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I'm new to this, just learning myself, but I'll take a stab at it.

Originally Posted by Ibanez

Ok, I saw the secret and it was interesting and inspiring.

They saw that the great minds through history have used this. Are they referring to the exact principle or are they looking at what they wrote and seeing similarities between the two?

Go to thesecret.tv, click on "Secret Teachers," then at the bottom "View Past Teachers." I think from what these great minds wrote, the deduction is that they used what we refer to as the Law of Attraction (LoA).

Originally Posted by Ibanez

I guess this is just beyond positive thinking? What I gathered was that I must feel like I already own it?

Maybe the best way to think about it is that this is how positive thinking works - why it seems to work for some and not others.

The idea is that you attract what you think about. Thinking with feeling or emotion creates a stronger attraction. So, if you think about wanting something, you'll attract more want. But if you think about having something, you'll attract more having it. Add the feeling of having it to your thoughts, and you'll create an even stronger attraction.

Originally Posted by Ibanez

I mean I've noticed stuff before like I'm thinking/learning about something the couple days before and I meet someone and they start talking about it. Is that an example? I'm confused.

I think this is what Steve P. would refer to as "syncronicities."

The thing is, the LoA works all the time, whether you intend it to or not, and whether you realize it or not. "Thinking positive" will tend to generate more positive outcomes and negative thinking will tend to generate more negative outcomes.

I wrote a post on my own experiences with the LoA, and how looking back I can see how I attracted both things I wanted, and things I didn't want, merely by what my mind was occupied with at the time. What lead me to the LoA was the idea that thought creates reality. Assuming this is true (and I believe it to be true), anyone should be able to look at their current circumstances and analyze their past thoughts and see how they got where they are.

What do you want your reality to be like? This is what we're all learning here, how do we use this Truth we're calling the Law of Attraction to create a better reality.