We have all been there. At a wedding, in a restaurant, perhaps even on the street, someone approaches us with that mysterious gleam in their eye and offers us the chance to be enthralled by their incredible illusions, or some feat of impossible mental trickery. Many of us initially sigh, and succumb to what turns out most of the time to be an effect that whilst well polished and presented, remains nothing more than an example of what one can do with a bit of spending money and a lot of practice.
Having spoken to a number of people about their post magic state of mind, I found the majority of those people came away with a “So what?” attitude lingering in the air like an uninvited smell. Yes, you did manage to pull off a trick that we can’t explain and well done for that, but let’s face it, at the end of the day, if you could walk through solid walls, make my card appear in my pants, or walk across water in broad daylight, then surely you should be rich, or fighting crime, or something right? Because, as everyone who considers themselves even slightly savvy well knows, these are just a bunch of simple tricks. There is no such thing as magic. I mean come on everyone knows that right?
Well perhaps not. Some people completely and absolutely believe that these feats of inexplicable trickery are real and as true as the nose on your face. The very fact that they witnessed the event live and direct is all the evidence they need to convince them that with access to all the information, they can see no trick, therefore it must be real.
The question is, if the illusion works, doesn’t that make the event a reality? I remember my old History teacher once telling us that History was written by the winners of a war. Not a great incentive to win then I thought to myself, especially if after all the blood and guts, you have to sit down and compose history books for school kids and librarians. Now of course I can see what he was on about, and I could also reconcile it with my impression of magicians collectively.
As winners write history, so magicians attempt to take control of, and then determine your memory of the experience. They set the backdrop, control how it’s seen, and lead your attention to the working parts of the illusion that are most likely to result in you constructing a memory consistent with the explanation of the trick.
Recently, a talented young magician appeared to walk across the Thames River in London. Now, despite the last guy to manage this becoming a bit of a pin up, and the subsequent two thousand odd years of…unpleasantness, it still seemed like a good idea at the time. There are those who will not have any problem believing that someone can do this. There are others who whilst not knowing how it was done will still exit the “possibility bubble “ by consigning it to the simple trick pile, and there are others still, who simply will not acknowledge the event for fear that they will look bad if they are seen to not know how it is done.
Constructing “Possibility bubbles” is the name of the game. Ask yourself “what would it take for you to actually believe that what you are experiencing could be true, real, or possible?” You may well find, if you look closely enough, that there are a set of prover buttons that need to be pushed before you consider the event to be true or possible. Once these are activated, then you may well consider the event to be viable.
This is where things get rather interesting, especially if you place that “possibility bubble” in your future. What I mean by this is that you suggest to yourself that what takes place in the bubble could soon happen in your life.
Now, consider for a second the advantages that you could experience if you were inside of the bubble. If you were, say capable of stepping into the bubble to reap the benefits of being inside it and either stay in indefinitely, or step out when you felt like it.
How good would it be if you were the tenacious presenter and public speaker one moment, and then the mild mannered and down to earth, approachable manager the next? It is clear to see that one could wield tremendous and life changing personal power from these bubbles, and their creation and management are exactly what occurs when you come into contact with magicians, except it is they who are doing the creating. This is not necessarily a bad thing; on the contrary, it offers a much needed insight into the realms of possibility for each of us and our incredibly rich and fertile imaginations.
It has been said that those who have changed our world, have done so from positions of adversity. Some inner drive has spurred them on to accomplishing great feats through a desire to alter their perceived reality. They were unhappy with what they were experiencing, and they found a method to shift reality towards something that worked better for them. Where this has happened, others having seen the advantages soon followed suit. These are the positive outcomes, yet we must be wary of the negatives.
If you are not constructing these possibility bubbles for yourself, you can rest assured that others are doing it for you. These are being created without your best intentions in mind, very often resulting in a reality that neither works for you, nor moves you towards the person that you are capable of being. This could be in your office, your school, your club, or any number of scenarios in your life where others adopt the position of creator and you fulfill the role of what is known in the trade as the mark. Those who construct are the magicians, they effortlessly create the parameters of your possibility, and therein lies the problem, as it is they who frame your notions of what is real or possible. The more you accept their assertions, the denser the reality they create.
Adopting this method of thinking can have profound effects on people, particularly children and students. Having delivered speeches and workshops to several schools and colleges over the years, we have noticed considerable changes in the behaviours and attitudes of those children who adopt a measured and controlled attempt at possibility construction. Outlook on life is enhanced; self esteem is raised along with behavioural standards all through empowering those children to create and shape their own possible desired outcomes, whether they be academic, personal, or behavioural.
Business, Government, and marketing organisations use exactly the same techniques to construct and promote their take on what is real and possible, and we as consumers use these constructs to gauge where we are and how we relate to these world views. By taking the same methodology and applying them to ourselves, we find that we now have access to a sea of opportunities with regard to determining what works for us, and how we can actively reshape our understanding of what we are capable of into new and powerful tools to take us from where we are to where we really want to be.
It is fair to say that a number of adults have taken negative experiences from their schooldays into their work life, and these have manifest themselves into behaviour patterns that not only affect their interaction with colleagues today, but if unchecked also provide a blueprint for their future relationships with others. Applying the methods used by illusionists enables ordinary people to access states of mind where ideal behaviour patterns can be adopted readily and easily, once the mechanics are set in place to determine what your personal optimal state actually is, as determined by the most important person – yourself.
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