Sharon Clark

Self belief is one of the core foundations of spoon bending. The moment you entertain doubt, you hand the power back to the material world and its rules. But when you believe, truly, quietly, without needing to force or prove anything, something shifts. The metal seems to remember that it doesn't have to be rigid. As the saying goes, whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are right. That simple truth cuts to the heart of it. Your belief is not just a mindset, it is the actual mechanism. It is what opens or closes the door. I believed I could. So I did

Meditation is not simply rest, it is a deliberate journey into stillness, and when that journey lasts for hours, something profound begins to happen. The analytical mind, that constant guardian of what is real and what is possible, grows quiet. The body releases its tension, layer by layer, until it no longer demands your attention. What remains is an open, receptive field, pure awareness without agenda. This is where surrender becomes the key. Not the surrender of defeat, but choosing the surrender of release, letting go of expectation, of resistance, of the need to control what arrives. In that surrendered stillness, the internal noise that ordinarily drowns everything out simply falls away. And in the silence it leaves behind, the channel opens. What could never be heard above the noise of the waking mind becomes not only possible, but present. Meditation provides the space for the stillness to clear the channel, and for surrender to keep it open.

Stillness and surrender are not things you do, they are things you master. Stillness is not simply the absence of noise or movement, it is a cultivated state f relaxation, earned through practice and a willingness to stop fighting the present moment. Surrender asks something even deeper, it asks you to release control, not as weakness, but as an act of profound trust. To surrender is to stop insisting that reality conform to your expectations, to drop all resistance to whatever is. When these two states are truly mastered, not performed or approximated, but genuinely embodied, you cease to be a closed system. The walls you didn't even know you were holding up begin to come down. You become open in a way that ordinary waking life rarely allows. And in that openness, what was always present but previously unable to reach you finally has a clear and unobstructed path through. The signal was always there. Mastering stillness and surrender simply means you finally stopped blocking it."

Hours of meditation can bring you to a place of such profound stillness and surrender that the mind releases its grip on what is possible, and in that openness, amazing things are free to unfold.