Comments on: The Secret http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/ Parenting Blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:08:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: DulwichDivorcee http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-123 DulwichDivorcee Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:58:00 +0000 http://www.addcreative.co.uk/dulwichdivorcee/?p=39#comment-123 Exactly, Sharon, isn't it just absolutely fab? I am awaiting delivery of the convoy of LV handbags I've asked the universe for. I can't think why they're late ...Meanwhile I'm still thinking away the peanut mountain ...actually it's quite hard work ....better have another bag to keep my strength up ...And thanks about the column, is a big adventure for me x Exactly, Sharon, isn’t it just absolutely fab? I am awaiting delivery of the convoy of LV handbags I’ve asked the universe for. I can’t think why they’re late …Meanwhile I’m still thinking away the peanut mountain …actually it’s quite hard work ….better have another bag to keep my strength up …And thanks about the column, is a big adventure for me x

]]> By: goodbyetoallfat http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-122 goodbyetoallfat Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:59:00 +0000 http://www.addcreative.co.uk/dulwichdivorcee/?p=39#comment-122 "the authoress is positive that people 'think themselves fat'."<br/><br/>Oh, so that explains it!<br/><br/>Of course, how all I have to do is spend 24 hours dreaming / wishing / thinking myself THIN and I will wake up size 10?<br/><br/>Somehow I think not !!!<br/><br/>Congrats on the column, by the way.<br/><br/>Sharon “the authoress is positive that people ‘think themselves fat’.”

Oh, so that explains it!

Of course, how all I have to do is spend 24 hours dreaming / wishing / thinking myself THIN and I will wake up size 10?

Somehow I think not !!!

Congrats on the column, by the way.

Sharon

]]> By: DulwichDivorcee http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-113 DulwichDivorcee Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:05:00 +0000 http://www.addcreative.co.uk/dulwichdivorcee/?p=39#comment-113 Hi Rosiero, so glad you are another victim of chocolate peanut moreishness. Aren't they lovely? I wouldn't worry about the knobbly bits - I now have them all over my body and have become quite fond of them. As for hell, I don't think it exists, according to the Secret, so we're all right there too! Hi Rosiero, so glad you are another victim of chocolate peanut moreishness. Aren’t they lovely? I wouldn’t worry about the knobbly bits – I now have them all over my body and have become quite fond of them. As for hell, I don’t think it exists, according to the Secret, so we’re all right there too!

]]> By: rosiero http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-112 rosiero Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:49:00 +0000 http://www.addcreative.co.uk/dulwichdivorcee/?p=39#comment-112 OMG. I too spent the half-term munching mountains of chocolate peanuts and now they seem to be poking through my hips like flabby lumps!! Must do a hundred press-ups tomorrow.<br/><br/>As for The Secret - I have never heard of it - will I be burned in hell? OMG. I too spent the half-term munching mountains of chocolate peanuts and now they seem to be poking through my hips like flabby lumps!! Must do a hundred press-ups tomorrow.

As for The Secret – I have never heard of it – will I be burned in hell?

]]> By: DulwichDivorcee http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-111 DulwichDivorcee Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:47:00 +0000 http://www.addcreative.co.uk/dulwichdivorcee/?p=39#comment-111 Hi John, thanks for popping in. Oooh, you do seem masterful. Maybe I should just do exactly what you say .....!! Hi John, thanks for popping in. Oooh, you do seem masterful. Maybe I should just do exactly what you say …..!!

]]> By: John Curtis http://www.dulwichdivorcee.com/the-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-110 John Curtis Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:48:00 +0000 http://www.addcreative.co.uk/dulwichdivorcee/?p=39#comment-110 The Secret is the latest and by far the worst example of a HIGHLY profitable trend where self-help gurus with fabricated new age titles and little relevant education, credentials or legitimate expertise brainwash us into believing that they know what is best for us, our marriages and our families. <br/><br/>Often their only contribution to society is introducing some exotic sounding, new age philosophy. However, they often cleverly form an incestuous group of like-minded “experts” who cross-promote each other by swearing their success is due to following the beliefs of another member of their “cult!” All the while, they ply the airwaves jockeying for an ever-larger audience by appearing in the national media to garner third-party endorsements. <br/><br/>The Self-Help Movement has become the Self-Destruct Movement by diminishing or destroying our critical thinking skills to choose and evolve on our own. We have given up the freedom to build healthy lives, marriages and families based on our unique history and life experience. Instead many victims, blinded to the value of their own life experiences, are attracted to the latest secret in self-help, in an attempt to find out what they should think, feel and how they should act... this is the definition of a cult.<br/><br/>The solution is a return to our (common) senses! The best way out of this learned “self-helplessness” is to go cold turkey. Stop following ALL self-help gurus now. Begin, instead, to reclaim your natural, God-given ability to think for yourself. The common sense that was once readily available to all of us is still there free of charge and waiting to be applied to just about any challenge we might face in life… all you have to do is use it.<br/><br/>Please, let's all work together to stop the flock of "sheepeople" who blindly move from one UNPROVEN concept to the next, looking for the answers to life's challenges that you already possess and that is the OBVIOUS! The Secret is the latest and by far the worst example of a HIGHLY profitable trend where self-help gurus with fabricated new age titles and little relevant education, credentials or legitimate expertise brainwash us into believing that they know what is best for us, our marriages and our families.

Often their only contribution to society is introducing some exotic sounding, new age philosophy. However, they often cleverly form an incestuous group of like-minded “experts” who cross-promote each other by swearing their success is due to following the beliefs of another member of their “cult!” All the while, they ply the airwaves jockeying for an ever-larger audience by appearing in the national media to garner third-party endorsements.

The Self-Help Movement has become the Self-Destruct Movement by diminishing or destroying our critical thinking skills to choose and evolve on our own. We have given up the freedom to build healthy lives, marriages and families based on our unique history and life experience. Instead many victims, blinded to the value of their own life experiences, are attracted to the latest secret in self-help, in an attempt to find out what they should think, feel and how they should act… this is the definition of a cult.

The solution is a return to our (common) senses! The best way out of this learned “self-helplessness” is to go cold turkey. Stop following ALL self-help gurus now. Begin, instead, to reclaim your natural, God-given ability to think for yourself. The common sense that was once readily available to all of us is still there free of charge and waiting to be applied to just about any challenge we might face in life… all you have to do is use it.

Please, let’s all work together to stop the flock of “sheepeople” who blindly move from one UNPROVEN concept to the next, looking for the answers to life’s challenges that you already possess and that is the OBVIOUS!

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