Do you know the freedom found when not bound by time? The peace to be at peace with that that is?

How many times do we find ourselves rushing around trying to meet all of our demands. The greatest shame in this is that we have our mind rushing along with our body.

This is unnecessary, we need to learn to live in a timeless fashion in a time centric world.

During my flight to India recently I was hit with a few examples of timelessness. The most interesting thing was that it was always nature providing these great examples of timelessness.

Although I first want to relate about what I saw, at the end I will tell you how to be timeless without the need of nature.

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Too often we are do not embrace the hardships in our daily lives.

In this case I am not talking about the big things like family members dying, jobs being lost and relationships being destroyed.

Rather I am referring to the little things that don’t go as planned.

Notice that I did not say things that go wrong, but rather don’t go as we planned. This is a key point I want to talk about here along with how to change the way we think about these events.

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Spending a few days in Bangalore, India has been most interesting.

The culture here is totally different to that of Australia. For fun I’ll name a few differences.

• Eating: A whole lot of stuff is eaten with the hands. Back home it would be unheard of to mix and eat rice with just your hands. Oh and do not eat with your left hand, don’t ask
• Roads: The traffic in Bangalore appears to be very chaotic. Practically anything that is done on the roads here would get you pulled over and fined by police at home

But even with all the different smells, tastes and crazy running across highways I’ve noticed that it doesn’t really feel different to me.

Although I am in India, I still feel the same as I felt in Australia.

People are still people and I still feel just as connected. Even though most of the time I can’t understand what they are saying.

To me this proves something that I had wanted to check.

No matter where we come from, what our upbringing was like, what are beliefs are, what religion we follow.

We are all the same.

While it is nice to read, it is much more important to feel. I would urge everyone to try and feel the likeness.

Hello all,

Just letting everyone know why I disappeared. I just arrived in India(bangalore) practically yesterday for training in my new software consulting job. I will be here for around 6 weeks so my posting will be a bit erratic as training is quite hectic.

On the plus side I thought changi airport in singapore was pretty awesome

Last week in response to my Take Control of your Life: Explore the Inner World I was asked to describe how I applied awareness of thoughts and emotions in real life. So this entry is a log of all the thoughts and emotions that I saw throughout a day.

Background on Awareness

In my last post I described awareness as the following process:

You observe the external world by letting all the sights, sounds, smells etc enter you on their own.

You observe the internal world by listening for the occurrence of any thoughts (in the mind) and feeling for any emotions (in the body, generally the chest).

You have to look both internally and externally at the same time. Whenever a thought or emotion appears you let it go and go back to observing.

So essentially you spend each moment paying attention to your physical senses, at the same time as listening and feeling inside yourself.

I try to apply this in every moment. The only time I have found it to not really be possible is when I am actively (concentrated, deliberate) thinking (using the mind). However I can be aware between these deliberate thoughts.

So in every moment throughout my day I try to push my attention to take more in from my physical senses and also be alert to internal thoughts and feelings. That is how you apply awareness throughout your day, in every moment just push yourself to use it.

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There is more to life than just the world that your 5 senses tell you about.

Your thoughts and emotions are as important as anything you see outside of yourself. In fact they are more important because they can effectively stop you from perceiving the world. In order to gain control of your life and direct it to your will you must explore how thoughts and emotions effect your ability to perceive the world. You must explore your inner world.

Let me show you the best way to perceive the world.

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Positive thinking is not the answer to lifes problems.

It is like battling the mind with the mind. It cannot fundamentally change itself, only move things around.

With effort we can manage to overpower our negative thoughts for awhile. But eventually new situations will come up, things bad enough that all those negative elements will come flooding forth again.

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Changing your life is hard work. There is no denying that it takes constant effort.

Last time I wrote that life is simple and that the process for changing your life is simple. It is. Observe, Discover, Free Yourself. I also hinted that in order to do this a lot of hard work is required and that is what I want to talk about here.

Why is Change Hard

Most of us live unconsciously. We let the thoughts and feelings inside us guide our every action and live our life.

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Life is Simple.

Or maybe I should rephrase that to say that peace and happiness in life is simple to achieve… always.

After reading that you will be roughly one of two types of people.

Type 1: ‘Huh? What is this guy on about! If life was simple I wouldn’t have to worry about anything, he must be tripping on something. I have bills to pay, family to support, work to do. Clearly he doesn’t understand my job, it is very complicated and requires a huge amount of my time. This then makes my wife irritated which just skyrockets the complexity of my life. There is no way I could be peaceful dealing with all these responsibilities let alone managing my wife and kids!’

Type 2: Nods and maybe even smiles. They already know what I’m talking about.

So let me explain for all the type 1 people, type 2 people can read on if they want to keep smiling.

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It is common to hear the phrase ‘Find a job you love’ alongside thousands of people saying that they hate their job or that their job is boring.

The truth is that you never have to hate your job and you never have to be bored.

I’m going to tell you my story of when I was a teenager working in a large toy retail store. I went from hating my job to being happy at work.

Being bored is a state of mind as is hating your job, it is a certain grouping of thoughts and emotions. But on to my story.

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