Timelines and waking up without an alarm clock

Most people think the future springs out of their past, that for every effect in the future the cause lies in the past. However the fact is that what you're doing now constitutes the bulk of your experience .

By doing I don't mean physical action alone. I mean the pictures and sounds that you see and hear internally. Your experience of this moment is subjectively created in the same instant. It is not from the past. It's all created in your head in the now!

Unless you bring the memory of the past into the present moment you cannot repeat an experience.

Unless you bring the memory of the future into your present moment you cannot experience new things.

If you notice the visual location of these two memories, you'll find them in different locations.

So the past and the future are not really time but different spaces into which we project our images and sounds to either repeat an experience or refine an experience. In fact time does not exist. We just represent it in space, it gives us an illusion of movement along a continuum. While the truth is that it's all re-created continuously this instant in our brains.

Some people represent time as shown in the pic below. It passes from one side to the other, that is, the past is on one side and the future is on the other. Such people never forget, either their past or their plans for the future. That's because it's all in front of their eyes! Also it's easy for these people to get overwhelmed with events because they see everything.

In NLP this is called 'in time'.

In Time

Through Time

The picture above shows another way of representing time where you locate the past behind you and the future in front of you. Such people can easily lose perspective if they make the immediate future much larger than their long term goals. They simply can't see their long term future if the image of immediate things become larger. In NLP this type of representation is called 'Through Time'

Many people use either of one representation systems. I use both.

If I need to do one thing followed by another I use the latter. If I need to remember a list of things to do I use the former. 'In time' is an overview, 'Through time' is the details.

Remember the present is always located just in front of your eyes in both timelines. So now you can navigate the direction of your energy and efforts. If you'd like to repeat something from the past simply drag and drop it in the present, just before your eyes. If you want to create a fresh experience, make one and drop it in the present, you can also mix and match experiences.

If you liked only a part of a past experience, take only that path and combine it with another nice experience and make a new experience. Just drop it either in the present if you want to experience it immediately or drop it in the future at the right time position.

EXERCISE

Waking up without an alarm clock

1. Let's say if you want to wake up tomorrow to a fanfare at 6am.

2. Access the fanfare from the past and place it at the location of 6am tomorrow on both the 'in time' 'through time' timeline, along with the visual of you waking up. You will wake up without an alarm clock.


here's the Rocky Fanfare if you don't have your own!

3. Try this a few times. If you can master this mechanism, you can use it to set off all kinds of If-Then effects.

For example you can feel really good everytime someone insults you. You can increase your metabolism and lose weight everytime you eat and so on. Watch out for the next post on this mechanism!

Just remember that you do this process naturally unconsciously to create the experience you are having at this moment anyway.

My question is why not choose what you experience consciously instead of believing that your past imprints determine your future?

So practice practice practice. The day you can choose a time and wake up exactly at the same time, you have established the mechanism which can set up your future experiences exactly as you'd like to have them!