Growing up with unresolved health problems always forced my mother and myself to look beyond Western Medicine for a path toward a healthy life. Acupuncture and the Eastern philosophy of oneness played a huge role in my journey toward wholehealth. Along the way, I encouraged those around me, friends family, colleagues to give it a try. Their positive experiences and results were always so profound. I had always been a counselor and open ear for people, but felt I lacked the tools to make profound differences in peoples lives. I believe that this training and knowledge will contribute greatly to my ability to help others realize their true potential as healthy empowered beings.
What do I honestly think of Physics, really?
I think that Physics helps explain and understand the relationship between all things in our universe. I think of gravity and inertia and then realize that I don't really know enough about it. I struggled with Physics in High School and always felt a lack of understanding that I am excited to fill-in a bit.
Now that I think about it, have I ever experienced time"slowing down" or "speeding up"?
Absolutely! I used to often be surprised at how quickly the day had gone by. In reading Eckhart Tolles' A New Earth , I have become much more present and thru this awareness, able to slow time. Meditation, Yoga, and riding my bike also help me to be present and aware. I suppose that when I get caught up or busy I feel that time goes quickly, but if I can bring consciousness to the present time seems to move more slowly and with greater purpose.
My reflections on The Meaning of Time
I believe that time is relative. Our thoughts can be constantly in the past or future even though our body is here now in this present moment. Some people can live their whole lives and never be aware of the present moment. How does time affect them? The Western part of my brain would explain time as a linear progression that can only be experienced in one direction, but I believe that time can also be a feeling or a sense. Our thoughts have the ability to exist fully in the past or future, analyzing all the possible options. In this sense I believe that parallel universes exist within our own minds. I don't fully understand or know how to connect this idea to what happens to our physical selves. In other words, we have our essence and then we have a physical form and time can affect these two differently. I believe they can live in different time zones (does that make any sense?).
On a different note, the idea of black holes and white holes fascinates me. I also love what April said about our possible inability to see white holes. Again, the western part of my brain would like all these things to "make sense". If there are black holes then there must be white holes. However, this is also Yin and Yang, you can not have one without the other. So where are the white holes? If we were to enter a black hole would we come out of a white hole on the other side? Would this be a parallel universe but if parallel universes never meet then what would happen if we did? It's exciting to think about.
Heidi, I can tell by reading the paragraph on time that you have written above how influenced you are by "A New Earth". I also read that book and found it very insightful. I found your thought about how mentally being in the present and the future affects time...sometimes I find myself so caught up with the future or the past that the present slips away and I find myself asking "Did that time I was not in the present completely vanish? Was that even really time?" I guess it ends up being a waste of time.
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ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about Black holes and White holes. How can we have one without the other? This is something I have given much thought to since class on Monday. I love the yin and yang way you described the holes and the possibility of coming out another side through a white hole into a parallel universe. You have given me even more to think about.
Gina