I read the blog of Dilbert Creator Scott Adams today where he describes how he got his voice back.

He had lost his voice some year and a half ago to some weird condition with a wild name that does not explain anything. Nobody had ever recovered from that malady so he was doomed to a world of active quietness.

That's what the established body of knowledge demanded.

But he disagreed.

The day before yesterday, while helping on a homework assignment, I noticed I could speak perfectly in rhyme. Rhyme was a context I hadn't considered. A poem isn't singing and it isn't regular talking. But for some reason the context is just different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Jack jumped over the candlestick.

I repeated it dozens of times, partly because I could. It was effortless, even though it was similar to regular speech. I enjoyed repeating it, hearing the sound of my own voice working almost flawlessly. I longed for that sound, and the memory of normal speech. Perhaps the rhyme took me back to my own childhood too. Or maybe it's just plain catchy. I enjoyed repeating it more than I should have. Then something happened.

My brain remapped.

My speech returned.

This story fits in so nicely with what I am working on right now. Disagreement without opposition. If I am opposing a thing or a condition or even the IRS I give it lots of attention and by the law of attraction (see the movie The Secret) I will make it stronger. So then how do I get rid of a situation I don't like?

I guess first I have to stop to 'not-like' it. Does not meant that I have to love it either. As long as I take off my attention and put it on something else that I enjoy more, something that is connected with more favourable emotions I should be doing fine. Once I manage to have my attention completely someplace else, that condition - - - huh? what are we talking about here???