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“Don’t fear the robot, let the robot fear you” – Smithy, speaking to Peter Crouch (England Footballer)

Happy Easter to you all and hope you have all spent time with family today, so let’s take an opportunity to think about what this period symbolises.

You all know me by now, so of course my own alternative view will be offered and will start with Easter’s origins in Pagan England and Europe.

The festival of Eostre, who was the Goddess of Spring, was held on the vernal equinox of the 21st March. The essence of the festival was to worship the “re-birth of the earth” this festival was quite popular with the farming communities across Europe so it was easy to identify how the symbolism was adopted by the early Christians.

Of course the festival was fused with the date of the resurrection of Jesus, however the exact date is governed now by the Lunisolar calendar, however the ecclesiastical date is now fixed to the 21st March (I have seen that date somewhere before).

Now onwards to today’s blog; the theme is re-birth and the period is not just about fresh starts, for me it would be to face my own fear. I have read through my last few blog’s and it would seem that the negative comments concerning chat magazine and Pringles would be the perfect subject for me to “face my fear, and do it anyway”.

The idea for this blog came from a wonderful coincidence, which have been happening a lot more since starting this blog and my voyage on my Spiritual journey have been littered with them. This will be a subject covered in one of my upcoming blog’s however this coincidence was manifested from my own subconscious.

The manifestation came by the way of a visceral idea that consumed me whilst was coaching someone last week and a shopping trip, the idea on the surface, is childish but perfect and embracing my two nemesis’s Pringles and Chat Magazine’s Top Text Tips.

The manifestation of that idea was inspired from my greatest fear, this fear was communicated to you all via my blog’s and what struck me, was how my subconscious bit me back, this moment was like when Luke Skywalker saw good in his father Darth Vader and when he saw it, the power he gave to that thought lit the spark within Vader which in turn fired his good side, and it spread all over his beaten, mechanical body until goodness consumed him.

Now back to the idea, which has probably been over dramatized, but that’s how I roll baby. The idea was simple and it involved me gathering the following elements, these raw materials of nature are precious so be careful.

You will need;
· 3 Empty Clean Pringles Tubes (if not empty then stuff yourself with contents immediately)
· Sticky back plastic (cello tape)
· Angle Grinder
· Wrapping paper (plain, non festival related)
· Scissors, child ones (don’t run with them, really I mean it!)
· Pipe cleaners
· Coloured pens / pencils / crayons / pens / glitter
· An old shirt inside out so that you do not get paint on you (if we did use paint)
· 3D Glasses – because they look cool
· Shiny things
· A happy face with obligatory jazz hands
· Large block of memo pads, multi-coloured if possible

Now once you have all the ingredients you will be able to make the vision created by vengeful subconscious. You will be making and decorating three tubes and they are to be as colourful and aesthetically pleasing as possible because they will be used daily.

So what is the purpose of these tubes?, well we have all heard of vision boards, life plans, law of attraction and expensive self held tools that are designed to help you go reaching your higher self whilst along the way manifesting abundant wealth (that rhymes J ) These tools will guaranteed will achieve exactly the same results as if you purchased these items from the “Guru’s” (sometimes for a lot of money)

The selection of tube are what will now be know as “Attitubes”, I am English so Pun’s are a way of life for me.

The first “Attitube” is what we call the “Gratitube” this shiny tube will have the aforementioned name emblazoned across it. The purpose of the tube is to every morning write on a memo pad sheet things that you are grateful for. These will include your siblings, your partner, your cappuccino maker or your replica Legolas Bow and Arrow. The art of saying thank you is an important part of our nature and on our path to become truly altruistic you must thank everything in your life.

The second “Attitube” is called the “Magnitube” this sexy little tube will have it’s name in shiny things as it will the tube that will attract all the of things that you want in life. This is the Ask, Believe and Receive tube. As above you also have to place a note when you want to ask the universe to manifest your dreams. These will include the spiritual elements you want to bring to your life

The third “Attitube” is called the “Aptitube” this clever little tube will be the tube to place all of your inspiring thoughts and idea’s. Those little nuggets of genius, that flash across our minds, which sometimes we don’t have belief in ourselves to act upon. This tube welcomes all ideas and planting them in the tube they will organically grow and enough belief with a vision and a plan will allow it to manifest.

Now all the above come with a Gremlins style warning, you are responsible for your own “attitubes” you can only attract things into your own life and cannot attract things into the lives of others. However you could always help them to help themselves by convincing them to ask for themselves. All these tubes will give a home to your thoughts, thanks, visions and dreams. These will organically grow and prosper if you give it the correct nutrients and food. Theses are of course belief and a clear vision of how you want these into your life.

And finally….

Place these attitubes in a place you will be every morning, as the habit of feeding these tubes will help you bring abundance, health, wealth, dreams and manifest your creative genius.

Now my manifestation, which used a reference by Smithy came into my head quite vividly, and was brought on in quite a normal day to day experience, the experience of shopping in Tesco’s and my wandering mind using robot moves to remove items from the shelves and placing them in my trolley. I do this a lot when shopping by myself. I am 34 years old and will shop like a robot.

Now the quote is a gentle ribbing about Peter Crouch refusing to do the robot dance every time he scores, must to the dismay of the English nation. We as a nation all love a loser and Peter Crouch represents everyone who has a dream but just don’t quite fit in and is quite like the Billy Elliott of football. He is 6ft 7in, skinny, gangly and awkward looking and to quote Smithy “everything about you, tell me that you should be rubbish at football, but your not, you are brilliant”

The quote though resonated to me on another level and what my manifestation brought forward in my conscious mind.

You see the Robot is us, our conscious self and representation of society which allows us to be pigeon holed due to our appearance and ability. The YOU is our subconscious self and the quote to me says that the Robot is not to be feared and the robot should fear us, our subconscious or maybe our higher self!

Now the above concept when you fully embrace it is quite a powerful statement, it is the blind person who chooses to see again, it’s the terminal cancer patient who cures themselves and go into complete remission, it is the feats of athletes who overcome injury and reach the highest pinnacle in their sport, it is the triumphant underdog who was given zero chance, it is the Buster Douglas’s, the Nelson Mandela’s, the Charles Darwin’s, The Albert Einstein’s, The Stephen Hawkings, the Isaac Newton’s and Scott Everest’s of the world who all did not “fear the robot, they let the robot fear them”

This can also be translated into our day-to-day fears, and my inspiration from Susan Jeffers great book “feel the fear, and do it anyway” coupled with the Easter holiday of re-birth means that you can get your greatest inspiration from facing our fear, overcoming it and using it to our advantage. (A bit of Sun Tzu thrown in for good measure)

I am off now to write a quick note to chat magazine and take some pictures of my “Attitubes”, there is £50 for every story published.

“Scottitube”

I would like to thank everyone who has joined my GLAD friends exchange; this is a concept that will be further explored with a GLAD charity planned, which will offer respite and play centres for children with disabilities and there siblings to play and be in a safe environment.
Also to offer parents coaching and motivation sessions with the intention of topping up there spiritual well being and create a network of support. All of the above will be accompanied by my second book, which a rough outline is already written.