THE MENTAL DECELERATION OF TIME

Time is relative and varies with the speed of an object’s movement. Processes happening in the consciousness of man also have their speed and can change. When man increases his attention and concentration, then the surrounding processes and time slow down for him. It is opposite for the others – the processes and time of this man speed up for them. It is known that during an interesting work time goes faster and, vice versa, during an uninteresting work time goes slower. One of the most favourable situations for practising deceleration of time is a car moving at a medium speed (about 60 km/h). Crossing the road without a streetlight, every man looks at the incoming car and judges whether he has enough time to cross: that is, he compares the speed of the coming car with that of his walking. Understanding ─ or, to be exact, seeing internally ─ that he will have time to cross the road, a man starts walking. To decelerate the speed of the car, one should look at the car and its coming more attentively, more concentratedly, and it will then seem that the car moves more slowly. At this time, the man sees that the car will come to him later than before, and so he has more time to cross the road than before. But at the same time, he clearly sees that the physical, outward speed of the car does not change (the law of Paradox).

An insignificant concentration of attention is required to decelerate the speed of a car, and anybody can do it. Many people unconsciously use this method.

Most accidents happen due to uncontrolled stretching of time. This is how it happens. A man crossing the road looks at a car, and his desire to cross the road makes him “see” that the car is still far away and he has enough time to cross. In fact, at this moment he concentrates his attention on the car and really decelerates its speed and really can have time to cross the road, because if he did not see that he had time to cross, he would not start crossing the road. What happens next? Making sure that the car is moving slowly and he has enough time to cross the road, he takes his attention off the car the next moment and stops decelerating it. At this moment the power, the deceleration that he caused, becomes uncontrolled and comes back to him with the opposite value. By as much as the man decelerated the speed of the car, by so much its speed will increase after he loses control of the situation. It can be compared to rubber – the more one stretches it, the faster it will snap back. As a result, the car unexpectedly comes near the man. To stop that from happening, one must keep his attention on the car all the time while crossing the road. Drivers decelerate the speed of other cars during passing, turning, etc.

The greater the car’s speed, the harder it is to decelerate it, because this situation contains more power and is harder to control.

The fact of deceleration of time is not very important. Its value lies in the ability to decelerate: that is, in the state of consciousness that is capable of this act. This state is a peculiar key to other, further abilities of the consciousness. Using this feeling in other situations, one can come to understand their essence and master them.

Besides decelerating cars, one can change time for longer periods of time. For example, let us take the situation “a man goes to a class.” Suppose the way takes 20 minutes, but we have allowed only 10 minutes. To avoid being late, we need to recall, feel the length of 10 minutes ─ that is, internally get coupled with the law ─ and at the same time to recall, feel the length of 20 minutes. These two feelings are not supposed to be compared; if they are, they will become a third feeling or notion – the feeling that the man will not be able to come to the class on time, will be 10 minutes late. Keeping both feelings in the soul separately, one should all the way keep the second feeling (20 minutes) in the frame of the first one (10 minutes). The second feeling must not get out of the frame of the first one. Such a proportion of feelings is a third feeling itself, a feeling that the whole situation develops normally and one will come on time. If one manages to keep the third feeling all the way, one will come on time, even though one is moving at the usual speed. The sooner the man starts deceleration, the easier this will be for him to do, although he will have to keep it for a longer time. The later he does it, the harder he will find it to couple the two initial feelings and to force one of them into the other.

How will the situation develop if only one minute is left before the class? Then everything is done the same way, but, when the man comes a little bit late for the class, he will find out that it has not started yet because, for example, it was cancelled, the teacher did not come, or for some other reason. A necessary link between the feeling of the time taken on the way and the feeling of the beginning of the study is, as I already said, the feeling that the situation develops normally. And,

through the internal natural interrelationship, this feeling brings to birth a corresponding coincidence of events.

What will happen if a man loses his third feeling along the way? Then he will arrive later than he would have under normal circumstances, and being late will have worse consequences for him than usual: for example, it will turn out that this class was one of the most important of all.