What if I told you I can help you slow down time? Now, bear with me for a second. I can help you slow down your life, meaning that you'll have more time to react to situations in life and you'll experience things slower, which is essentially like living longer. Again, stick with me. This is something I'm so excited about because I found out about while writing my book.
My book is on the happiness. It's called The Happiness Discipline and it is on practicing the skill of unconditional happiness. One of the things with unconditional happiness is not having guilt and acting in the way you want to in the time in reality, right? So I talk about building a gap, right?
So you have a stimulus in life. This is how we perceive life. You get some sort of stimulus from your senses. Hear, taste, touch, or feel something. And then you react to it. The space between those is the gap that we are trying to increase. I went down a thought experiment of how we could increase that gap, and I started thinking about Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and how, as you move faster, time slows down.
If you're unfamiliar with the theory of relativity, it is exactly that, that they're in the space time continuum, time and space are connected, and as you are moving quicker, time slows down. I started thinking about That in relation to when people have had experiences where they feel like they're slowing down.
Common times race car drivers say that when they're getting to a crash at over 100 or 200 miles an hour, they have all the time in the world to react. Athletes in high pressure quick situations feel like things are happening in slow motion. Debaters or people in sales pitches feel like they have all the time to formulate a response.
What's going on here is people are present and in the flow state. You might have experienced something like this, but oftentimes this is not something we experience. Studies show that after 30 years old, we are living 95 percent in our subconscious mind or more. 95 percent is like the baseline, which means we are subconscious.
We are living out of habit and our body knows something better than our mind does. So what I mean by that is. Maybe you go, think about like maybe the old days you go to pick up a phone to call someone. You couldn't recite their number to me, but when you pick up the phone, you can punch it in. There's a lot of examples like that you might not be able to exactly explain how you do it, but you do it.
Running, walking, right? You might not know every mechanic movement in walking. Hinging your hip, flexing your foot, bending your knee, but you just do it. Your body knows it better than your mind. You are living in the subconscious. The issue with living in the subconscious is we are matter, moving at the speed that matter moves.
If you're walking, you're moving two or three miles an hour. If you are moving your arms, you're moving however fast they're moving. And compared to the speed of light, we're not moving very fast. If we're not living in habit, we're living in our conscious mind, we are moving at the speed of energy. Our brain thinks and has electrical signals that go out that are easily measurable that are moving almost at the speed of light, not quite, but almost so for frame of reference, doesn't matter how quick we're moving, we're not anywhere near moving at the speed of light.
So philosophy, enlightenment 101 talks about our observing mind. Our observing mind is like where we are placing our focus and our attention. Is it in our body and we're moving and we're in the subconscious or is it in our mind and we're in the conscious brain? Are we moving at the speed of matter or moving at the speed of energy, electricity, and almost at the speed of light?
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If you see where I'm going with this, if our observing mind is in our mind and we're moving at the speed of energy, we're moving very fast, time slows down. The observing mind is where our attention is, and it's where our perception of reality is. So if we are moving fast, time slows down. This is Albert Einstein, right?
This is the theory of relativity. If you're looking to slow life down, if you're looking to be less reactive, if you're looking to experience things longer that might be new, enjoyable, pleasurable, If you're looking to just I really think this is like living longer because life is perception.
If you perceive that you live longer, then you're living longer, right? We need to figure out how to get more into our conscious mind. Now, this video is not going to go into that. That is something that there are experts on, and you could dive into topics like mindfulness. Even like anything from mindfulness to even like practicing things that might be problem solving in a timed high stress situation that forces that flow.
Or you can think back to times that you maybe had flow and try to recreate those scenarios or similar scenarios. Working to get yourself into a conscious mind, and you will know when you're there. Into a flow state. There's great books by Steven Kotler on getting into a flow state will help you feel like you are living longer and that you have more time to react and that you have more time to enjoy awesome experiences.
I hope this video was useful or podcast. However, you're capturing it. I could not be more excited about this phenomenon and I'm going to be diving into this in extreme detail until everyone around me is probably sick of hearing about this topic, but thank you for sticking around and more on this to come.
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