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Imagine the scene an hour later as you almost run into the hotel. Can you believe it, the bars and cafeteria are all closed! Ah well, there’s always the mini bar
in your room, there must be a drink in there. The lift is broken so you take the stairs in threes, almost demolishing the door to your room. You dash to the
mini bar, now anxiously anticipating how wonderful that cold drink will feel inside your mouth.

What? Nothing in the fridge but a lemon! You examine it in the palm of your hand. You close your eyes and you can indeed smell its zesty, clean, crisp
fragrance. Doesn't it have a pretty lemon yellow colour? You can feel the texture of the lemon lightly with the pads of your fingers. Doesn't it feel lumpy?

Now, squeeze it and feel the consistency. Smell it again. Hold it up to your nose and take a deep breath. Imagine you can hear yourself say, “Isn't that a pretty
lemon? Doesn't it smell fantastic?”

Now, I'd like you to, in your mind, take a knife from the drawer and cut a slice from the lemon. Take the slice and squeeze it until the juice is dripping down
your fingers? Good. It's easier to smell the free-flowing juice. Now, take that slice and place it in your mouth, just in your mouth, not on your tongue. Doesn't
it smell fresh?

OK, do you feel the juices dripping on to your tongue? Great. Now, set the lemon slice on your tongue. Oooh, can you taste that tangy juice? Great.

Now back to reality . . . What is happening in your mouth?

Well, if you're like a good percentage of the people, your mouth is salivating. OR drying up. Either way, you are having a reaction to the sight, sound, smell,
taste, and feel of the lemon.

You know why? Your brain does not know the difference between what is real and what is vividly imagined! Now, how can this
help you?

If you really take the time and effort to change your view of reality, your brain will put in the time and effort to make your reality
become your view.

And so it is with changing your perceptions. You won’t have to imagine lemons every time you want to substitute a belief, but
this exercise should help you to see just how powerful your imagination can be.

Perception

Is the world really as you see it? Do you see a lovely young lady or a shrivelled old woman? The ear of the young lady is the eye
of the old woman. This reversible figure shows how we can be given subtle cues which influence what we see. We tend to believe Page125
that our perception or experience of the world is reliable, "Seeing is believing", but we may not be the objective observers we