A Whole New Now!
Yesterday was a piece of cake! I managed to fit a movie in there among a very busy and productive day…at least in my imagination. Today, it looks like I am actually going to go to a movie!
Today….
Imagine that you have the whole day ahead of you. Today is your lucky day because everything you had scheduled is up for revision, there is nothing that you must do and you can do anything you want. If you love what is in the plan for the day, great; if you don’t, this is your invitation to re-imagine in a whole new way. What will you do?
What does your dream day look like?
The Foundation of Time Consciousness is Now
While taking a walk one morning, I began to think about time. I do not remember how my mind roamed there but I found myself picturing Mandelbrott’s fractal images. A few days earlier I had watched his biography on PBS. What was presented there was based in Math and mostly Geometry but he also applied these concepts to stock market action and other things. I found it completely fascinating.
“A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
—Mandelbrot, in his introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature
—Mandelbrot, in his introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature
You may listen to him talk about roughness and fractals here on TEDtalks:
A basic question to demonstrate Mandelbrott’s work: How long is the coastline of Florida? If I measure this in miles I get one answer? If I measure this with a yard stick, (36 inches, 91.44cm) I get a much longer distance. If I go yet smaller and measure each and every inch, I get a very long distance. Why? Because I am focusing on each bit and acknowledging and perhaps even appreciating it.
The dimension of time has some similarities to space and while walking that morning, my mind began to consider this. If you look at your time in days, you see the roughness of days, when you go to hours it gets more specific and you realize more happening there, when you go ever smaller down to minutes and seconds you get a very detailed view. I believe that our perception of time changes much like our perception of a coastline by the fractals that we use to measure them. What this means in practical terms is that if you live in smaller and smaller increments of focus, you end up with more. Perhaps this is why almost all ancient and indigenous cultures live “island time”. They can see that the measure of their coastline is infinite and they measure their time in the same way, by the now moment. There is only the NOW. Does this make sense? So by focusing today on just the one smallest bit that you can bring yourself to consider, your perception of your day changes and it becomes longer.
This, for me, has become the foundation of my consciousness about time. From here, when I get very practical about time it continues to come back to the same basic concept, that we have more time and more ability to manifest what makes us happy by keeping our focus on the moment.
More tomorrow….
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Sue Dolamore
Heart of Prosperity
Life Coaching
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