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Create Your Own Reality
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace by Deepak Chopra (Amber-Allen Publishing, 2006).
Our senses tell us that events happen within space and time. There is a past, present and future, and the world operates through linear cause-effect relationships. I have to walk from here to there, from one location to another. This causes a timeline to appear.
That is how our senses experience the world, but in fact the world is not like that. The world is synchronistic, it’s coincidental, it’s happening simultaneously. Infinite possibilities coexist at the same time. Everything is happening all at once, and everything is correlated and instantly synchronized with everything else. This simultaneity can only happen through what is called infinite correlation. Infinite correlation is the ability to do an infinite number of things and correlate them with one another at the same time.
Physicists no longer use the word time; they use the term space-time continuum because they know that time is a relative phenomenon; it’s not absolute. The movement of planet Earth spinning on its axis and hurling around the sun at thousands of miles per hour creates our experience of time. But time is an illusion; it’s an internal dialogue we use to explain our experience or perception of change and relationship.
How does all of this apply to us? Well, the way we interpret the concept of time—how we metabolize our experience of time—brings about distinct physiological changes in the body-mind.
In the present, you can experience the past; in the present, you can anticipate the future. But if you can stay in the present, if you can be with the present, then even the physical changes that normally occur with the passage of time will not occur in your body. There is a saying from a Vedic master: “The only reason people grow old and die is that they see other people growing old and dying.”
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I recently wrote a sonnet about this:
Your Star
“I think therefore I am”; a quotation
From Descartes in the seventeenth century;
Philosophies from his generation
Have now already almost ceased to be.
We recognize that atoms which made us,
When we played around as little children,
Have all been gradually replaced and thus
We’re not now the same stuff that formed us then.
If we are more than these mobile millions,
Space waves continue through their replacement
If faith, hope and love are more than bygones
New thoughts evolve from those which Descartes meant
To begin to imagine who you are,
Know you’re from God, not just part of your star.
It was prompted by:
Steve Grand invites his reader to think ....
... of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren’t you/ How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place .... Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.
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Yesterday I saw Deepak on PBS for a fundraiser. I'd never seen him speak before. His lecture was really great--About his new book, Happiness Prescription. (Happiness seems to be a big topic these days with lots of authors.) I think Deepak's lecture is clear, logical, incredibly insightful & lastly, convincing!! It will be broadcast again, so be sure to catch it.
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In the present I am. Only in the present I can experience and create the New.Beyond that, the past is the giant box of light which reach me now, shining in my pathway for not to fall again. Lots of love to all of you and big thankyou to Deepak for his reminders.
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Hi I guess we all have time in not believing in us, or otheres. The sites are great and I get them. Why not try checking out medical grade oil to help you. I have found the believe oil to be a life saver for me. But the list is way to long for all the other great oils. My site it http://trishoconnell.younglivingworld.com It you want call me at 585 319 3409. It all works together for a holistic way of life. Thanks Trish O'Connell
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So in the Now (present) there is only well-being.
It is always good to be reminded of this. Especially, for people that identify with an illness for example.
Thank you.
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This is so true for me! I stopped "believing" in time a while ago, and I'm amazed at what can take less "time" than ever. I'm working on the growing older and dying part next! Hugs to all, Robin www.BeWhoYouAre.com www.MeditationMovie.com
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