Light Speed
Many of you may have seen that in the last week Italian scientists have published experimental results that suggest that some subatomic particles can travel faster than the speed of light. This is a big deal. So scientists are being cautious and efforts are being made to verify the results. This is such a big deal that Brian Cox has said that if the results are correct it will be the biggest scientific discovery for a 100 years. Whilst another physicist has offered to eat his boxer shorts live on TV. The reason why it is such a big deal is that Einstein’s work created a limit on how fast anything can travel in the universe, which is the speed of light. According to his work if you travel faster than the speed of light, time goes backwards; you become lighter than nothing and have negative width, which is all a bit illogical really. According to physicists faster than light speed travel undermines basic cause and effect. Which means you could arrive somewhere even before you set off.
So what makes any of this relevant to you and me? One of the quotes that I read which motivated me to make changes in my life was from a scientist, Buckminster Fuller “You never change anything by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” My guess is that if these light speed results are confirmed we won’t be travelling back in time; instead our models of the universe will be re-built, bottom up, with or without boxer shorts. In fact I think there are already people who have the answers, only nobody is yet taking them seriously.
On another level NLP itself also arose from radical, boundary challenging thinking. It has been uncovered and codified by people who thought for themselves and who did not just want to go with the flow of what was generally accepted. From that mind set has come a wonderful array of communication, personal development and change techniques.
So science may be facing up to some big changes, but change keeps life interesting. Of course, sometimes interesting can just be a reframe for what is threatening, scary or downright unpleasant. Nevertheless change is the ever present; it beats out the pattern and rhythm of our lives. Sometimes fighting against that change only stores up tension which will inevitably be released at some point in the future. Released in a way that is explosive, dramatic and eye catchingly sensational.
In your life there may have been times when you needed to re-write the rules that you were running your life by. You may have already faced up to change. But if you were able for a moment right now to stop time or to rewind if, where in your life would you go? To what crucial turning point in your life would you return and what advice would you like to give yourself. Well I’m not going to tell you that you can go back in time using NLP but you can certainly change decisions you have made about yourself in the past so that you can have the future that you want.
Written By Ewan Mochrie