The Illusion of Time and Space

The Illusion of Time and Space

“Act like you have all the time in the world

but do things as quickly and efficiently as possible.”

Lester Levenson 

We have all had experiences that are beyond time and space. We may have had periods where we felt time passed much more quickly than anticipated or much more slowly.   Maybe we have fallen asleep and awakened, thinking it was the next morning or not knowing where we are.  Most of us have experienced this at least once! These experiences are common. How about an experience when you were just sure you were on time, but you were either completely late or very early? Most of us have had those experiences too.  Some are more incomprehensible, such as arriving 3 hours earlier than we were supposed to on a long road trip. Or making a deadline you just knew you weren’t going to make because your work just flowed through you. It may have appeared that time was suspended or not operating at all.   These experiences outside of time and space make it clear that time and space are indeed illusions.  These sorts of things happen to all of us more often than we notice.

A quote from Paramahansa Yogananda explains this illusion further:

      Time is not actually divided into the present, past, and future.  Only one time is real:  the eternal present. Time only appears to be divided into past, present, and future by God’s maya…Because of the phenomenon of change and death, our limited human perception has divided eternity into time–in relation to our own changing existence.   God is conscious only of the eternal present, for He never dies. 

   There is no space, only an illusion of space.  All forces can stay at one point or expand everywhere.  The universe is a motion picture of circling stars and planets moving in our limitless consciousness.  One consciousness dreams everything, including all creation.  Therefore, the smaller and bigger planets, and the largest and the tiniest of objects in this dream, having no dimension and occupying no space, cannot collide.  The cosmos consists of dreams; that is why there is no space, no container, nor anything to be contained.  There is only the Dreamer.  Reason this way constantly, and you will be free from the delusions of space and time. 

 

 

 

 

When I worked full time, I began to feel shut down, limited and downright trapped.  I noticed that this ”schedule” might have also created a focus dominated by time.  I used to make a lot more money when I worked for myself and did not have to be anywhere at 8 am.  So why do this?  Maybe only because I feel lost in “not knowing” how to launch this business successfully.   There is another solution!  The solution found in TSM is to let go of wanting to know or understand.    This is one of the biggest benefits I have found using The Sedona Method®.  It transcends space and time and can assist us in letting go of our tendencies and desires.  When we identify with our tendencies and desires, we limit ourselves when we think that is who and what we are.  Referring to ourselves and/or thinking of ourselves as being locked into linear time tends to occur through memory (identification with the past) or our projections of what we think or anticipate will happen in the future.  My experience with this technique is that when we let go of this identification or the illusion of separation, we have the chance to see that we are already free.  We already transcend space and time, and we already know what we need to know.  It may take some practice, but this is not learning something new.  It is very simply put unlearning illusions that we have been conditioned to believe in.  I feel so fortunate to have found this technique!  As I was developing Unlimited Psychology and seeing, or being shown, the Life Addictions™ Course, I realized I might have come up with a clever philosophy, but no solution!  Fortunately, I discovered that TSM had already accomplished the task.  I did not need to attempt to develop a solution. The Sedona Method® addresses all illusions perfectly.   It shows us our true nature as we drop or let go of our tendencies and desires.  We find that the freedom we have been searching for is already here, already now, already who and what we truly are!

Needless to say, all individual sessions, webinars, or classes are now being offered using The Sedona Method®. Unlimited Psychology, Living Beyond Life Addictions™ Course is just a start. It offers a way to look at ourselves and how we live without the need to diagnose a “disorder,” but instead, look through what we do to limit ourselves and let it go!

 

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The Illusion of Truth

The Illusion of Truth

“You cannot know the truth. You can only BE the truth.”

Lester Levenson

“The truth shall set you free” is a popular quote from the bible many have used to express or bring to light things that have been overlooked or ignored. On the relative level, yes, there are things that we need to address that have been suppressed or pushed aside that, as a culture and species.  However, the Ultimate Truth, or that we truly are, simply is. The illusion of truth can manifest as us believing we have access to the truth and others do not. When it comes to personal preferences, of course, this is true.   But even relative truth, or those things that happen in the world, are not one way. People can see things from very different perspectives, and both can be right!

Seeing through this illusion can help us to start to see beyond “right and wrong,” “good and bad,” and other polarities as well. When we tap into the Ultimate Truth, as many saints and sages call it, we can begin to experience what Lester meant. This Ultimate Truth, or Absolute Reality, is beyond the human perspective. It is beyond duality or even beyond the mind.   However, it is not beyond our ability to simply BE the truth. We can get a sense of simply being rather than knowing. In this beingness or the Natural State, as it is called, that the truth reveals itself beyond words. When we continue to open to truth itself, we may not even have our own words to describe our experience. In the early years of The Sedona Method®, Lester talked about “reasoning from the truth.” At least part of what he meant was that looking at life AS Awareness, Beingness, or Truth can positively impact our bodies and lives. We can more easily connect with an inner sense that “all is well and everything is unfolding exactly as it should, just as it is.”   Now, this does not mean that we won’t take action. In fact, the more we explore this, we may find that if there is something appropriate to be done, we may find ourselves simply doing it without any thought or planning. Or we may have an insight or idea and immediately see it as a helpful piece of the puzzle. This is an example of the mind becoming helpful rather than interfering. When the mind functions “in service” versus as “the boss” or leader, that is when it transforms into the “higher mind” or simply becomes helpful or discerning rather than an interference.

In this system, we explore this together experientially, not just think about it or discuss it philosophically. No one person can tell you what the benefits or positive side effects will be for you.   Together we will use this system to explore what possible for you and simply sit back and watch how life shifts in response to releasing and seeing through these illusions. The results are often much more positive than we could have imagined! Things we haven’t even addressed might take care of themselves.

 

As always, I look forward to being with you as you open to unlimited possibilities!

 

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What is Addiction–Really?

What is Addiction–Really?

There has  been some new information about the cause of addiction that has been getting a lot of attention in the media lately!  I was first introduced to a book called Chasing the Scream by one of my wonderful kiwi friends while on a trip to Australia.  We had just met, but jumped right into a wonderfully stimulating discussion about addiction because she’s a drug an alcohol counselor too!  The actual source of this information is a book called In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate, MD and Peter Levine, PhD.  Myself I’m not so concerned with what causes addiction, but how to heal, transform and change people’s lives for the better, mine included.  These authors say the cause is very important, it is childhood trauma and that the “disease” model is flawed.   (I think we have other things that are keeping us trapped as well, but more on that in my next blog)

For many years I have been an addictions counselor.  I have seen people from all different levels of society, age ranges and cultural backgrounds suffer from drug or alcohol abuse.  I was so very lucky to have been introduced to a wonderful man that I’m not sure many people know.  His name was Dr William Madsen.  He passed away in 2004 but I had the great fortune to be one of his students back in 1985 at UC Santa Barbara.  He was an anthropologist who wrote a book called The American Alcoholic.  He studied addictions in the context of culture as an anthropologist.  There are different cultural patterns of addiction when it comes to drug and alcohol abuse, but that’s not what I want to share with you today.  Dr Madsen was there when Alcoholics Anonymous was still forming.  He knew the founders and others whose names are not so well known.  He studied AA as a culture itself!  He was a wonderful mentor to us young and newly sober college students who were in his course called “Anthropological Approaches to Addiction.”  He would whisper little things to us out of the side of his mouth that were kind of hard to understand but came in very handy later.  He said things like, “god’s will for you is your will for yourself,”  referring to the third step which reads, ” We turned our will and our lives over to God as we understood God.”  Of course in religious circles this might sound heretical but I have found it to be very true!  In fact I would say it is our job to get out of our own way and really take the time to get in touch with what we want.  We may not want to live the way we were taught we were “supposed to!”  Now that I am sitting here in this present time I see Dr Madsen as a rebel of sorts.  Not that he ever interfered with my recovery.  He didn’t.   This is why I feel a little hesitant to jump right in with this new wave of energy about the likely cause of addiction.  I have a no problem with us healing unresolved trauma as this new perspective suggests.  In fact this should and is impacting the treatment of addictions.  That’s just common sense and good advice, whether or not a person has an addiction to a substance.  But I do feel concerned that those who are vulnerable like I was in the beginning may take this new perspective the wrong way and say…well if it isn’t the drugs causing the addiction then I can heal trauma and use and drink to my hearts content!  The person abusing alcohol or drugs has conditioned themselves in a very strong way to be more likely to use drugs or alcohol.  There is no end to this pursuit.  That is the meaning of ” the realm of the hungry ghost.”  I have seen many people die when no one thought they were going to drink or use again.  We just don’t know who is going to  relapse or when.  The problem is that they end up very vulnerable to accidentally killing themselves because they had no sense that their tolerance had recovered, if only for a brief time. They they drank or used like they did at the height of their abuse but this time it killed them!

In fact what I am left hearing at this moment  is Dr Madsen saying what he always said to his class,  “is it nature or nurture?   What is the cause?”  He spent his life looking at this question and like a good researcher did not settle on one answer but kept refining the questions he asked,  looking for those questions that are most relevant.  I do wish he were alive an able to discuss this “new” information.   Maybe the question of cause has been answered now, maybe not, but we still need to be very sensitive to the person who is new to recovery or anyone who may have a chance at succeeding like I did.  We should give them every chance because recovery is possible.!   Dr. Madsen was a great advocate for the person suffering from alcoholism. He said to his class, “perhaps the alcoholic doesn’t need to worry about going to hell…..he or she has already been there!”  I feel wary of putting information out to the public that gives anyone in a vulnerable position another reason to drink or use.  It is a hell to live with addiction to substances.

Despite the horrible consequences there are successes as well.  Those people don’t get much press because, as Dr. Madsen used to say, ” what if you don’t see them because they’ve ‘returned to normal life” as the 12 promises in the Big Book of AA says!”  We don’t hear this much. And as I hinted at in the beginning of this blog there may be an even better, different or more fulfilling ” normal” that we can create for ourselves and together.

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Welcome To The Blog for Unlimited Psychology

Welcome To The Blog for Unlimited Psychology

This is a new approach to counseling and coaching….let’s agree not use that psychotherapy word OK…When broken up the word psychotherapist reads psycho-the-rapist!  We are breaking free from the limitations that no longer serve us so lets go of that word too!  The words counseling and coaching don’t do this program justice either  but we have to have some way to communicate so here goes!  Really people are amazing and life is a magical transformational journey.  We’ve been led to believe we are not so amazing and not so capable but the truth is we are!  And getting the hang of living in ways that support life are not as hard as we think.  Conditioning has been leading us down the wrong path.  Moments in life occur that show us we are more than we realize. Here are some examples…have you ever thought of a brilliant solution to something you thought was unsolvable…in the shower!  I know I have!  How about just a simple Ahah moment that seemed to come from nowhere?  We’ve all had those!  Or a dream that shows you a different way of looking at something in your life that had you stumped.  Road trips or other types of travel can also ignite seemingly out of the blue solutions to “problems.”  In fact what if these problems weren’t really even problems at all!  What if we saw them as puzzles with solutions that are coming…they are on their way to us…NOW!

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Empowerment is Natural

Empowerment is Natural

Transforming Self-Doubt can be central to other big and happy changes in how we view ourselves and the world. Sometimes it only takes a little shift in perspective to trigger a whole domino effect of change in our view of ourselves.  I had one along time ago when I was in a destructive relationship.   The man I was involved with said I was screaming at him.  All of a sudden it dawned on me that I wasn’t screaming, or even raising my voice,  but I was saying something he did not want to hear.  I checked with people who were in the same house and they confirmed it.  They hadn’t even heard me talking, let alone screaming.  I was prepared to apologize!  I learned more and more as time went on that self-doubt was not a necessary or helpful way to look at myself.  Being willing to be wrong is easier, and much more effective than just doubting ourselves.  A simple course correction is easy when we see we are wrong about something.  Doubt is not required!  Openness to something beyond being right or wrong is a healthier and much more effective approach to life!  It also makes us feel freer to explore possibilities rather than clamp down on ourselves with doubt.  This brings me to the title of this blog.  Empowerment is natural!  When we simply allow ourselves to be, there is no need for doubt and we can make a course correction if we need to based on learning new information, finding a great resource, finding a supportive and complementary mentor, etc.  This can take some practice but as with most of what we teach at Unlimited Psychology (UP, LLC) these “new” perspectives are things that are already in place and always have been!  Going with the flow does not require us to develop a habit of doubting ourselves, and going with the flow can be one of the most empowering things we can do for ourselves.

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