No Moan Zone

Seriously, it’s June already?  Where is the time going?! Well, as it is now June, that means it’s time for me to begin the next chapter of The Secret: The Secret to You.  In a few days I’ll post my new things to achieve, but first I want to reflect on how last month went with The Secret to the World.

At work last week, we had a talk by Dr Tom – a doctor who specialises in the benefits of healthy thinking.  As a practising medical doctor, Dr Tom’s talk was more about the scientific, physical benefits of thinking healthy thoughts, rather than the ability to manifest items by focusing your thoughts in a certain way.  What struck me throughout this talk was that there is a very physical connection between brain health and physical wellbeing, and thinking positively.

The Secret states that thinking positively will allow us to create the life that we want, and while Dr Tom takes a medical point of view, he is effectively stating the same message.  Dr Tom has a method for turning a negative situation into a positive one, which I particularly like.  The Secret tells us that we must not dwell on the negative, or we will attract negative things back to us, but I have always had difficulty switching from negative to positive. 

Dr Tom says we should look at negative situations as opportunities.  For example, if I dropped my toast on the floor one morning, instead of seeing it as a negative situation where I have lost my breakfast, I could see it as an opportunity to try something new for breakfast.  Or as an opportunity to go out for breakfast.  Or as an opportunity to eat the toast and see how clean my floor is.

I felt like this talk was particularly relevant to my Secret project this month, particularly in relation to one of my things to achieve: “Learn to become still, and to take your attention away from what you don’t want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place that attention on what you wish to experience.”  Looking at all the opportunities takes the attention away from the negative situation, and places it on all the positive opportunities the situation has given me.

There was one final aspect of Dr Tom’s talk which I particularly liked, and that was his concept of a ‘No Moan Zone’.  He makes up posters to put up around the workplace to discourage people from complaining about things, because complaining has a bad impact on people’s health.  The Secret tells us that we shouldn’t listen to people complain as it will bring us down with them, and we will attract depressing and negative things.

So from now on I live in a permanent No Moan Zone.  If you’ve got any complaints, please send them elsewhere.