by Karen Williams

Created on: March 19, 2010

Thanks to my friend Ande for this question:

"I heard something today on an LOA site that I’ve heard several times from various “The Secret” teachers and it just doesn’t seem to fit with the Abraham perspective, but maybe I’m being too simplistic. It’s that you can’t just want something and feel good and have it happen. You MUST take action. Am I misinterpreting Abraham, do you think, when I conclude that what they say is that action is not necessary? I know they say that taking inspired action from a place of “this makes my heart sing” is an aligned thing to do, but my understanding is that it’s not an action journey. I’d love to hear your take on this. Thanks."

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Like Ande, I've noticed various teachers from "The Secret" movie have, since the movie's release a few years ago, tended to explain, qualify, and dial down this message: "It's all about mental focus."

It seems that I recall Bob Proctor, on one of the talk shows that featured these now-famous teachers from "The Secret," adding that a person can't make it ONLY about thoughts. One has to take into consideration one's eating habits and nutrition, too.

And "Thoughts Become Things" teacher Mike Dooley, who bases his worldwide outreach here in Orlando, went a similar route in his new book, Infinite Possibilities. I recall, as I listened to the (excellent) audio book version, that Mike bent over backward to emphasize that we cannot sit on our hands and do nothing after we've visualized. We must take action to bring our goal, our dream into manifestation.

(Mike's brother, Andy, is a friend of ours here in town, and Andy gives terrific Law of Attraction/humor presentations all over the country. He also creates wonderfully whimsical LOA artwork.)

Anyhow, I'm guessing that those folks from "The Secret" were reacting to one of the biggest criticisms leveled at the movie from people who were new to the ideas presented there: "The Secret" gave people a pie-in-the-sky, misguided notion that if they simply focus on what they want, it will come to them without any work on their part.

That was a common reaction that my feller, Mark, and I noticed from people to whom we showed "The Secret" when it was first released. So, to make the message more palatable, various teachers have emphasized, in deference to the work ethic that runs hard and strong throughout the land, that we must put some shoe leather to our visualizing. Others, like Proctor, insist

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