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There are times when the opportunity to affect our own reality is presented to us in a way that is hard to ignore. We might try an experiment in some area just as a lark and discover that there is a potential to have an important impact upon our immediate environment. Because we succeed but realize that others will reject our results out of hand, we rationalize the experience as being little more than a coincidence and hold back on any further efforts. The following is a personal story of potential. I hope that in sharing it, others will find hope trying their own experiment. Many years ago, when I was working as a claims adjuster, I happened to read about a group of people who were practicing transcendental meditation and getting some extraordinary
results in the process. These people were traveling to various cities and spending a specified period of time doing nothing more than meditating. Before beginning their project in a particular city, they would examine
the statistics regarding crime and automobile accidents within a defined area and period of time. This information was easily available from public records and established an adequate base line for the experiment. After
practicing transcendental meditation (TM) for 30 days, they would check the records again to see if there was a noticeable difference. There consistently was a fifteen to twenty-five percent drop in both areas.
Because this was my profession, I wrote to the organization and asked them to send me some printed material on their activity. They sent me a packet about five inches thick, quantifying the results they had achieved in
a number of cities. I was impressed enough to try an experiment of my own. Having worked for my company long enough to acquire three full weeks of vacation, I elected to take it all at once. At the time, I was
receiving between 35 to 40 assigned claims per month. Remember these numbers as they will be important later in this story. These claims ranged from auto accidents, to theft and fire claims, as well as workers
compensation injury claims. The day before I was due to start my vacation, I sat down quietly in my office. I worked out of my home and the house was completely quiet. I visualized a protective white light coming
into the top of my head and coming out my outstretched hands to each of the company agents for whom I handled claims. I then visualized that protective energy
going from the agents to each of company's policyholders. I did this for about 5 minutes and then went on my vacation. When I returned three weeks later, I called the branch office to check in with my supervisor to
see if there had been any problems on my other files. He advised that everything was fine but that while I was gone something odd had happened. During that three week period, they had received only three claims in my
territory. He went on to say that the office had begun to wonder if the agents who normally sent the claims in might have been holding them until I returned. But that didn't make any sense because people would have been
calling and demanding that someone contact them to handle their damages. Naturally, they were puzzled by the fact that while I should have normally received 30 or more claims during that period, I had only received
one tenth of that number. I, on the other hand, was only amused. I immediately realized the potential of what had happened. I thought about repeating the procedure on a regular basis. I also thought about telling
management what I had done and offering to teach others to do the same. But then I imagined the reaction I would receive to such an offer and decided to postpone the whole process to a more enlightened
time. Lloyd K Back to Readers' Contributions
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