Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban Using Self-Help Guide ‘The Secret’?
By Julie Pike
The pair referred to as the Aussie power couple, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were spotted out together Oscar night and seemed happier than ever. The brand new married couple (they wed only last June) hit a rough patch last October when Keith checked himself into the Betty Ford Center for alcohol abuse. Life & Style Weekly is now reporting that Nicole attributes part of their newfound happiness to the new red hot DVD and book titled ’The Secret.’ The magazine reports that Nicole raved recently at a party,  “It’s so smart and simple. It’s helped me work through a lot of things in my marriage.â€
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‘The Secret’ theory is that the universe will make your wishes come true if you truly believe in them. Its promise is undoubtedly alluring, offering “the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.” Basically, one has to choose their thoughts to get what they want, the new chic version of positive thinking for positive results. Wow, that is really simple, though many are skeptical of this new age routine for happiness.
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Whatever it is, the couple, both 39, are looking forward and planning their lives together. Nic recently told Russell Crowe in a Pre-Oscar interview that her and Keith loved living in Nashville where they are planning on buying a farm so she could have a goat, just one goat. When Russell asked her of future baby plans with Urban, “You’re the worst interviewer,†Kidman joked. She then revealed, “I hope so.â€
It’s obvious these two have a lot of love and respect for each other. The last few months had thrown up several obstacles for the couple and it appears that they can overcome these obstacles together. Let’s hope they can keep it up, whatever they are doing is working.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
THE SECRET is mostly hype without substance, and claims to reveal the great secret of wealth and fulfillment, employed by geniuses throughout the ages. What is this incredible secret? Think about what you want, and it will be attracted to you. Author Rhonda Byrne narrates, along with a host of motivational speakers, and even a wacky quantum physicist who has signed on to the idea that there’s something mystical going on here. We are all like massive radio towers, Byrne says, broadcasting our thoughts to the universe, which senses the vibrational energy emitted, and responds accordingly. Aided by endless commentary of the “I agree, I agree” sort, the few points made by the book are repeated like indoctrination, while a moody yet beatific sound track lends it all the air of revelation. Want a Hummer or a private jet? That could be in your future, too, if you concentrate hard enough on it. Never mind global warming, or whether you SHOULD want more and more. Never mind the Biblical admonition that the love of money is the root of all evil, either, or any Eastern values concerned with accepting what is. Byrne, the Anti- Christ of popcorn psychology, would have you focus your thoughts on riches instead of seeking one’s identity beyond thoughts–the traditional goal of meditation. This is why she picked people like Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup books, instead of Eckhart Tolle or Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche as one of her “seers.” While it is true that one’s thoughts influence one’s direction or destiny, it is also true that thoughts are fleeting, obsessive, compulsive vapors of the mind, and shouldn’t be believed without question. The secret to happiness is therefore not in acquiring and possessing as many symbols of wealth as possible via thought control, but in realizing that once you are no longer a prisoner of your thoughts–or others– you will not need those things in the first place.