As I receive many emails from people asking about my latest book, a new 7 day coaching program and other projects in the works, I feel it is fun and helpful to compile my answers as a blog interview. The questions are from a variety of sources.
Time is hard to get. It gets away from many people. What inspires you to teach Mastering Time?
Call it intuition or an inner knowing. It is part of a vision that came to me in a dream and also spontaneously emerges from me when I am asked about my life purpose or destiny. Like 14 year old singer-songwriter Grace Vanderwaal is in touch with her destiny, I too can see Clearly.
Why write such a thick book?
Perception is relative. 460 pages is what it is. Yet, The Secret Teachings of All the Ages (768 pages)by Manley P. Hall and In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (7 Volumes) are longer. Length is based comparison. Books are as long as authors decide to say what they wish to say.
How does the book affect you and other readers?
You may laugh, but much like other readers, I am going through the book exercises and reflecting on personal insights in new ways. Turns out, Mastering Time is part of a series. I have created three books from a larger book because a process is unfolding within each of us.
When engaged in the process of reading and journalling, you forget about the book length, lose yourself in time, only to find yourself again, in a refreshing state of mind. How movies affect and engage you is relative to your interest too. Some seem to drag on and you wonder when they will end. Others keep you at the edge of your seat. You experience time, books and films, based on what you are open to and ready for on many levels.
What is your intention in writing this book?
The intention in writing the book is to echo every human being is evolving at a unique pace to see and feel reality differently. This is also called expanded consciousness. Many people agree changes appear to be faster. More people are asking why and whether we can influence the nature and pace of what is happening.
Like Allan and Barbara Pease, in my own way, I offer a perception of The Answer. Mastering Time shares insights from my direct experience that helps me understand my relationship to time. Readers are invited to explore what is presented in their timeline, to do exercises in a journal like many of my other books and grow conscious of their own relationship to time.
What can you do to take this mastering time book and teachings to a practical level?
That is a valid request, to be sure. Thinking like the masses helps me see the desire exists to get a handle on what is right in front of us but often missed.
On a practical level,
- I offer regular guided nature hikes in the Dandenong Rainforest 1 hr from Melbourne CBD
- I offer an exciting 7-Day Program to be Time-Savvy based on a new book in progress
- I tailor timely coaching options & packages to suit clients & touch on time strategies
- I am in planning stages of a few unique spiritual tours to places in late 2018 and early 2019
How can better understanding and Mastering Time help me with relationships?
Your relationship to time mirrors your relationship with money, technology, relationships and much more. Western society is based on perceived connections and interactions. Still, many people are conditioned to fear getting close to others, because they do not accept love, or because they have no examples or mentors for healthy relationships. These issues relate back to self-love (or lack of it). It can be identified more consciously during a tailored coaching program.
What about money? Its widely believed time constraints limit the amount of money we can generate or earn. Do you deal with this in your book?
Indeed I do. Gaining insight into your beliefs and how you relate to time changes your understanding of money. In Mastering Time, there is a whole chapter devoted to this called the Economics of Time. As part of my coaching program, I guide clients to read, including certain books about money preoccupations. Through my life journey, I have read often, take part in seminars with financially successful people and can relate to varied client situations. Where relevant, during one-on-one coaching, I refer to personal examples. This is part of what I am told gives me credibility. People take you more seriously when you 'walk your talk.'
Can learning more about time help build strength?
Getting to know and express yourself more honestly opens you to vulnerability. Being honest is the road to inner strength, wisdom and to live feeling more fulfilled. This and the role of core values are explored in depth during my coaching sessions with clients.
As the Zen saying goes, gentleness is strength. To get to that point, you must accept all of yourself first. You have to feel confident and take responsibility for all your choices, the beautiful, the broken, the lost, the found, the wild.
How would you describe your coaching about time?
How you see anything depends on your conditioning (filters), experience and how aware or tuned in you are to what exists beyond all that. Call my approach to coaching a futuristic form of psychotherapy, a take on ancient shamanism or timeless guidance along your path to fully accept yourself. Every piece of your psyche has a role to play in time and every moment you follow a path to retrieve and integrate a fragmented Soul.
What made you shift from dream analysis and interpretation to focus on time?
Dreamwork and time are not separate. It is true that I used to have a weekly dream analysis and interpretation column. At some stage I cannot pinpoint in linear time, I experienced a shift that led to me to refer to dreamwork is a tool to better understand time, my relationship to time as well as my clients' relationship to time and life experiences.
You have offered workshops about dreamwork and other topics from your many books. Why offer a new 7-day program about Time and why now?
From experience as a workshop and retreat participant, I know 7-day programs jumpstart and motivate people to view themselves and life in a very different way than before. Based on increasing traffic on the Dreambuilders Australia Blog, the growing readership for my most recent book, Mastering Time, and a recent publisher request for a new book on-time, I am inspired to create a 7-day program that draws from insights in Mastering Time as well as expands on what is covered in the new book. Notice 7-day programs inspire people to reach new milestones with diet, exercise, well-being, detox, rehabilitation, and more so why not time?
People ask me, why highlight seven days for my new time-related program?
7 Days to be more time-savvy, is catchy and effective in practice. People are smart, yet benefit from being reminded. It is said it can take 21 says to change a habit, but new approaches, the power of thought and intention can shrink that down. So many things are programmed into our brains based on number seven. It has subliminal power to transform how we view ourselves. Imagine you recognize the power to create a new world for yourself and give yourself 7-days to get this in motion. You are divine co-creator. Whatt do you do? Ask clearly what you want from the universe, set your intention and astound yourself with what happens. In a mutually-supportive environment, I see it works again and again.
Seven is also one of the most significant number across religions and cultures. It shows up in stories, film and symbols with good reason. Across the globe 7 is hugely favourite number. The number seven had a mystical significance for different civilkisations. It was linked with the seven heavenly bodies; the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. For this reason, some believe, marking rituals every seventh-daymore for the program. I could go on, yet more symbolism is covered in depth in the 7-day program.
Why does it take seven days to build a new world? Does that mean we should create a new world to explore every week?
This is a question which invites diverse answers, depending on how you relate to time. No single answer jumps out that everyone can relate to at the same point in time. The human experience is defined for many based on the parameters of how they see and function in linear time. Yet the pace at which we create accelerates based on many factors. These grow more self-evident as your perception of time expands.
What happens to time when it's quantitative value becomes qualitative?
Time is the veil of consciousness. It is a warehouse for the unconscious to be made aware of and reintegrated into timeless eternity. Objects and subjects are time-released so that they can arise and spin into the collective view for all to experience in joy and fulfillment. Time is a teacher and guide much like the breath and everything else, when you are open to this.
Does time stop ticking if their is no one to watch it?
Each moment invites us to recognize the nature of the tug-of-war going on within ourselves. The root of inner conflict is perceived change in the space of time, governed in a structure such as a calendar. Ask yourself why we are taught to track moments, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years expecting, to see something different when we are tught to ground ourselves in the familiar. Part of this journey called life is an exerice in finding courage to step outside the familliar, recognize consciously the choices we are making and be willing to make different choices. Our focus of attention determines what and how we see.
Is there a difference between digital and analog time and how it effects the human condition?
Being on time is satisfying because we are taught this is expected. Energy is neither lost or gained. It's a balancing act in how to stay calm in a pressurized environment. However, to be purposefully late outside the constraints of time is thrilling because one is essentially being fueled by the exploration of uncharted space.
How does time effect space and how does your space effect time?
Everything is based on perception. We can talk about this in terms of philosophy, physics and theories, or we can speak about direct experience. This is the basis on which I work with clients. I interact with people and discover how they see and engage with the world they create around them. I refer to A Course in Miracles, and other books relevant to individual cases, take people on hikes. I alsp offer exercises to help people grow conscious of their relationship with time and space, as well as what they are doing with it every moment.
Does how we see and interact with time effect our personal and global environments?
Time management is a rational skill of a chronological disciple whose master becomes crazy at playing with irrational numbers. Time is the key to everything. Interact with me and other teachers entering your life more consciously,and listen to intuition more.
What is the relationship or correlation between time and consciousness?
Shadows, gravity, and contrast, fuel movement through time. Infinite directions exist.
Is there a defining moment that led you to understand time and it's meaning in your life?
Many experiences have triggered different stages of my awakening. I share a number of more significant events in my book, Mastering Time. My previous 10 books share other examples.
Why should humanity be concerned with making time conscious?
Should suggests something is being imposed by an external force. Another view is that there is a time-release aspect to human DNA that naturally shifts perception of those who are ready to experience energy differently. Thus, no-body actually makes time conscious. Shifts in perception simply change the way we view self from the inside out, including how we see and use time.
It is said that we live in a dimension of time and space. Is our relationship with time directly linked into finding meaning in life?
Time is a shell or container but it's skin is made from the sparks found in people's eyes. The eyes are the window to the Soul.
Who are your mentors and inspirations?
Everything is a teacher for me. Among my books, Transform Your Life: 730 Inspirations offes a glimpse of some of my inspirations. I have always felt drawn to Shirley Maclaine, her spiritual awakening books and teachings. I initially read them years ago, revisted them later, and experienced them in a completely different way. Many of my more recent teachers are modern mystics and often Indian in origin, such as Gopi Krishna, Babaji, Swami Sivananda, Swami Vivekananda, Osho, Sri Swami Satchidananda, Sadhguru, Om Swami, Radhanath Swami and Leonard Orr. A timely Sivananda teaching that stands out is: "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."
To what do you attribute your current focus in life?
At a certain point in my life, I felt I lost everything that was important only to discover the nature of what truly is. Experiences in humility are for me life-transforming.
Can you let us know what enables you to master time?
Many steps are unfolding as part of this initiation. My books In The Flow, Being Harmony and Universal Principles point to different stages, as does my series about Mastering Time. Yet, feeling more at ease with spontaneity, child-like innocence, and hearfelt intuition is part of the process of letting go of fear and self-created limitation. As Marianne Williamson puts it, we Return to Love as we accept who we are. As the saying goes, more than one road leads to Rome. When the student is ready, teachers appear.