I
still have the first spoon I bent - the silver mark has a little
bear and the words "in mind" on it. I've never seen
another silver mark like it, and I certainly didn't see it when
I chose it in the dark from a bag of old cutlery. Weird!
TIP:
Having a heated discussion is a good way to get the level of distraction
you need to get the fork to bend, so maybe it's good to sit next
to someone you know you'll disagree with and aim for a controversial
topic (unrelated to forks). Just don't get so involved you forget
to check your fork!
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You
keep holding the fork or spoon (by the neck area is usually easiest
for beginners), and every now and then, you give it a gentle 'try'
- using both hands to see if it will bend. When it works, this
will NOT require any degree of force, it should go quite soft.
It's tempting to use a fair bit of physical effort, especially
if it goes a BIT soft, and you're impatient like me. It's better
to keep putting energy into it until it goes really soft, though
- especially if you want to do lovely twirly ones like some of
these. Using force will basically just get the handle bend, which
you'll never really be sure if you just did by force or if you
really got the weird energy thing to work...
The
harder you try, though, the more difficult it is. You need to
be distracted, not really thinking about it. Hold the cutlery
at the point you want it to bend and just 'try' it now and then
with both hands. If it's working, it will go soft for a few seconds.
This can happen within minutes, or take hours. Sometimes the whole
thing goes soft and you can twirl the prongs of a fork around
each other, or even roll up the bowl of a spoon (I've only been
able to do that a few times). More commonly, it just softens at
the point where you were touching it.
Since
I get so many emails asking this: YES you
use your hands to bend it, but if it's working it will
go soft enough to bend with very little effort. So PLEASE don't
ask me "do you bend them just using your mind?" as I'll
probably get pretty annoyed at being asked the same stupid question
yet again.
It
didn't actually work for me at the New-Age session I went to.
In fact, only two of us out of twenty couldn't do it at
the session, and the other failure was a Reiki Master (she thought
maybe she was too used to focussing energy in a particular healing
way - fair enough, I wouldn't want my insides contorting like
these forks). As you can imagine, I'd just seen eighteen other
people bend forks before my eyes, so any doubts I had about it
being possible were gone - I figured it was just a personal failing
of my own *sigh*. Sitting in the car on the way home, though,
I wondered if the particular fork I'd tried just didn't like me.
In the dark, I picked up a little silver teaspoon*.
It immediately turned soft in my hand, and I spiralled the handle
tightly. I was soooo happy!
So,
the moral of the story is that if it doesn't work the first time
you try, don't be disheartened. Keep trying.
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