Elephants, Monkeys and RecordedVoice

Posted at June 8, 2009

If you’ve done almost ANY success, motivation or self-help reading you’ve probably come across the example of the baby elephant and the rope.

They say that the Elephant trainer keeps the baby elephant in place by driving a large stake in the ground and ties a rope to one of it’s hind legs. While the Elephant is a baby it isn’t strong enough to pull up the stake even though it tries with all its might. Eventually, the baby Elephant realizes it cannot escape from the binding rope and gives up.

The story goes that even when the Baby Elephant grows into a ginormous Adult Elephant it never pulls the stake out, even though with its adult strength it could pull it out easily. I’m not sure if the idea is that the Elephant never even tries, it just doesn’t occur to him or the mental idea that it can’t affects it’s performance.

I’m not an elephant trainer so I have no idea if the anecdote is accurate but the idea behind it seems to be the case for most adults.

A principle of hypnosis is that the first time you encounter an idea it has the appearance of being true and it goes right into the unconscious mind unhindered because there is nothing else to compete with it.

I like the Elephant story but it only partly explains lack of real, lasting change. It would be easy enough for a FREED elephant to go and communicate to the bound elephant that there is a way to freedom. The Elephant could easily say, “Dude… what are you doing with that rope around your leg? Man, don’t you know you can just tug and be free like me? I’m about to head down to the river and go swimming… eat some peanuts, perhaps lay out and do some tanning. Pull out that stake and let’s go!”

With a bit of coaching that bound elephant (provided it is willing to try on the possibility and follow instructions) would become free. In a few years, circus’ would be devoid of elephants.

But, it doesn’t really seem to happen this way.

Why not?

The answer lies in an experiment involving monkeys, cold water and bananas.

This is a quote from “Put Your Dream to the Test” by John C. Maxwell:

Business professors Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad wrote about an experiment conducted with a group of monkeys. Four monkeys were placed in a room that had a tall pole in the center. Suspended from the top of that pole was a bunch of bananas. One of the hungry monkeys started clibming the pole to get something to eat, but just as he reached out to grab a banana, he was doused with a torrent of cold water. Squealing, he scampered down the pole and abandoned his attempt to feed himself. Each monkey made a similar attempt, and each one was drenched with cold water. After making several attempts, they finally gave up.

Then researchers removed one of the monkeys from the room and replaced him with a new monkey. As the newcomer began to climb the pole, the other three grabbed him and pulled him down to the ground. After trying to climb the pole several times and being dragged down by the others, he finally gave up and never attempted to climb the pole again.

The researchers replaced the original monkeys, one by one, with new ones, and each time a new monkey was brought in, he would be dragged down by the others before he could reach the bananas. In time, only monkeys who had never received a cold shower were in the room, but none of them would climb the pole. They prevented one another from climbing, but none of them knew why.

This same dynamic functions in humans but with a twist. We don’t climb poles to get bananas. We set goals and work towards them. We imagine a better life and set about creating it.

We do get pulled down but not physically. Others MAY try to pull us down with words but most people are perceptive enough and strong enough to discount that form of pull down.

The way this pull down manifests is much more insidious, it appears in what is alluded to but rarely ever verbalized… it appears symbolically in society’s art, film, stories and sayings and as presuppositions embedded in language. Since it exists in this way it is very difficult to discriminate and decide NOT to allow it into the mind.

I’m calling it RecordedVoice. The mind gets these concepts unconsciously. Then, when you decide to become more or better or transform yourself the desire to do this activates the hidden ideas giving it a voice in your mind.

The problem is… You think it is YOUR voice. You think it is YOUR thinking. It has the appearance of your voice, your thoughts, your thinking, your deduction… but it’s not.

It isn’t you.

It is the mind giving Voice to the deep impressions that society has passed onto you. Becoming aware of RecordedVoice and what powers it gives you the chance to enter into greater freedom and more effectiveness.

Disabling RecordedVoice disappears limitations and puts you more in touch with your true, unlimited nature. You are more free to act, to choose and to be what you want to be.

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