The Power And Meaning Of Time
If our attention is the way that we can direct our power, time is the way our attention is organised. It enables us to see cause and effect. Yet in reality it is only an illusion. An illusion we believe while our attention is directed towards the more superficial layers of life. So you can achieve your intentions far more quickly by moving into deeper layers and collapsing time.
Time, as we understand it, is a recent invention. It only really become particularly important to us at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when we started to organise ourselves into work groups. Running factories meant that people needed to turn up and get started at the same time. Ever since then our lives have been dictated by the clock.
We see more evidence for this in the varying attitudes different Cultures have to time. In most of the Western world, punctuality is very important. Other Cultures may take a more flexible attitude to appointments.
Time in reality doesn’t exist. It is only an interpretation of our experience. If you take Einstein’s Law of Relativity to it’s logical conclusion. Without any mass… time is no longer experienced. All time would be equally accessible.
We use time as a marker. It will take two years to do X. There is no reason that a set time is needed. The assumption is that in two years, you will have experienced certain occurrences. So if you could have had all these experiences within 6 months, you don’t need to wait two years.
Here’s the process to get whatever you want in life.
1. Focus only on what you want.
2. Identify what is between you and it.
3. Identify what is supporting that obstacle.
4. Take away it’s support.
5. Repeat this until there is nothing between you and the thing you want.
6. Then it’s yours.
This may seem obvious, but really the only obstacles are in your head. They are caused by you becoming stuck in one layer of life. When you can move smoothly and freely in your thoughts, from the deep to the superficial, you can create whatever you choose.
Often people want to increase the length of their life. What they really want is to experience more. By increasing the velocity of their experiences they can have the same experiences… and experience 140 or 210 years worth of life in just 70 years.
This is how you can get more from life. It doesn’t necessarily mean doing more. Often it is by slowing that we experience and savour more. Less is often more. Less distraction and clutter leads to more focused attention.
Everyone has the same time. It is the use of your time that determines the quality of your life. The key is to spend your time on those things that bring you passion and excitement rather than those that dull and bore you.
Sometimes people talk of the difference between Residual or Passive income streams and Earned or Active. Basically if you work at a job or you sell your services you get paid for the hours you work. This is Active or Earned income. If you create a product that once its created…you can sell without spending any more time on, that’s Residual or Passive income.
This concept also applies to us as Individuals in how we spend our time and attention. Everyone has to grow or they’ll get swamped and buried by life growing over them. Throughout your life you will have heartache, frustrations and disappointments. There are two ways people approach these. You can identify with this because you are probably reading this book for one of two basic reasons.
Reason 1
Perhaps there is something in your life causing pain for you and you are looking for a way to heal it. Most people do this and once the pain has gone they wait for another pain before they do anything else. This is Active or Earned growth. This way you’ll have more problems and you won’t build up a great deal of momentum.
Reason 2
Or perhaps you worked out that by continually growing you could prevent many problems from even showing up in your life. This can create a snowball effect so that you grow at a compounded rate. You still have to work at it… but the return on your time invested is much greater than if you only worked when Life prodded you into it.
You can move from Reason 1 to Reason 2 by focusing on the following question. This will have the effect of putting you in control of your life. Meaning that you don’t get bounced around by life and so eliminate stress, frustration and misery, while creating joy, passion and excitement.
If you were to rank your life experiences on a scale of 1-10, some of your life experience would be 1 and others 10. Why would you settle for less than 10?
If you focused your attention on this question sufficiently, it would stimulate you to wake up every morning determined to make that day’s experiences a 10. As your focus zoomed in on more rewarding life experiences, you’d get more of those.
We’ll close this chapter with a way I have explained this concept that has worked powerfully for many people.
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Imagine that you stood on the cliff overlooking the sea. Behind you is a bleak and ugly view. Before you is a beautiful seaview. And so you turn to look at the sea.
Now as you look this way, you see a gorgeous beach scene or the beauty of the sea. The sea has a greater pull for you and so your attention, like a camera’s zoom, focuses there.
Where once you saw the overview, now you see it has many individual waves. Looking into the clear water you can see fish. The sight of the fish draws your focus in.
Now you hone in one fish and see the marvel of it’s design. This creates a feeling of awe and inspiration.
As if you were behind the lens of a camera, where you focus your lens determines your perspective.
And it is your perspective that flows life through your belief structures which determines your emotions.
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This is how focus works in your life. You see more detail in whatever you focus on. Each separate detail will create different feelings in you. Life has everything. The full 360 degrees of experience. Good and bad. Pain and pleasure. And you are free to focus on whatever you choose. Whatever you choose will determine your life experience.
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