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What The Secret Book Never Fully Explained About the Art of Manifesting

• Michael Fox • Season 1 • Episode 13

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Manifestation isn't magic—it's a skill that can be learned, practiced, and mastered. In this illuminating session, I take you inside a powerful class I taught years ago that breaks down the three essential steps from "The Secret" that most readers miss or misunderstand.

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to effortlessly attract what they want while others struggle despite positive thinking? The difference lies in understanding that manifestation is a precise science with specific components that must work together. Through clear examples and relatable analogies, I reveal why simply wanting something isn't enough—and how you might be unconsciously manifesting exactly what you don't want through everyday phrases like "I'm not a morning person."

The first step—asking with crystal clarity—requires more detail than most people realize. When placing your cosmic order, vague requests get vague results. The second step—belief—demands the same unquestioning confidence you have when ordering from Amazon. But it's the third step—receiving—that contains the revolutionary insight most people miss: you must emotionally align with how you'd feel if you already had what you desire.

This practical approach transforms manifestation from mysterious concept to daily practice. I recommend spending weeks mastering each step before moving to the next, creating a strong foundation for lasting results. Rather than working harder from a place of frustration, discover why taking breaks to elevate your emotional state might be the most productive action you can take.

Ready to stop accidentally manifesting what you don't want and start consciously creating the life you desire? Listen now for the straightforward process that 30 million readers might have missed.

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Speaker 1:

Today we're going to do something really special. I'm going to take you into a class that I did on three steps on how to manifest things in your life. This was a class that I did years ago, but it's really powerful and it's based on the book the Secret. The Secret has three steps and when people read the Secret they get all excited about it, but I'm not sure they really understand the steps. So today, in this quick 20 minute class that I'm going to play for you, think how you can apply this in your life and just practice one step at a time. I'm going to lay out the three steps today, but spend a week, two weeks, three weeks just working on step number one and then go to step number two Only after step number one seems clear, and when that seems clear, you go on to step three. This is a practice. This is imperfection. We get better by practicing. We get better by listening. So enjoy this presentation. Today I wanted to give you a gift, so here's a gift. Just enjoy this gift. You deserve it.

Speaker 1:

We're going to talk about a topic that sold 30 million books. The secret sold 30 million books because it was the secret to manifesting and getting the things that we want in our life. Does anyone own that book? A little more than half. How many people believe that we can manifest something we can create? Everyone's got their hands up. Paul has two hands up. Tell me why you raised your hand. Why do you believe that we can?

Speaker 3:

It's happened in the past.

Speaker 1:

It's happened in the past. You thought of something and then it happened. It showed up. Anyone else?

Speaker 4:

We're always manifesting. It depends on your vibrations. If you don't want it and you think about it, it's bound to happen. It happened to me in the past and I'd switch it to the other side. I prefer this side much better than that side, but both ways work.

Speaker 1:

We're manifesting all the time when we don't get what we want. We're manifesting that. Do we agree with that? Yeah, Everyone's speaking their heads.

Speaker 2:

I used to say oh, I'm not a morning person. You're never going to be a morning person if you speak that over yourself.

Speaker 1:

That's a great example, david you are manifesting. I am not a morning person, and every time you wake up you're certainly not a morning person. It's proof that it works. When we're speaking, we really have to pay close attention to the words that are coming out of our mouth. I am not a morning person, not thinking anything of it, not being aware of what he just said, what just came out of his mouth, but what he's doing is he's essentially saying I'm manifesting, moving forward. Then I'll wake up in the morning and I'm going to be tired and not have the energy. That makes sense to everyone. So the words that come out of the mouth are really important. So there are three steps to manifesting. Number one is ask what does that mean? Anyone have an idea?

Speaker 3:

Getting clear on what it is that you actually want.

Speaker 1:

Getting clear on what you want. Amen, tell me what you want in a relationship.

Speaker 4:

Somebody I could trust with mutual respect.

Speaker 1:

Someone I could trust with mutual respect. If we're placing an order, is that enough information for the universe to understand what to send to us? No, this is what most of us do. So what do you think the best way to get clear on figuring out what we want in any area of our life? It could be relationship, it could be business, it could be health. What's the best way for us to get clear?

Speaker 4:

Ask somebody that knows about what you want.

Speaker 1:

So, for example, if you want a good relationship, you could go and talk to them and get some feedback to figure out what would be the best thing for a relationship Someone that actually has a successful relationship. They don't really fight that much, they're happy. They seem loving and caring. That's good. How else can we get clear on what we want? Any ideas?

Speaker 4:

You have to do the self-evaluation. You have to sit down and clear your mind.

Speaker 1:

See what tugs into your mind. So sit down, get clear, open up, ask the questions and then just pay attention to what comes up. Anyone else?

Speaker 2:

Maybe writing it out, getting really specific, then go back to it off there.

Speaker 1:

Why would it be so important to write down what we want?

Speaker 4:

It makes it not only to have it in your head, you have it down on paper, yeah, and then editing, create a fantasy world, because your dream has to become a reality.

Speaker 1:

You're saying to the universe here's what I want. When you go to a sandwich shop and they have all kinds of sandwiches, do you just say, hey, I want a sandwich? What would be his first thing out of his mouth? What kind of sandwich do you want? There's a million sandwiches I can give you.

Speaker 1:

If you don't get clear, I will give you one of this, and it might not be the one that you really like. So, step one we're going to ask, and when we ask, we have to have clarity. The way that we get clarity is really simple Take a piece of paper and write down what do we want? So, for example, if I'm writing out the kind of woman that I wanted to have in my life, I want someone that's caring, someone that's loving, someone that has dark long hair and has dark skin. This is the truth and I wrote it all out. If we can ask for what we want which we can, and we can manifest what we want why not be as detailed and ask for whatever it is that we really want, and then we'll get it? But if we don't get clear enough, what can happen?

Speaker 4:

It can go a bunch of different ways. It can go where you get nothing, we don't get to get something that you don't like, and if you keep getting that, so be specific, take action.

Speaker 1:

We have to be as specific as possible. Now we take out a piece of paper, you start writing Do you have to finish it right then? And there? No, even if you spent a week on it. And then you say to yourself no-transcript. This step is so important because when we get clear on what we want, the universe gets really clear. Write it down, be crystal clear, use as many details as possible. If you don't write it down, it's not clear, and then you may get what you asked for, but it's not going to be exactly what you wanted because you weren't clear enough.

Speaker 1:

Step two is believe I can write this amazing list. David decides he's going to write the woman of my dreams on a piece of paper. He writes it out, he's got it, but then he doesn't really believe that this can work. Will it ever work? No, he'll manifest exactly what he believes. If he doesn't believe that this will work, it will not work, period. How many of you had that experience? And then it never shows up. Everyone's raising their hand because that's what happens. How do we believe that what we just wrote on that paper can actually happen in our life?

Speaker 3:

Maybe visualizing it vividly so that it seems like it's real.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this is a great point, because if we're visualizing it, we're keeping it in our mind and the subconscious sees everything that's presented to it as real. If you're doing that enough, will the subconscious mind begin to believe that is actually true and that can happen. Repetition is the key. What will we start to imagine in our mind, rather than that thing we wrote on paper?

Speaker 4:

This is never going to happen. It's just always going to meet the same crazy women.

Speaker 1:

Jeffrey, it's funny you're saying that, but isn't that true? Haven't we said that in the past? I know I have in the past I've said this out loud. I just seem to attract this. When we say something. We have to really monitor what we're saying, because our words are super powerful. We can visualize the scene as we want it. If we wrote it in enough detail, we should absolutely be able to have an image of what that looks like in our head. That's one thing that we can do to get our subconscious to believe that this is true and this can happen. What else do you think we could do to get our belief to be solid?

Speaker 4:

One of the things that I'm doing is watching the videos of Greece, looking at tour groups and putting it in my mind that I'm going to be there.

Speaker 1:

If it's a physical thing, like a car or a trip, you can go on that trip in your mind by watching a video as if you're there, and pretending in your head that you're there. That's you and your video footage of the trip. If you watch that enough, your subconscious mind does what it believes it Nate, we're going on that trip, it's happening. The belief is key. So we get really clear. But if you don't believe it can happen, aren't you manifesting what you don't believe? Before you started studying this stuff, weren't you walking around on autopilot? Life was just happening. We are becoming more and more aware, and it's the awareness that is where the power lies. If I notice I've written down what I want and I start not believing it, and I'm aware that I'm not believing it.

Speaker 4:

Refocus on what you want.

Speaker 1:

Just refocus and don't beat yourself up. There's no reason we have to get upset with ourselves for slipping. If you slip, get back up. How many times did you fall the very first time you went ice skating? Your arms are flailing, your legs are all over the place, but then get back up and you keep doing it and then you get better. We're consistently practicing and getting better at this every single day. I'm getting better each and every day. When it comes to belief, how about the thoughts that we're thinking consistently? What type of thought should we be thinking when we're believing this thing? We wrote on the paper.

Speaker 2:

Positive or powering thoughts.

Speaker 1:

Why can't we say, if you believe in God or a higher power, god's got my back, he's going to take care of me. This is happening, period, the end. That's belief. How many people have ordered something from Amazon? Everyone. When you click the button that says buy, do you start to get worried about whether or not it's going to get delivered to you?

Speaker 4:

I don't even give it a second thought. I trust the process.

Speaker 1:

Great point, you trust the process. How many packages out of a hundred are late? It hardly ever happens. Imagine that when you place your order from the universe, what if we did it the same way? We wouldn't second guess. If you order a pizza from the local pizza place, you're not going to be hanging up the phone and saying, oh my God, I wonder when they're going to deliver it. Do you think the guy's going to get into an accident? Do you think he's going to make it here? What happens if he gets a flat tire? But that's what we're doing. When we try to get what we want in our own life, we're coming up with all these crazy reasons. Is it possible to have the same belief as when we order something from Amazon? That's the belief I want you to have.

Speaker 3:

The universe wants you to continue having faith, not losing the faith, because the universe is never going to give you a delivery date. I always say this FedEx is coming with my package. I just don't know when. Not only am I visualizing it, what I do now is I write this out. This is the second time I added something else.

Speaker 1:

To get our belief stronger. We can visualize, we can think about it, we can say I trust that the universe and God has my back Always, has, always will. There's not a time in my life where I've looked back where things didn't work out the way they were supposed to. So I'm going to trust that and I'm going to just keep living my life with this picture in my head. That is getting clear. Believing. Step three seems simple. Step three is receive Receive the package. But it's not such a simple thing. But it's not such a simple thing. Does anyone have any idea what step three receive really means? How do you receive it? It's in transit. How do we get in line with it so that it comes to us even faster and we receive it?

Speaker 3:

When you're focusing on gratitude, how do you typically feel You're in a higher vibration.

Speaker 1:

You're feeling good, you're feeling happy, you're feeling peaceful, ready for this secret. Think about that thing that you want, whether it's the person, the job, the business, the body. How would you feel if you already have that thing, if it came to you and you got it and it just was delivered? How would you feel You'd be?

Speaker 4:

happy You'd feel at peace because you got it.

Speaker 1:

Nate just said happy and peaceful, and I think we're going to see a theme here. If you got what you wanted, what would you feel? Relieved and satisfied, relieved and satisfied. So, when you're satisfied, you're feeling peaceful and you're feeling happy. Interesting they polled tons of people and they wanted to find out what's the one emotion you want to experience the most. And you know what it is. I just want to be. I just want to be happy If that thing that we want is up here.

Speaker 1:

We'd feel happy if we had that thing. And this is us right here and we're not feeling happy. And now the package is traveling to us. Is it going to get to us? We're not on the same road, we're on a completely different highway. What if I'm just happy in general and now I'm feeling happy? Where am I now? Am I on the same road? Is that FedEx truck now in my path? But then I get pissed off and angry. Is the FedEx truck in the same path now? No, in order to receive what we want, we must feel the emotion that this thing is going to bring us on a consistent basis. If happiness is one of those things that we would need to feel. What do you need to do to feel happy in your life? Think of the simplest thing that makes you happy.

Speaker 2:

I enjoy traveling exploring you mean if it's a local hike. There it is your life. Think of the simplest thing that makes you happy. I enjoyed traveling. Exploring, you mean if it's a local hike there it is, traveling, exploring a local hike.

Speaker 1:

So you're not feeling good, you're having a bad day. What should you do rather than keep going in your bad day?

Speaker 2:

you know, get outdoors for me going in your bad day get out, get outdoors.

Speaker 1:

for me, get out and go for a walk and do hiking and local exploring. Now you're on the path, You're walking down the road and look who you meet right here. Had you kept going down here not feeling good, you guys would have passed. Understand that the way that we feel is very important. We don't have to have that thing to feel happy. We don't have to have that person to feel love. What else could you do to feel happy?

Speaker 3:

What I've done lately is I love I put stuff in the backyard. I love when we eat dinner, for even we had breakfast back here last night and I've been working out here all day. So for me, our backyard, I have really made it into a sanctuary. This is my, the happy place.

Speaker 1:

Do you see how Yvette just went from here to here? Because if we're not in line we're going to miss it. The FedEx truck's just going to keep going around. When you read the Secret, did you understand it like that when you read it? No, that's the beauty of the book. Someone will say I read that book. That was a great book. How are you using it? And that's the whole purpose of this, so we can use it to help us get what we want.

Speaker 1:

If you're already have that thing that you want, it's feeling happy. If you're in a relationship, you're going to feel happy. If you have your own business, you're going to feel happy. If your body looks good, you're going to feel happy. Happiness is the key. Could you also just put on a quick video which makes you laugh and that makes you feel happy and it takes you from here to here.

Speaker 1:

My suggestion to you all don't continue to work at this level down here. You're better off leaving the office for the day if you have your own business. Sometimes you can't do that if you're working for someone else. You're better off taking time to get here. We think if I just work harder I'll get that thing. That's bull. It's not true. You can work all day long. If you're not up here, you're never going to intersect with the thing that you want. Up here, you're never going to intersect with the thing that you want. I'm gonna make more calls and I feel like crap, but I'm just gonna get on the calls. They're not gonna lead to anything, but at least at the end of the day I'll say hey, I made a lot of calls, haven't we done? I've done it.

Speaker 2:

I need to create my own fun. So when I spread, it wasn't with anybody, it was just by myself, because my screen listened to a little comedy sketch, because I was, I realized, a pretty stressed out place when work and I needed to start living at it worked great.

Speaker 1:

It worked because you went from here to up here and again, it's just a matter of doing something that's going to make you feel better. It's simple Make a list of the five simple things that I can do going for a walk, whatever they are, that make me feel happy. And when you're not feeling happy, don't do it, because you're just going to be wasting your time and then go get happy and then come and do your work. It works. If you work, it Keep it simple and if you start using it and you have a problem and you have a question, then reach out and I will help you through it.

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