What are you waiting for?

If you follow my work, you will realise that I see all things from eight angles and in that sense, I live in an eight-dimensional world. I could describe all aspects of life from these eight angles in this blog; today I am looking at the first level of time that I will term ‘red’ time. Red, in this sense of a psychological state, is a personality type that is defined by specific drives and desires. Like all the aspects of time and personality that we will look at this month, there are positive and negative.

Ideally, you would have access to all eight levels of time so that you are able to create, plan and act out your desires. However, this is rarely the case and you may well find that you are limited in your time world. As we go through each level, you can give yourself a score just as you did in the love month of July, and get together ideas that will give you more time.

Yesterday, the good Mr Platt kindly took me into theatre and re-built part of my big toe, that I managed to smash a couple of years ago by dropping a window on it (all cards, gifts and messages, send to the usual address). It struck me, in the anticipation of the procedure and the aftermath of the surgery, that pain has a fantastic ability to concentrate the mind into the present. There can be no better motivation to act and change, other than awareness; that is a lot more comfortable to bear.

Before we set off on our journey, just consider this:
Ghandi said that he would meditate for one hour every day. He maintained that if he did not take this time to sort out his mind, he could not function and do his job effectively. However, If he was really, really busy, he would meditate for two hours. Ghandi understood something about time. You see, time is a relative experience and its apparent length will vary, depending on how you view it, so that the watched pot never boils and time flies when you are enjoying yourself. But the greatest thing that locks you into an attitude of time is your paradigm. This is a set of mainly unconscious beliefs and experiences that dictate your attitudes to all aspects of your life and your experience of yourself.

It will become apparent that you will have a score for each colour that creates you own “time-o-gram”.

Sean Orford’s Eight Levels of Time
Level one: Red Time - The Pleasure and Pain of Now
Redness is about physical action. It is about doing things and doing things in the now. Red people are often physical and enjoy sport or physical work. When faced with an issue, their first response will be to do something. However, if this bears no relationship to past or future, the effect of their actions will have little useful effect other than to make them feel better. This is often the world of ‘pull yourself together’ and ‘get over it’. Sensitivity is rarely in abundance.

Now is a relative experience
When you become involved in self-discovery or meditation or some such, you will hear over and over again that your greatest asset is to learn to be in, and act in, the now. This is totally true, except that ‘now’ is a relative concept and to be effective in the ‘now’, there are things that you will need to understand, now.

The film of your life
If your life was shown on a movie film of great length, it would be made of many thousands of single frames. If you looked at each frame, it would be a little different from, but almost the same as, the frame either side. Every one of those frames represents a snapshot of your ‘now’ and as there will be eight to twelve frames in every second, you will begin to appreciate that there is lot of now to account for.

Now in context
The relevance of now can only be appreciated when you have some understanding of where you have come from and where you are going. There are two personality functions at play here. The first is short- and long-term memory that place the present in the context with what has been, and the second is anticipation and creation that place the present in context with what will be. When you get it right so that your life flows from the past, flows into the present and the present flows into the future just as you intended. The end result of free flow is your fulfilment. Yet what you will discover this month are the blocks in the flow that create a paradigm that embodies time obstacles that become complicit in our time deficits.

Patience and tolerance
I guess in this context, the first question for you is:

You see, the red world is built exclusively in the now to the extent that there is rarely any concept of past or future. If it is the case that we only have any sense of time because we have memory, without memory time would not exist; all that would exist is the current experience. For the red type, this means that there can be no rumination of past events, positive or negative. If it is not happening in the now, then it never did exist. Likewise, with the future in the red world, there is no future and therefore no anticipation; if it is not happening in the now, then it will never exist.

Food and eating
They ran an advert on British TV for After Eight Mints. The camera showed differing shots of people eating their mints and a woman, who was sitting at the table as the eyes of the camera was giving a commentary of how they ate their mints, described their personalities and under the ancient Ayurvedic art of Mudra or body language she was exactly correct. When you watch someone eat, you are given an insight into their motivations, habits and behaviours, even down to how they make love.

Common knowledge
I can remember British BBC DJ Terry Wogan, describing the sexual foreplay of most men as, ‘Brace yourself, Gladys’. As far as the red world is concerned, this can be just about right. Sexuality, food, life and all things are taken in the present because they can only be appreciated when being experienced, no past memory and no anticipation. I knew a man who was extremely red, who would sit at his dinner table waiting for his wife to put his evening meal on the table. Beside his plate, she would leave him a loaf of sliced white bread that he would spread with tomato sauce and drop down his throat like a swallower. He was not able to wait with anticipation for his food to come.

So how is your patience quotient?
Are you able to wait or do you expect things to be done now? Do you need fast food or do you like to wait to have your meal cooked for you while you enjoy an aperitif? When you want something to be done, like telling your nearest and dearest to put their stuff away, can they do it in their time or must it be in your time? Are you the kind of person who needs to finish? Could you sit and meditate or do a relaxation, or do you need to be doing to know that you exist?

Headless chickens
It is true, and always will be true, that the only time that you can achieve anything is in the now. However, to be effective in the now, it must be in tune with what was and what will be. If not, it becomes the meaningless act of the headless chicken. When a crisis hits, those oriented to the past will look at tradition and what was for the answer; those that live in the future will begin to plan what needs to be done; and those that live exclusively in the now will run around needing to do something. Because their actions are within their flow of past, present, future, virtually all that they do will be a waste of time and will only move physical objects from one place to another. While this will have minimal effect, it will make the red person feel better because they have done something, because redness is all about action.



How good are you at getting off your butt and getting things done? If you score yourself around 5 or 6, you are probably a doer. At 3 or 4 you probably take time to get going but do it in the end. 1 and 2 - you are probably lazy or to put it kindly, ‘laid back’. As you move from 7 to 8, you will be developing impatience and as you move to 9, others will irritate you and at 10 you can achieve the heights of intolerance.



Drop by Friday for level two, when we move into social sensual time.

Have a good time.
Sean x

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