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What is your relationship to Time?
Charlie Badenhop
Have you ever thought about how your orientation to time
profoundly affects the way you are in the world? Each culture has
its own unique way of relating to the concept of "time". Some
cultures perceive time as a room that is lived in. The "room" of
time is a constant that stays the same, as we change during the
course of our lives. American culture seems to more and more
think of time as a commodity there is never enough of. When time
is "wasted" a person misses out on an opportunity that may never
present itself again. Still other cultures experience time as
being circular, without a beginning or an end, and with no clear
markers as to past, present, and future. No matter how we think
about it, our relationship to time has a profound impact on what
we believe is possible. Here is a story to illustrate what I
mean.
Years ago I belonged to a healing community in the States. A
women who was a member of the group had an infant who was born
with a serious condition which was meant to limit the young
child's life span to only three or four years maximum. The woman
was totally committed to the health and well being of her infant,
and she spent every waking moment praying for her baby. Her
prayer went something like this: "Dear Lord, please heal my baby
and help him to be fully healthy." She offered up this prayer
countless times a day.
After some months of praying, and with the child's condition not
improving, the mother spontaneously had an important "truth"
present itself to her. She realized that in praying for her child
to be healed, in a deeper sense she was acknowledging the "fact"
that indeed her child was not well at this time. In effect she
was saying/praying "Lord, my child is currently ill, and I am
asking that you heal him and make him healthy in the future." She
realized that if she was praying a similar prayer for herself, it
would be difficult for her to feel good about her chances of
being healed if she was continually reminding herself that she
was currently not healthy. She realized that even though her
child was way too young to understand the words of her prayer,
that somehow her words would not be fully supporting her child in
feeling and being healthy now as well as in the future. With her
new understanding of how her concept of time was deeply affecting
her prayer, she revised her concept and began praying the
following: "Lord thank you for the health and well being of my
child. I am eternally grateful." Rather than praying for how she
wanted her child to be different in the future, she prayed "from
the future" and brought her prayer into the present. She prayed
from an understanding that her child was "already" healthy, and
that he was simply in a rebalancing stage that if allowed to run
its course, would naturally bring about a continuation of his
healthy state as time went on.
After many months of praying her new prayer the condition of her
child slowly began to change. The doctors were surprised and
confounded. Little by little the child blossomed into full
health, like a flower that is awakened to life by the warm
inviting rays of spring sunlight. He eventually entered school
along with all of his buddies, and wound up being a shining
example of the power of love, gratitude, and an empowering
understanding of time.
Please give yourself the gift of believing that you are already
everything that you always wanted to be. Breathe into this
radical concept, and then simply allow and encourage yourself to
grow into your new sense of self.
About the author:
Charlie Badenhop is the originator of Seishindo, an Aikido
instructor, NLP trainer, and Ericksonian Hypnotherapist. Benefit
from a new self-help Practice every two weeks, by subscribing to
his complimentary newsletter "Pure heart, simple mind" at
http://www.seishindo.org/anger/index.html
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