Hi Kerry,

Your post brings us right back to the whole question of authenticity.

Since doing the summer retreat and in our connections afterwards, it seems like you have a natural state of positivity anyway - that seems to be an authentic way of being for you. It doesn't feel like you have to 'put it on' like a coat or a hat.

In which case you're being authentically positive and drawing that kind of energy to you. However, there will certainly come days when you're not feeling that way. Maybe you might at times feel low, anxious or depressed? If so, the key is not to try and overwrite these feelings with some false sense of positivity.

The key is to go deep into the feelings and explore them. They will have formed from some attachment and backed up by fixed neural pathways in the brain (we'll cover this on our "Way of the Heart" course in October). When you explore the feeling and open the heart and mind to why it is there, it is certain that an answer will present itself as to why you're feeling that way: that is providing you're being vigilant to signs and synchronicity - this is the true Law of Attraction in operation. You'll drawn to yourself the answers you need.

I give you an example. I used to get quite a few mouth ulcers. I couldn't understand why. I looked at my diet and eliminated anything I thought might be acid generating. But still no joy. It got quite unsettling at times - it almost came to the point I couldn't speak! I asked "show me" to the universe. A short while later I bumped into a guy with a similar problem. He (like me) generates a good deal of adrenaline. This gathers in the stomach and produces acid. Quickly I was able to understand why it had happened and introduce corrective procedures. Not only that, but I understood a key challenge for my incarnation - I infuse a great deal of energy and need to be able to balance the inflow within my body.

I would never have understood these things if I'd not honoured the feelings and gone with the energy without denying it. Now I don't get ulcers, I can balance my energy better and feel authentically much more positive as a result.

To me, work like "The Secret" is taking this principle and distorting it. It's trying to get people to change what they're being on the inside to manifest a new reality they would want. They speak of 'imagining that car' for example, imagine yourself driving it. In my observation, this approach is leading many people away from the full discovery of who they truly are and the many wonderful inner gifts we possess.

Chris