The Time Machine

What is your relation to time? I always wish I had more time. I regret I brood on the missed opportunities. I kick myself, I should have done that. Strangely, I ruminate on my past like watching a hor

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What is your relation to time? I always wish I had more time. I regret I brood on the missed opportunities. I kick myself, I should have done that.
Strangely, I ruminate on my past like watching a horror movie again and again.

And the result? I go on a never-ending cycle of guilt.
For example, one such thought was I should have started my business a lot earlier when I was young. I am 45 and when I think of time, my mind keeps telling me, I don’t have time.

I should be watching Netflix rather than writing this piece. Ah.. the struggles of writing :).

Sometimes, I feel like I am two people living in one. 

But this topic is not about me, It’s about Time.

Similar thoughts, similar feelings? I know. I have spoken to quite a few close friends and everybody has the same feeling. There is no time?

Let’s take a step back and see why this is happening. Perhaps, we could open up a new portal which has our solutions?

How do I do that? I am seeing you poking a finger at me with red eyes.

The Time Machine

Let me introduce you to your own “Time Machine” a.k.a your mind. This machine of yours can travel to the past, faster than any speed of light.

Strangely, light cannot travel to the past, but only to the future because of its linear nature. But the mind can easily and effortlessly travel to the past.

Why am I saying this? Because the answer to finding time lies in our pasts.
Agree? At least now we are on the same page.

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Rewatching a full day in the past

When we are in the past, let’s relive a full day. You can call this meditation, but you can relive the full day by carefully observing your past.

And, here is the fun and weird thing.

You have an imaginary remote control built into this time machine. You don’t have to sit down for a full day to relive it. It just takes a few moments to relive the entire day. A few moments.

I can hear you telling me. “Ok, you somehow tricked me into living my past, and I did, so what? Is this some kind of circus trick? Tell me what to do next.”

There are 3 things you can do here:
1. Relive the past and watch what emotions were present throughout. Anger, Fear, Overwhelm, Joy, Grief, Frustration?
2. Ask why that emotion surfacing. What might be the probable cause?
3. Ask what if you were to take lessons on how not to live a day like this and design that perfect day?
I will leave you with these 3 questions to reflect on.

Three Questions

Homework for this week then?
Who gives homework in a newsletter? I do, because there is no better thing than to become an action hero, the doer instead of just the reader.

Questions:
1. Design your perfect day in detail.
- What emotions do you want to have on your perfect day?
- Adjust the contrast, colour, temperature, the settings of that day.
- Adjust how you are going to spend that lovely day.
- Finally place a totem there (like in the movie Inception, a small toy, a key, a flower or anything). This symbolises the entire day. Yes, it’s funny, silly but it’s important.
Why? I will tell to you next week ;)


Until then …

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