Effective Hypnotherapy for Surrey and South London

The Strangest Secret

Almost half a century ago a man called Earl Nightingale made a recording called The Strangest Secret, was the first spoken-word message to win a Gold Record by selling over a million copies. I am not going to include the transcript of that recording for you here, I have no appetite for copyright infringement; you can put the title of this page in to Goggle and find the full transcript for yourself.

The message however is a very important one; so much so, I want to repeat it here. It can be expressed in different ways too, our language refers to it often, It’s the thing that’s “on your mind”; its “at the forefront of your mind”; “I think about it all the time”; “I cant stop thinking about it.”

The secret is, “We become what we think about.” I have also heard it expressed as “What we think about we bring about”

No, I am not talking about Cosmic Ordering, aligning the points of your soul, or asking the universe for abundance. That is something entirely different, that’s baloney. Asking is not enough, taking action is required. One of the original phrases was “seek and ye shall find” There is a verb in that phrase. To Seek, to go and look, the act of moving to find, asking is not enough.

What I am talking about here is, quite literally, what's on your mind. What are you thinking about, what is your point of focus which profoundly effects the results of your actions.

Do you remember Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, the American boxing world champion of the 60’s and 70’s?. He became famous in my youth for his flamboyant style before a fight; he would loudly, vocally, and in as much media as he could talk his opponent down. He developed a catch phrase, "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" which gained him a reputation for arrogance. Well he was not talking to you he was talking to himself!

If you know where you are headed, if you have a clear, thought out full five senses experience of where you are moving towards, and not just what you are asking for, you are half way there.

The other half is to enjoy the journey. “I will be happy when I am…..(thin, wealthy, change jobs, etc)” is nothing more than torturing yourself. An anorexic typically operates within the mental pattern of, “I will be happy when I am thin enough”, the problem is, you can never be thin enough with this type of thinking to be happy.

One of the happiest men I ever met was found of saying, “I have never worked a day in my life.” Yet he was outside doing what he did seven days a week; he just so enjoyed doing the things he did. He thought about the enjoyment of doing his thing to the best of his ability, all the time. He became what he thought about. The by-product of this was the type of success you would want to measure in material ways.