The big problem with The Secret, as I see it, is that people don't realize it will take a complete overhaul in their way of thinking for The Secret to become fully effective. You have to think along the lines of manifesting more and more eventually using it in everything you do.
To overhaul and permanently revolutionize your thinking when your friends and loved one have no intention of doing so means THEY WILL DO ALL THEY CAN TO HOLD YOU BACK and keep you the same old person they have known and loved.
How many are willing to cut off all those who hinder their ability to become masters of manifesting in order to be fully successful with the process? Will you be willing to sacrifice those you love for your own success at manifesting? If the answer is 'no' then chances are you will not accomplish much. OUT OF LOVE they will reel you in like an old fish right back into the old patterns and habits that made you what you WERE.
If THEY don't want to make the effort to better themselves they are not going to allow YOU to be successful without a fight to justify themselves.
It's a difficult thing to realize that when you want to accomplish some good thing and someone stands in your way and tries to sabotage your efforts THAT PERSON IS THE ENEMY and this, no matter how much they smile and are nice while doing so!
Now that's a tough thing to accept when the people standing in your way are your parents, relatives and friends. What to do? The more you try to convince THEM the more then gang up on you determined to make you ineffective to justify their laziness.
The more successful you become at implementing philosophies of manifesting like The Secret the more you will be permanently thinking differently. You will no longer take pleasure wasting your time talking about things that don't push you to advance and become better at manifesting.
It's a hard, cold fact that people with extremely strong minds intent on doing good have little in common with the weak-minded who are easily influenced by media propaganda. The sad fact is those weak-minded who are hopelessly hypnotized by the media outnumber the truly strong-minded by, perhaps, BILLIONS!!!!
So, those who would master the process of manifesting have to ask themselves how much do they really want to become masters of the process? Enough to cut out of their lives all who would hold them down and keep them ineffective? If not, then forget about it because you are most probably just wasting your time and efforts. Go to those who keep you prisoner and keep them satisfied by the way your live your life. Their loving friendship you will maintain. Your ability to become a master of manifesting...a lost dream.
Now, this is a brutal truth that New Age people do not want to face. Dr Wayne Dyer and other New Age types are certain all you have to do is be loving all the time. Well, the wise should NEVER be too loving with those who they suspect want to sabotage them and their lives!
