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 The Power of Bending Space & Time

 “ We already are what we seek. Life is a matter of being what we are, not trying to become it.”…Jack Hawley, Reawakening The Spirit in Work 

I met Jack Hawley in 1994 and have an autographed copy of this book dated 30 April 1994…it seems like it was just yesterday….“time flies”…..but time doesn’t really fly at all does it? This is what “bending time and space” is all about…..my Sai brother Jack Hawley explains it using the classic story of  “The Wizard of Oz” page 100 in Reawakening the Spirit in Work 

“The qualities we seek are already a part of us, not apart from us. We wouldn’t yearn for them if they weren’t already there. Our task is to uncover, not discover. We need to release it from inner space rather than seek it outside ourselves.

In The Wizard of Oz, Tin Man already had a heart, Scarecrow already had a brain, and Lion, his courage. Yet they yearned for those things. They had to endure many hard, scary adventures before they found those fabulous gifts. And where did they finally find them? Inside! Dorothy and Toto too. They had to go through all that turmoil to get home, and it turns out they were dreaming, and that they were home all the time! There’s a deep spiritual truth in that.

We can choose not to travel the yellow brick road. Rather than spend lifetimes trying to arrive “there”, we can simply choose to already be there. It’s a magical move from wanting-to-be, to being. It’s a new angle on an ancient ploy: when we tell ourselves we’re already there, we act that way; and when we act that way, we become that way.

The term space bending  fits, because that’s what we do when we proclaim we’re already “there”. We warp from a not-there place to an already-there one. We move from trying to arrive somewhere to already residing in that place. By just declaring ourselves natives of the promised locale, we sidestep the less meaningful parts of the journey and become ready for the more important legs of the trip”……Jack Hawley 

In coaching language, this is called the “Act as If” strategy…..based on the belief that if you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it!!! E-mail me to tell me stories about how YOU have used this “Act as If” strategy in your lives….if you have never used it, go do it NOW!…and tell me what magical results you achieve!

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