We all have a thinking, conscious mind and an instinctively reflective subconscious mind. These two minds place value on and treat time in their own ways. Our conscious mind treats time as a constant, such as Newton postulated. Indeed, for the conscious mind, time must be constant so that we can make plans, work and generally function in the world at large. Time is as nonessential to our subconscious mind as it is essential to our conscious mind. However, if properly instructed, our subconscious mind can monitor the clock for our conscious mind with unerring accuracy. So I would submit that we live in a fluctuating present because of this duality of nature.

”Our subconscious mind can distort time according to how it reflects the information it receives.”

Our conscious mind while awake, acts as a shuttle switch constantly switching between the input it receives from our senses and our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind responds with a `reflection' and / or `action' based upon the input. If the conscious input evokes a negative response from the subconscious, it perceives time differently than if the response were a positive one. We can all remember an experience where we were enjoying ourselves so much that time just seemed to fly by, or the opposite where we were not enjoying ourselves and time seemed to pass all too slowly. Now notice what seems to occur when some stress elements are added to the equation. Imagine a hockey game with two minutes left and the score 3-2. Ask the players on the winning side how the time seems to them. For them it is moving slowly. Time for the losing team will seem to be going by quickly. The fans will experience the same time warping perception. Same place, same game, same clock, yet two opposite perceptions.

”What stress has done is change the perception of time.”

Winning is obviously enjoyable yet to the winning team the clock seems slow. Losing is not enjoyable yet to the losing team, time was going by quickly. This seems like a contradictions to the view that time seems to accelerate when we are enjoying ourselves, and slows when we are not. Why? The winning team desires the clock to run quicker to ensure their victory. This seems a positive thought to the conscious mind, but to the subconscious it is negative because it implies the possibility that the losing team has enough time to catch up. The losing team desires the clock to move more slowly. Once more, this implies the negative possibility that they do not have enough time left to win.

This same principle applies to the everyday events of the average person. Remember how is seemed when we were young, days went by like weeks, and years like decades. And as adults how it seems weeks go by like days and decades like years. When we are young, we are led to believe that we need to grow up quickly, to achieve status and opportunity. In our young minds, it is taking forever to get there. This input is negative, therefore, the subconscious distorts time in reflection. Then as adults (especially as we move along in years) we feel we are running out of the time we need to fulfill our ambitions. This deadline is death. Again, we have a negative input and a negative reflection and time becomes distorted.

Referring back to the hockey game, the advantage these players have is that they are well trained in positive thinking and so for the most part, positively aligned and positively projected. They are void of negative thinking or have very little. Positive players, though losing, will see the two minute clock as enough time for plenty of opportunities to score. The time distortion they experience is relative to how positive they reflect their situation. That is why dealing with stressful situations easily, positively, comfortably, is what separates the superior athlete from the others. Similarly, a person who reflects mostly positive, will be far less stressed by a looming deadline. To them, the clock is but a working tool with which to complete a given task.

So it appears to be very advantageous to learn how to reflect positively to life’s events. Exposure to negativity, especially when young, increases our tendency to `ingest' future negativity. Our society seems to be obsessed with negative reinforcement. Many people can be so `filled with negativity' that it affects their perception of everything. When these individuals are placed in stressful (clock) situations, the problem of negative thinking magnifies, to the point where failure and doom appear inevitable.

Hypnotherapy is an excellent tool for discovering original sources of negative perception , the core that forms the foundation for much of subsequent conditioning. In hypnotherapy, discovery always indicates solution, and even more importantly, closure. This is achievable much more easily, quickly, and comfortably than you might have imagined, simply because of our subconscious ability to mold time to our benefit

Once negative content is closed, one realizes their true self-nature, which is one where they like and are comfortable with themselves, especially during stressful situations or experiences. This is called positive alignment for it indicates a state of 'minds' where the conscious I mind offers positive thinking and the subconscious (now dosed to negativity) reflects with only positive thought The ancients call this 'being at one with yourself. Positive projection is a natural result of positive alignment Our abilities to expand in positive projection are limitless!

Now, besides experiencing time distortions, how do you know if you have ingested negativity? If you have nervous symptoms such as stress, tension, fatigue, fears, anxieties, anger, depression, and certain physical complaints for which you doctor finds no physical basis; if you find it difficult getting along in your work or in your relationships with people; if you have low self-esteem, self worth, self-image; if you have a , weight, addiction, sport, learning, sex, or marital problems; or if you merely feel irritable, unhappy or believe you are not getting the most out of life; then you are being affected by the negative content in you subconscious mind These are just symptomatic of programs or habits initiated by your subconscious, more than likely, but not necessarily, when you were young.

Hypnotherapy uses this subconscious ability to modify time in order to assist an individual in discovery and closure at any point where this negativity was ingested. This closure is the key to the creation of positive alignment and projection.