Anirak
2008-06-20, 06:25
Alright, let me begin by saying that this is ultimately not an attack on these views. Lately I have been reading that "the universe gives you what you ask for," and that "going with the flow" can help you get what you want out of life. Frankly, I take all of this with a grain of salt at first, but I try to keep an open mind to the stuff that strikes my intuitive side as possible. These were some of those things that I didn't want to rule out offhand, partly because I have read that keeping a positive mindset about the whole thing is the best way to "make it work." I have had three events happen within the last 2 days that have increased my open-mindedness toward this whole phenomenon.
1.) The first thing I tried was a simple request: there was a plastic water bottle cap on my table that was unlikely to go anywhere, so I basically wished that it would "disappear," and I tried to forget about it (since you aren't supposed to obsess over it). Unfortunately, being that this was one of my first few times trying this, I couldn't quite forget about it. At one point when I came back into my room, the cap was inexplicably on its side, leaned up against a glass jar, but I figured I might have bumped it by accident. I tried recreating possible ways I could have accidentally put it in this position (placing a drink on it by accident for example), but was unable to recreate it easily. Never-the-less I still was disappointed that it didn't disappear, and I forgot about it. The next day, it was gone.
2.) Today, I tried to will that me and my friend would have a smooth trip to chemistry in the morning, and I had a much easier time "forgetting it," which mostly just consists of focusing on something else and letting the need to think about it dissolve away; it means literally convincing yourself that you no longer need/want to think about it. Unfortunately, I kept myself from thinking about it long after the trip actually happened, so my memory was blurry, but I do not recall catching any red-lights on the way to school. I still was not convinced.
3.) Finally came the thing that made me think this may have something to it. Best buy was having a grand opening today at 6:00 p.m. where the first 100 people would get a free $25 gift card. The news was there, as well as a band, and a massive group of employees. Once the place opened, the sheer number of people in the place was overwhelming: you literally could move anywhere in the store without having someone in a 2 foot radius of you.
So me and my friend split up to look for ways to spend our $20 gift card, and I spend what was probably an hour walking around that store looking at things without seeing him, occasionally looking around for him. Finally, I couldn't find anything to buy, so I decided to look for him. I must have walked around entire store 2-3 times over and could not find him. Finally, I decided to test the principles. I put in the request to find him, and I decided to try to "go with the flow" of where I was being led. For the first 1-2 seconds, I was trying to force my own way just like before, but I recognized that a group of 2-3 people were positioned in front of me such that I could not move in that direction, and they weren't getting out of the way. I decided to go to my left instead, and then straight, although I had no real reason to go in that direction over any other. At that point, I immediately saw him as clear as day directly in front of me about 20 feet away, but then he slipped behind a shelf and I could not see him.
He was moving to my right when I saw him, so I attempted to go that way but saw that it was blocked. I felt the unexplainable urge to go left, even though I was sure he would be going to my right. I went left and within 1 second saw him. This whole process of requesting > finding first time > finding second time happened rapidly, all in less than 30 seconds. Since I had been in there an hour without seeing him, this happening so quickly was astonishing. I could not help but feeling that something amazing was happening.
I don't know what to make of it all, but I'm certainly as open-minded as ever.
1.) The first thing I tried was a simple request: there was a plastic water bottle cap on my table that was unlikely to go anywhere, so I basically wished that it would "disappear," and I tried to forget about it (since you aren't supposed to obsess over it). Unfortunately, being that this was one of my first few times trying this, I couldn't quite forget about it. At one point when I came back into my room, the cap was inexplicably on its side, leaned up against a glass jar, but I figured I might have bumped it by accident. I tried recreating possible ways I could have accidentally put it in this position (placing a drink on it by accident for example), but was unable to recreate it easily. Never-the-less I still was disappointed that it didn't disappear, and I forgot about it. The next day, it was gone.
2.) Today, I tried to will that me and my friend would have a smooth trip to chemistry in the morning, and I had a much easier time "forgetting it," which mostly just consists of focusing on something else and letting the need to think about it dissolve away; it means literally convincing yourself that you no longer need/want to think about it. Unfortunately, I kept myself from thinking about it long after the trip actually happened, so my memory was blurry, but I do not recall catching any red-lights on the way to school. I still was not convinced.
3.) Finally came the thing that made me think this may have something to it. Best buy was having a grand opening today at 6:00 p.m. where the first 100 people would get a free $25 gift card. The news was there, as well as a band, and a massive group of employees. Once the place opened, the sheer number of people in the place was overwhelming: you literally could move anywhere in the store without having someone in a 2 foot radius of you.
So me and my friend split up to look for ways to spend our $20 gift card, and I spend what was probably an hour walking around that store looking at things without seeing him, occasionally looking around for him. Finally, I couldn't find anything to buy, so I decided to look for him. I must have walked around entire store 2-3 times over and could not find him. Finally, I decided to test the principles. I put in the request to find him, and I decided to try to "go with the flow" of where I was being led. For the first 1-2 seconds, I was trying to force my own way just like before, but I recognized that a group of 2-3 people were positioned in front of me such that I could not move in that direction, and they weren't getting out of the way. I decided to go to my left instead, and then straight, although I had no real reason to go in that direction over any other. At that point, I immediately saw him as clear as day directly in front of me about 20 feet away, but then he slipped behind a shelf and I could not see him.
He was moving to my right when I saw him, so I attempted to go that way but saw that it was blocked. I felt the unexplainable urge to go left, even though I was sure he would be going to my right. I went left and within 1 second saw him. This whole process of requesting > finding first time > finding second time happened rapidly, all in less than 30 seconds. Since I had been in there an hour without seeing him, this happening so quickly was astonishing. I could not help but feeling that something amazing was happening.
I don't know what to make of it all, but I'm certainly as open-minded as ever.