DRAWNINWARD™

The name DRAWNINWARD™ is a palindrome, a word that reads the same backwards as forwards. What makes the word DRAWNINWARD™ so meaningful for my work is that the centre letter of the word is 'I'.

Back in 1985 I spent many hours in conversation with a Benedictine monk from Prinknash Abbey. His name was Dom. Silvester Houedard and he wrote creative palindromes sometimes many words long. As a scholar and religious man, he had many years experience in the search for truth through his study of comparative religions. We spoke of the idea of mind and how in many cultures the idea of mind is represented as a mirror of reality but seems to be somehow separate from us.

Our discussions lead to the realisation that mind far from separate from us only seems that way when we try to build a concept of what it is. The concepts or ideas that we form tend to confuse us as to the nature of mind and we get no closer. He explained this as similar to the images of the Dragon that is always hunting for the pearl. The pearl represents the ideal self and the dragon the self seeking the ideal self not realising that the two are one in the same.

SEARCHING

The constant search for a sense of self or the 'I' inside was the title of a paper written by Dom. Sylvester who, in the 60's, exhibited his creative palindromes in London with Yoko Ono the wife of John Lennon. In honour of our many conversations I decided to use the word DRAWNINWARD™ to represent my search for those characteristics of 'mind' that show themselves hidden amongst our conscious waking moments. In a sense we are constantly drawn-in to our inner selves for the solutions to our problems.

THE MODEL

In 1998 I worked with a fellow NLP trainee, to put together a simple, working model of what I used to do as a party trick. This involved taking an object from someone such as an item of jewellery and telling them some details about themselves or their past, present or in some cases, their future. We wondered if it was possible. What I wasn't prepared for was that the model we came up with would be so simple to learn and use.

My colleague took the model of behaviour that we had put together, tested it, and got similar results to me. That was when we decided we could try it on others. I sat back and my colleague delivered the model to the other members of our training group. They all got results that varied in quality but agreed there was something in what we had come up with. The sceptical member of the group said that he thought it was all nonsense and little better than logic could provide.

PROOF

His partner in the test gave him car keys and he said all he could see was a bulge in a tyre. She decided to drive home more carefully that evening and at the top of a valley, she had a puncture that made her car veer off the road. She considered it lucky that she could still use her mobile phone as usually by that time after training she would have been on wet muddy lanes deeper into the valley with no signal.

When the mechanic arrived he looked at the tyre and called her over to take a look. He said she had been very lucky not to have been further down the lane as the tyre had blown out violently due to a large bulge, and could have caused her car to roll over on the steep valley road! She got home a little shaken, but safe and decided to give her partner some 'feedback' the next day on what he had told her earlier that day.

Her partner went rather pale when he was told what had happened. We all laughed at the result as it seemed to be some kind of proof of the process.

New Millenium

After this modelling exercise in 1998 I left the process alone for several years while practicing as a therapist part time, and working as a teacher and lecturer. The new millenium came and went and I lost all my teaching work in a twist of fate when changing contracts with the college I worked with. I had the chance to do some more, advanced training in a new discipline called Thought Pattern Management (www.thoughtpatternmanagement.com) so in 2002 I joined the 5 day course. I met quite a mix of people and got into a discussion about psychic things with a fellow student.

He doubted my claim to have a simple model of how to be psychic and we laughed about the idea that maybe it was a simple function of the mind and anyone could do it. I realised that I had not really put my model to the test to find out if indeed, other's did the same thing. When the course ended I decided to put this to the test and began going to psychic events to study mediums working. I had many one to one visits with mediums and observed that they were largely unaware of what they did that got the results they got.

Usually what they did was not what they thought they did and this was quite consistent. My training in NLP had taught me to observe carefully what people actually did as opposed to what they said or thought they did. It was then that I realised that my model contained a common set of behaviours that I shared with other psychics and mediums.

SO TEACH IT!

Drawninward became the name of my research in 2002, which ironically is also a palindrome number! Another colleague and I (www.yourwayforward.co.uk) met regularly to put some of the ideas to the test and find out what else you could do with what I had discovered. We achieved some quite amazing results and after this I decided to develop the model into a teaching method. My colleague agreed that it would be an idea to present the model and method of learning to others and I considered it but didn't have the courage to go ahead.

Another friend, Astrologer and trainer David Rowan (www.davidrowan.co.uk) came to see me in October 2006 and said that he thought many of his ex students and some of the people on his emailing list would be very interested in coming on a course that gave them a structured insight into the basics of psychic phenomena. His faith in what I had to offer and my desire to show others that these skills can be learned incredibly easily, forced my hand and I decided to set up the first training courses.

What I also wanted to do was create a forum for my students and others to recieve feedback on their practice and to participate in further research that I have in mind. The work goes on and there is much to exlore in this area. My invitation goes out to those interested to come on one of my courses and share in the adventure that has proved so very interesting for me.

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