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Level Four of the Eight Levels of Time
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Level 2 of Sean Orford's Eight Levels of Time
Sean Orford’s Eight levels of time
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Level One of the Eight Levels of Time
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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.
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Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off (via TED)
Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off (via TED)
Interesting talk by designer Stefan Sagmeister which links in with this months theme of time very nicely indeed.
Any thoughts? Leave a comment below. I'll see you tomorrow for my latest blog entry.
Take care
Sean x
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