Good day,

Sometimes the best choice, is not the one we are looking at. There is often a higher wisom to the why's of not being able to get what we are wanting to get. Yet, on a different level, getting there is one thing. But, the journey, life itself, the paths we take, are of even greater importance. The process of what we do, the experiences that we have along the way, that is what makes up the body of life. Having arrived, well that is another thing  too. Me, I want to have the experience of looking back, and all along saying to myself, what a life I have lived!!! What a differnce I have made for myself, and for those I care about. Then, I want to look forward once again to the next adventure. Whatever it is that lies ahead.... Now, before going into time distortion as the means of reaching your end, why not first install a propulsion mechanism that will propel you with good feelings, letting the mundane become something enjoyable? Distorting time is easy, so easy in fact, that if you don't use the process wisely- Never, know, you could one day be asking yourself--"where did my life go?"

You can chunk things down, paying attention to the details of something, like watching the clock, second by second, and you can get days out of hours. And if you begin by chunking things up in context, then you can lose track of time quickly, and the next thing you know............

So, even though you are asking for one thing, I am going to tease you with another, because the more you try consciously to speed time up, you will in fact find yourself slowing things down, and feeling good. So for right now, lets play with something else...

I remember once having to take this test that I hadn't prepared to take. It was important to me, but the weeks prior to taking it, while I should have at least been preparing for it, I simply lost track of time. Before I knew it, the test  was right in from of my eyes! Think about the  notion of time lines. If you are in time, time passes much more quickly, because you are not thinking about time at all. And if you step out of time, and are now through time, time will move much more slowly.

Now, I want you to do this. I want you to think of three things. First, something really terrible. In fact, the worst thing you can possibly think of. Something you would never choose for yourself. Something that if you were confronted with it, the first thing you would do would be to go in the opposite direction. Now, when you have thought of it, pretend to make an image of it, and place that image about two feet into your past time line. Let yourself just begin to feel the feelings that are associated to that imagined image of the thing you want to move away from. Now, disassociate from those feelings and clear you mind. Think of something that you have a neutral response for. You don't feel either way about it. It is just something you are neutral about.

Now, I want you to think of what for you is the most desirable set of feelings. Something, where if you could do it right now, nothing would stop you. Hmmm, think about this....you are right in the middle of this most pleasurable experience. You can feel the feelings, taste, smell, and you are right on the edge of this pleasurable experience, so that when you think about it, there is no way for you to go, but even deeper into it. So much so, that this experience begins building....and building, right up until.......you add all of those great sounds in.....and ...you ...

Now, place this representation about two feet into your future time line. Now, step out of it, and let yourself come back fully into that neutral state. You may want to imagine someone helping you with this by anchoring these two experiences in perspective positions on your time line. That horrible terrible thing about two feet into your past, and that really great powerfully pleasurable experience about two feet into your future. Now, take the mundane thing, or anything you want to get done, and place it a few feet in front of you...make it life size, and see your self doing what you need to do to get that done.....and let me explain some......

You see, there are many ways that people can motivate themselves into getting things done. There are strategies for simply moving away from what we don't want. I remember once when I was in college, there was this one guy who considered himself a practical joker. He would do some very stupid, and not so practical stuff. He would take the air out of peoples tires. He would would put various insects in peoples food. He even though it was funny when he went into another fraternities club house and  poured out some apple juice, replacing it with urine.

He thought what he was doing was great, funny, and just couldn't understand why no one else could see that. Well, one day, the people from that particular fraternity decided to revive the ancient art of tarring and feathering. So here I am looking out of my window, and here comes this not so practical joker just high tailing it down the street. And behind him, in hot pursuit, was the entire fraternity. Or better yet this very anger mob of people chasing this one guy. And this guy is running, all the time looking back over his shoulder-- when all of a sudden, running out into the middle of the street, looking back, he ran right in the path of a moving car....and, well, it wasn't very pleasant to say the least.

You see, that is just one way of motivating one's self. Another, well if you can always keep your eye on the good feelings of what you want, you can move toward the future with pleasure. But, human beings often get distracted along the way. While moving away from what you don't want is not always the best way to get where you are going, as  it doesn't tell what to do next that is useful, neither is having to always keep your eye on what you do want. Either way is work, it's better to build in something which is automatic.

So, what we are going to do, is to build in a mechanism by which we use both. That is, we will build in something that will not only let you know where it is you do not want to go, but something which will also propel you into the direction you are wanting to be propeled into.

Now, take that life size image that I asked you to place out in front of you, and see yourself doing what you  need to do that will get you where you want to go in that particular context. Now, change what is happening in that movie until you see yourself slacking off. You are not now doing what you need to be doing. And seeing this, you look at that terrible image we placed in your past, and begin bringing it closer as you turn up those terrible feelings. And as you do, change the image in front of you so that you do see yourself doing what needs to be done, and as you do this, quickly look at the picture of pleasure we placed in your future, turning it all the way up, so that as you continue seeing yourself doing what needs to be done, the pleasurable feelings continue increasing..more and more...turn up the sounds that go with that pleasure, turn up the taste and smell, and realize. That anytime you find yourself not doing what you need to do, that terrible image in your past begins to come closer, and closer, until, you begin doing what you need to do, and your body quickly shifts to those pleasurable feelings, only this time even more.... and more still yet.

Now, this, like anything else, if you install it well, will function. But it will function unconsciously. You wont even have to think about it at all, and if you can learn to do this with one thing, you can certainly learn to do  it with another.

When I was young, so very young, there was this experience I wanted to have for myself. I used to sit there, and although I didn't understand, I still understood perfectly.

I would watch all of these big people as they went in and out of this door. They would walk up to it, and touch this thing, and the door would open. I remember when I began  walking, I would walk up to that door, but nothing happened, I couldn't yet reach the thing they touched, or turned to get it open. Then one day............

it kind of reminds me of how I had learned how to tie my shoe laces. It's funny in a odd, and interesting way, because I could do so much. Yet, in all of the things I could do, I simply couldn't tie my shoe laces. And I tried, and tried...but to no avail.  Then one day, when I wasn't paying any attention, I bent over, tied my shoe laces, and stood up. And it wasn't until about two weeks later, when my brother said to me-"when did you LEARN how tie your shoe laces?!?" It hit me as kind of odd. I hadn't learned. But yet I was doing it, and to me, it felt as if I had always been able to do it.

But I guess that is not different from a great deal of things we do. First we try and try. Just like when I couldn't reach that thing on the door to open it. Then one day, I did reach it, and it opened, and I fell through to the other side. And although I felt a world of accomplishment, that smile on my face, something far more than just opening that one door was lurking beneath the surface of my mind. Because at another very unconscious level, my brain was performing calculations. calculations which would be the basis for my being able to open other doors. Doors that were small, big and all in-between. And I learned then, that I could surprise myself, but even more, that most of the surprises that came from any experience, were the kind that showed up later, when I least expected them to.   

Stay well

Carmine