Time… what a lie!

How many times we have thought: 
it is taking too long… it is lasting so little… I am late… it shouldn’t take too much… when I finish this I will be able to do that… I don’t have enough time to do all the things I want…?

I wonder whether the person who invented the word time thought about the perverse consequences of focusing our attention obsessively on it.

Sometimes we waste our lives running from one place to another, from a meeting to another, from a task to another, following a plan that we defined or, even worse, let somebody else define for us.

Time is the result of perception.

When we feel happy, time flies. It is as if it never existed, and we live so intensively the present that there is no place for worries and stress. We passionately enjoy the moment, and nothing else matters.

When we feel bored, annoyed or stressed, we wish time passed away fast. We want to escape from this moment, as if this would bring us more peace or happiness.

Whenever I feel so, I force myself to stop, focus on the present moment, observe what I feel and question my attitude:

• What am I thinking right now that makes me feel like this? What is this feeling telling me about how I look to reality?
• What can I choose to think to feel happier? What can I learn from this moment? How can I use this moment to achieve my goals even faster?

At the moment I asked myself these questions, the inner clock stops. I become in control again, balanced, and centered in the present. Time does not exist any longer.

As the poem says: I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul

Finding the healing power of your mind

Last Saturday I had the pleasure to participate in a seminar on Noesiology and Noesitherapy by Dr. Angel Escudero, medical doctor and surgeon with nearly 40 years of experience in surgery of any kind empowering the pacient mind for anesthesia with total consciousness.

Noesiology is a term coined by Dr. Escudero to define the science that studies the effect of THOUGHTS in human life.  In previous posts I have stressed the importance of beliefs, perception and focus in our life experience.  In this great seminar, Dr. Escudero shared with us his experience on the effects on health of holding a positive attitude towards life.

Positive thoughts engage a positive biological response (PBR) in the body that induces, among others, muscle relaxation, normal blood pressure, lower heart rates and more effective inmune response.  The simplest indicator of PBR is a mouth full of fluid saliva.   A steady PBR is the best method to maintain a great health state, full of vitality.  In this state, our brain is able to contribute to our goals and wellbeing even beyond current expectations, and what we call miracles can occur in a natural manner.

According to Dr. Escudero, the recipe for stimulating a positive biological response and program our brain to achieve a goal is:

1. Create the habit to keep our mouth with fluid saliva
2. Use always positive words when we speak, and positive thoughts
3. When something "bad" happens, search for the opposite good and state:  I need... and add words without limits describing the good you need, and keep thinking and saying "... and every time is more easily for me to get it".   For example:  If I have fear :  I need certainty, courage, resolution, confidence, faith, help, strength and will and every time is more easily for me to get it.
4. Keep doing these steps until you achieve your goal.

In the video below, you will enjoy a demonstration of Dr. Angel Escudero's thinking based anesthesia applied to pregnant women to program them to give birth with no pains whatsoever.
Thanks a lot, Angel, for sharing us your knowledge and experience, and for contributing to make this a better world!

Are you being your best friend?

Whenever we know a good friend has a problem, we tend to caress him, to encourage him to overcome it.
We tell him that it is not so important, that he will manage to find a way.
We tell him that we believe in his ability to succeed and we help him to relax and get ready to find a solution.

However, sometimes we are not able to do the same for ourselves, and we treat ourselves harshly instead of supporting ourselves as our best friend would do.   
Don't we deserve what we do for our best friends? Would we treat that way a good friend who has a problem? Are we worth less than him? Do we find certain pleasure or comfort in punishing ourselves? What makes us apply different scales to us and to other people?

These are important questions.  They tell us the truth about what we believe we are worth as compared to others. If any of the answers is discomforting, you may be willing to change your beliefs and start treating you as your best friend.  After all, you are the only one who shares 100% of the time with yourself.  Better be on good terms with yourself!

Which glasses are you wearing now?

Recently I posted on the benefits not to take anything personally.
I can't stress enough how different your life will be if you follow this suggestion!

In fact, we make grow many of the situations we find everyday by just focusing on them and making them become "problems".  It is the pair of glasses we wear at that precise moment what makes us decide to consider the situation a problem, or a little inconvenience, or an unexpected result, or even an adventure!
We have the choice to decide which pair of glasses we wear:  it just requires to be aware of this: your thoughts are not you. We empower them by giving them our attention and supporting them with our feelings. We make them strong and eternal or let them pass away, depending on how we respond to them.
Whenever you face what it first seems to you as a problem, just take a deep breath, and choose to wear a different pair of glasses, choose something that motivates you, and focus your attention with questions and emotions:

How curious!! I didn't expect something like this!  What can I learn from it?  How can I use this result to achieve my goal, to achieve what I planned?  How can I make of this a way to achieve my goal even faster?

I have empowering beliefs that support me in these situations.
I believe that whatever happens around me, it is for my greatest good. I always believed that what matters is the long term result.  As long as I am focused on something, it does not matter the time it takes, but I will get my goal.  In fact, this makes me feel free of the time demands.  I ask myself, what else can I do to achieve my goal?  And whatever happens is a lesson for me, a lesson about flow, change, and acceptance, in my way to become a better person.  With this pair of glasses, I am unstoppable.  Sometimes I run, sometimes I crawl, but I am certain to move towards my goals.  This is my pair of glasses.

Which pair of glasses are you wearing right now?
Maybe you feel excited.  Maybe you feel skeptic.  It is your choice. Your feelings tell you which glasses you wear.  Never blame, but thank them.  They give you feedback.  It is up to you to choose another pair if this one doesn't suit you.

The Elders... a foolish dream or the dawn of global awareness?

A couple of years ago, I read about The Elders, a group of global leaders gathered together by Nelson Mandela in 2007 and founded by Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel,  who "offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity".

I was first shocked I hadn't heard of them earlier.  I quickly browsed their home page and immediately fell in love with the idea: we are in a global village and, as it is/was the custom in African villages, the global elders guide and inspire us to create a better world.

Btw, the previus post Invictus displays an inspiring poem by William Ernest Henley, leitmotiv of the movie with the same name directed by Clint Eastwood and with the participation of Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.  If you haven't watched it yet, I encourage you to do it as a source for inspiration.

Do you feel it as a foolish dream? or is it rather a manifestation of  global awareness?