All the Time in the World: Learn to Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations

All the Time in the World

All the Time in the World

Learn to Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations

Lisa Broderick

Contents

Foreword by don Miguel Ruiz

Introduction

Part One: Update Your Construct of Time

Chapter 1: Time as We Know It

Chapter 2: One Part Physical: Gravity, Motion, and Physical Laws

Chapter 3: One Part Perception: The Quantum World

Chapter 4: How the Unseen Creates the Scene

Chapter 5: The Brainwave State of Focused Perception

Part Two: Master Your Experience of Time

Chapter 6: Meditation: Create the State of Focused Perception

Chapter 7: Imagination: Experience Your Life in Advance

Chapter 8: Trauma: Reverse the Past

Chapter 9: Worry: Don’t Let the Future Slow You Down

Chapter 10: Focus: Stretch Time

Chapter 11: Thoughts: Receive Insight When You Need It

Chapter 12: Telepathy: Reach Others Fast

Chapter 13: Supersight: Instantly Verify What Matters Most

Chapter 14: Love: Harness Metaphysical Gravity

Chapter 15: Death: Never Run Out of Time

Chapter 16: Immortality: Transcend Time

Chapter 17: A Suggested Daily Practice for Transcending Time

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Additional Science

Appendix B: A Compilation of Practices

Notes

About the Author

About Sounds True

Foreword

by don Miguel Ruiz

Ihave been writing about how to help people better know who they are for over forty years. It has been my privilege to have books published and to speak with so many people whose lives are now transformed.

But it was only recently, following one of my near-death experiences, that I became interested in helping people understand not only who they are but what they are. Because, as Lisa Broderick describes in her book All the Time in the World, when we truly understand what we are, we can find the source of our own exceptional power. Then we can live a fulfilled life and are free.

Based on Lisa’s experiences, some of which relate to her own near-death experience, she has been able to say what many other people would put out of their mind and try never to think about again. By writing down and keeping logs of her experiences and examining them as a doctor or scientist would, Lisa has brought to the world thoughtful, clear explanations of many things. She is able to describe what happens to us as we create the reality of our lives here on Earth, where we come from, and what we can ultimately become when we overcome our own fear. I have said in my books that it is not death that is the biggest fear for humans; the biggest fear is to be alive where we take the risk to express what we really are.

When I experienced my second near-death encounter, a heart attack in 2002, I was intrigued by what was happening. For me, I was given the greatest opportunity to share with everyone how to let go of the body, how to detach from the body.

I knew to share these things because this was not my first such experience. In the late 1970s, I was driving a Volkswagen, and I made the mistake that many people do; I had drunk too much. I used to be a medical student and was close to graduation. I was outside of Mexico City, and being drunk, decided to drive back to Mexico City — a very bad decision.

Suddenly the car went out of control and directly into a concrete wall and was totaled. But incredibly, I saw the whole experience, and I saw my own body at the wheel. At that moment, I knew without a doubt that I was not in my physical body.

Before the crash, I had heard about the idea that I wasn’t my physical body, but from that moment of the crash on, it was no longer a theory. For me, it was a fact.

During the crash, I was watching my body as the car crashed. I was inside the car, yet I was outside my physical body. Time was subjective. Everything was so slow that I had time to do whatever I thought about doing. I was able to surround my body in order to protect it before the crash was over, and nothing happened to my body during the crash. I did not travel further; I remained unconscious until my body woke up.

What happened after the accident was that my whole personality changed. The way I perceived life was completely different because before that accident, everything was so important, and after the accident, I saw everything as irrelevant. I began to study ancient ancestral wisdom, first with my mother who was a healer and later from a shaman in the Mexican desert.

In my career, I had already followed a family tradition. All of my brothers are doctors. One is a neurosurgeon; the other is an oncology surgeon. So I followed their steps, and I also became a surgeon. I continued to study. I graduated, and I started working, but I had a lot of questions.

My mind wanted to understand why. Because the first question was, well, What am I? Because I am not the physical body; that’s obvious. It’s obvious that I am not my identity; I am not what I believe I am. I didn’t know what I was, and that really scared me. You know, I see many other people who have the same kind of near-death experience, and they start denying what happened. They just let go, and they adapt to the life they feel they cannot change.

Well, I went exactly in the opposite direction. I really wanted to know. And even when I graduated and was part of my brother’s team as a surgeon, I was very interested to see how the mind works. Because for me, there was obviously a separation between the body, the mind, and what I really am. I really wanted to understand the mind because I thought I understood the body completely, and the body is matter. But the mind is not matter, which Lisa writes about in this book.

As a doctor, I did a lot of neurosurgery. It was a great time, but at a certain moment, what I discovered is that most of the people create their own physical problems with their mind. With that realization, I became very interested to understand the human mind. So I decided to change the direction of my career and not necessarily live medicine. I have followed the other tradition of my family, which is the Toltec tradition. The word Toltec means artist. When I talk about Toltec, I’m really talking about the entire humanity, because we all are artists.

As artists, the biggest creation we make is the story of our lives. Often in our stories, nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves by doubting ourselves and feeding our brain with negativity and limited beliefs. People don’t like their life, so they live in a state of inaction where they are afraid to be alive. All of this is because they are creating their life through their thoughts.

In the meantime, our brain is processing all that we perceive every moment. Brains are dependent on knowledge and the need to understand. This makes the physical part of us controlled by our brain afraid of anything that it doesn’t understand. This is the main reason why we are so afraid of the unknown, especially of death — because we don’t understand what happens after the body dies.

Lisa explains that because reality is solely a result of who we are, our fears combined with the stories told over and over in our mind become our creation; they become our life. This is what she calls the observer effect from modern science.

Only when we un-limit our brain to new ways of thinking and perceiving the world around us does our physical brain become no longer afraid and our stories are cured.

The way to begin is to be impeccable with our words, because our words are the expression of our thoughts. They have the same power as thoughts to affect ourselves and others — to generate our reality.

This also means that we must take action and, by doing that, express what we are. In my book The Four Agreements, I write that action is about living fully. You can have many great ideas, but without action upon that idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward. In action, we are led to the source of our own power.

And that source can be found when we love ourselves. When we do that, we express that love in our interactions with others and get back what we express. In this way, it is the same as the energy coming off us that Lisa describes. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me.

When we truly love ourselves, we can accept ourselves and keep our agreements with ourselves. Then the big creation we will make will be the story of our life fulfilled and free.

The truth is we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. We just have the present moment to be alive in what Lisa calls the Now. By reading this book, we learn that the gift is to accept this truth and to embrace it.

When we do that, we will be able to live as if this is the only day of our life. We can plan to live forever without being concerned about whether or not our plan will manifest. What exists is only this Now moment, and it is the source for an exceptional life. Are you ready to learn how to tap into this for yourself? By the time you are done reading All the Time in the World, you will be doing that and more.

Introduction

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

In this book you will find a definitive account of how time works so you can learn to affect it for yourself.

This is not science fiction. This is science. Long ago Einstein proved that time is stretchable, like a rubber band. Ordinary humans are slowing down and speeding up time every day, often without realizing it.

What if you could slow down time? What if you could stretch and bend time for yourself?

Basic science teaches us that time forever marches forward, without fail. We view the unfolding of our lives as a linear reality, where we are at the mercy of events mostly beyond our control.

But there is another way to experience time. There is something that defies the physical law of cause and effect on which science relies to explain time. Scientists call it quantum theory. Using the principles of quantum mechanics, we can view the human construct of time in a different way, where time is less limited than we thought. We can lead lives where pretty much anything can happen. Lives free from limitation.

And so, while this book is about time, it is also about the nature of reality explained through the lens of what science is discovering about time. By posing questions like Where do thoughts come from? and How do we know what is real? we can begin to appreciate that time and reality are merely perceptions. We pretend that clockfaces show us what is real, but they don’t. We continue to pretend because once we pull the thread on our human construct of time, then everything else about reality unravels, including matter, the world, the universe — everything. When we stop pretending that time is a real thing, we can access the past and the future at any moment. This state is characterized by certain brainwaves and has been called the zone, flow, and the Now. It is what I call focused perception. In this state, you can time travel anywhere you want: you may find yourself affecting the past, influencing the future, and choosing how you experience the present. In some sense, all personal transformation work is rooted in time. When we master time, we master ourselves.

You can get there by understanding the science of time. Once you know the science behind time, you will understand that our experience of time is one part physical and one part perception. The physical part of time is rooted in the science of Einstein, gravity, and relativity. The perception part of time is best explained by the principles of quantum physics. This is my theory for how time works, which you might call a theory of everything for time.

While awake and going through our daily lives, we each exist in a physical reality that is sometimes at odds with our perceptions. Everyone has experienced those weird coincidences, those impossible-to-explain incidents, those . . . did I really just see that? double takes. Recent discoveries suggest that our perceptions may be every bit as important as our physical reality.

By changing the part that you can control — your perception — you can change your experience of time. Think of it: you could intentionally step out of linear time to shift your thoughts to another time when something you want has already happened or something you want to have happen hasn’t occurred yet.

As you begin to use the practices in this book, such as slowing down time and reversing the past, you’ll develop your ability to time travel through your perceptions. These practices will fuel your mind, stimulate your brain to generate ideas and solutions, and become an endless source of inspiration, intuition, insight, and innovation. Your physical reality and your perception will meld into a more fluid, unified reality, allowing you to change your experience of time — and your ability to do what is yours to do.

Before she died a few years ago, I asked my mother, a clinically minded person trained as an economist, why people read self-help books. Her answer: people want to know why things happened to them. I found that answer very insightful.

I later realized that not only do people want to know why things happened to them (in the past), they want to influence what will happen to