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CHAPTER ELEVEN

Time Travel – Comfort James

"Time" is one element that a lot of people don't joke with. The world has changed in so many ways and some people have learned to pace with time. Someone once said "If I give you my time, at least acknowledge it". Time is an expensive resource that shouldn’t be wasted.

For example, today is the focus, one day in the week and you're anticipating the following day and the things to be done. You may and may not find many reasons to think about all that happened before today. And if there are unpleasant experiences from the past, seize it! The past actually answers to you; you determine what it does and it waits on you for the next instruction.

So, in thinking about the past, you are not to stay without an aim. Most people are used to the saying: "pick your lessons and move on". This is essential and makes good sense in terms of applicability.

The process of time travel

Time travel is a journey to the past and the future. It is aimed at discovering and creating treasures. *** let this sink***

Before you were born, there was a fight between you and other potential seeds but you prevailed. You won right in your mother's womb and others gave up.

With Time travel, you can go back to those beautiful moments you had before now: - It entails connecting to those moments wholeheartedly.

It entails selecting treasures that you need presently and also creating treasures that are needed for the future.
Don't try to pick all at once, time travel might require you going back and forth as many times as possible. Until you say "enough..."
Time travel also entails lumping the unpleasant experiences you might have had thereby putting them in their rightful place(s) once and for all.

Simple exercise: act on all that time travel entails as highlighted above and take note of your outcomes afterwards.

Periods explored during Time travel

Childhood
Teenager
Adulthood

Childhood

"Nothing means anything except the meaning you ascribe to it..." It’s funny how people "unconsciously” carry out or do certain tasks only to find out later on that they’ve been about the very same tasks all along. What this simply means is: they're doing a form of introspection unconsciously. The common phrase that begins a statement around it is: "I remember when....."

Personally, I've had to reflect on what life was like for me during childhood... And a larger part of the reflections was not planned. But in the midst of all, I discovered that just remembering made me feel good and some part of it made me laugh.

Childhood is a fresh period, it is a time of complete innocence. During this period, life is easier at a foundational level. At this stage, almost every child desires to become an adult immediately. This was the case for many who are now adults; many can testify that the reason for wanting to become adults quickly is because they were restricted from doing certain things as a child.

In gaining total control of your mind, you must be able to extract certain elements from childhood, modify certain elements from childhood and delete certain elements after understanding what they are.

I remember when my mum passed on, I didn't know what was happening at first. I was just looking at people weeping and I wondered why they were weeping. When dad passed on some years after, in as much as I knew better, I found a place of an unknown guilt. The feeling of "I wish I did this, I wish I did that" took over. This went as far as bringing back the thought of mum. To an extent I felt terrible. But for what? I wished I knew.

It wasn’t until I answered one question that my orientation changed. The question was: "what would you have done to prevent what had happened from happening?" After answering this question, deletion became necessary.

The point:

Every human at one time during childhood has had a share of the very pleasant memory and so can wish to go back there (remember) almost anytime.
Some people had really bitter experiences during childhood and that has shaped their thinking. Meaning, has been ascribed to the experiences hence, they find no reason to reflect on it. Scripture says “remember not the former things...” And this is very correct! The reason why you mustn't remember those things is because they have the propensity to tamper with what is to come.

So, in a bad experience, the advantage of time travel is to put certain things in order at the unconscious level. For example, forgiveness, the act of being thankful, mentoring etc.

No matter what you're feeling, an opportunity to be a solution to something with your very practical experience should not pass you by. While you're still breathing, you must always remember that YOU ARE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT.

Teenager

A teenager is a person between the ages of 13 to 19. Although this is a standard definition, a whole lot happens to people within this age bracket. Some you may not really attach the age factor to because a particular action seem too small or too big for the person who does the action. Some of the things that occur during this period include:

Puberty
Ability to take certain vague decisions
Exposure (positive and negative)

The essence of this path

You did not bypass the process. As a matter of fact you were fully involved in it. One common thing goes wrong for some here, it centers on not being able to correct some things during childhood which eventually traveled down to this period. Many of the things a lot of people experience today begins from somewhere. But the problem is that some systems that ought to have been put in place were not put in place so the trend continued.

We travel down to childhood and laugh so hard at maybe a form of stupidity exhibited and an inability to know what we're doing at that time... (Unpleasant experiences excluded).

We travel down to the teenager period and may not feel as lively compared to the period of childhood. Childhood holds some of the best moments of life for some...

The teenager still carries an element of childhood. But it is not expected that a full measure of childhood overshadow the teenager...

Point to ponder

The child in you remains so that you will always have use of it.

Adulthood

Being an adult holds a whole lot. At this stage of life, you are required to accept responsibilities. If a person becomes an adult without modifying some things that ought to have been modified before the stage, the result that follow can almost not be disputed. It’s so easy to think about what the issue is and a step or two taken to correct afterwards.

As an adult, you don't need anyone to tell you when a thing is hard to handle or otherwise. The expectation from every possible angle include the concept called "Maturity".

Can you slip at any time? Of course.

Does it change the fact that you're an adult? Of course not.

The adult houses the other two elements of time travel (childhood and teenager).

An adult engages in time travel for the following reasons:

To go back to those beautiful moments had before now; preferably during childhood.
To connect with those moments wholeheartedly.
To select treasures that are needed presently and also create treasures that are needed for the future.
To lump the unpleasant experiences you might have had thereby putting them in their rightful place(s) once and for all.

An adult goes beyond the child and teenager during time travel. It can be thought that having a child do time travel is foolishness but children engage in this (even unconsciously). Same applies to teenagers, especially when he/she is fresh in it.

An adult can leverage on time travel in the following areas:

Restructuring of relationships
Career building
Self-mastery/Self discovery

In conclusion, you don’t necessarily have to be in a location that allows you to think before you can carry out the time travel exercise. This can be done even when you are on the go. You can try to do this in a noisy environment, it can help you evaluate how well you concentrate.

"Your learning can only be as effective as you let it..." - Anonymous