For it implies that manifesting your desires is a two-part process when, in practical terms, it may be better understood as process in three steps:

* You ask – usually without even asking as the very acting of wanting something is received by the all-powerful creative source as a request or, maybe more aptly put, an order;

* Your “wish” is granted – you need to do nothing for this happen as it’s an automatic and instantaneous result of step 1;

* You either allow it or deny it – like a gift, you either accept it or refuse it.

The reason, then, for the appearance of so many of our desires NOT being granted is our own resistance to having what we asked for.

If you have ever desired something and then sometime later started noticing the failure of that desire to be fulfilled, you are actually pushing the fulfillment of that desire out of your present reality.

Observing, for example, that a lack of resources for the attainment of your desire creates that lack – not the other way around. Not only do you perpetuate the absence or lack by observing it, but you cause it.

For that which you desire is already yours, the instant you want it. But your participation in receiving it does not stop there. To the contrary, by fixating on a desire already transmitted, a want already wanted, you draw yourself continually back to the awareness of your current state of NOT HAVING it.

You do yourself the same disservice by being unhappy about where you currently are and hinging your happiness on the arrival of your desire, by being impatient with the “wait” for it to come, by being jealous of someone else who already has what you want.

Instead what you must do is trust that your request/wish/order has been received and approved and now your only job is to prepare yourself to receive it. How is this done, exactly? By getting your whole being in agreement, into vibrational alignment, with the attainment of that desire.

Imagine you’ve ordered a very expensive item from an importer. Once the order is complete, all you have to do is wait for it to arrive, right? But what if you’ve given the store the wrong shipping address?

Or what if you’ve given the right one, but aren’t home when the delivery is scheduled to arrive, and you haven’t made any allowances for the receipt of that package; you haven’t asked a friend to wait at your home to accept the package for you; you haven’t given the delivery person alternate delivery instructions or a way to contact you.

Maybe you moved, and in all the commotion forgot the order was even coming. Or maybe you flat-out decided you changed your mind and didn’t want it anymore, refusing the package upon delivery.

None of these instances change the fact that what you asked for was given; they only change your ability to receive that which you asked for. It’s the same with the total manifestation of your every desire.

To fulfill this all-too-often forgotten final step in the attainment of all that you desire, simply allow yourself to bask in eager anticipation of what it feels like to know that they’ve already been granted.

Ask and it shall be given; experience the pleasure of having that which you’ve asked for, and ye shall receive.

This is because your beliefs about yourself and your life are often determined by the way you think and feel about yourself.

A person with low self-esteem will usually have a much harder time seeing positive results from the Law of Attraction, simply because they’ll block so much goodness from entering their lives.

Take a look at the beliefs below and consider whether you may be struggling with them too:

Believing that you’re not “good enough”

Low self-esteem often causes you to compare yourself to others and find yourself lacking somehow.  You may believe that you’re not attractive enough, successful enough, generous enough, good enough, or you just plain don’t deserve to be happy.

Believing that others deserve it more

A belief in a limited universe usually gives birth to a belief that there isn’t “enough” to go around, and by accepting something for yourself you may be denying others.  This type of belief affirms that you are not as valuable as other people, and you don’t deserve to have what you want if others don’t have what they want.

Believing that the universe is punishing you

If you were raised under the image of a negative universe (or God), you may walk around with a constant sense of guilt and fear that the universe is just waiting for a chance to zap you for doing something wrong.  This fear is quite intense in some people, so much so that they are afraid to even ask for what they want because the universe might deem them greedy or selfish.

Believing that it’s too good to be true

This belief goes along with the ones above, and usually exists because a person is used to having things go wrong all the time.  If you typically hold negative expectations or believe you’re not worthy of abundance and goodness, you might be suspicious of anything positive the universe tries to send your way, and end up resisting it.

All of these beliefs can be overcome when you learn how to love and respect yourself again.  There are many ways to do so, but begin by speaking kindly to yourself, affirming that you’re a good and valuable person, and that you deserve to be happy and successful.  Emphasize your strong points and affirm that you have a lot to offer the world.

Over time, your self-esteem will begin to rise and you’ll find that you’re not resisting the arrival of goodness and abundance into your life anymore.

The people we think of as history’s “greats”, geniuses in science, business, academia, the arts, and public service, people like Plato, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Ralph Waldo Emerson, those icons who bring us inspiration and aspiration – all achieved what they did through the deliberate practice of the same Secret knowledge.

Some of them had the same words for it, some used an entirely different vocabulary, but the awareness, the Secret they understood and applied about the way the Universe and everything in it works, was the same. One Secret, practiced to extraordinary effect for centuries, and now available to you in the movie: The Secret.

In The Secret this singular concept, this seeming-magic formula that led to the immortalization of so many of its practitioners, is explained by articulate authorities in a diversity of disciplines – theology, medicine, philosophy, business, quantum physics, and more. Set to inspiring music and a collage of engrossing images, the Secret to living the life you’ve always dreamed of is laid out for you in a clear, concise, and – most importantly – practical manner.

If you’ve found this review and you don’t know The Secret already, it’s time you were filled in. The Secret is the Law of Attraction: like attracts like, what you think about you manifest, thoughts create things, your thoughts create your reality.

After The Secret is thorough illustrated to where you can at least understand the concept, if not yet quite believe it, it is then explained how to apply the Secret, the Law of Attraction, to improving your life, in all areas: money, health, relationships with others, your relationship with yourself, and the larger world.

You will learn to eliminate what you don’t want from your life by concentrating on what it is you do want. You will learn to harness gratitude and other positive emotions to attract more into your life to feel good about.

And you will learn simple, repeatable processes for using the Law of Attraction with increasing effectiveness, rapidity, and ease, including the fundamental process of the Law of Attraction:

1. Ask for what you want;
2. Believe that you have it already;
3. Receive it into your life by feeling the feelings of having it now.

The lush imagery throughout the film is a dreamscape that opens the mind to possibility like a kaleidoscope open the eyes to wonder.

One of the most compelling, convincing, and inspiring aspects of the movie, however, is in the real-life personal experiences from the very same “teachers” conveying The Secret, stories of triumph over adversity and transformation in the face of overwhelming resistance.

If ever there was a Secret to enlightenment, this is it; and this movie lays The Secret bare for anyone with eyes to see, ears to hear it, and – most vitally – an open mind.