The Secret to Winning the Super Bowl ??

Given how good a game it was, millions of you probably watched the entirety of the Super Bowl this year, Patriots vs. Giants. Ever since seeing The Secret for the first time, I have often wondered if the Law of Attraction could be used to will your sports team on to victory, or whether it could be used by the players on the team to attract the victory to themselves?

It becomes complicated because of the number of attractive creators involved. In a tennis match for instance it would not be possible for both players to attract a victory, because someone has to lose, even if they are both plugged in and are powerful attractors.

Also while we do define our entire world with our thoughts, I am not understanding how we could define our world with a win by a certain team when others who share the Earth with us define their world with the victory of the opponent team.

Just to check, as any of you were watching the Super Bowl yesterday, did any of you see the Patriots win ??

Just checking.

I watch these types of things with a feeling that I really have no control over the outcome from my couch. Therefore I have no control over the outcome. I am not sure what would happen if I felt I had full control over it, but it is difficult for me to see how that would change anything?

Talent wise, I do not believe that the Giants were the better team, but they had the X factor that is required to win games of this type. They were in "the zone". You would have to believe that in seeing the way that they won the game.

As for the Patriots, you could argue that it was their pride that was their undoing. Hear me out on this one.

Prior to playing the Patriots in week 17 of the regular season, the Giants were a good team but not a great one. They were a distant second behind the Cowboys in their division, with the Cowboys having beaten them twice. Now their best receiver was not in either of those two games, but the games were not that close.

Meanwhile the Patriots would have normally rested all their starters in a meaningless week 17 game like this. If they had previously had one loss on the season then they would have certainly done so.

But they wanted regular season perfection. It had never been done on a 16 game season (The Dolphins did it in a 14 game season).

And it cost them the Super Bowl. Why?

Because the Giants came into Week 17 thinking they were a great team but not having proved it. They played all their starters as well (game was also meaningless for them), and they played the Patriots very well and were close to winning the game.

They took a mantle from that game. I have never before seen a team so inspired by a loss. They saw themselves as being equally as good as the Patriots, and that being the case, the Bucs, the Cowboys, the Packers, all became road kill on their way to a rematch with a team that they believed that they could beat. The fact that no one else could did not matter to them.

So they had the inspiration, and the Patriots did not.

If instead the Patriots had rested their starters in week 17, then the Giants would not have had the opportunity to become so inspired. Beating the second string Patriots would not have proved anything, and the Giants would not have know exactly what to prepare for in the big game.

Ask any Patriot fan . . . would they rather be 15-1 in the regular season and win the Super Bowl, or 16-0 and then lose it? you have to win the Super Bowl, it is more important than your regular season record, and the worst thing you can do is tip your hand to a potential super bowl opponent in week 17 of the regular season.

OK enough armchair quarterbacking. The game proves that the X factor is everything, and it was obvious that the Giants had it. The movie and book The Secret try to teach us how to get into the zone ourselves.

So we we can celebrate our life like the Giants are celebrating today.

Joseph