What this book, and this site is about:

For many years we have heard that thoughts create our reality. Is this true? Can you prove it to yourself? And, if it is true, how come we think many things that don't come true? Who hasn't wished to win a lottery, or receive some other big prize, and yet, it hasn't happened? Who has not lost in love?

This book explains why these things happen.

The Secret, and the work of Abraham-Hicks takes the position that anything is possible. Just think it positively, and it is yours. Many people find when they first begin working with thoughts they have some successes, oftentimes even some startling successes and so they are led to believe, not unreasonably, that anything might be possible. I can still remember the heady feeling of power when this first hit me. It seemed so exciting. Yet, as they proceed working with thoughts they become disillusioned, and discover many of their wishes remain unsatisfied. And, sometimes, things even get a little worse.

There is a reason why this happens and this book explains why and even gives workable techniques that enable a person to more easily receive what they need and want.

I first began working with thoughts over 45 years ago! Sounds strange doesn't it? My first thought experiments were when I was ten years of age, and I've continued with them ever since. Occasionally, I would set aside my experiments in frustration, only to take them up again a few years later. I've gone through all the easy successes, and the painful disappointments one can go through in this process. And, I have learned a few things. A Simple Method will give you, in a nutshell, the fruits of my 47 years of work in this area. It can save you a lot of time, if you're really serious.

I've also worked hard, materially, and physically, and I know how and when and where this is necessary. And, most importantly where it isn't.

Oddly enough, what is true for a person below the age of sixteen, is not true for someone above the age of sixteen. And, different stages of life, say 16 to 25, and 25 to 50, and 50 onwards all require different techniques. As do children, and teens. I can say this because firstly, I went through these stages working with thought, and in my health practice I have confirmed my own personal research by working with others at different stages of life.

I'm 57, at the time of this writing. For the past thirteen years I have had an altermative health practice. My focus in the practice has been on how thoughts affect health. Daydreaming, obsessing, lack of self confidence, over-reacting emotionally, feeling powerless, all have effects on ones health as do many other styles of thinking. Judging others, and being not 100% truthful, for example, are at the basis of most disease. Disease first must begin in the mind before the body can be affected.

Most people have many unresolved desires. In many cases they have come to terms with this, and have accommodated the major and minor losses in their lives. This is perhaps not unreasonable, but it isn't totally healthy either. After a few years of working with people's thoughts and their health I realized working with their desires is very important. Unhappiness leads to disease. Unresolved desires are an expression of unhappiness, and this is part of the disease process.

This book was designed to help people achieve what they want, and what they need, through thinking. If a person practices the techniques in this book most likely his or her general health should improve dramatically. And, they should discover a few things: Who they really are, what they really want, and how to achieve this.

It takes practice. It takes a bit of work, and a bit of discipline. But, it is lots of fun and will change your views of life. Life is effortless. This isn't to say you might not have to put in some elbow grease now and again. Life can, and will, call on you in different ways. But, Life continually offers to you what you want. It is a cornucopia of opportunity. We live in the Garden of Eden. It is time to wake up to that fact.

'Every thought is a prayer, and every prayer is answered.' (from A Simple Method)

Western psychology has largely focussed on the effects of early events in a person's life. And, we, as a society, have bought into this quite heavily. There is some debate over nature versus nurture. That is, what amount of who we are is because of how we were raised, and what is just us. From a treatment perspective it seems as though the behaviourists have won out, with much of psychotherapy leaning on behaviour modification as treatment, although the field is varied enough for that point to be argued.

I would like to add a third, and what to me is the most critical element, to the mix. Our thoughts.

Simply put, I am suggesting that the thoughts we choose to think structure our lives. They structure the events we experience, at least within the context of where we find ourselves, and they structure whether our body functions well, or not. Furthermore, I would like to add thoughts are far more fundamental to us than how we were raised, or even what traits and characteristics we were born with. Specifically, we were born with certain tendencies, both good and bad. There isn't a lot we can do about that. Our childhood, for those of us who are adult, is over. There isn't much you can do about that. But, your thoughts are current and determine how you feel, and how you experience events. This is something that is real and now. You can do something about this. You can think differently.

Thoughts are our psychology. Why modern psychology seems to ignore this most fundamental component is a little surprising to me. Thoughts are under our control. We are not compelled to think anything, regardless of what we are experiencing. We choose to think what we do. And, as a result we feel what we do following our decision to think as we have. And, then we respond. Thought is prior to both emotions and actions.

Most of psychology remains focussed on emotions and actions, but from my point of view, since those two flow from thinking it makes more sense to move to a deeper, more fundamental level. And that is, what you choose to think.

This book was written following many years of working with people's thoughts in my alternative health practice, which followed many, many years, nearly five decades, of thought experiments I tried for myself. The subject is so complex, and so deep that I can't say I've covered it as that might be impossible. But, the book is at least a good start.

By the way, I think it is important to refute some common beliefs that are extant now, even more, they are prominent.

1. Your thoughts do not create anything. You did not create yourself and therefore, you cannot recreate yourself. You can start to live closer to who you truly are, and who you were truly created to be. Your thoughts often structure your experience, but that is not the same thing as suggesting they create something. You can experience a tree, you can even experience it significantly differently by changing your thinking, but you can't create a tree by your thinking.

2. You cannot have anything you want. If you have any doubts about this, just try it. Ask to win a lottery. Ask to become a 'star'. Ask to be a point guard in the NBA if you are, like me, short, slow and have a vertical lift of about four inches. It won't happen. Ask to have a meaningful life, ask to be happy, ask to contribute something of value to the world. Those you can do, and therefore those requests will be answered. Because that is you living your life well and full, not you trying to change who you are and what your life is. You actually are okay just as you are. Maybe not just as you have been living, but you, yourself, are fine. And, there is a perfect place for you in this world.

3. The 'wish list', the list of all the qualifications in the object you want, will always fail you. The object of desire will come to you, but it will always have a fatal flaw. I was making this point with a friend of mine who is a big fan of Abraham-Hicks, and that is one of their techniques. I said it will never work in the long run. My friend said, 'No, you're wrong on this one. I made a list and one week after doing so I got Richard. Yes, I replied, and Richard was everything on the list, except one thing. He's now wanted by the FBI. Right, she said, I should have added 'law-abiding'. We both laughed, but that is how it works. You cannot make the list long enough.

4. Your thoughts do not flow from you outwards to the end of the universe and back. Your thoughts have no power. Life responds to us, not the other way around. This is an important distinction. We are said 'yes' to. In Simple Method you will read, 'Every thought is a prayer, and every prayer is answered.' If it weren't that way, then thinking is just one more thing we have to get good at, and one more thing that comes embued with fear. It will be one more thing to feel guilt over. We don't have power, but life, God, the Universe, however you want to phrase it, responds to us always and gives us what we need and truly want. It is not us responding to, or controlling the Universe. This is why the answers so often comes in ways we don't expect. If we controlled anything, this wouldn't happen. If it was our power doing this the answer would come similar to how we had envisioned it. It is this belief, that life should conform to our thoughts, that causes most of our unhappiness. Life organizes things a lot better than we can, because it sees the whole picture.

The reason I wanted to refute some popular misconceptions is that many people are reading and following Abraham-Hicks and The Secret. My concern is people will follow these teachers and not get the results they want and therefore refute the whole idea of thoughts structuring ones life. I have seen that in my practice as many of these ideas have been around for a long time.

A Simple Method gives practical, down-to-earth ways of restructurng our lives through changing thinking. Again, I want to emphasize you can't become something you're not, but you can become closer to the real you. And, that is perfectly satisfying. Being a rock star might not be as satisfying to you as you think it would be. Or, even becoming a point guard in the NBA. But you, being the real you, in your most healthy manner, is deeply, truly satisfying. That you do want.

Excerpt from A Simple Method:

Thought has two principal effects. Firstly, it changes body chemistry. Every cell in your body responds to each of your thoughts. Each thought has inherent within it instructions for a specific body chemistry.

How you respond and think about situations in which you find yourself sets up a style of functioning of your body that can improve your health, or make you ill.

Disease begins in the mind. ÎA Simple Methodâ will show how the mind does this and will give you general tools with which to fight disease. Secondly, every thought sets up an interaction between the thinker and his or her environment. The moments that structure our lives are created by thethoughts we held about the situations prior to those moments.

Another way of saying this is all thoughts have creative potential; they actually structure your world as you see it. Literally, just as the cells of your body thrill to each and every thought you have, so too does the apparent universe respond instantly to each of these thoughts.

This book is an exploration into thinking. This book explores the creative and miscreative aspects of thought, and it begins the exploration into how thinking affects our bodies.


Iâve included a number of exercises in this book that are designed to show you the ins and outs of the above points. Practising the exercises will show you how your thoughts make you ill, or make you healthy. Also, the practise of the exercises will show you which events of your life were chosen by you, and how they were.

The exercises are simple to do and require very little time. They are usually enjoyable, but at times can be disconcerting. Some discipline, and very small effort is required. Just the effort to start the process. Spend a few moments on as many days per week as you feel comfortable, and follow the instructions. You will be well rewarded. The understanding of life gained through the practises brings an ease and peace to life that is profound and powerful.