A: Time is a construct humans have created to measure change. However, over the centuries, we have become quite dependent upon time for things other than just change. Time has integrated into our lives in a very profound way. And since we belief in time, we are bound by the rules and confines of time. We could just stop believing in time, and all time-related problems would cease to exist. But that is a paradigm shift most people are not willing to make.

So another alternative is using our own belief in time to alter our lives in a more beneficial way. This means we may be able to bend the rules to a certain degree. Now one distinction to bear in mind is that time doesn't exist linearly, at least not for everyone. That's why I call it Time-Oriented Technologies. The concept of timelines forces you into the concept of a linear progression of time, B follows A, and C follows B. However since it is most common, I will focus on it here.

We all have ways of coding time. It's how you know tomorrow from yesterday and today from a week ago or a week from, today. And we all have ways of distinguishing personal time from clock time. Have you ever noticed that sometimes standing in a long line for a movie you really want to see can seem to take much longer than the movie itself? That's because personal time is subjective whereas clock time can be considered objective.

So personal time is just that, personal to us. And it doesn't just exist in our head, at least not entirely. As humans, we tend to use the space around our bodies to mark out our experiences. And one criteria for where these experiences will be stored spatially is time.

For example, if you think of a common activity such as eating lunch or brushing your teeth, you may discover that when you think of that activity, between yesterday, today, and tomorrow, you store that information in different spatial locations. And that's how you can tell them apart, at least in the context of time.

You can begin using this with yourself by exploring where you store your memories both past and future memories. Pay attention to the location, the distance relative to you and your position, the size of each memory or experience, and whether they are in color or in black and white. Move them around and check to see if that makes you feel different. Notice what kind of impact it has on your neuro-physiology. Explore your inner world in relation to time. When does one memory begin and when does it end. How do you know the starting and stopping points? If you change one memory, does it affect others? And soon enough, you may start discovering how dependent or independent you are of time.

There are many specific techniques you can use with time that are taught during a
NLP training or even an Advanced Hypnosis training. And in the meantime, you can explore your inner workings to get a head start.


-Oz