by Tom Evans | Nov 19, 2015 | Timing
Quarter 1 : Five Temporal Takeaways
This is the first of four sneak previews of what’s inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, being published on the 11th December
Temporal Takeaway #1:
It is thought that space and time were formed from the seed of the Big Bang. It took many billions of years though before time-as-we-know-it really got going. What we now refer to days and years only started when 3rd generation stars with rocky planets formed.
Temporal Takeaway #2:
On planet Earth, at least, time-as-we-know-it only started ticking when life formed around 3 billion years ago. The clock of time only ticks with the presence of an observer.
Temporal Takeaway #3:
The first pocket watches were only created in the 1675 by Christiaan Huygens. They were accurate to about 10 minutes a day. The accuracy of an Apple Watch is around 50 milliseconds.
Temporal Takeaway #4:
The need for global harmonisation of time came about from an increase in international travel by steamship and cross-continental travel with the railways. Time zones were created at International Meridian Conference in 1884.
Temporal Takeaway #5:
Seconds, minutes, hours, weeks and months are man-made and do not exist in nature. Although they allow us to run our modern world, some of us have become enslaved by the ticking of self-imposed clocks.
p.s. this blog was posted live exactly at 6:27 GMT on the 19th November, the 1st quarter of the Moon Phase
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.
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:
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p.s. if you are already getting the Just for Today emails or meditating regularly, you might like to take the purple pill
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.
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..
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
These themes and more are explored in the first quarter of my new book, Managing Time Mindfully, which is published on the 11th December — the exact date of the next New Moon.
Meditation isn’t about sitting cross legged in a darkened cave chanting “Ommm”.
