My Spoon Bending Experience: Exploring the Power of the Mind
As I discovered, it is not the spoon but the mind that bends first. Read tips on how to bend spoons easily.
I can still recall my first ever spoon bending experience even though it has been more than 10 years ago. Till this day, the same spoons are kept in the cup that also holds my pens on the study desk. They serve as a great reminder about how powerful the mind can be.
The Spoon Bending Exercise at the Workshop
As I recall, I had signed up for a workshop aimed at helping participants uncover and strengthen their intuitive, creative and spiritual connection. On the last day of the workshop, we were invited to participate in a spoon bending exercise. Nancy, the facilitator, handed out metal spoons and asked us to bend them — not by using the hands but by the power of our minds.
She offered this vague advice, “Be One with The Spoon”.
“Sounds like mambo jumbo,” my sceptical mind declared. How do you BE One with a Spoon, for crying out loud?
She had suggested that the awareness of Being One with the spoon can help us with altering its appearance.
I tested the spoons to check if it was possible to bend them with my hands. They were ordinary spoons. Spoons that you can find in any kitchen or supermarket. Nope….no way it would be easy to bend them. The spoons were made of solid stainless steel and had thick handles.
Urrgh…..I felt a lump in my throat, in nervous anticipation about the whole exercise.
Although I could theoretically agree with the concepts of energy and focused thought, I was sceptical at what Nancy was suggesting — that it was possible to bend anything made of thick solid metal.
The Struggle in the Mind
Doubt stayed with me in the next 15 minutes or so when suddenly, I could hear the shout of elation from someone else in the room.
Then, one by one, a number of the participants stood up to declare their success. A few of them not only bend their spoons but twisted them out of shape. Good for them!
The other half of the class was still in deep concentration, holding on their spoons. Sigh….including myself.
Another 10 minutes lapsed.
Damn! Not even for a millimetre or a half degree angle could I bend it.
I could barely keep myself from launching into a stream of expletives! Ironically, even though I was experiencing doubt, I felt the pressure of getting it done. Now that a number of my classmates have proven that it is possible to bend a solid matter out of shape, spoon bending became a matter of life and death for me.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. — William Hazlitt
Then, someone suggested that we attempt to visualise a flame that was burning the neck of the spoon in order to bend it. Also, while focused attention is needed, BEing one with the spoon required us not to “force” things to happen nor try too hard. It was exactly what I did or thought I did but to no avail. We were running out of time in class. The workshop ended and we went home.
Spoon Bending: From Doubt To Elation
Despite feeling exhausted after the workshop, I swore that I would not be able to sleep that night until I got my spoons bent. I shut down my laptop and wanted to give my spoons another go. In the meantime, I forbade my husband to sleep until I finished Mission Impossible!
Luckily for him, lest he lose sleep, he had already done the same exercise himself at an Energy Conference workshop some years back. He offered some useful suggestions. Visualise the spoon as red hot, he said. Only if it was red hot enough, could the molecules in the spoon part enough for its structure to be altered.
That was when I realised that perhaps imagining a candle flame was not powerful enough to “melt” the spoon. It meant that the visualising was just not strong enough! What a useful tip! So instead of a candle flame, I visualised the spoon burning over a kitchen stove fire at full blast.
My visualisation was so vivid that I almost dropped the spoon a couple of times as my hands started to feel the intense heat. Also, instead of taking things the easy way out as some would by focusing on the neck of the spoon, I placed my concentration on the thickest part of the spoon handle. Casting doubt aside, I held on to my focus.
After about 15 minutes or so, I could feel as if the molecules in the handle of the spoon were parting and not as tightly packed. The metal was softening and that was when I went in for the “kill”. In an instant, I managed to bend the handle. On another go, I was able to easily twist the handle.
The fire in my imagination was so hot that another spoon, which I tried after the first piece, broke into two! By the time I got to the third spoon, I was tired mentally and only managed to bend it at the neck.
Yippee! I went to bed on a high, happy with my latest collection of “art” pieces!
The Power of the Mind from Spoon Bending
If anything, I believe that the biggest metaphoric lesson about spoon bending comes from the Matrix movie.
Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead only try to realise the truth. Neo: What truth? Boy: There is no spoon. Neo: There is no spoon? Boy: Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Indeed, the mind is powerful because it is capable of changing reality. The insight that it is the mind that bends first is profound! I had to cast doubt aside and keep up with the concentration and focus before I was able to twist the metal spoon out of shape.
Interested To Do the Spoon Bending Exercise?
Metal spoon bending is not a party trick or any form of ancient art. No psychic powers need to be applied. You can certainly try the spoon bending exercise on your own.
As mentioned, the spoons are ordinary ones that you can get anywhere. Please, however, get permission before you use the ones at home. Otherwise, you may end up not having any usable utensils for your lunch or dinner.
Here are some steps:
- Set aside your doubt.
- Simply use your mind to concentrate at the neck or a focal point of the spoon.
- Visualise red hot flame — as strong as possible — burning at the neck or focal point.
- Hold your attention as long as you can.
- Once you feel the metal softening, go ahead and bend the spoon.
Try the spoon bending exercise and let me know how it went :)
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