Perceptions of Time

by Tom Evans | Nov 25, 2015 | Timing

Quarter 2 : Five Temporal Takeaways

This is the second of four sneak previews of what’s inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, being published on the 11th December

Perceptions of Time Infographic

Temporal Takeaway #1:
The idea that the left brain is logical and the right brain is creative has become an urban myth. A better approximation is that the left brain sits inside space and time and the right brain site everywhere and ‘everywhen’ else. This is still a gross simplification and approximation.

Temporal Takeaway #2:
The Ancient Greeks had a god named Kronos who looked after matters on the Earth plane. Their god called Kairos concerned himself with managing the heavens. This is perhaps a more accurate model for how the left and right brain operate, whilst being more metaphorical.

Temporal Takeaway #3:
Our gut, or enteric, mind has more neurons that a cat’s brain. It operates around 5 to 10 seconds ahead of our conscious mind and is always, always right.

Temporal Takeaway #4:
Most people are intrinsically around 33% efficient. As the normal human mind can only hold one thought at a time, if we mull over the past or worry about the future, we lose focus on what we are doing right now..

Temporal Takeaway #5:
Every minute spent in meditation comes back to us many times over. We get the time back in spades. Our creativity, luck, productivity and longevity all benefit. Regular meditation can even allow us to live weller longer.

p.s. this blog was posted live exactly on the 25th November, timed with the Full Moon

These themes and more are explored in the second quarter of my new book, Managing Time Mindfully, which is published on the 11th December — the exact date of the next New Moon.

Order your copy today and get free access to the Your Perfect Day pack of meditations, to help you get more done in less time.

Get your copy of Manage Your Time Mindfully here

Publishing in Tune with the Moon
Quarter 1 : First Tickings
Quarter 3 : Managing Time
Quarter 4 : Temporal Alchemy
November Moon Phases

7 Practical Benefits of Meditation

by Tom Evans | Oct 23, 2015 | Expanding

Meditation isn’t about sitting cross legged in a darkened cave chanting “Ommm”.

It is estimated that every minute spent meditating comes back to you several times over … in a myriad of ways.

Here’s seven ways your investment comes back with the ‘investment’ of just 10 minutes of daily meditation.

#1 : Creating More Time

When we enter the meditative state, time takes on an ethereal quality and stretches. If you embark on a creative task right after meditating, each hour will feel like two or more.

#2 : Being Lucky

Regular meditation reduces our inner chatter, or monkey mind, and as a result we notice events around us that can help us on our path. Perfect serendipities turn up when you are least expecting them.

#3 : Ideas off the Top of Your Head

When we reduce that inner commentary it leaves space for light bulb moments to pop in. Your next idea that will make you millions is just one meditation away.

#4 : Improved Well-being

The health benefits of regular meditation are now well documented. It reduces blood pressure, stress and irritations of the lower bowel. The knock on effect is that along with improved well being comes less time off work, more creativity and increased productivity.

#5 : Finding Your Soul Mate

If you meditate every day for a week, your demeanour and complexion will change. People will ask you if you have had treatment. You become more attractive and the reduced mind chatter allows you to notice people around you who you might love to work with, or to be with.

#6 : Creating a Spiral of Abundance

Money, like thought, is an energy. If we are suffering from lack of money, the very fear that we don’t have enough counterintuitively stops the money energy from arriving. Remove the fear by calming the mind and all the money you need will turn up, just like magic.

#7 : Finding Your Calling

Our thoughts radiate from us and the world that we percieve is reflected back based upon them. When we take time out to meditate, our thoughts go quiet and we allow a more perfect world which is some times beyond our wildest dreams to show up.

Which Pill do You Want to Take?

Click on the red pill below and nothing will happen. Your life will stay the same with the same issues and stresses.

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Click on the blue pill to get my free Just for Today meditation and my daily mindful messages designed to make your life easy, stress-free and magical.

What people are saying about the Just for Today meditation:

“Great meditation! Short and effective! What a great way to start a day!”

“This is my first time I’ve meditated. It’s a new experience of letting go, relaxing & just being in the moment! Amazing!”

“Loved the shorter length. Helped me fit it in. I also liked being reminded that it is just for today.”

“My favorite brief meditation. Always feel happy and hopeful afterwards.”

p.s. if you are already getting the Just for Today emails or meditating regularly, you might like to take the purple pill

Publishing in Tune with the Moon

by Tom Evans | Oct 13, 2015 | Timing

Last week while away on what was to be a walking holiday, an unexpected broken leg meant I ended up writing a little more than I planned. The Universe obviously had a different type of ’break’ in mind for me.

I wrote a few months worth of my mindful Just for Today messages and mind mapping the next book in my series on practical mindfulness, which is entitled “Managing Time Mindfully”. I had the light bulb moment that the book ought to be structured in four quarters each with 3 chapters – i.e. mimicking a clock face with its quarters and a year with its seasons.

The new structure will lead me to explore the very nature of time, and our perception of it, in a much more expansive manner than I had previously planned.

While mapping the chapters on Natural Time, a second idea came along that I ought to publish the next book on a New Moon. I realised in my exhuberance to publish the first introductory book in the series, Mindful Timeful Kindful, I had paid no attention to when I published it.

I imagine my delight and surprise when I found it was published on the 13th September – you guessed it, the last New Moon.

This blog is purposely timed for the exact time of October’s New Moon and my publishing plan for the next few ’moonths’ has been ’given’ to me. Each book will get to 1st draft for the New Moon prior to its publication. This of course is nicely self-fulfilling and what happens when we live timefully.

Publishing Plan

13th September 2015 : Book Zero : Mindful Timeful Kindful

11th December 2015 : Book One : Managing Time Mindfully

5th June 2016 : Book Two : Managing Money Mindfully

29th November 2016 : Book Three : Creating Ideas Mindfully

Practical Mindfulness Series

By the way, if you are wondering how I could even contemplate writing and publishing a book every three months, the secrets are revealed in the next book.

The How & Why of Mindfulness Meditation

by Tom Evans | Jul 9, 2015 | Illuminating

This week’s guest on the Zone Show is Zen Master, author and musician, Joseph Emet.

Jospeh shares his wisdom, and his meditative songs, on the how and why of mindfulness meditation.
Be prepared to be slightly more chilled out at the end of this podcast than at the start..

listen to ‘Finding the Blue Sky’ on audioBoom

Topics we chat about :

Why we should fill our days with music
How to sculpt a different outcome for ourselves
Why we should be mindful as opposed to brainful
Why mindfulness is conducive to happiness
The importance of the breath – and a smile
How meditation helps us heal – and not get ill in the first place
Meditation for creativity
Why all it takes is 10 mindful minutes a day (as recommended by Goldie Hawn)
The collective benefit of getting the whole planet meditating
How we get the time we invest in meditation back many times over

“Thinking is the brain talking : meditation is the brain listening” Joseph Emet

Useful Links

Joseph Emet’s web site
Buddha’s Book of Meditation – with free meditations & songs
Julia Cameron : Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Thich Nhat Hanh & Plum Village
Goldie Hawn’s 10 Mindful Minutes
Get my free 10 minute Be Calm meditation

One Big Coincidence

by Tom Evans | May 8, 2015 | Scribing

I am thrilled and honoured to have been selected as one of the ten authors of CompletelyNovel’s One Big Book Launch on the 3rd June.

The new book that I am launching, New Magic for a New Era, explores how we can live a magical life where opportunity turns up around every corner and serendipity lands at our feet.

The book was inspired by the most amazing and incisive business coach I have met in recent years called Lea Woodward. Lea pointed out that although I’d written 10 books (at the time), I had not told my story. This was at the end of October 2014.

My initial reaction was that my life was boring as nothing particularly bad had happened to me and that I had lived a rather charmed life. Lea pointed out that the secret of how I had pulled this off was exactly what was worth sharing.

Thanks to CompletelyNovel, and a bit of time bending, by the end of February 2015, I had print copies of the book in my hands and it was available on for Kindle and in print worldwide. The flood of five star reviews that followed on Amazon quickly convinced me that there is an appetite for a book on this theme.

As it says in the book, “There is no need to go to hell and back, unless you want to”.

The book tells of my transition from being a BBC broadcast engineer to author, author’s mentor, meditation guide and temporal alchemist. It’s involved a transition from one side of the camera and microphone to the other.

In the early 80s, as part of this journey, I left the BBC, spent some time at Sony and ended up forming an independent engineering company in London. The launch of Channel 4 had created a huge demand for independent production companies and their equipment needed servicing and maintaining. I ended up at the right place at the right time.

My offices were located at AKA Film & TV Studios at 60 Farringdon Rd.

Roll the clock on over 30 years and I’m now ‘engineering’ books not cameras. So imagine my surprise when I discover the location of the One Big Book Launch. It’s only at the Free Word Centre now based at 60 Farringdon Rd!

Now that is One Big Coincidence!

The lowest cost apple watch

by Tom Evans | Mar 14, 2015 | Timing

If we all take a little me time each day, our world and the world as a whole would be a much calmer and enjoyable place to be. Watch this short two minute video to open the door to a better world.

After watching it at the start of every day for a week, you will notice the following:
Decreased stress
Increased luck
Increased vitality
Increased creativity
Increased productivity

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