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How The Law Of Attraction REALLY WORKS (Achieve Anything By DOING THIS)| Rhonda Byrne & Lewis Howes

💰 Get my NEW book, Make Money Easy! https://lewishowes.com/moneyyou 🔔 Subscribe for more great content: https://www.youtube.com/lewishowes https://lewishowes.com/gmyo - Get my NEW book The Greatness Mindset today! https://lewishowes.com/greatnessdelivered - Sign up for my FREE newsletter & get a dose of inspiration from our world-class guests, learn how to improve your life! Download podcast episodes a week early! http://www.lewishowes.com/pod Get Rhonda's book - https://www.thesecret.tv/products/the-greatest-secret-book/ My guest today is Rhonda Byrne, who you might know as the creator behind The Secret, a documentary film that swept the world in 2006. Rhonda was born in Australia and began her career as a radio producer before moving into television production. In 2006, her work took a very different direction when she released The Secret documentary film, viewed by millions across the planet. This film changed millions of lives and revolutionized the way we understand the world and spawned a global movement of people who believe in and use the power of the mind to live their dream life. In 2007 Rhonda’s book The Secret was released, which was translated into 50 languages and remains one of the longest-running bestsellers of this century selling over 35 million copies. Following its release in November 2006, The Secret sat at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for over 200 weeks and was named by USA Today as one of the top 20-bestselling books of the past 15 years. Rhonda is also the bestselling author of The Power, The Magic, Hero, and her latest book The Greatest Secret. Rhonda also served as a producer on the 2020 movie, The Secret: Dare to Dream, based on her book The Secret. The film stars Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, and Jerry O’Connell. I was so excited to have Rhonda Byrne on the podcast and it was fascinating to pick her brain about life, the universe, and the power of thought. I think you guys are going to get a lot out of this interview, and I can’t wait for you all to listen! Join me on Episode 1037 to learn more about the law of attraction and how to create abundance using your mind with the legendary Rhonda Byrne. You can follow me at: Website: http://lewishowes.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lewishowes/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LewisHowes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lewishowes/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lewis Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewishowes/

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Nov 27, 20201h 21mWatch on YouTube ↗

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At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Rhonda Byrne on Mind, Effortless Manifesting, and Ending Mental Suffering

  1. Byrne says beliefs, mostly absorbed in childhood, drive what people manifest, and that repetition, gratitude and love can override negative programming.
  2. She recounts overcoming a belief in lack of money while making The Secret, using affirmations, imagining bills as checks, and giving away cash.
  3. Byrne argues that suffering comes from the mind rather than the world, and that welcoming negative feelings instead of resisting them lets them dissolve.
  4. She claims effortlessness attracts more than struggle, saying doing things without effort is like athletes' flow states and that her recent books came effortlessly.
  5. She frames The Greatest Secret as pointing people to awareness of who they are, which she describes as consciousness, and offers three truths and her view of greatness.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Beliefs from childhood shape what we manifest

Byrne says negative thought loops stem from subconscious beliefs absorbed from parents and conditioning, and strong opinions often sit on top of hidden beliefs worth examining.

Repetition can reprogram the mind

She likens the mind to a computer program that loves repetition, so inserting the opposite thought, such as abundance affirmations, can override old programming even if it initially feels like lying.

Playful money practices shifted her feelings about money

Byrne describes treating bills as checks, adding zeros, making lists of things she wanted, and giving away $20 bills, and she says $25,000 arrived days later from an unexpected source.

Resisting emotions suppresses them; welcoming them dissolves them

She says imagining hugging a negative feeling makes it briefly intensify and then evaporate, whereas pushing it down leaves it to be triggered later.

Other people's anger is not personal

Byrne says angry people are acting from suppressed emotion and a mind program, so she doesn't take it personally, though she adds you can still draw a line when you do so from neutrality.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

The more effortless you are, the greater you manifest everything that you ever dreamt of.

— Rhonda Byrne

That voice in your head that you hear, that voice that's so familiar to you and seems to know an awful lot about you and sounds like you, that voice is not you. That voice is just a program.

— Rhonda Byrne

I just didn't wanna suffer anymore. I was seeking the truth because I wanted a way out of suffering. And when I talk about suffering, what I mean is suffering from the mind. Not suffering from what's happening in the world.

— Rhonda Byrne

Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want.

— Rhonda Byrne

I actually think everybody is filled with greatness. They just need to realize that.

— Rhonda Byrne

Law of attraction and beliefsOvercoming lack of moneyEgo and the mind as a programWelcoming negative emotionsEffortless manifesting versus hard workGratitude and love practicesAwareness and self-realization

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