My 2D Experience

 

I just want to share an experience I had back in the summer of 1991 which was kind of weird. Back then I was a serving soldier with the Corps of Royal Engineers and was based in the German city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. I was married with my second wife at the time and our daughter had not long been born. The previous November I had started an Amway Business, as a lot of us did back then, and had spent several months traveling after my day’s work to various parts of North Germany holding all kinds of meetings from home presentations to hotel trainings to product demonstrations and so forth. I was doing OK and loving it.

On this particular day, a Friday, it started as it usually did at five in the morning with my daughter crying out for cuddles or a nappy change or something along those lines and, as I usually got up around then to get ready to go to camp for my day’s soldiering, I usually had the honour and privilege to be the one who got up to take care of my little bundle of joy.

I was on parade for seven o’clock at the camp where I was stationed, then spent my day doing military stuff until four in the afternoon, or 1600 Hours in Military speak. Back home I played with my daughter before having a bite to eat, then donned my dark suit, white shirt and red tie, a look which was believed to indicate and emanate a sense of Trust and left in the evening around six for a two-hour drive to present a Home Meeting for a new Team Member, a fellow soldier who was based near Celle. It was a very successful meeting which ended up taking over four hours such was the interest, and I finally started my homeward drive sometime after midnight. By this time, as you can imagine, I was pretty tired and looking forward to a hopeful Lie-In on the coming morning with it being a Saturday and I wasn’t on ‘Baby Duties’. As an aside, that usually didn’t go to plan, and I wouldn’t get that Lie-In!

It was whilst driving down a long, straight, tree-lined road with my side windows open to keep me awake and listening to a Jim Rohn audio when the strangest thing occurred. All the trees on either side of the road changed from 3D to 2D! They looked just as if someone had cut them out of cardboard, painted them, tacked them to wooden stakes and stuck them in the ground facing towards me like Billboards. I shook my head and blinked my eyes however they kept reverting back to this cardboard cut-out kind of image, even moving in the breeze as I drove past. The whole experience only lasted a few minutes, by which time I had reached a junction, and the rest of my journey was uneventful. It was probably tiredness that caused it, yet it seemed so real. Maybe that’s how early lifeforms saw their surroundings before 3D vision became a thing. Just a thought!

What do you think?

Namaste,

J Sadler-Scott

 

Welcome to the Don’t, Not & No Show!

OK, it's showtime so let’s get started with the first game! 

Using Google – or the browser of your choice – type the following into your search bar: No Football and count how many results you get which are non-football related.

So, on to Game Number Two: All I’m going to do is ask you to Not think of the Eiffel Tower and describe the first image that came into your mind.

And now, to complete the show, the Final Game: You see a sign on a park bench that says Don’t Touch, Wet Paint – what’s your first reaction?

For the Google game, my hunch is you couldn’t find any non-football results, certainly not on the first few pages anyway, am I right?

For Game Number Two, would I be right in saying you immediately had an image of the Eiffel Tower in your mind?

And in the Final Game, is it possible your initial reaction would be to touch the bench just to see if the paint was really wet?

You can see how powerfully suggestive these three little words are and yet we find it very difficult to reduce or eliminate them from our vocabulary. You might be asking: “Well, so what? Why would I need to?” The answer is simple, because they generate a negative vibration which overrides the positive vibration you are trying to have matched by the Law of Attraction.

For example, many of us say No worries, No problem, I’m not quitting, Don’t jump in puddles and so on and we get annoyed because the opposite happens – we have worries and problems, we quit, our child jumps in muddy puddles.

There is a simple way to rectify that, which I’ll share shortly. However, here’s a difficulty I’ve come across when it comes to, as Michael Losier suggests, reducing or eliminating Don’t, Not and Know. It’s so damned hard! They creep up on you when you least expect it and, quite often, the alternative doesn’t always readily spring to mind.

So, what to do. When you catch yourself saying or thinking Don’t, Not or No simply ask yourself this question: “So, what do I want?”

 For example, let’s take Game 1 – You want to avoid any posts about Football in your Google search, therefore the obvious answer would be to be more specific in your search. So, what do I want? – Posts about cricket, or squash or some other sport, so you enter those terms in the search bar.

For Game 2 the same applies, be more specific. I’m not going to think of the Eiffel Tower – So, what do I want? I want to think about the Arc d’Triumph.

For Don’t, what you want is to prevent your child from doing something they shouldn’t, so a simple Stop would work to get their attention – although I’d let them jump in puddles! With Don’t it’s also a case of reframing the words or sentence. Don’t touch, Wet Paint could become Wet paint ruins your clothes or something like that.

The idea really is to help you become more aware of what you’re saying and thinking, therefore by asking yourself So, what do I want? whenever Don’t, Not & No arise will help you to think and speak in a more positive way, creating positive vibes which are then matched by the Law of Attraction.

Can You See Without Your Eyes?

If I was to ask you that question - Can you see without your eyes? - you would probably answer "Of course not", right? And, if I was to say that we don't actually see with our eyes, you would probably start to think I was crazy!

However, in reality, we don't see with our eyes. Let me explain. When you have a pair of binoculars do you say you are seeing through them or looking through them? The latter, right? And why? Because we are using the binos as an instrument to gather pictorial information. The same goes for our eyes.

We look with our eyes, but actually see with our brains. Whatever information we take in with our eyes gets translated into images in our brains and is then further translated back into words. Our brains use images to see and we use our eyes to gather those images from our surroundings.

Someone who loses their sight will still remember how things looked from the images they see in their brains. When you use words to describe something - a tree, green grass, a log fire - their brains immediately recall the images enabling them to see what you are talking about.

So the next time someone says they see what you mean, you'll know that their brain has created or recalled an image of whatever it is you are talking about.