Jamaican family appears on Oprah to discuss The Secret
(contributed article)
A Jamaican girl had her dream come true when she and her family were flown to the U.S. to be guests on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Dominique McKenzie, 12, her mother Susan, her sister Brittany, 9, and her father Damian, residents of South Beach, Fl., were big fans of the best-selling self-help book `The Secret.`
Susan wrote to Winfrey to tell her how the book, which the talk show host promoted, changed her family`s lives for the better. Someone from the Oprah team read the letter and invited the family to be guests on the show for an episode that is due to air on June 27.
`The Secret` is a spiritually themed guide on how to get what you want in life. Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show had been one of Dominique`s goals.
`It was so awesome meeting Oprah,`said the nine-year-old, who also plans to start a business with her sister. `It was an amazing experience.`
“The law of attraction is a way of life. The way you think. The way you react to situations,” Dominique says. “If you’re a positive person, you get positive results. If you’re a negative person, you get negative results.”
“On my vision board are some of my long-term goals,” Brittany says. She’s included things like becoming a fashion designer, visiting the Great Wall of China and meeting Johnny Depp.
Dominique says the law of attraction is good for more than just long-term goals. “During school, I try to keep a positive attitude with my friends,” she says. “Because I notice that if I’m negative, then I’ll attract negative things and negative people during the day. So I try to keep a positive attitude.”
Dominique’s vision board includes places she would like to go in her life, like Rome and England, and people she wants to meet, like the Dalai Lama. One of her vision board goals just came true…she wanted to be on The Oprah Winfrey Show!
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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!
John Curtis,
Thanks for stopping by and for your opinion. I appreciate it!
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