A large portion of The Power describes how Byrne greets each blessed moment with overwhelming love and gratitude toward all creation.

The book is based on the law of attraction and claims that positive thinking can create life-changing results such as increased happiness, health, and wealth.

[1] In a harshly critical 2010 review, The New York Times stated: "The Power and The Secret are larded with references to magnets, energy and quantum mechanics.

This last is a dead giveaway: whenever you hear someone appeal to impenetrable physics to explain the workings of the mind, run away—we already have disciplines called 'psychology' and 'neuroscience' to deal with those questions.

Byrne's onslaught of pseudoscientific jargon serves mostly to establish an 'illusion of knowledge,' as social scientists call our tendency to believe we understand something much better than we really do.