Melvin's Version of THE SECRET MANIFESTATION

1 MELVIN O. NZEFILI’S VERSION OF THE SECRET MANIFESTATION 2 All rights reserved. Copyright© 2008 by Melvin O. Nzefili No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or lifted in anyway without authorization from the author, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles. Published by Lulu Press, Inc., 860 Aviation Parkway, Suite 300 Morrisville, North Carolina 27560 1 Hi, my name is Melvin Nzefili and this is a brief article by me about how we manipulate events by thoughts and actions. You might have heard about the ‘Secret’ (which wasn’t completely a secret but a manifestation that is not understood by many of us) or you might have read the book or seen the DVD of ‘The Secret’. I have too, and it only made things clearer to me about certain phenomena and occurrences I found difficult to an extent to process. I would love to invite you to process my own version of the explanation of the secret path to manifesting dreams and nightmares into our lives by no one else other than ourselves and how it shapes our future. 2Contents Manifestation I ………………………………………………… 1 Manifestation II …………………………………………………5 Manifestation III …………………………………………………8 Manifestation IV …………………………………………………15 Manifestation V …………………………………………………22 1 THE SECRET (Melvin’s Version) MANIFESTATION I Choices: Do you know that we all as human beings choose our paths, success or failure, fulfillment or dissatisfaction, wealth or poverty whatever contrast you can think of. God has given everyone free-will, and many of us have made very wrong choices. Instead of blaming ourselves we tend to blame God. God gave Adam and Eve all they needed and if they remained faithful to God, we wouldn’t need to make choices because God who created man had already given man what man needed, Good things; nobody wants bad things. We may want to blame Adam and Eve for our predicament but we do the same everyday of our lives being disobedient also, by breaking one or more of the ten commandments every blessed day of our lives. When we do anything good or bad we get rewarded accordingly, in nature. Fall of Man: When God created man, he made man higher than all the angels, but we lost that exaltation when Adam disobeyed God, bringing about the fall of man. Therefore, he has become less a man. The angels are now higher. This is my perspective, a lot of people might not share my point of view but it is logical. It’s sad that many men try to prove to be men but never really know what it entails. We keep falling from manhood each time we disobey God, and the more we fall, the more we are lower than the angels and descending to the level of the demons. Remember what Jesus said, “There is no man greater than John the Baptist but he is less than the least in Heaven.” The angels are in Heaven, aren’t they? And originally we were created to be higher than the angels in Heaven. We can only regain that exaltation by obeying the teachings of Jesus Christ to the letter and as long as we don’t, the devil keeps prevailing. The devil is less than the angels and man, because he fell. What is Christ’s teaching really about. Now here is the real secret: God, ever since the creation, had one single design for existence, and that design uses a pattern which all in existence must comply with in order to prevail. Everything in existence follows this pattern including man. But man has always distorted it ever since his fall. Everything in existence explains and gives a clue about everything else in existence; the way things work. God speaks to us through these and still does, but man is so pre-occupied with earthly things he doesn’t pay attention and at the end of the day he sulks, “Oh, Lord, when will you answer my prayers?” yet God always does. Don’t understand? Okay, let me put it this way: Jesus gave most of his teachings in parables, and those parables either used happenings in life or nature, e.t.c to teach about the 2Kingdom of God. We are all connected, man, plants, animals, water, air, light, all that is matter alike. We all survive and live by one law, principle and pattern, and that is attraction. The Law of Attraction: It states that every positive thought you have, is responsible for every positive circumstance you find yourself. Every negative thought you have is responsible for every negative circumstance you find yourself. Therefore, like attract like; for every thing we think, we get a corresponding result. Thoughts: A thought therefore manifests unto reality. God thought about creating the world and went ahead and did it and so, we are. We are created in His image and likeness, therefore we also take part in the creation process. How? When, as an artist, you have the image of something in your mind that no one else has conceived in his mind, the only way anyone else will be able to see what it is that is in your mind, visually, is when you get to work creating a sculptural image of what was in your mind or drawing it on paper; by so doing you have made/created a manifestation of your thought. There are many ways our thoughts get manifested: When you begin to feel worried about something you just remembered and you maintain that thought in your mind, it begins to manifest on your face. When you maintain that thought for days it, manifests on your appearance, usually negatively because you hold a negative thought, which is worry. The opposite is with happy thoughts which are positive and manifest positively on your appearance. These thoughts when maintained for long, go beyond our physical features, they begin to affect our actions, everything we touch, do and even people we meet, and the effects are always negative if our thoughts are negative, and positive if our thoughts are positive. Remember, we are all connected; if you worry too much, it certainly would get people who are close to you worrying a lot. If you have doubts about accomplishing a goal, you will not be propelled to go on and accomplish it, and when that happens, you don’t accomplish such goals, because you had a negative thought, doubt. And as a result a negative feeling of believing that you won’t be able to accomplish it, or it wouldn’t be successful, which finally turned out so. Thoughts and Emotions: You will realize now, that thoughts and emotions are like twins. They feel each other’s joys and pains. If you think of a bad news or remember one, you feel very bad. When you remember some good news you feel happy. These feelings trigger your emotion as a result of the thought you have, and any observant person around, would be able to see it all over your face. It is this emotion that is powered by your thought. And the emotion 3 powers your actions. The extent to which your emotions are powered, determines how vigorously you are moved into action. Observe this: when you have two or more positive goals in mind to accomplish, when you think about it, it is usually the one that interests you most that you pay more attention to, and it dwells in your mind, when it does you think of ways to accomplish it, and then you have insights you get excited and that, powers your emotion and coincidentally, your enthusiasm. You hardly realize when you are always suddenly on your toes to go ahead accomplishing that task, which is always accomplished in no time, because of how moved you are to accomplish it. Formless and Void: In the beginning, when God created the universe, the earth was formless and void and the spirit of God flowed over the waters which covered everything and was enwrapped in total darkness. – From the book of Genesis It was from this formless void that God created what is of the world; another example man has always followed in taking part in the creation process. To mold clay into an image, is an example. Clay has no form, but it takes shape when the sculptor molds it into an image he already bore in mind. Everything in the world today created by man, was developed from what he found on the earth, not outside. Water is formless and it takes the form of any shape it enters. God’s Spirit flowed over the water and commanded, “Let there be light,” and the light appeared, at once. The scientists call this the Big Bang. This tells us too that, words also do some manifesting. Our words, are spoken with air, and they are said into the air. The air is formless and it takes shape of anything that manipulates it, just like water does. When you utter statements, it doesn’t matter what you say, it is the emotion with which you said it that determines what manifests. This is because our thoughts determine our emotion and then eventually what manifests; our body as instrument. The Mind, Thought, Emotion and Manifestation: The mind is static, more like a formless void, waiting to be molded into form by our thoughts. What we observance/see and hear in life, does the molding of our minds, either positively or negatively bringing about our thoughts. The thoughts are the dynamic mind i.e. the mind in action. The action of the mind stirs up emotions, the emotions control our nerves which stirs us into action bringing about a manifestation of what we bear in mind. What does this tell you? I don’t know, but I’ll tell you what it tells me: Everything that exists in the world, existed first in someone’s mind and only came about being possible because of his mind going into action, generating his thought; his thought stirred his emotion which stirred his body into action. Parts of his body utilized available 4resources to manifest the content of his thought unto reality. Nothing is impossible if we think so, all is impossible if we think so too. If you believe you can or you can’t, either way you are right – the words of Sir Henry Ford. The Secret: You can have anything, it is you desire in life: wealth, health, a healthy relationship, happy marriage and happiness, whatever. On the other hand you can have the negative. It all depends on what you think, how you think, and what you are always thinking. 5 THE SECRET (MELVIN’S VERSION) MANIFESTATION II Spirituality holds the answers to what is worth knowing about existence, and it is what, in this age, a lot of people are not interested in. Science provides answers to a great number of things about existence and they are correct; but the truth scientists are trying hard not to accept is that, for eternity, science will never be able to provide answers to everything about existence. This is because, the world began spiritually, the manifestations of God’s creation brought about the birth of science. The spirit comes before science; the father comes before the son. The father knows the son’s beginning; the son knows only his own beginning and not the father’s. The son will only know when he listens to the father when the father decides to tell him about his own beginning; but even at that the father wouldn’t tell him all, at least not just yet. But how will the son possibly know when he is distracted by other things that don’t really matter? Meditation is a way to interact with God and get answers first hand from Him, but many of us cannot meditate because our minds are restless; unsettled because of one or two things that must have happened during the day. The mind has to be relaxed from time to time, so that we can be able to get back in touch with our true selves because the mind links us to our spirits which is the base of our existence. THE UNIVERSE Everything that exists is available only in the universe; what then is beyond the universe? For sure science hasn’t got the answers, at least not yet, but will they? Our solar system occupies only an extremely minute fraction of our galaxy and our galaxy only occupies an extremely minute fraction of the entire universe. The universe and all that is within it is constantly in motion and as a result possesses energy; in this case the total energy is the universal energy. This universal energy is a totality of the energy possessed by everything in existence, living and non-living; matter. THE HUMAN POWER MATTER: Scientists tell us that everything that is matter contains molecules and molecules are made of atoms which in turn consist of a nucleus which has protons in it. Around the nucleus revolves electrons. The protons are positively charged and the electrons are negatively charged. The atom is 6therefore electrically neutral. As a result the atoms generate energy and these atoms are in every cell of our body; our DNA as well. Matter contains billions of billions of atoms and as a result, it contains a lot of energy. Anything that is solid is matter; humans, plants, living and nonliving things, everything in existence. It means that as humans we have a lot of potential energy (I am not talking about energy from food this time). As a result of this energy, matter is constantly vibrating. Nothing is really static because of the energy it possesses. DNA and HUMANS: Every single aspect of the human being contains the DNA and this DNA has been proven by series of lab tests to have a lot of impact on light energy. The particles in light energy possess no pattern, but the Human DNA has been proven to be capable of making these particles assume a particular pattern. What am I driving at? Light energy is what surrounds all things, and it is formless just like air and water, therefore it can be manipulated to assume a particular form or pattern by something that has a form. The DNA has also been proven to manipulate light in accordance to the emotion its owner is going through at the moment. This should explain why, what we feel inside manifests on our body, since our DNA makes us (it is what a living being is built up of). The DNA is present in as little as a pinch of your flesh, or finger nail or even a strand of your hair; you can only begin to imagine the level of potential energy emanating around you potentially, not yet stirred into action by your emotion; this could be better referred to as your aura: a light surrounding all matter but is usually only visible to people with clairvoyant abilities. The Mind, Body and Emotion Relationship: The mind is the origin of our thoughts. Our thoughts come about when our minds are in action. The nature of our thoughts determines the nature of our emotion. Our emotion affects what possible action we may take, and our emotion always manifest on our body physically and stirs the potential energy emanating around us into vibration. Therefore our thoughts act as waves do. WAVES: Waves such as ripples start from its source and when they encounter obstacles they refract in an angle from the obstacle. Thoughts travel like that, and for the fact that brain waves (thoughts) can be measured by the EEG machine it shows that thoughts are waves and will act the same. When we have a thought it travels beyond our bodies into the universe (thought energy into universal energy) and the universe rebounds like energy back to us (just like waves). 7 In conclusion to the previous part, you’ll remember I concluded with a secret, that you can have anything you want and don’t want in life, it all depends on what you think, how you think and what you are always thinking. I will add that, it depends also on how you obey the law of attraction LAW OF ATTRACTION As I said in Part 1 the law states that, like attract like. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative. All about thoughts. This makes human beings behave as magnets; in this case we attract things, circumstances and people into our lives, relative to the kind of thought we have. Energy vibrates on a frequency, either high or low; and this is where our emotions choose their vibration frequencies. All positive thoughts and feelings vibrate on a high frequency while negative thoughts and feelings vibrate on a low frequency. Positive circumstances and things all vibrate on high frequencies and negative circumstances and things vibrate on low frequencies too. Here are examples of: Positive feelings, circumstances, thoughts: Happiness, Joy, Gratitude, Enthusiasm, Charisma, Peace, Love Negative feelings, circumstance, thought: Anger, sadness, ungratefulness, selfishness, hatred, War Psychologists speak of the relationship between our energy fields and the universal energy as: our energy fields making requests and the universe responding to our requests in accordance to our thoughts. And they almost make it seem as if they are referring to God as the universe. The universe was created by God, and the universe works in the fixed pattern, it never changes. God alters events of nature, so the universe is not God, God made everything that currently exists in the universe. 8 THE SECRET (Melvin’s Version) MANIFESTATION III The universe was created by God, and the universe works in the fixed pattern, it never changes. God alters events of nature, so the universe is not God, God made everything that currently exists in the universe. The Fixed Pattern {Yin and yang}: What is this fixed pattern? Everything positive in existence is balanced off by everything negative in existence. Which brings us to the law of opposites, yin and yang principles. The yin and yang principle is followed and obeyed by everything in existence and it is responsible for motion which is powered by energy. When you have a thought, it obeys the law of attraction and you, the thinker, would follow the principle of yin and yang to be in touch with the results. Blurry, right? Let me be more elaborate: The yin and yang symbol The principle makes us understand that, yin must be balanced off by yang; it has to, in order to maintain order. Everything, hard, hot, fast e.t.c. is associated with yang (the white side of the symbol); while the opposite, soft, cold, slow e.t.c. is associated with yin (the dark side of the symbol). {The symbol is represented by two fish, one white and the other black, and they follow each other in a circular motion (Which one is following the other? That is where we choose our path; God’s free will to man; choices made by man!)}. When one is more than the other, then a stand has been taken. When both are in equal proportion there is a balance; everything in life must have a balance. For instance, a human’s body temperature is not meant to have more cold than heat (more yin than yang) and it is not meant to have more heat than cold either (more yang than yin); there will be imbalance. Both extremes tend to death, and that is the stand. Yin and yang have to be in equal proportion. Another instance is with the weather, there are times in the year when the season is cold and later in the year when the season is hot, it is not cold all year round or hot all year round; if it is, then we are probably approaching the Armageddon (the end of time). The day makes way for night and vice versa, if it doesn’t then it means the earth has stopped rotating and is no longer alive and the clock has stopped too (the end). 9 You can see that yin and yang is associated with movement, and don’t forget that movement is powered by energy. Anything with energy is alive, which brings us back to thoughts. If it is true that what happens to us is as a result of our thoughts, then it means our thought has energy and if thoughts have energy, then thoughts are things and thoughts are alive through manifestation. Have you ever noticed that, those who always think about money always, one way or the other, get it? Those who only believe that they can work anywhere other than the bank, do well in every other job but not bank jobs? Those that are always scared of being attacked by robbers, almost always get robbed? If you haven’t noticed, I implore you to try making observations. Our fears manifest unto reality. Our beliefs manifest unto reality and also determine our personality to a great extent. Our fears and beliefs originate from the nature of our thoughts and our thoughts manifest them because thoughts are things! For everything good or bad there is a reward Have you ever heard that before? It means good things are rewarded to people who do good, and bad things are rewarded to those who do bad. That is why Jesus asks us to leave vengeance to God. He said this out of love for us. In the case of a vendetta: let’s say a man happened to have murdered your husband (God forbid such, Amen!), you will surely feel very bad. You might, some time in the future, have the chance to get back at him. It’s payback time, right? But should you be the one to payback or leave God to do the payback? Let me put it this way: should you be the one to payback or leave the law of attraction and yin and yang to do the payback? Yes, that is the truth … yin and yang is a fixed pattern: positive has to be balanced off by negative to bring about movement; the law of attraction makes sure that positive begets positive and negative begets negative. THE POSSIBILTIES IN THE CASE ABOVE The man killed your husband, okay. What is yin and yang’s stand on this? Yin and Yang: the offender (the killer/a negative being) did a negative thing i.e. killing, therefore, the offended (you and your husband) need to be placed back in the positive i.e. having the situation neutralized, taking you away from the negative state of feeling cheated. What is the law of attraction’s stand? Law of Attraction: the offender did a negative thing; he has to be given a negative reward. 10 Yin and yang deals with movement: from one point to the other and then back. The law of attraction deals with attraction: negative beget negative. Is the picture clearer? That is why God says, “Do to others what you want others to do unto you!” There is always a transfer of energy in nature at every point in time (remember that everything matter is energy, that includes you and I). Yin and yang principles and the law of attraction state that; For instance: Yin and yang principle 1. Under room temperature, an icy drink always rises in temperature to be warmer and a hot drink always drops in temperature to be cooler; for the hot drink there is a drop in temperature to a particular temperature which is also risen to by the cold drink; (this is yin and yang principle being obeyed; a balance is reached). 2. Place a hot rod into cold water, and what happens? The rod gets cooler and the water gets a bit warmer. (Transfer of cold and heat energy; whichever direction you want to speak from, the rod to the water or water to the rod; heat to cold or cold to heat. Just like the symbol depicts; the yin and yang). On the other hand: The law of attraction 1. Under room temperature, an icy drink drops further in temperature when more ice is put into it, and a hot drink rises further in temperature when more heat is added to it, like placing the cup of hot drink in a bowl, filled with hot water, which is on a burner. (The law is obeyed: like attract like). 2. Place a hot rod into hot water, and what happens? It certainly wouldn’t get cooler that’s for sure! (Like attract like and sustains it too. No wonder they say two wrongs don’t make a right. No wonder Jesus says, “Love your enemies … when a man strikes your left cheek give him the right to strike.”) Observing the above more closely, you will realize truly how yin and yang is concerned with movement (heat to cold, cold to heat) and how the law attraction justifies attraction of like energies (heat sustains heat and cold sustains cold). Let’s get back to the vendetta: Yin and yang and the law of attraction are the principle and the law that determine the natural course of events in life; when you allow them to take their course everything that happens to you turns out right, when you don’t the opposite happens because there has been an obstruction … 11 a distortion. Just what man has always been doing since Adam and Eve disobeyed God; as I stated in Part 1. When you take vengeance and decide to give the killer your payback when you have the chance, you have succeeded in doing a negative thing (two wrongs don’t make a right). And the laws of nature have to pay you back for your deed following the L.O.A.: negative beget negative; and following the Y&Y principle: what goes around comes around. When you allow nature take its course the laws of nature pay you back following the L.O.A.: Positive beget positive (Your leaving vengeance for God is a positive action); and following the Y&Y principle: what goes around comes around. In the first case, you got in the way of nature paying back the killer by doing it for nature, so nature shows you appreciation by paying you back for your deeds. Jesus told His apostles, “When you get to any house bless the house and if the inhabitants deserve your blessing or they welcome you, your peace will rest with them. But if they don’t deserve your blessing or they don’t welcome you, your peace will return to you.” This is another case of the L.O.A. like beget like and the Y&Y what goes around comes around. Everything about existence is alive and moving, it is not static. The earth and everything about it is alive and moving, living and non-living matter alike. THE QUESTION ABOUT RIGHT OR WRONG Have you ever tried to make someone see reason and it just seems you just aren’t able to get through to that person? The person holds his/her own views and is just not ready to reason with the point you are making. I have at many occasions, and how do I handle them? I say no more after I have spoken, then I listen to them and try to understand what their point is, and then try to come to terms with the final say, what I will choose to accept by weighing it with what God has declared as right. That is me, what about you? I have been speaking about the mind and how its actions (thoughts) affect us. The mind is of three levels: the conscious, the subconscious and the universal. The brain waves vibrate at different frequencies at each level. Remember that all positive thoughts vibrate on high frequencies and all negative thoughts vibrate on low frequencies. I am happy for one thing, and that is: good things vibrate on high frequencies and bad things vibrate on low frequencies and as a result, high frequencies are 100 times more powerful than low frequencies. How? 12 When you take one end of a rope and shake it slowly, the rope produces a sine wave on a low frequency, when I shake the other end of the rope and very quickly the rope produces a sine wave on a high frequency from the other end and makes the entire rope form to produce a sine wave on a general high frequency. Or in the case of striking two aluminum pots placed side by side. They are both on very low frequencies as they are, but when I strike one of them it begins to vibrate (i.e. increased vibration = higher frequency) and it will set the other pot placed beside it unto resonance/vibration as well, and they both begin to vibrate together. The conscious mind is active when the brain waves are on high frequencies; at this level your brain is engaged in some kind of mental activity or concentration. The subconscious mind is active when the brain waves are at lower frequencies; at this point your brain is less stressed and no demand is made on it as when you are fully awake; it’s the threshold between sleep and being awake. The universal mind is like a computer database where all users come to get data and info from. We all share the universal mind; the conscious and subconscious minds are unique to each of us. The subconscious mind builds its database based on what the conscious mind feeds it with and this brings about our belief system. The universal mind bears the truth. Therefore the answer to the question about what’s right and wrong lies in the universal mind. We can tap into it via meditation. When growing as a child, our minds were formless and void and kind of unconscious. As we grew over the years the concept of life and instruction, from our parents, helped form our minds and build the belief system we bear in it. Can you image what kind of belief system children, whose parents had a wrong concept of life, would have? Their parents had a different perspective to life from your parents. On the other hand, some children who have a high consciousness may not completely accept a wrong concept from their parents, this is because we all tap into the universal mind, but certain people are more able to tap into it than some others, or rather some are more open to receiving the truthful message from the universal mind than some others. Psychologists refer to this universal mind as the minds of a higher self, angel, ancestor e.t.c. Messages come to us from there in form of hunches, insights and ideas; especially when we pray and or meditate. Those in the Catholic faith are more attuned to this when seated at the Blessed Sacrament/Tabernacle in silence. A priest once said, at a Holy Mass service, that a lot of Catholics don’t have their prayers answered because they do all the talking without waiting to listen to God’s response when they visit the Blessed Sacrament; they engage in a monologue with Him rather than a dialogue. The conscious mind is more on a higher frequency which is difficult to manipulate. When the mind is more at rest, settling closer to the subconscious which is at lower frequencies, it gets more attuned to the 13 universal mind. What we observe with our eyes and see to be reality and accept, get buried into our minds and we develop a belief system which governs our character and way of reasoning. The truth is that, all we see originally came from within us not from outside and if we choose to base our lives on what is outside rather than from what can come from within, then we are fake, counterfeit and more like zombies and if I might add, less and less of a man/woman. INFLUENCE OVER THE MIND: When Mr. & Mrs. Guy keep telling their child, Troy, to keep away from a particular child named Sammy, out of misconception, saying that Sammy will influence Troy negatively; that notion will stick in Troy’s mind and he will grow with it developing a belief system that, people that look, appear and behave like Sammy will affect him negatively if he hangs around them. Truly, that would be the case when Troy decides one day to get involved with children like Sammy. It could be that Sammy is positive in all ramifications but the notion buried in Troy’s subconscious will make things turn out negatively. He thinks Sammy will affect him negatively, the thoughts manifest and Sammy truly affects him negatively without knowing it, and unintentionally. Sammy on the other hand being a positive person will affect every other person positively, but not Troy or people that think of him the way troy does; it doesn’t matter if Troy is a positive person or not, it’s what he thinks that matters. It is what the conscious mind accepts that determines what the subconscious mind conceives, and it is what the subconscious mind conceives that begins the process of our belief system and it is our belief system that is responsible for our attitude to life, either positive or negative. This issue brings me to the usual question: why do bad things always happen to good people and why do bad people never seem to get punished for their crimes? Do you know that if you are a bad person your end will be bad even though good things happen to you most of your life; and if you are a good person, your end will be good even though bad things happen to you all your life. The world is imperfect and good and bad things happen to everybody good and bad; it is our attitude to this situation, based on our belief system that really has a part to play in all this. It’s inevitable, positive and negative take their turns, it is necessary for existence and they are constantly taking turns to operate. In accomplishing goals you have to sweat or sometimes make sacrifices to accomplish them; it is hard to hear of a successful man who got to the top without some kind of trial. Without those trials if he succeeds, somehow, to get to the top he might not be able to remain there very long. An internet scam-artist does a lot of negative things like fooling a lot of rich people and stealing their money on-line (negative move), he 14 becomes rich overnight after stealing someone’s money, he is happy (Positive feeling). People see him and are willing to do what he did to get rich, without thinking and without reason, all they know is a good thing has happened to the scam-artist they want to be in his shoes. Wait a minute! Something has happened. Years later, or maybe months later, some terrible events begin to happen to the scam artist, he has begun to lose all the money … and now he is in the hospital battling for his life after a ghastly accident in a Porsche car he bought a couple of months ago with the scam-money (negative result). He got paid back by natural course of events finally. This story was not made up; unfortunately my countrymen used to have a lot of scam-artists who ended up so after their big hit, though many have stopped but the stigma is still on anyone with the nationality, “Nigerian.” Life is an illusion, what we see is not always as it seems. Bad people always get punished; if you observe their history you will see that it is true. Good people always get rewarded, it usually doesn’t seem so when they get impatient and try to venture a negative alternative. On the other hand, bad people are usually always successful with their plots because they believe so much in their skillfulness, and that they can’t be caught and a number of others who have observed it to be true also believe that these bad guys can’t be caught. Imagine these thought energies from different people finally materializing; of course the bad guy will never be caught but L.O.A. and Y&Y are always there to reward his negative skillfulness with the corresponding negative reward. Man didn’t catch him but nature did …. God did. Who says the smartest of bad guys can never be caught? Man’s conscious and subconscious mind does, but the universal mind thinks differently. God says, “Your ways are not my ways … your thoughts are not my thoughts!” There’s a song we used to sing back in my days in primary school: “You can never hide it from God. You may cover your sin so no one else will know but you can never hide it from God.” God is existence and He created the universe to function the way it does that is why it is true that he has given us everything already; He is the great provider, right? Justice is always served. For everything good or bad you do, there is always a reward waiting. No one can really talk about existence excluding God. 15 THE SECRET (Melvin’s Version) MANIFESTATION IV THE PROCESS OF MANIFESTATION OF THOUGHTS UNTO REALITY: From previous parts it can be understood that everything in existence follows a pattern, a continuous repetition of processes which sustains energy. When you do something over and over it becomes a part of you and you become accustomed to it. Practice makes perfect they say. Remember the saying of Jesus Christ, “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it will be opened to you.” We can only experience the truth in those words when we indulge in a frequently repeated activity or the other. In reference to the L.O.A. Asking would mean to be having a constant thought in our mind which is later projected. Seeking would be powered by our zeal to accomplishment; your emotion behind your thought comes into play. You are moved into action, constantly seeking what you hope to find. Knocking would be in taking advantage of the opportunity when it finally comes; the response to your thought from the universe. (N.B. opportunity comes but once). This can now be grouped into 3 categories, if you want to consciously manipulate your thoughts to get desired results: 1. Ask 2. Receive and 3. Gratitude ASK: When you have a constant thought like, wanting to get money to buy a new house, it is equivalent to making a request to the universal mind. There are different ways to communicate: body language, speech, signs e.t.c. and they all originate from the mind. The thoughts travel beyond your body into the universe as waves. Ref: God knows what you want even before you kneel and ask Him for it. RECEIVE: When your thoughts travel into the universe the universe sets up events, people and circumstances on your path that are in alignment to the frequency of your thought vibration (Like attract like). For instance, you might find someone who will be willing to loan you some money to buy that house, or someone from somewhere might give you a house you desire at a much affordable rate or possibly dash you a house, or you 16 might find a better paying job that will make it possible for you to buy a new house. You will always recognize the opportunity when it comes as long as you maintain the initial thought frequency which is expected to be high. When the chance comes you must act fast because the Y&Y principle suggests movement and movement never halts; once that chance passes it passes, although, another chance might come, it will be in a different way but only as long as you maintain the same thought frequency. Therefore, prayers can’t be answered if we do nothing on our own path; we have to prove interest by acting unless we get nothing. GRATITUDE: Maintaining the same thought frequency can be achieved by being satisfied and thankful for what we already have and what we are expecting to have even though, we haven’t got it yet. It stirs up a feeling of already having it and keeps us happy. This is what the church refers to as faith; believing we will have something no matter how long it would take. If you are grateful for already having a house (like the one you’re currently living in), when you finally get a house of your dreams it will be cozier than the one you are currently living in. It can also be achieved by not worrying about what we haven’t got or bothering about what evil people do to achieve what we are still seeking. Remember that good always comes to good, and at the right time. When you bless something and are thankful for it, your emotion tells the universe, “This is very beautiful, let there be more of this.” And the universe will always make it abundant, not because you asked for more but because your emotion propelled a positive message into the universe. When you complain, “This is disgusting; I hope there will be no more of this.” You are actually telling the universe, “This is disgusting, let there be more anyway.” Ironic isn’t it? Not really though, because the universe understands the language of our emotion not our speech. It tries to sustain what you project that is what it is all about: a pattern generates energy and sustains it. CONFLICT OF INTEREST: In the case above, once you begin to doubt being able to buy a house, it cancels out the possibility of having it. The positive thought has not been maintained, therefore, you are no longer on the thought frequency to receive what it offers, you get the opposite. Another major reason why goals aren’t accomplished: when people see a good thing and they appreciate it, they say, “This is good let us put in all our energy and resources to make sure this continues.” And it turns out, that that good thing is sustained and continues. (Good feeling sustaining an observed good; positive beget positive). On the contrary 17 when they see something terrible they say, “This is very bad let us put in all our energy and resources in fighting this.” and it turns out that their decision only aggravates the situation. Why is this? Take for instance, the terrorists. When you fight them, it makes their anger more intense because they already believe that you have been treating them unjustly and yet you don’t want to reason with them, so they look for different means to outsmart and attack you. The situation hasn’t been solved, has it? (A negative action {fighting} being added to a negative event {terrorism}; negative and negative beget negative). How then can this be solved? It is by fighting it without fighting it. Don’t worry the last sentence isn’t a typographical error, that is the only solution; the art of fighting without fighting. Do I hear you ask, “Now what the heck does that mean?” It means what it means. Jesus gave a classical example during the last three days of His life. Jesus knew Judas would give Him away to those who would kill Him; believe me if I was in Jesus’ shoes I’d kill Judas, one time! But Jesus didn’t, hmmm. Okay maybe He was waiting for a better time. The soldiers came and took Him away, He still did nothing. The Jews gave false testimony, He didn’t defend Himself, like I and a lot us would try to do. He had a goal, and that was to die to bring salvation back to mankind, and all that heavy temptation couldn’t alter His motives. He got crucified and the devil began to rejoice that he had won. But Christ died and rose and Satan was defeated, that was when Satan knew what was up. And today millions believe in Christ’s works though we have a lot of hypocrites still. God won without fighting because love conquers all. “Love your enemies,” He said. Love is the most powerful positive emotion in existence (think about what it makes us do most of the time without reasoning). Negativism is balanced off by positivism according to Y&Y principles. L.O.A. suggests that positive and negative cancel out/neutralize while like attract like and sustains it. How do you fight terrorism, then? It is by devising means to make what can sustain it cease to be, and creating alternates which can make terrorism cease to continue, in other words, neutralizing the entire situation. Let me give a more domestic example, let’s say you have a farm and you’ve planted a lot of fruit plants and vegetables there. Then out of nowhere comes this goat, seeking for grass to chew but finds something better and his game happens to be inside your farm. It pays your farm a visit everyday and you wake up one day to find that your plants have 18 been eaten up by a goat. Whenever you get that goat, I’m sure you will be ready to give it some thrashing with a whip to either exert your anger or try to make it understand that there will be bad news for it if it returns. But a goat is a goat it will always return despite the trashing. I bet you, if you continue with your method, it will continue returning to receive your whip AND eat your crops. So what is the answer, fight the goat without fighting it; now I am not suggesting wrestling it without wrestling it, that doesn’t make any sense. How you can fight it is by making a fence around your crops and putting thorns around as well if necessary. You will realize later that your crops will make it to the harvest and the goat, which might still be lurking around, can never have access to your crops. Now, haven’t you won the fight against the goat eating up your crops without having to thrash it? Here are the formulae for the L.O.A. a. Positive (situation) + positive (thought) = positive outcome. b. Negative (situation) + negative (thought) = negative outcome. c. Positive (situation) + negative (thought) = 0 or neutral outcome. d. Negative (situation) + Positive (thought) = 0 or neutral outcome. Here are the formulae for Y&Y a. Positive force + positive force = positively moving off the balance i.e.{no motion taking a (+ve) stand} b. Negative force + negative force = negatively moving off the balance i.e.{no motion taking a (-ve) stand} c. Positive force + negative force = existence and maintaining the balance i.e.{endless motion taking no stand} With that let us now analyze the process of the above art: Fighting Situation = goats eating up your plants (negative) Thought = you want to stop the goat from eating your crops (positive) Action = you face the goat beating it up; neglecting your farm (negative) Result = negative (Stn) + positive (Tht) = 0; 0 + negative (Atn) = negative (the goat keeps returning to eat) Fighting without fighting Situation = a goat eating up your plants (negative) Thought = you want to stop the goat from eating your crops (positive) Action = you fence your farm; neglecting the goat (positive) Result = negative (Stn) + positive (Tht) = 0; 0 + positive (Atn) = positive (the goat can’t get to the farm). 19 Analyzing the above in both cases, from the result, you will realize that just thinking (positively) of what to do about solving a terrible situation (which is always negative) doesn’t bring a result, you have to take the right action to yield the right results or take a wrong action to yield wrong results. From the above, we can also deduce that: in the art of fighting without fighting, you get desired results by paying attention and giving all your energy and care to what requires attention rather than what causes the problem/disaster. For instance, if you know about a hired assassin that is out to kill a friend of yours, the best way to take care of the situation is like this, (knowing that you can’t kill, attack, or stop the assassin from killing your friend or defending your friend from him): Situation = an assassin is out to kill your friend (negative) Thought A = I can’t fight, kill or stop them (negative) Thought B = I can take my friend to where they can never find him at least until the hirer is found by the police (positive) Action A = I can’t do anything; let’s pray they don’t come (negative) Action B = take your friend to the safe place immediately. Assassins come they can’t find your friend; no one to kill (positive) Result A = negative (Stn) + negative (Tht) = negative; Negative + negative (Atn) = negative (they can kill your friend or there is a bad encounter even if you friend makes it out alive). Result B = negative (Stn) + positive (Tht) = 0; 0 + positive (Atn) = positive (your friend is safe until the hirer is busted). 1. The assassin shouldn’t be the one you waste your energy on, waste it on helping your friend. 2. Don’t waste your energy on stopping a goat, wasting it on protecting your farm. 3. Don’t waste your energy on fighting terrorists; waste it on making it difficult for them to succeed. 4. Don’t waste your energy on trying to make a spouse understand you, waste it on making yourself a spouse to be with, one who is amiable. 5. Don’t waste your energy on wondering why, bad people seem to be successful, waste it on trying to be successful yourself. 6. Don’t waste your energy on thinking of what bad predicament you have found yourself, waste it on trying to be in a better situation. 7. Don’t waste your energy on sorrow for a goal that didn’t work out, waste it on trying a better alternative. 20 8. Don’t waste your energy thinking about death; waste it on thinking about life after death. We are always distracted by what doesn’t matter (negativism) instead of paying attention to the things that matter (positivism). God said that we should do our best and leave the rest to Him. “Trust in Me and I will give you rest.” He said. “When you pray go straight to the point because your father in Heaven already knows what you ask for before you even say it.” Jesus said that. Most of us, when we pray, decide to go ahead binding demons instead of leaving them at their place and praying to God who should be our centre of attraction; and we wonder where problems keep coming from. HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT? One thing is for sure and it can be deduced from above: you can never achieve anything positive when your mind is programmed with cants but you can achieve a great deal of positive results when your mind is programmed with cans. Negative I can’t do that! I’m not going to be able to do that! I don’t think that will work out! I doubt if we can succeed! They won’t let us do what we want! We won’t be able to get that! I haven’t got the resources to get that! I could never make M.D. as long as he still works here. And so on …… Positive I can do it! (Even though you’ve never tried such). I’m going to be able to do that! (Though you’ve never done it and people doubt you). I want to make that, work! We will succeed if we try! If they like it or not, we don’t care! We will do what we want! We can get that if we want to! I will get that soon! If he still works here or not, I’m going to make M.D.! That’s all I know! And so on …. Choose one of the above (i.e. positive or negative) and choose your place on the Y&Y symbol. How do you think things will work out and in what direction? 21 Getting what you want goes beyond having the thought in your mind and feeling good about it. You have to focus your thought on what it is you really want and, recommended, have a picture of it in your mind; that will help with focusing. In the Catholic Church, images of saints, prophets, Jesus, Mary, angels e.t.c. are made to help the faithful have a mental picture of the heavenly beings; it helps you feel the presence of who you pray to. If you want a brand new house, you have the thought in your head, okay that is good; but maybe you could get the house 10 or more years later. But when you form a mental picture of the house you want, design it … be the architect, and project it through more thought: say you want a house with five bedrooms, 3 toilets and bathrooms, 2 sitting rooms, a studio, a swimming pool and an orchard at the front yard. Now you can go ahead to draw that on a cardboard and look at it everyday for a while (a kind of visual aid), it makes manifestation of thoughts happen much faster; now instead of 10 or more years, it could be in a few days, weeks or months. It depends on you. What we see with our eyes imprint easily on our minds and come up almost every time, especially if it is something we want; now that is what this visual aid is meant to do. Try it, it works. Make a list of certain things you want. After doing that, make a detailed description of each of them. After that, try creating pictorial descriptions or images of each of them. After doing that place the drawings on some kind of board and hang it somewhere in your house; that will serve as your vision board. Or alternatively, sit down and relax your mind, so that your brain waves vibrate on a much lower frequency, and mentally visualize what you want in that relaxed state and make yourself believe that you already have what you are thinking about. If you can hypnotize yourself into doing that, then it’s all good. But just try and make yourself feel that you already have it, be in the mood. You can do that as often as you like, but not as a chore though! 22 THE SECRET (Melvin’s Version) MANIFESTATION V APPLICATION OF THE L.O.A I want to be wealthy! I have the thought of being a rich man in the future, but what can I do to help me start making money and continue making it? The asking process/thought process: I haven’t got a job, so I’ll go and get one. I will save 10% or more of my monthly salary. I will look for other businesses to do in addition to the job I’m doing and also save a percentage from my profit. I will invest the money so it can yield more. I will create a drawing of a $10 000.00 bill and use it as my visual aid. The receiving process/action process: I encounter a lot of job opportunities and I go for them. I meet with a lot of people I hadn’t known previously who want to do business with me, and I give it a shot. The gratitude process: I give thanks to God everyday for blessing me. I give thanks for my job opportunities. I give thanks to God for all who help and take part in making my dreams a reality. You can re-write the story for any other instance. All I have said so far relates to each of us individually, but can our thoughts cause any manifestation for any other person? The answer is that no one can create in your reality and neither can you create in any other person’s reality. But we all create in each other’s existence; we all share in the universal energy. The universal links us all, but our thoughts are unique to each of us. If you have a positive thought, your thoughts will vibrate on a high frequency and all other energy that is also on a high frequency will be available to you, such as: happy people, trustworthy people, cooperative people, opportunities, peace, joy, charisma, good things and so on. Your high frequency, being more powerful than a low frequency, can set lower frequencies on a higher frequency to work to your own good beyond their control. 23 If you live with someone who is always nagging (negative) and being that you don’t like it, you maintain a positive frequency by not complaining (negative) about it. What you can do is visualize living with a lovable person (positive), never visualize with the words, ‘Living with one who doesn’t nag.’ As long as you can maintain that high frequency, what could happen is this: each time you come back home, your nagging friend would be there but never in the mood for nagging; but when he is, you are never home. This is because your frequencies don’t match up at that point, so you both are drawn to your respective different frequencies. That is how the L.O.A. works. WORDS OF AFFIRMATION When having thoughts and visualizing, you usually make use of words of affirmation to help. And when you do make sure not to use sentences that contain negations, they will only remind your emotions of negativity. Use positive sentences completely if you want positive results. For instance, if you don’t want to have annoying clients anymore, avoid thoughts like this: I don’t want any client to annoy me today. Today, I will not be pissed off by any client. Rather try something like: I will be receiving very lovable clients today. I will do business with clients, today that are rather humorous. Never think about what you don’t want or what you don’t like or what annoys you. Think about what gives you joy, what makes you happy, what you like and what you want. If you want positive results, don’t make room for negative remarks or feeling. Avoid thoughts like: I don’t want a spouse who is a pagan and is much older than I am. I don’t want a spouse that will give me problems and drinks, smokes and clubs. Rather use thoughts like: I want a spouse that is God-fearing and is thirty years old. We pay more attention to things that don’t really matter (the negative) rather than paying attention to things that really matter (the positive). The answers to questions about reality lie in everything in existence. God lives in us all and speaks to us through us. God loves us, be grateful for that never mind about the devil he is not of our concern. I will fill you in, on any aspect I must have left out. That will be all for now. 24 On a final note, try to shift your way of thinking from negative to positive if it is not yet on the positive. Think only of positive things and not of negative things. Acknowledge your negative circumstances only as imbalances that need balancing/fixing, but never dwell on it. Feel good always and at every moment of your life, even when it seems as if things are not working out as planned. According to Y&Y, negative events have a part to play in the process of manifesting positive things. Nothing good always comes easy. God bless you! 1 Copyright© 2008 Melvin O. Nzefili For more information visit any of the following sites: http://www.thesecret.tv http://www.revolutioniz.com http://www.confidencecenter.com http://www.alohainternational.org http://www.MiracleManifestingProgram.com http://www.DrRobertAnthony.com http://www.ClearlyInspiring.com