Lost It?

 

 

            I often get calls from people who have lost something – jewellery, the car keys, sometimes a pet. They always say, “I’ve lost my….whatever,” but often this is not what they really mean. More often than not, they have in fact misplaced the item concerned.

 

            The brain works a bit like a filing system. The mind is like a storage cabinet for information. When you ask a question, the Little Man who works there runs around opening drawers and checking through folders looking for the answer you are asking for. He will keep on looking until he eventually finds what you require.

 

            When you say, “I’ve lost my keys,” this tells the Little Man that it is not worth looking for them, they are gone. But if you say, “I’ve misplaced my keys,” he hops down off his stool, runs to the filing cabinets and starts searching. Eventually he will come up with the answer to where you put them in an absent minded moment! So, when you have misplaced something, watch your “self talk.” Be very conscious of saying “I have misplaced my keys,” not “I’ve lost them.” Put your Little Man to work! The same principles apply, by the way, when you’ve temporarily forgotten someone’s name, or a book title, or any other fact. Say, “I’ll remember in a moment” and you will. Say, “I’ve forgotten", and you won’t.

 

            There are a couple of tricks that help to stimulate this process. Just before you go to sleep, visualise the missing object surrounded by a golden balloon. Attached to the golden balloon is a silver thread. Pull the thread until the balloon, together with the article it contains, is resting in your hands, then go to sleep. When you wake in the morning you will remember where it is.

 

The second trick works in a similar way. Just before bed, drink half a glass of water, saying as you do, “In the morning I will remember where my keys are.” When you wake up, drink the other half of the glass, and you will recall where you put them.

 

            Another thing to remember is that people don’t work well when they are pressured and distracted. The same applies to the Little Man who works in your filing room. Don’t keep tapping him on the shoulder and pestering him while he is trying to find where your missing treasure is. Leave him alone to get on with the job. In other words, tell him what you need, then forget it. He’ll get back to you in due course!

 

            Missing animals require a somewhat different approach. It is no good looking in your mental filing cabinet for a pet that has wandered off! What you need to do is to attract the attention of the Little Man who works in the pet’s filing system. This is done by “calling” to the pet. Call its name, just as you would call it if you were standing at the back door, trying to get it to come for its dinner. The pet will hear this inner call, and if it possibly can, it will come to you.     Sometimes pets will travel vast distances to return their owners. Thought forms are not limited by the constraints of physical distance. If the pet doesn’t return, then it may be dead, or unable or unwilling to come, and we have to accept that, sad though it may be.