Athena, a beloved patient, told me when her husband leaves town, at least one machine in their home or office will fail.
“Why?” I said.
“Because he’s a machine whisperer,” she said. “They miss him.”
“Hmmm.”
You no doubt have heard of horse whisperers, and perhaps dog whisperers, people who have a special way with these creatures. But machines?
Naturally. Aren’t they alive, too? Her husband, Hermes, just reaches in and touches here and here… and then it would work.
I’m a bit of a machine whisperer. I have done the same thing with cars over the years – wiggled this wire and that wire, wires that “should” have no effect, and the car runs.
I hire car whisperers, Scott and Neil of Champagne Service, to care for my cars. Suzanne reminds me of the whisperer who successfully banged on the engine of our Saab with a rubber mallet to get it to start. The idea makes sense to me.
Here’s where it gets weird. Because this is a Buddha on my table, I heard the story differently.
The week Athena visited, I had spent hours trying to get my print server to work. Hours. It worked before I tried to set up Suzanne’s laptop, then neither of our two worked. Grumble.
Even though I love computers, I hate computers. Even though back in 1968, I did computer programming with main frame computers, I still hate them sometimes.
Hate is not compatible with whispering, right?
I decided to become a computer whisperer. I decided to be in a loving relationship with these marvelous silicon creatures.
This morning in just a few minutes, I went through the same protocols that had gotten ZERO results the last week. I easily found the mistakes I was making, including identifying a faulty wire, and successfully set up both computers. I can print wirelessly and effortless now. Yippee.
How Can You Put This Idea to Work?
As fun as this was for me, you might be saying, “So what?”
You can use the idea to make your life richer, less stressful, and more fun.
First, decide, at least for the moment, that whisperers are real.
Second, decide you can be a whisperer, too. You don’t have to be a superstar whisperer like Hermes, Scott, and Neil. Just good enough to make your life easier and more fun.
Third, this is where you get creative. What would you like to learn to whisper? What would you like to be in relationship with in a happier, more intimate, better way.
NOTE: This is important. You don’t have to learn a new subject. I didn’t go to computer geek school. I just decided I could whisper my computer.
A Variation
Bob Dickinson, a beloved Taiji teacher of mine, had little time to study while going through acupuncture school. Instead of being a meridian whisperer, he simply claimed the knowledge of a past life as an acupuncturist. He passed his boards and was a wonderful healer.
I prefer the whisperer method, but the past life one works, too. I wonder what else would work?
The core principle —
Act as if you had the skill you seek – and very soon, you will have it.
Would you like to learn to whisper the opposite gender?
Would you like to whisper money?
Would you like of whisper the job market?
What do you do in your work that you would like to master?
What would you like to learn to whisper?
As always, I’d love to hear. Leave your comments below.
Blessings,
William
P.S. The best way I know to enhance your ability to whisper anything…
