Chapter Twenty-eight. Don’t talk and think about what you want
Do you know it’s totally impossible to process a negative in your neurology? For example, just stop for a moment—now, I don’t want you to think of a blue elephant. What are you thinking of? That’s right, a blue elephant. Yet we do this kind of thing all the time. I remember when my daughter Megan was about two-and-a-half years old—this was a mere six months after she’d learned that a bed wasn’t a prison[1]—and she came into the living room carrying a large glass of milk. There had been no spillage problems so far, but as a clever grown-up, I could see it happening. So I say, “Hey, Megan, don’t ...
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