Wednesday, June 9, 2010

How to Bend Time - Part 2

We can ALL tap into the power of Time. Even though time seems imperceptible and complex, let’s talk about it in just 4 ways.

1. SACRED TIME You’re dreaming or doing something spiritual or creative, or incredibly enjoyable. It’s what put that saying “time flies” into our vocabulary.

2. TIMELESS TIME A few minutes of deep enjoyment seem to go by in slow motion, or you suddenly notice that what you thought was a few hours was really a few minutes.

3. EVERYDAY TIME What you see on the clock.

4. SLOW-MOVING TIME Time seems to drag on because you’re doing something you don’t enjoy.

First, let’s get to the fun stuff. Everyday Time is, well, boring! Not much can get done as you hurry and worry through your life, counting the minutes with every step. Slow-Moving Time is just not fun at all! While you’re doing something you really do not want to do, you glance at the clock over and over, wondering how it can possibly take so long.

The most fun kinds of time to spend are Sacred and Timeless Time. Hang out there and you’ll get tons accomplished and still have time to relax, plus you’ll have more energy and feel great! So how do we get there?

1. Transform Everyday Time into Sacred Time
2. Allow Sacred Time to become Timeless Time

If you're reading this article, you’re probably already experiencing Sacred Time in your life. But it usually seems to go by too quickly, right? Here's how to make this powerful experience even more beneficial:

1. Transform Everyday Time into Sacred Time by only taking action on something when you feel absolutely inspired to do it. Yes, that does mean you will likely be procrastinating on some things. But here's what will happen. During Sacred Time, while you take your inspired actions, you can get things done more quickly, efficiently and joyfully than any other time. In other words, even though time seems to pass very quickly, when you look back on what you've accomplished, it's amazing! Another word for Sacred Time is Easy World... check out what author Julia Rogers Hamrick has to say about taking inspired action: http://choosingeasyworld.com

2. Allow Sacred Time to become Timeless Time by forgetting about the clock. When you feel inspired to create, or when you’re doing something spiritual, like a ceremony or ritual, give yourself a block of several hours. In fact, if you feel like you need to schedule your time, then schedule in 3-4 hours too much. This way, you’re not going to be driven by the clock. Knowing that you have more than enough time will open up the freedom you need in order to bend time. Once you’ve carved these hours out of your schedule, dive in! Let yourself play.

For example, I used to go weekly to a sweat lodge ceremony. When I first went, I asked how long we would be there. The response I got was something like “as long as it takes.” Sometimes the ceremony would last a couple of hours and other times we were there all day.

Once you’re inside that sweat lodge, you’re in Sacred Time. And because there is an understanding that it will take as long as it takes, and there is no way to check the time on a clock, your mind opens up and you can experience Timeless Time. In other words, it can feel like a longer OR shorter amount of time has passed than in “reality” or Everyday Time.

3. Daydream! Give yourself the pleasure of letting your mind wander. Let yourself get so lost in thought that like Alice, pretty soon you’ve gone down the proverbial rabbit hole. We’ve all done it as children but many of us have been chastised enough to make us lose touch with our daydreaming ability. If you’re not used to daydreaming anymore, just start by playing the “What If” game. For example, what if you had a million dollars? And let your mind play with that idea.

I’m finding that I’m experiencing Timeless Time more often now that Mother Earth is in the midst of a great transformation. All I want to say about Timeless Time is if you find yourself there, just allow it to happen and enjoy the experience. It can feel as if you have been pulled right out of time and can shape it any way you want.

If, like me, you don’t find out you were experiencing Timeless Time until you’re back in Everyday Time, savour the fact that you got to be there, witness to one of life’s great mysteries. But if you want more of the same… forget the clock!

A NOTE ABOUT THE FUTURE

I believe that we’re shifting into Timeless Time, where Everyday Time as we know it is becoming irrelevant.

Remember, most of what I’ve written here is really just about different ways we think about time. Each concept kind of blurs into the other, because of the elusive, intriguing nature of time. It’s not that time is physically changing – it’s that WE are and our space (the planet) is. Think about that for a moment. As we move through this Great Re-Awakening as a human race on our beautiful transforming planet, we are being re-wired. Our ability to glean insights from information, our innate desire to experience and learn more, our connection to ourselves, each other and the Source of all life … are getting an upgrade.

Don’t spend another moment wishing for more time. Instead, give more time to yourself and your loved ones. Treasure each moment as it happens. Immerse yourself in the pleasure of all that you are and all that you are becoming. Allow time to unfold and flow naturally, and you along with it. Be present here and now, and you will experience higher and higher levels of awareness, as you spiral outward and upward in your own expansion.

Remember who you are… pure energy. And, like time in its purest form, energy knows no limits. What do you think?

Monday, May 10, 2010

How to Bend Time - Part 1

HOW TO BEND TIME © 2010 Brenda MacIntyre

Now that I've got your attention, let's talk about time.

It's May 10th, 2010 and I've just finished writing a short article about Time. I feel compelled to share more than what was in that article, because I've had some fascinating experiences with time.

Time flies when you're having fun, right?

Nope.

Time flies, period.

With the changes happening to Mother Earth, time really is speeding up. It's NOT your imagination. It's NOT that you just feel like there aren't enough hours in the day. You are NOT going crazy. This is happening for real.

Time is shifting, Mother Earth is shifting, and along with them, we are too.

I had a dream last week that lasted a whole day, from morning to night. When I woke up, I could recall all that had happened during that eventful day in my dream. But here's the thing... less than one hour had passed on the clock in waking reality. Puzzling, right?

Over my lifetime, I’ve had a few dreams like this one. A couple of times it was only 5 to 10 minutes that had passed, and yet my brain had processed an entire day or more of activity.

How does that happen?

What if I told you I’ve experienced this in my waking reality too?

Usually we only notice when time seems to be slipping away. But I have had a few experiences of an hour feeling like a few hours – in my waking reality – during a time of creativity that I would normally experience as time flying by. In other words, where did the time not go?

Maybe you have had this experience yourself. Has an hour ever seemed far longer to you than 60 minutes, in a situation where you’re having great fun?

I’m pretty sure I could find answers to this puzzle in quantum physics. And probably more questions. But for now, let’s just say that time is very much about perception.

What do you think?

Part 2 Coming Next Week (mid-May 2010)

Friday, March 5, 2010

Rose-Coloured Glasses and Abraham on World Peace

I love this quote I got today from my Abraham-Hicks daily quote subscription...

"World peace, means one mindset big enough to make the decisions about what everybody else wants, and the rest of the world conforming. That is the ultimate definition of world peace. You say, "Oh, let's get along!" And what each of you mean is, "You do what I want." A peaceful world means, "Everybody wanting what I want. Going along with what I want." And the only problem with that is, there are more than one of you, and you have endless desires that are born within you. The ultimate experience is, everyone having their experience and launching their individual rockets of desire, and the Universe yielding to all of them simultaneously. And everybody not worrying about what anybody else created, and so, then allowing what they are wanting. What a world that is, when there are endless desirers, who are allowing the fulfillment of their own desires."

--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th, 2001 #369

My Take on this...
We are ultimately responsible for ourselves and our own lives. We so often think we're being helpful when really we're pushing our own agendas onto someone else, or in this case, the whole world! It's ironic and pretty funny when I think about it. Who am I to determine what's best for someone else I don't even know? How do I know what an individual came here to experience? I don't!

If I want to experience peace, I find it best to go within myself first, gently nudge my spirit and awaken to the vibration of peace once again. When I say "once again," it's because it's not like I'm always in high vibration wonderland. Life happens! I'm usually feeling pretty connected to Source/Spirit but there are times when I'm definitely angry or sad or frustrated. And some of those times are defining moments for me, that help me grow and move toward what I really do want.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the time I spend in high vibration wonderland! Everything has so much colour and beauty, and I notice all kinds of little cool things that I wouldn't notice if I was feeling angry or frustrated, out of sync. But without living both sides of the coin - the fulfillment of my desires and the contrast - life just wouldn't be so interesting. Besides, once I had it all, so to speak, if I stopped experiencing stuff I don't like, I wouldn't know what to desire!

I remember shortly after 9/11, I had chosen to join a peace march - something I don't usually do. But this one, I had been told, had the positive focus of being "for peace", so I went. I found it so weird that right in the middle of a peace march, there were people shaking their fists and shouting at the top of their lungs, just filled with rage about the violence that they were fighting against. For me, they were demonstrating the very thing they were railing against. So if that was a cross-section of people who want world peace, I can certainly see how everyone's idea of peace is not the same!

The idea of looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses - I remember hearing that a lot as a disparaging remark. But I embrace it now.

Learning to view my painful past - and whatever is happening in my present moment - through my own custom-made "rose-coloured glasses" has helped me to get healing, teachings, inspiration and other gifts out of every experience, and bounce back relatively quickly when I do experience the contrast life brings me. 

I've always wanted world peace, and ever since I was a small child, I've always wondered how a human being could intentionally treat another human being badly and feel good about it. I think the best I can do for myself is surround myself with people whose energy feels good and peaceful to me, and filter out the rest. That's why on Twitter, I have a list of people who are uplifters, healers and people who inspire me.

For now, I'll just put on my rose-coloured glasses and go for a walk. Well, I might take them off to see that fabulously blue sky, but wait! If I leave them on, the sky will be purple. Cool!

So this is only MY take, my perception, my ideas about what I read this morning. 

What's yours?