Time Management
This reflection gives you a way to
switch between your logical and creative minds at whatever time you may need
it. Your time line is an imaginary line. Created in your mind, this gives you
the freedom to change your time line whenever you feel the need to change it.
Timeline reflection
Close your eyes.
Take in a deep breath
and let it out slowly.
Take in a deep breath
and let it out slowly.
Take in another deep
breath and let it out with a sigh.
Bring your breath back
to your normal rhythm
Imagine your timeline.
Where is your timeline?
Check in which direction
your past timeline goes.
Check in which direction
your future timeline goes.
Imagine a line
connecting the two.
Orientate yourself so
that you are on the line facing toward the future.
What does the future
look like?
How far does it seem to
extend?
If you feel it does not
extend far enough or it is too long.
See yourself
manipulating it to be the correct length.
Allow yourself to
experience the timeline at a comfortable length that you can see the events of
the future clearly, so that it makes planning easy.
Look back along your
timeline toward the past.
What does it look like?
How far does it seem to
extend?
If you feel it does not
extend far enough or it is too long.
See yourself
manipulating it to be the correct length.
Allow yourself to
experience the timeline at a comfortable length that you can see the events of
the past clearly, so that it allows for ease of memory.
Step off the timeline
and face it square on.
Now you are through time
in a Meta position to your timeline.
What do you think about
your timeline?
What can you learn from
it?
Step back onto your
timeline.
Walk back into the past,
noticing powerful resourceful memories as you go.
Stop when you feel you
have gone far enough.
Walk forward, bringing
those powerful experiences and resources with you into the present, like a
presence from the past.
How does that feel?
Think of a future
outcome that you want.
Step into the future at
the point when you want to have it.
Look back from that future
point to the now and imagine the steps and stages that you would have to have
gone through in order to get from then (now) to now (the future).
Come back to the present
with that knowledge of how to achieve your outcome.
Find your own timeline.
As you look at your
timeline, how does it help you understand how you think about the past and the
future?
For example, someone who has a
short past timeline will have to cram many events into a short space and may
have difficulty remembering exactly how long ago something happened.
Someone with a short future
timeline may have problems looking far into the future, or may cram the future
into a short space and lose perspective. (The length of your future timeline
has no esoteric connection with how long you live. If it is short, it only
means that you may find it difficult to future plan.)
Your
timeline was not fixed forever at birth. You create it. You can change it. Aim
for choice and flexibility – you will want to be in time for many pleasurable
activities, but through time for planning activities in the future.
Whether you are through time or in time, experiment
with both as follows.
Imagine stepping onto your timeline
If you are through time, imagine
stepping onto your timeline so it passes through the center of your body. How
does that feel? You may feel more grounded, more in the moment. Now step out
again.
If
you are in time, imagine stepping off your timeline and seeing it pass outside
your body. You may feel a little more objective, a little more able to take an
overview. Then step on again.
You have the choice. Being in time or through time are
states and resources, depending on what you want to do.
Angela – “I
found it difficult to plan ahead, it felt like tomorrow and today is the same
day and further forward was too close to see. I then did the timeline
reflection and straightened and stretched my timeline to be more comfortable. I
now realize that I felt like something was holding me back because my timeline
to the future was very short. When I checked the past timeline this was short
as well. I can now make plans for the future without feeling cramped in.”
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