"Time Distortion"
It's about time I took some time to write about
time.
Ever hear someone say "The years seem to go by faster the
older I get.", or something like that?
Is this time distortion? Could it be that time is
perceived as a relative chunk of their lifetime? 1 year is 1/10 of their
lifetime when they are 10 years old and 1 year is 1/50 of their lifetime
when they are 50 years old, thus causing year 50 to seem like it passes 5
times faster than did year 10.
Time is distance divided by velocity T = D/V. It's how
fast you go the distance.
When we talk about time distortion, it's easy to think
that we're talking about changing time. What we are really talking about is
changing our perception of how fast time passes.
It's about speed, not time. V = D/T
Calibrations of Distance: Increasing the frequency
of distance calibrations (i.e. checking each Inch/Centimeter) has the effect
of slowing the speed of distance, making it seem to pass slowly. Reducing
the frequency of distance calibrations (i.e. checking each Foot/Meter) has
the effect of speeding up distance, making it seem to pass quickly.
i.e. How much time will it seem to take to
travel 100 kilometers (100,000 meters) in 1 hour:
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checking your progress every 10 kilometer.
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checking your progress every 1 kilometer.
Calibrations of Time: Increasing the frequency of
time calibrations (i.e. watching the clock) has the effect of slowing the
speed of time, making it seem to pass slowly. Reducing the frequency of time
calibrations has the effect of speeding up time, making it seem to pass
quickly.
i.e. How much time will it seem to take to
travel 100 kilometers (100,000 meters) in 1 hour:
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checking your progress every 10 minutes.
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checking your progress every 1 minute.
Internal Focus: Calibrations of time and distance
require us to focus attention externally, increasing external attention can
slow down our experience of time and distance. We reduce the frequency of
external calibrations whenever we focus more of our attention internally,
thinking about an object, person or idea, thus speeding up our experience of
external time and distance. While "lost in thought", our internal experience
of time, distance and velocity are easily changed in our imaginings. I
think of time, thought and energy as dimensions of my experience of physical
space. All three are required for me to experience the other dimensions of
reality.
External Reality: I've been doing a lot of flying
back and forth to the other side of the planet the last couple of years, so
I know it's also possible to physically time travel. It just takes distance
and velocity (time) to do it. I once did an 11 hr flight from Shanghai to
Vancouver and arrived 2 hrs before I left!
Enjoy,
Steve Boyley.
Licensed Trainer of NLP.
Instructor of Hypnotherapy.
NLP Mind Training Webinar Host.
Affordable NLP Practitioner Training.
Created: 2005/08/10
Last modified:
2006-11-11
