Has anyone out there heard about The Secret? Don’t worry; you didn’t miss the memo that Sea World is going to build a new 24 hour theme park near Unser and Southern. It’s not that kind of secret.

I first heard of The Secret last month when my best friend told me about this three minute movie I had to watch. “It has changed my life,” she gushed as she rushed off to close another real estate deal. Then a couple of weeks ago when my computer succumbed to a terminal case of laryngitis, the techie who came out to save me said he had a new outlook on life. “I just saw The Secret and I feel like I have some direction now.” he mused. Coincidence or are those karmic winds of synchronicity blowing gale force down my street?

For all intensive purposes, The Secret has been around for ions but only now is coming into the forefront of mainstream culture. The Secret is defined as the law of attraction, which states that like attracts like. The concept says the energy you put into the world—both good and bad—is exactly what comes back to you. This means you better focus on good energy, good thoughts because it all comes ricocheting back to you ten fold. We create the circumstances in our lives with the choices we make every day. If you want good will, project good will.

I can look back over my life and definitely see where I was unintentionally putting out negative vibes and it came back to bite me, almost literally. Years ago, my boss at the time asked me to pet sit his cat and Doberman Pincher while he and his family went away on vacation. I really didn’t want to do this, but felt obligated to because he was my boss. To make a long story short, the dog returned his affection for me by letting me clean up after him every morning in the downstairs hallway. And to top it all off, the cat died. Turns out it had feline leukemia; so why did it have to check out on my watch? Yes, I am a firm believer in The Secret.

I think we all need to put The Secret to work in our everyday lives here in the City of Vision. "Energy flows where attention goes," as the Secret teachers tell us. When life’s little annoyances creep up on us, don’t get mad, instead send out positive energy so that bad luck doesn’t come back to roost on your roof. This was the case with last month’s astronomical heating bill. I came up with an idea to accumulate hearts and flowers all around me and reflect the negative. I focused my positive energy and forwarded PNM a lucky email I received stating if they made a wish and sent it on to nine of their closest friends in the next fourteen minutes, they would have all their wishes come true the following Tuesday. I am sure they sent it on.
As I continue to focus on the positive in my life and be thankful for what I have rather than what I don’t, I will share The Secret with everyone I know, knowing it will come back to me in the form of goodness, happiness and chocolate birthday cake. So, to you my loyal readers, may you all get hefty raises, fall madly in love and win millions in the lottery.
Quote of the Week: “Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world” – Cat Stevens
Jennifer Huard’s column appears each Thursday. E-mail her at jhuard@abqjournal.com.