Rhonda Byrne: Manifest REAL Abundance With This Secret

Well, isn't there something around like I guess, putting an effort or putting in focus or putting in some energy to developing a skill so that you can receive more of what you want? Or is it really as simple as just kind of let it go and allow things to come to you as, as they come?

Well, I think if you, you know, with a skill like you, you know, you can't just pick up a violin and be a maestro. Right, right. So. And those kinds of things we all tend to love anyway. Learning things and accomplishing things and building, you know, businesses, those kinds of things. But we certainly do not need to put as much effort into all of that. Like everything, everything is coming from the mental first. First, whether we realize it or not, it is. Every action we take is a thought first. Every word we speak is a thought first. And so if we did more mental preparation before we took an action, that action would be so smooth and just flow, you know. And that's kind of the part that in the future civilization will definitely realize and get really good at. And there's an opportunity for people to get really good at it now. So life's not so hard.

You talk about the first thing in the book, your new book called countdown to riches, 21 days to wealth Attracting Habits, which I love.

Thank you.

In the beginning, you say financial struggle is caused by one thing, which is what you were just sharing. It's not result of your salary, the lack of savings in your bank account, the amount of debt you have, or any other worldly circumstance. Financial struggle is caused by our thoughts alone. And I love that. But I already know people are going to say, who are listening or watching say, well, how can that be true for me? Because I think in a positive way, but I'm not receiving the money I want, or I've been struggling in my business or career for years, or I don't have the opportunities. So I'm trying to think this way or I think this way, but the results are not coming. I love that. And I think that this is 100% true. But I already know people are going to be saying, okay, well, I'm thinking money, money, money, but I don't have it yet.

Well, they, but if they're thinking money, money, money, they would have it.

Really?

Yeah.

And are they thinking more lack of money?

They are. They're noticing the things that are wrong. They're noticing the lack. They're noticing that the business isn't doing as well as it should be. And they're kind of worried about that and they Noticing the amount of thoughts they're having around all of that. And so, like, we, you know, without having real control over your mind and be the witness of your mind, so not go down the rabbit hole with your mind, not get lured down, but be the witness of your mind, then there will be a lot of thoughts that we're not even realizing that we're having them. And so most definitely, like, it's. I'm sorry, but it just is thought first.

And when you were. And when you were struggling before, before the business started to take off, before the book, before all these things really exploded, what was your thinking like that kept you in the situation you were in before you started to create more financial abundance?

Right.

What was that for you? Like, do you remember back in the day what that was like, really?

I remember so clearly because that night that I discovered this, I just became so aware of my thoughts.

Really?

Absolutely 100% aware. I was aware of every thought. In fact, I thought back over my life, and I thought, it's amazing that I'm still alive because I've thought a lot of negative thoughts. You know, talk to people about dramas and things that you really. You don't want, and therefore you're inviting those things into your life. And, yeah, I thought a lot about those kinds of things, but I became very, very aware of my thoughts. And when we were actually making the film the Secret, I was strapped financially. I went into that $2 million in debt from a previous project that we'd been doing. And I just, like, I mortgaged my home. I took overdrafts out on my business. I took my credit cards, Max, I didn't have a dime. And here I am making. I've been protected and I'm making this film. I did everything. I used to walk outside and walk down the street. I'm breathing in the abundance. I'm breathing in the abundance with every step I take. It's all around me. It's here now. Like, I did everything because I didn't have enough money to pay my staff. And so. But all of that, I realized, was a reflection of where I was inside about money. The degree of lack that I had inside me, which was just from growing up normally, you know, people saying money doesn't grow on trees and all those things. And so, yeah, I really. I had all of that within me. And I knew the moment that I had overcome that money would never be a problem again.

Wow. So it's more overcoming your thinking around money or anything you wanted in your life. It's Overcoming your own thinking. Yeah, that was holding you back.

Yeah.

It's interesting because you as you were saying that with every step I take, I'm breathing in abundance. This is all around me. It reminded me. Wasn't Bob Proctor in the Secret as well? Yeah, yeah. There was a quote that I read from him yesterday because we just re released. Released an episode of his today and there's a quote that he said that both faith and fear demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose. And it's like if someone watching or listening right now who is struggling financially and they've never felt or seen financial freedom or abundance, it can feel really hard to understand what that looks like and feels like. And so we can either stay stuck in the fear and the scarcity of this is just how my life is. It's hard. It's the struggle. It's going, I want this, I want this, but I don't have it. Or we can start shifting things differently like what you talk about in the 21 day guide to count down to riches, 21 days of wealth Attracting Habits on how we can start to reprogram the way we think and feel around money and anything really that we want in the world and having it sooner. And so where did that thought come in where you said, with every breath I take, I breathe in abundance and I see it all around me with the opportunities. Did you see that somewhere? Is that just something that came to you because you realized you needed to shift something inside of you and you're just going to try something new? Like how did that idea come to you?

I think it came from a book that I read, your Invisible Power by Genevieve Barand. And that book was written in the early 1900s and I had read just about every single thing of the New thought authors back then. I loved all of their work and that was a big time in our civilization where there is a real waking up of people and being very aware of how powerful their mind was. But then what was interesting after that is we kind of got sleepy again.

Why?

It just happens.

Is this gonna happen? Waves kind of happens like that really. There's a consciousness and awakening and then.

A crash back to sleep. Yeah. Why? Yeah, no, I don't know why I'm not going back to sleep. No way. No way. So. But yeah, that's what happened. And I think she, Genevieve Baron said something like that. I did everything. I came up with every idea, every game, every single thing because I knew my subconscious mind only had beliefs of lack about money. You have to Work really hard and struggle. Because my father worked so hard. He would leave at like 4 o'clock in the morning. He wouldn't get back till 7 o' clock at night. I mean, he just worked so, so hard. So that's all that I saw when I was growing up. And so, yeah, I knew that I had all of that in my subconscious and I had to override it. And the only way to override it is with repetition of prosperity and abundance. Which is why I wanted to do Countdown and the very thing that you were talking about, like, somebody that's never seen riches doesn't know how that feels. That's exactly why I wanted to write this book. Because there are practices. There are 21 practices in the book, and each one is designed to just fit into your life. It's not anything hard that you have to take on. It just fits into your daily life. They're really, really simple. However, they are life changing. Yes, they're life changing. And I just think it's a lot of fun, too. I just think they're a lot of fun, but they're all the things that I did. These are the. Yeah.

These are the tools that helped you unlock.

Yeah.

I love this.

Yeah.

What would you say again, you talk about in the beginning of the book about how thought is what's keeping us in lack of. What are the most common thought patterns that most people have that keep them feeling in lack for financial abundance?

Like all of the kind of work the world beliefs, like, you have to work really hard for money. Money doesn't come easily. And even some of those crazy things like, you know, rich people must be evil and they must be dishonest and we can't afford it. Right. All of those kinds of world belief, and they are world beliefs.

What if someone's like, well, listen, Rhonda, I really can't afford this thing. This is like, this is too much to pay for something like this. It just seems like it's crazy. Like, how can someone shift their mindset from saying, easy, I can't afford this, to it being such an easy payment to make?

Because they can say if they see something that they love, instead of saying, I can't afford it, they can say, I can't wait till I can buy that. I can't wait. I'll just, you know, and it's gonna be soon. Right. You could just like, be the opposite. Just like pivot to the opposite of what it is. Cause I'm certainly not saying and suggesting that you go and buy something that you can't afford. You don't need to do that. You just need to do it in your mind.

Interest.

Not with your pocket, not with your wallet, just with your mind. There is all the money that everybody needs and wants waiting there for them. And there's only one reason it's not in their lives, and that's because they're stopping it from coming into their lives.

Really.

The message of the Secret is the message that I've been trying to share with the world on my show for the past 21 years.