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From Yesterday to Tomorrow: Understanding the Evolution of Time

  • Writer: Simon Knight
    Simon Knight
  • Apr 13
  • 3 min read

Updated: 1 day ago

Have you ever wondered how this perception influences our lives and your mind?

I, too, ignored this knowledge for a long time.


Time, like space, is one of the two criteria on which our reality seems to be founded. When we do not pay attention to our perception of time, we risk being carried away by the current of a river that we cannot control, which we sometimes call DESTINY.


I must preface that everything I share with you here is still and will always be a subject of study, and there will never be an absolute truth or certainty on these topics. Like the Unconscious, these are mysteries that I believe will never be fully revealed but will be continuously explored.


Right now, as you read and look at the screen, you can feel and perceive that there is only this moment, the Present.


If you now try to think of some memory from the past, it will suddenly seem as if the past is here with you, and it is because the images, sounds, and emotions you experience when recalling these memories create such vivid sensory stimulation for your brain that for your mind, the memory is REAL, physical, and present.


The same happens for what we identify as the future. Every time we imagine and create such strong and stimulating images and sensations of a future moment, our mind and our neurology react as if that moment were absolutely true and present (this explains why it is so important to know how to visualize a empowering future and to create well-formed goals to achieve it effectively).


With this brief explanation, you can easily see, understand, and perceive how it is absolutely normal for emotional expressions such as anxiety, stress, happiness, and excitement to appear at the “simple” remembrance of a memory or the imagination of a near future.


This is the same recipe that works for dreams: for our neurology and mind, any sensory stimulation and vividly imagined perception is no different from something truly experienced.


Now, I would like you to notice what the common thread of all this is, and if you look closely, you can find it referenced in the paragraphs I wrote above a moment ago.

The Present, EXACTLY!


As you can see, everything happens in the present moment, in the here and now, the only moment, the only temporal expression to which we have access and in which we operate, where we are capable of remembering the past and imagining the future, and the moment in which we can create sensory expressions and projections so strong and complex that they transform a simple memory into vivid reality, so powerful that they can shift our vision and perception of the here and now.


The present is the moment so sought after and studied by practically all ancient traditions, religions, and study circles, and it can also be found today in neuroscience, hypnosis, meditation, and mindfulness.


All of this, along with nearly 28 years of study in this field (yes, I started when I was 12!), has led me to write a manual, a practical guide to venture through 7 easy practices to understand how simple yet powerful and beneficial the practice of mindfulness is and how to pay attention to the present moment, the time where ALL our life occurs and where everything is decided by you.




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Close-up view of a serene landscape with a flowing river
Close-up view of a serene landscape with a flowing river


 
 
 

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