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by Janis M. Betz, R.N., B.S.N.

Many of you know about the latest craze to gain everything you want in life by applying the “Secret” (the law of attraction). I personally watched the movie two times, and I read the corresponding book. The more I contemplated the principles of the “Secret”, the more I was drawn to the original book about these principles, the Bible. The book, “The Secret”, (2006), was written by Rhonda Bryne. She uses quotes from a multitude of like minded people, so I will italicize when I’m quoting from the book, and I will put the originator of the quote in parenthesis behind the quote if different from the author. When I quote from the Bible, I will italicize and bold. I will be quoting from the New King James Version.

There have been so many other books and articles written on the very subject of “The Secret”, which is why “The Secret” was never secret. For example, Bruce Wilkinson wrote a book in 2000 called “The Prayer of Jabez” Breaking through to the Blessed Life. He writes in this book how praying this prayer can transform your life and attract a multitude of blessings and success to you. This is the prayer Jabez prayed: “O, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain (harm)!” This was written in 1 Chronicles 4:10, and prayed thousands of years ago. This is a wonderful prayer to help your ministry and/or business grow.

The basic principle of the secret is the law of attraction. “The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.” The over riding principle in the whole book and movie is that you can have anything you want by applying diligent intent, positive thoughts toward what you want and visualizing having what you want, then the “Universe” will respond in kind and materialize it for you and make it happen. It is the genie in the bottle concept. What exactly in the universe is responding?

Personally, I ascribe to the Biblical principle of the secret. Jesus states, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:24). “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7). God answers prayer, materializes what you want, and makes it happen. There is a condition to answered prayer. We need to be in a right relationship with God, read the Bible (His word), and do what it says. For example, do the great command-ment “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:36). In verse 39 it continues with the second great commandment “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Your neighbor is anyone you come in contact with. How can you love everyone you come in contact with and love yourself the same way? The definition of love in this instance is an unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another. The Bible defines love in this way: “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity (injustice, wickedness), but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).

What is interesting, Rhonda Byrne writes in her book, “The Secret”, that love is pivotal to attracting what you want. “It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.” (Charles Haanel) “There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed.” There is a certain truth to this concept. When a person has love within them, they are joyful and happy, and they are healthier. On the other hand, when a person holds unto negative emotions and thoughts, such as hatred, bitterness, and/or unforgiveness, they suffer more illnesses. These people attract sickness, and negative energy and events to them, and their prayers may not be answered. They need to first unload all negative emotions out of their mind and body in order to attract healing and what they desire. Start speaking and praying out the negative emotions that you are feeling. Then, speak and pray in what you desire. If you have not forgiven a person for how they wronged you then forgive them. Forgive not only the person, but forgive want they did, how they made you feel, and the lasting effects. To forgive means to cease to feel resentment against; to pardon.

In the article A New Prescription: Mind over Malady, from the Discover magazine (Feb, 1987), the researchers found that Neuropeptides (biochemical units of emotion) affect the production of hormones and of immune cells to fight infection, disease, and cancer. Researchers have found that positive, hopeful emotions, thoughts, and words elevated the immune system’s function. On the other hand, negative, hopeless emotions, thoughts, and words lowered the immune system’s function. Neuropeptides flow through the same nerve pathways as Neurotrans-miters (biochemical units of communication to and from the cells and brain). Researchers have found that these pathways can be turned on and off by emotions, thoughts, and words, which can alter the course of an illness. This research is called phychoneuroimmunology (PNI).

The words you say make a difference in both your life/health and the life/health of the person that the words are directed towards. (See James 3:1-12.) In the book, “The Hidden Messages in Water”, by Masaru Emoto, (2001), it displays pictures of water crystals that form when words, music, or energy is applied to them. When edifying, good words were spoken, such as love and gratitude, the water formed a beautiful crystal. The same water crystal became distorted and dispersed when the words “you fool” were spoken. The human body is made up of 70% water, so the words you speak can affect your health and the health of others. A good rule for speech to follow is “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). Dr. Emoto writes that words have their own individual and unique vibrational frequencies. He found that negative emotional words (“I’m going to die.”) changed and distorted the water crystals and lowered the immune system. On the other hand, positive emotional words (“I’m going to heal.”) formed beautiful crystal shapes and the immune system elevated. Dr. Emoto correlated the connection of the water in the human body to water on the earth and in the air, and when words are spoken as a mass in the form of a chant, song, or prayer, it affects large numbers of people. So when the Muslims are chanting, “Death to America”, it is sending the energy of death to all Americans. On the other hand, when we pray as a group in churches for peace and love toward our enemies, it counters the death energy. I encourage you to pray everyday for God’s grace, mercy, love, and peace to permeate our world.

The emotion of empathy can sometimes cause illness in your body because you take on the other person’s illness or pain through transference just by talking with them and dwelling on their illness. Empathy is defined as experiencing the feelings, thoughts and experience of another. Transference is defined as the transferring or redirection of feelings and desires of those unconsciously. When people are talking about their illnesses to you, it is very important that you do not have excessive empathy because you may pick up that negative energy, which may make you sick with the same thing. Empathy calls in the energy of that sickness. When a person starts to discuss their illness, listen to a point then gently change the subject to a positive tone of how they could become well, offer to pray for them to be well, and always walk away giving back a powerful positive thought energy and prayer for them to be well.

The attraction of getting an illness works the same way when we claim and worry that we are going to get ______ (high blood pressure) because a parent had it. This is actually calling in this energy, and you will have high blood pressure. The constant talk, worry, and obsession over an illness continually attract the very energy you don’t want, more illness. DNA and chromosomal issues for getting an inherited health problem needs to be managed differently.

Norman Vincent Peale wrote a really neat little book in 1987 called “The Power of Positive Thinking”. I like how he addressed worry. He said, “Worry is as an unhealthy and destructive mental habit that impedes the flow of mental and spiritual power.” In other words, worry, clogs up your thinking, calls in energy of what you don’t desire, and prevents you from calling in energy of what you do desire. Say the opposite of what you are worried about. For example, “I’m afraid of falling.” Say, “I trust/believe that I will stand and walk just fine.” “My legs will be strong.” Avoid using the words not and no because these are negative. For example, don’t say “I will not fall.” You are still concentrating on the word falling, which will call in the energy of falling. Use words that call in the energy of what you desire, i.e. strength in my legs. I tell my clients to convert every worry into a prayer, and then release it. Do this as often as the worry thought comes into your mind. For example, “Heavenly Father, take away my worry and fear of falling, and give strength into my legs so I will walk and stand just fine. Amen.” Speak, pray, and claim what you desire.

In the book, “The Secret”, Rhonda tells a story about a young woman who had breast cancer, and she cured her own breast cancer through her emotions and thought. She had a strong faith in God, and she thanked Him everyday for her healing. She also kept a positive, stress free life and mind set. She would watch only funny movies that would make her laugh and feel good. Rhonda also tells another self heal story of Morris Goodman, who was paralyzed from the neck down and could only blink his eyes. Morris used the power of imagery and vision to heal himself. He pictured himself as being a normal person again, walking out of the hospital, and it happened. It took 7 months of consistently using deliberate intent to step by step progress to the next healing goal that he would set, and it worked. He is no longer a quadriplegic. I read a separate story about Pastor Joel Osteen’s mother, who was diagnosed with end stage breast cancer in 1981, and she opted to trust and rely on God for her healing. Mrs. Osteen adopted a strong attitude of faith, hope, and belief that she was going to be healed. She hung pictures all over the house of when she was healthy so her focus was on the state that she will become again. She listened to and meditated on healing scriptures, such as “The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up” (James 5:15a). She also did for others and loved on others even when she physically felt bad. She refused to wallow over or focus and dwell on her cancer diagnosis. Mrs. Osteen’s end stage cancer was completely cured. I need to note that change in diet is just as important to reverse cancer and obtain ultimate health.

In the article, A New Prescription: Mind Over Malady, Carl Simonton, M.D. used mental imagery and will-power to treat patients with terminal cancer. He told his patients, “If you want to recover, you must learn to be tenacious in fighting your disease and hopeful about the outcome.” He encouraged his patients to visualize tumors as weak, confused cells being ravaged by an aggressive immune system. Dr. Simonton had a very high success rate in curing patients of cancer using this technique.

The methods used by the people in the above two paragraphs could be used for any illness. Here is a recap of the methods used: gratitude; thanksgiving; trusting and loving God, others, and yourself; laughter; positive attitude; imagery; visualization; deliberate intent; focusing on being healed; prayer; listening to scripture on audio; reading and meditating on healing scripture; and having a strong attitude of faith, hope, and belief that what you are doing will work and will attract what you desire. The definition of faith is the firm belief in something for which there is no proof; complete trust. It is something that is believed with strong conviction. The definition of belief is the state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing. The definition of hope is desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment or success. In James 1:6-8, it states, “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man (person) suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man (person), unstable in all his ways.” It is very important not to doubt because this prevents answers to prayer and receiving what you desire. The definition of doubt is a lack of confidence; distrust; an inclination not to believe or accept. If you are doing something to help your health and you approach it with doubt or an insincere hope of its effectiveness, then you may not receive what you desire. If you don’t have a personal relationship with God or you are not sure, call me or read my Spiritual Health article on my web site or in my manual.

Personnel in the Medical Industry are notorious for planting seeds of doubt and sabotaging your faith. When this happens, and you receive it, then there is no hope. These personnel are also notorious in unintentionally cursing you to continual illness and death. A curse is defined as a cause of great harm or misfortune. For example, you get a diagnosis of cancer, and the doctor tells you that you have 3 months to live. They just put a curse of death on you. If the doctor diagnosis you with ________ (diabetes), and tells you that you are going to have this for the rest of your life, and that you are going to be on this medication for life, and if you receive this information into your thoughts and body, then this may curse you to remain in a continual state of illness/disease with no chance of a natural recovery. The more you repeat what the doctor says, the more in staunch the information gets in your thinking and tissues, the less chance of ever receiving a healing. You need to reject these unintentional curses, never repeat it or just refer to it as the doctor said it, but don’t receive it or it will sabotage your effort to be healed. How medical personnel can place an unintentional curse on a person is rooted not only in the spoken negative words, but in the origin of the medical industry, which is sorcery. The Greek word for sorcery (magic) is Pharmakeia, which is where we get the word pharmacy. Some pharmaceutical drugs may hinder your ability to heal because of this sorcery connection and side effects.

The power of God does the healing. When you get a bacterial infection, you normally go to the doctor and get an antibiotic, and they are good, but if the immune system is poorly functioning, then your recovery will be very slow or nonexistent. If your immune system was fully functioning, then you may not have progressed to needing an antibiotic. The same is true for cancer. Everyone has cancer cells in their body, but is the immune system strong enough to fight it. When you get sick, you need to find the cause, not just treat the symptoms. This is where the article Mind over Malady and the principles of the secret come into play. Use prayer, visualization, and deliberate intent to move all blocks, obstructions, and interferences to cellular function and health, whatever they may be, out of your immune system, tissues, and cells. Use the same technique to bring complete healing in. Be specific as to what you desire. If you are holding on to negative emotions, such as hate, bitterness, and resentment, release them, and replace them with positive emotions, such as joy, love, and gratitude.

Here is an example of how I teach my clients to remove blocks, obstructions, and interferences to health and healing. I have discovered that using the term energy and energy threads was very effective in visually grabbing hold of something and removing it, so you will read this term here. This technique requires verbally identifying and then removing what you specifically want to change. For example, if you have a viral cold, you can identify the virus energy and threads and verbally remove them. Removing this negative energy has helped many people get well faster. Stress prevents good health, so you can remove this stress energy and vertical threads and feel more relaxed almost instantly. Do this everyday.

The energy threads flowing vertically are related to stress and your psychological, emotional, and mental health. The energy threads flowing horizontally are related to your visceral and physical health. Visceral means organs, smooth muscle (digestive track/colon, blood/lymphatic vessels), cardiac muscle, and glands. Negative Energy can also flow independently for a specific reason, i.e. abnormal cells, negative spirit energy, toxins, food/environment antigens, mold, organisms, such as parasites, protozoa, spirochete, mycoplasma, fungus, Candida yeast, staph, actinomycetes, viral, and bacterial infections. If you don’t specifically know what organism is affecting you, then just use the term organisms.

Do the following to remove negative energy and their threads:

1) Pray specifically that God would bind up the (vertical, horizontal, or specific) negative energy threads and their generators and controls, and break any bonding, pull them out to the edge of your energy field, thrown them out, and they are to leave your home or where ever you are and be destroyed.
2) If you are removing independent negative energy, toxin energy, food/environment antigen energy, black energy, negative spirit energy, stress energy, and/or emotional and/or psychological energy in general, just pray for it to be bound up, removed, and destroyed, along with their generators and controls.
3) When dealing with abnormal cells (cancer), as well as with organisms, ask God to smash and obliterate all cellular components of the organisms and/or abnormal cells, break negative energy bonds, and remove all quark energy, frequencies, ionic charges, programs and patterns that make them replicate, remove there signature, spin, and spirit of the organisms or abnormal cells, along with their life force, the energy feeding them, and the generators and mechanisms creating and attracting more like energy. Verbalize and visualize this energy leaving your body, and command this energy to be destroyed.
4) Command all blocks, obstructions, and interferences to cellular function and health to be removed, and command all your cells to come into complete chemical, frequency, and energy balance. Pray for God to restore your cells, tissues, and systems back to the way He created Adam and Eve.
5) Do this every day with deliberate intent, and with a strong will and attitude of faith, hope, and belief that it will be done.

The next pressing problem that many people have is too much weight. Personally, I put an energy command into my body as to what weight I desire, and then I put the energy command into my body to increase my metabolism if it goes above my desired weight. I prayed to remove all blocks, obstructions, and interferences to weight loss and regulation. I still follow the directions to Ultimate Health and consume less calories then I burn.

With any weight issue, illness, or disease state, strive to do all you can do physically to obtain ultimate health. I’ve written a manual “Your Healthy Journey”, which teaches you how to have ultimate health. Here is a simplified version of the directions to ULTIMATE HEALTH:

Unlimited raw vegetation intake – 75-85% of diet
Limit cooked food/vegetation to 15-25% of diet
Trim protein intake to one 6 oz. serving a day.
Increase fiber to have 2-3 large BMs/day
Minimize cell damage by taking antioxidants
Abundant pure water intake (wt ¸ 2 = oz./day)
Trim fat intake
Eliminate refined, white flour and sugar, refined salt, processed & deep-fried foods, dairy, coffee, soda

High-nutrition intake through juicing
Exercise and get sunshine 20-30 minutes/day
Aerate your lungs to oxygenate your body
Lower stress and emotional distress
Take time for rest, and nightly get 6-8 hours of sleep
Have hope, love, and faith ©Healthy Journey

I do not believe that you can pray over a hot sausage sandwich for God to bless it or think happy health thoughts and not get sick. This goes against the Biblical principles of eating to have good health. There is a reason why God condemned the pig, and many other foods (Leviticus 11). I feel that it was because He knew that it would harm the human body. He created it, so He should know. The original diet set up for man to eat was: “See, I have given you every herb (plant) that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food” (Genesis 1:29). I tell everyone, what God puts his hand to reaps life and what man puts his hand to reaps destruction. There are foods that lower the immune system and affect the outcome of an illness. These are all highly processed foods and all foods that contain wheat (80% of the population), dairy and dairy products (90% of the population), and sugar (100% of the population). Your blood type cells responds negatively to certain foods, so following the Blood Type Diet maintains a healthy immune system and a healthy body, as well as drinking lots of water.

Without realizing it, I was practicing the secret in the 9th grade (1977). Some kid asked me a question, and I could not answer it, so they told me that I was stupid, and why did they bother asking me the question. This impacted me greatly, and I remembered setting 3 goals that I wanted to accomplish by the time I graduated. 1) I was going to be on the honor roll every term and graduate with high honors; 2) I was going to graduate in the top 10 of my class; and 3) I was going to be known for something. I had no idea how it was going to happen. I just kept visualizing it and repeating it, and I went with the flow, and it happened. Every desire was met. I graduated 23rd out of 250 some kids, and I was known for my extraordinary pottery work. I could have wallowed in being called stupid and attracted the energy of stupid, but I chose not to. It reminds me of a verse is Proverbs 23:7; “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” All through high school and even now I meditated on this scripture verse: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me, and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you” (Jeremiah 29:11-12). Thoughts are energy, and God puts out energy toward us to make things happen.

I began to become arthritic and have a lot of joint pain, get migraine headaches, and suffer emotional ups and downs when I was in nursing school in 1981. I ran into yet another life changing choice. I started to become bitter and angry about my extremely abusive home life, and all that I had to go through. I went into counseling, and I chose to meditate on this scripture to help me cope and move on in life. ; “Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead” (Philippians 3:13b). When I was feeling insufficient and inadequate as a nurse or even as a human, I meditated on 2 Corinthians 3:5, which states, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.” I pray for God’s sufficiency to help me everyday. I’m still meditating on theses verses to help me reach my goals. In 2003, God started to show me why I was arthritic and is so much pain from head to toe. He showed me that I was holding unto emotion and psychological interferences in my cells not just from me but also in my DNA from my parents. I started to pray to have it removed, and in a few months, along with following the blood type diet, I was pain free. I had another break through when I finally wrote a forgiveness letter to my mother in September, 2007, and what an emotional release I had. It has taken me 30 years to work on getting the negative emotions and thoughts out of my thought process and body. Please don’t let negative emotions and thoughts keep you in bondage and make you sick. Let it go and be well.

Joel Osteen wrote a wonderful book in 2005 called “Your best Life Now”, which guilds you to live your life to its fullest potential. He speaks of enlarging your vision, realizing the power of your thoughts and words, and turning your adversity into opportunities for growth. He tells the story of his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1981 and was only given a few weeks to live, and she is still alive today. I tell her story later in this document.

I have two clients, who are missionaries to Kenya, and they come back with dozens of miracle stories of people they prayed for and the blind could see, and the lame could walk, and tumors just fell off people and their cancer was instantly cured. One store was told of a woman who walked for 2 days to get prayed for and receive a healing and she did. She begged the missionaries to come to her village to pray for her mother’s healing, but the missionaries could not do that, so they prayed a healing prayer over a hanker chief and sent it with the woman to lay over her mother to be healed, and the report came back that her mother was healed. When these missionaries come back to this country and pray the same way for Americans, their prayers do not work the same way. Why? I feel it is because Americans place too much trust and hope in the medical industry for their healing and God’s ability to heal is just back up. This needs to be reprioritized, and the medical industry should only be a back up and the last possible resort. Also, if you continue to hold unto wrong thinking and actions, negative emotions and thoughts, and you do not love, then God cannot heal you.
Let me tell you a real life story how unintentional curses are done. I had a young client diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She wanted to have another child, so she rejected all conventional treatments and unintentional cures of death placed on her, and came to see me. Three to four months later, she is medically confirmed cancer free, and all her doctor told her was that she was lucky, but she will never be able to get pregnant. She rejected that unintentional curse, and she did conceive. The same doctor told her that she would never carry the baby to term. She rejected yet another curse, and she carried the baby to term with the help of progesterone cream. She is still cancer free and a very happy mother. What she did to accomplish and receive all that she desired, was to 1) reject the unintentional cures placed on her by her doctor; 2) rely on her strong faith in God to fulfill her desires; 3) prayer and trust in an answer; 4) trust in what she was doing nutritionally and alternatively; and 5) maintain an attitude of faith, hope, and belief. I can tell many more real life stories just like this one. It works.