How Do You Fill Your Moments?

How do you fill your moments? I’m not referring to your free time alone, but the time within your time? You can direct your time and life with what you consider as your needs, charity and luxuries. Whitney Houston sang ‘One Moment in Time’ and Kodak branded the slogan ‘A Kodak Moment’. What do you mean when you tell someone ‘Just a moment’?

I've heard that some trainers claim to be able to bend spoons - in private – after being certified in NLP. Now, that’s unscientific and delusional as test conditions are preferred when you make claims. A claim is a good as your word, and that needs to be verified. Which begs the question: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to see or hear it, did the tree fall?

I am concerned with the hocus pocus and mumbo jumbo mixed in a blended, learning environment. As an educator, I am alarmed with what these self-proclaimed trainers are teaching in class. I have met quite a few professional metal mutilators, and I think they are brilliant entertainers.

Feel free to entertain yourself, in private. However, I think it is bad influence to make fastidious claims that you cannot back upon convincingly with skill. If you have powers, do something useful with it like shrink a tumour, encourage a child, or make somebody feel happy instead of committing self-indulgent acts.

Endurance sports can create meditative states. Marathon runners claim to get into states of serenity and serendipity when they do long runs. This can be attributed to the release of neurotransmitters in the brain such as endorphins and serotonin. The runner’s high is the sense of euphoria you enjoy during or after strenuous physical activity. If you had to run as a way of life, how would each moment feel like?

What do you mean by killing time? What about filling your time? We can only embrace the moments of our time, for it passes without notice or attention. How do you get in the moment? Some people live for the moment; other live for the next moment.

Renowned professional photojournalist, Dewitt Jones describes creativity as ‘a moment when the ordinary meets the extraordinary’. Dan Millman wrote in the Peaceful Warrior: ‘There are no ordinary moments.’

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