing
scriptures, such as “The prayer of faith will save the sick, and
the Lord will raise him up” (James
5:15a).
She also did for others and loved on others even when she
physically felt bad. She refused to wallow
over or focus and dwell on her cancer diagnosis. Mrs. Osteen’s end stage cancer was completely
cured. I need to note that change in
diet is just as important to reverse cancer and obtain ultimate health.
In the article, A New Prescription: Mind Over Malady, Carl Simonton, M.D. used mental imagery and
will-power to treat patients with terminal cancer. He told his patients, “If you want to
recover, you must learn to be tenacious in fighting your disease and hopeful
about the outcome.” He encouraged his
patients to visualize tumors as weak, confused cells being ravaged by an
aggressive immune system. Dr. Simonton
had a very high success rate in curing patients of cancer using this technique.
The methods used by the people in the above two
paragraphs could be used for any illness.
Here is a recap of the methods used: gratitude; thanksgiving; trusting
and loving God, others, and yourself; laughter; positive attitude; imagery;
visualization; deliberate intent; focusing on being healed; prayer; listening
to scripture on audio; reading and meditating on healing scripture; and having
a strong attitude of faith, hope, and belief that what you are doing will work
and will attract what you desire. The definition
of faith is the firm belief in something for which there is no proof;
complete trust. It is something that is
believed with strong conviction. The
definition of belief is the state or habit of mind in which trust or
confidence is placed in some person or thing.
The definition of hope is desire accompanied by expectation of or
belief in fulfillment or success. In
James 1:6-8, it states, “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting,
for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man (person)
suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man (person), unstable in
all his ways.” It is very important not to doubt because
this prevents answers to prayer and receiving what you desire. The definition of doubt is a lack of
confidence; distrust; an inclination not to believe or accept. If you are doing something to help your
health and you approach it with doubt or an insincere hope of its
effectiveness, then you may not receive what you desire. If you don’t have a personal relationship
with God or you are not sure, call me or read my Spiritual Health
article on my web site or in my manual.
Personnel in the Medical Industry are
notorious for planting seeds of doubt and sabotaging your faith. When this happens, and you receive it, then there
is no hope. These personnel are also
notorious in unintentionally cursing you to continual illness and death. A curse is defined as a cause of great
harm or misfortune. For example, you get
a diagnosis of cancer, and the doctor tells you that you have 3 months to
live. They just put a curse of death on
you. If the doctor diagnosis you with
________ (diabetes), and tells you that you are going to have this for
the rest of your life, and that you are going to be on this medication for life,
and if you receive this information into your thoughts and body, then this may
curse you to remain in a continual state of illness/disease with no chance of a
natural recovery. The more you repeat what
the doctor says, the more in staunch the information gets in your thinking and
tissues, the less chance of ever receiving a healing. You need to reject these unintentional
curses, never repeat it or just refer to it as the doctor said it, but don’t receive
it or it will sabotage your effort to be healed. How medical personnel can place an unintentional
curse on a person is rooted not only in the spoken negative words, but in the
origin of the medical industry, which is sorcery. The Greek word for sorcery (magic) is Pharmakeia, which is where we get the word pharmacy. Some pharmaceutical drugs may hinder your
ability to heal because of this sorcery connection and side effects.
The power of God does the healing. When you get a bacterial infection, you
normally go to the doctor and get an antibiotic, and they are good, but if the
immune system is poorly functioning, then your recovery will be very slow or
nonexistent. If your immune system was
fully functioning, then you may not have progressed to needing an
antibiotic. The same is true for
cancer. Everyone has cancer cells in
their body, but is the immune system strong enough to fight it. When you get sick, you need to find the
cause, not just treat the symptoms. This
is where the article Mind over Malady and the principles of the secret
come into play. Use prayer, visualization,
and deliberate intent to move all blocks, obstructions, and interferences to cellular
function and health, whatever they may be, out of your immune system, tissues, and
cells. Use the same technique to bring
complete healing in. Be specific as to what
you desire. If you are holding on to
negative emotions, such as hate, bitterness, and resentment, release them, and replace
them with positive emotions, such as joy, love, and gratitude.
Here is an example of how I teach my clients
to remove blocks, obstructions, and interferences to health and healing. I have discovered that using the term energy and
energy threads was very effective in visually grabbing hold of something and
removing it, so you will read this term here.
This technique requires verbally identifying and then removing what you specifically
want to change. For example, if you have
a viral cold, you can identify the virus energy and threads and verbally remove
them. Removing this negative energy has
helped many people get well faster. Stress
prevents good health, so you can remove this stress energy and vertical threads
and feel more relaxed almost instantly. Do
this everyday.
The energy threads flowing vertically
are related to stress and your psychological, emotional, and mental
health. The energy threads flowing horizontally
are related to your visceral and physical health. Visceral means organs, smooth muscle
(digestive track/colon, blood/lymphatic vessels), cardiac muscle, and
glands. Negative Energy can also flow independently
for a specific reason, i.e. abnormal cells, negative spirit energy, toxins, food/environment
antigens, mold, organisms, such as parasites, protozoa, spirochete, mycoplasma, fungus, Candida yeast, staph, actinomycetes,
viral, and bacterial infections. If you
don’t specifically know what organism is affecting you, then just use the term
organisms.
Do the following to remove negative energy
and their threads:
1)
Pray specifically
that God would bind up the (vertical,
horizontal, or specific) negative
energy threads and their generators and controls, and break any bonding, pull
them out to the edge of your energy field, thrown them out, and they are to
leave your home or where ever you are and be destroyed.
2)
If you are
removing independent negative energy, toxin energy, food/environment antigen
energy, black energy, negative spirit energy, stress energy, and/or emotional and/or
psychological energy in general, just pray for it to be bound up, removed, and
destroyed, along with their generators and controls.
3)
When dealing with
abnormal cells (cancer), as well as with organisms, ask God to smash and
obliterate all cellular components of the organisms and/or abnormal cells,
break negative energy bonds, and remove all quark energy, frequencies, ionic
charges, programs and patterns that make them replicate, remove there
signature, spin, and spirit of the organisms or abnormal cells, along with
their life force, the energy feeding them, and the generators and mechanisms
creating and attracting more like energy.
Verbalize and visualize this energy leaving your body, and command this
energy to be destroyed.
4)
Command all
blocks, obstructions, and interferences to cellular function and health to be
removed, and command all your cells to come into complete chemical, frequency,
and energy balance. Pray for God to
restore your cells, tissues, and systems back to the way He created Adam and
Eve.
5)
Do this every day
with deliberate intent, and with a strong will and attitude of faith, hope, and
belief that it will be done.
The next pressing problem that many people
have is too much weight. Personally, I
put an energy command into my body as to what weight I desire, and then I put
the energy command into my body to increase my metabolism if it goes above my
desired weight. I prayed to remove all
blocks, obstructions, and interferences to weight loss and regulation. I still follow the directions to Ultimate
Health and consume less calories then I burn.
With any weight issue, illness, or disease
state, strive to do all you can do physically to obtain ultimate health. I’ve written a manual “Your Healthy Journey”,
which teaches you how to have ultimate health.
Here is a simplified version of the directions to ULTIMATE HEALTH:
Unlimited raw
vegetation intake - 75-85% of diet
Limit cooked
food/vegetation to 15-25% of diet
Trim protein
intake to one 6 oz. serving a day.
Increase fiber to have 2-3 large BMs/day
Minimize cell
damage by taking antioxidants
Abundant
pure water intake (wt ¸ 2 = oz./day)
Trim fat
intake
Eliminate
refined, white flour and sugar, refined salt, processed & deep-fried foods,
dairy, coffee, soda
High-nutrition
intake through juicing
Exercise and
get sunshine 20-30 minutes/day
Aerate your
lungs to oxygenate your body
Lower stress
and emotional distress
Take time for rest, and nightly get 6-8
hours of sleep
Have hope,
love, and faith ©Healthy
Journey
I do not believe that you can pray over a
hot sausage sandwich for God to bless it or think happy health thoughts and not
get sick. This goes against the Biblical
principles of eating to have good health.
There is a reason why God condemned the pig, and many other foods (Leviticus 11). I feel that it was because He knew that it
would harm the human body. He created
it, so He should know. The original diet
set up for man to eat was: “See, I have given you every herb (plant) that yields
seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields
seed; to you it shall be for food”
(Genesis 1:29). I tell
everyone, what God puts his hand to reaps life and what man puts his hand to reaps destruction. There
are foods that lower the immune system and affect the outcome of an illness. These are all highly processed foods and all foods
that contain wheat (80% of the population), dairy and dairy products (90% of
the population), and sugar (100% of the population). Your blood type cells responds negatively to
certain foods, so following the Blood Type Diet maintains a healthy immune
system and a healthy body, as well as drinking lots of water.
Without realizing it, I was practicing the
secret in the 9th grade (1977).
Some kid asked me a question, and I could not answer it, so they told me
that I was stupid, and why did they bother asking me the question. This impacted me greatly, and I remembered
setting 3 goals that I wanted to accomplish by the time I graduated. 1) I was going to be on the honor roll every
term and graduate with high honors; 2) I was going to graduate in the top 10 of
my class; and 3) I was going to be known for something. I had no idea how it was going to
happen. I just kept visualizing it and
repeating it, and I went with the flow, and it happened. Every desire was met. I graduated 23rd out of 250 some
kids, and I was known for my extraordinary pottery work. I could have wallowed in being called stupid
and attracted the energy of stupid, but I chose not to. It reminds me of a verse is Proverbs 23:7; “For
as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
All through high school and even now I meditated on this scripture
verse: “For I know the thoughts that I
think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you
a future and a hope. Then you will call
upon Me, and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you” (Jeremiah
29:11-12). Thoughts are energy, and God
puts out energy toward us to make things happen.
I began to become arthritic and have a lot
of joint pain, get migraine headaches, and suffer emotional ups and downs when
I was in nursing school in 1981. I ran
into yet another life changing choice. I
started to become bitter and angry about my extremely abusive home life, and
all that I had to go through. I went
into counseling, and I chose to meditate on this scripture to help me cope and
move on in life. ; “Forgetting those things which are
behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead” (Philippians
3:13b). When I was feeling insufficient
and inadequate as a nurse or even as a human, I meditated on 2 Corinthians 3:5,
which states, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being
from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.” I pray for God’s sufficiency to help me
everyday. I’m still meditating on theses
verses to help me reach my goals. In 2003,
God started to show me why I was arthritic and is so much pain from head to
toe. He showed me that I was holding
unto emotion and psychological interferences in my cells not just from me but
also in my DNA from my parents. I
started to pray to have it removed, and in a few months, along with following
the blood type diet, I was pain free. I
had another break through when I finally wrote a forgiveness letter to my
mother in September, 2007, and what an emotional release I had. It has taken me 30 years to work on getting
the negative emotions and thoughts out of my thought process and body. Please don’t let negative emotions and
thoughts keep you in bondage and make you sick.
Let it go and be well.
Joel Osteen wrote a wonderful book in 2005
called “Your best Life Now”, which guilds you to live your life to its fullest
potential. He speaks of enlarging your
vision, realizing the power of your thoughts and words, and turning your adversity
into opportunities for growth. He tells
the story of his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1981 and was
only given a few weeks to live, and she is still alive today. I tell her story later in this document.
I have two clients, who are missionaries to
Let me tell you a real life story how
unintentional curses are done. I had a
young client diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
She wanted to have another child, so she rejected all conventional
treatments and unintentional cures of death placed on her, and came to see
me. Three to four months later, she is
medically confirmed cancer free, and all her doctor told her was that she was
lucky, but she will never be able to get pregnant. She rejected that unintentional curse, and
she did conceive. The same doctor told
her that she would never carry the baby to term. She rejected yet another curse, and she
carried the baby to term with the help of progesterone cream. She is still cancer free and a very happy
mother. What she did to accomplish and
receive all that she desired, was to 1) reject the unintentional cures placed
on her by her doctor; 2) rely on her strong faith in God to fulfill her
desires; 3) prayer and trust in an answer; 4) trust in what she was doing
nutritionally and alternatively; and 5) maintain an attitude of faith, hope,
and belief. I can tell many more real
life stories just like this one. It
works.
