Have you ever bent a spoon using your mind and without using your full strength to bend it? It is the most amazing experience because your conscious mind tells you it’s impossible.
Think about it! When you were brought up, you were taught very rigid thought processes and beliefs. Those thought processes and beliefs govern what you will allow yourself to accomplish, and believe you can accomplish.
Your whole world changes when you suddenly discover you can do something that you originally believed was impossible. You see, the world is not fixed. It is very malleable, just like you discover in the spoon.
I love to watch people’s faces in my spoon bending classes when the spoon first begins to bend. It is the look of wonder of a small child, a delight in discovering what I am telling them is really true.
When the spoon bends, it is like a whole wall of resistance falls with a resounding crash. No longer are you bound by the old rules. Now a whole new vista of opportunity opens and your world shifts to a new place. Disbelief turns to tentative belief, as if asking permission to change the rules. What you don’t realize just yet is that by your concentration and focus, you changed the rules all by yourself and the spoon bent.
All it takes to change your world is concentration and focus. Depending on how badly you want something, will dictate how long and how strongly you focus. After all, a spoon is a small thing, although it is rigid. It is an analogy for your beliefs and the strength in which they were crammed into you.
Imagine what it would be like if everything you decided to do, that was appropriate for you to do, was successful. Do you realize how much more fun life would be if you learned to sing, or skydive or whatever it is that you believe you can’t. You could turn a smothered passion into a fun reality. Life would have so much more meaning for you. You would no longer be living your limitations. You would be bending your world to where your curiosity and adventure takes you. Now, that’s living!
