All The Time In The World With Lisa Broderick

3 Dec , 2021 podcasts

 

Even though it is said that we have all the time in the world, it never seems enough in this fast-paced world. But what if experiencing time can be controlled on your own terms? Katherine Twells sits down with Lisa Broderick to share her new scientific literature that revolutionizes the perception of time, which she discusses in her book, All the Time in the World. Through meditative practices and scratching the surface of quantum physics, she explains how to redirect your consciousness, achieve healing, and get rid of fear. Lisa also explains how to change your daily routine, especially in the morning, to attain a positive mindset that could significantly transform your lifestyle.

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All The Time In The World With Lisa Broderick

Learn To Control Your Experience Of Time To Live A Life Without Limitations

We will be exploring our perceptions around time, and who doesn’t need more of that? Benjamin Franklin once said that lost time is never found again, but according to my guest, Lisa Broderick, perhaps time is not what we think it is. In her groundbreaking new book, All the Time in the World, she reveals how new scientific literature is revolutionizing our understanding of what time is and more importantly, how we can affect it.

Lisa is an accomplished senior leader whose career has been defined by understanding how technology impacts society and changes our behavior. She’s also someone who experiences and studies the world in terms of data, best practices, and quantum science. She teaches that life is about constant change, and we can all relate to that, but in this change, energy and matter is the basis of our transformation.

A little bit more about Lisa’s background, she earned a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke. She’s a Transcendental Meditation Sidha. She attended the Monroe Institute for the Exploration of Expanded States of Consciousness and studied Imagery and Dream Reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery for fifteen years with noted author and teacher, Dr. Gerald Epstein. All of this background is quite clear, as you will know the amazing concepts that she shares in our conversation.

Her passion is about helping others with little or no scientific or spiritual training to master their innate abilities. We are going to talk about the way these practices she shares can change the way that you see the world. She uses her teaching and skills to also guide the nonprofit she founded called Police2Peace, which reimagines how the police see themselves and how the community sees them using the term peace officer. Police2Peace unites communities and police departments around programs that uplift and heal them.

She has been featured in broadcast media, numerous interviews and online events, and she regularly appears on ABC Network News in New York as a business correspondent. In our conversation, she will share some of the practices that I have referenced, and these are things that you can play with and it may change the way that you experience time. Speaking of time, let’s not waste another minute as I share my conversation with the very thought-provoking, Lisa Broderick. Enjoy.

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Thank you so much for taking the time. I really appreciate that you’re doing this with me.

It’s an honor. I’m so excited.

We met not that long ago from a mutual friend. When I got a chance to hear your story, I was so riveted. I think it’s amazing. I’m excited to share this with our audience. It’s going to be great.

Thank you.

Lisa’s Story And Background

Let’s start with your story and your background because what shapes us is where we came from and the experiences we had as we were growing up. Can you share a little bit with everyone about your origin story and what brought you to where you are now?

I would love to and thank you so much for asking. As it relates to time, I had an experience that apparently a lot of Americans or a lot of people around the world have had, but not many people talk about, and that is I had a deadly experience at the age of four where I was growing up in Arizona. We were in a cabin in the White Mountains, which is very far from Phoenix, where we lived and I jumped on a bed with my sister and the bed rolled away. I went through the room and head first into a plate glass window and was impaled on the window.

I got to tell you that the mother in me trying to imagine the moment gives me the shivers, what a crazy random thing to happen.

In some sense, yes, but it set me off on a course. What was interesting was my sister who was jumping with me, she was a year younger, and there was a bit of a town where we were in and she went to get my father who was playing pool down the road, and my mother and they took me off the window. The amazing thing is to this day is I remember the event in a way that you couldn’t possibly.

Memories are funny things. We had composed them, and they grew and changed over time and formed by new things that didn’t happen back then, but I’ve had this memory in my mind for decades. I remember being on and off the window, loaded into the station wagon, being driven to the country facility, which is not a hospital, and then seeing the room from above. I was above. I didn’t see my body clearly but I could draw the room to this day, and then suddenly, I was back in my body.

I was a little girl and full of life again. With that said, everything was different. I am clinically minded and an economist by training, so I wonder about data and proving things. I saw the world differently than I remembered before. Everything was alive. Even to this day, I thank the garbage. The garbage has served us. It has consciousness. We thank everything that serves us, especially animals, plants and things. I learned that I had a superpower which might’ve come out of that, and that is I had a special relationship with time.

Playing on the field and then track and field a little later on, I could slow down the field. I would have dreams of slowed down time but I was too afraid to tell anybody because I thought they would think me weird or crazy, which is very true. That is often the case with people who have these types of experiences. They don’t tell anyone. My mother didn’t want to talk about it because it was so awful at the time, so I went through life with these slowed down experiences. Now, it can be a bit of an advantage if you can slow down the field as an eight-year-old.

I tell a story in the book about bowling where I bowled nearly a perfect game in a tournament and I was awful, but no matter what I did, I was in a zone or a brainwave state I now believe, where I could control time and other kinds of things to bowl this perfect game. Athletes do this and are taught to do this to this day regularly, but this was a long time ago, and I was a little girl. I kept that with me, and I practiced, and then I started showing up for things in ways that were way too fast for me to have been there physically.

I tell a story of having to take the SAT where I needed to be somewhere and I was being irresponsible and not leaving enough time to get there, but it turned into one of the practices in the book. Later on, I learned to meditate and that was different. I learned the Eastern form of meditation in India, which is a mantra meditation, which also has a special relationship with time. I realized that the meditative state and what I was experiencing were related. After decades of meditation, I practiced and I continued to work. A little later on, I discovered quantum mechanics.

I read The Tao of Physics and these other books, and then we had the teachers and the wonderful thinkers of the ‘80s like Shakti Gawain, Jack Canfield and Don Miguel Ruiz, who wrote the forward for my book. I thought to myself, “My experiences of time, the transformation they talk about and quantum mechanics are related,” so I began researching, and then the result is the book that we have now.

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There was a famous graduation speech by Steve Jobs where he talked about the fact that you can only connect the dots looking backward. You don’t necessarily see it when you’re walking the road but then later on, you look back and you’d be like, “That’s why I met that person. That’s why that thing didn’t work out the way I thought it should because something else was waiting.” You hear that a lot but you don’t always believe it until you can see.

First of all, what a traumatic and difficult thing to happen, I heard somewhere I didn’t think we even had much memory before the age of five, so clearly, that level of trauma provided such a detailed remembrance of that and bestowed upon you this incredible gift, pattern and appreciation for life. Often the things that no one would wish for give us other kinds of gifts. It’s a good reminder to remember that things aren’t necessarily good or bad when they happen because you never know what they’re going to do.

I often say there’s perfection in what happens.

Police2Peace Project

Our audience is reading about you sewing up time and speeding up time and they’re like, “What’s going on with this?” I want to dig into more of that. Before we get into the book, I want to make sure I call out a little bit more about your incredible experience in the work that you do in the Police2Peace project. Can you share a bit about that as well? Then I want to go back into the time conversation.

Thank you so much for asking. Later in life, I was a high-technology CEO for many decades out of Silicon Valley, where my family moved after Phoenix, and then I was in New York City for 30 years. I got to be around 50 and something happened to me that I later heard the Dalai Lama paraphrase, and that was, “Women over 50 will change the world.” The reason is they’re full of energy, they may have an empty nest, they’ve had many experiences where they have education and the career is changing, and they want to reweave society.

We’re the gatherers. We bring things back together. I began to have these feelings that I wanted to do something different. I was running a high-technology company at the time and I had an experience where I saw the words peace officer appear on a police vehicle in a moment where I was writing the book at the same time. Part of the message of the book that I wanted to convey was the reason people that care about what time it is, is that they want to know what it is mine to do.

They’re like, “What do I need to do now?” That can translate into the bigger question like, “What is it that’s mine to do with my life?” I knew this question while seeing that having this vision of peace officer on a police vehicle, which was not there in reality, but I said to myself a famous phrase, “If not me, who? If not now, when?” I decided to research it, and this was back in 2016 or 2017.

I realized based on my high-technology experience that introducing peace into a community related to policing was a disruptive technology. It was a simple thing that shifted people’s awareness and framework on a societal level. To this day, years later, we’re doing our work around the country as Police2Peace, where we unite police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them, using peace officer as an ethos or as a brand, if you will, for the officers and as a way of thinking policing for the community.

 

That is such a beautiful thing, and what a great contribution to the world. I have to imagine you probably have seen quite a bit of transformation from working with these officers in this way. Are there any stories or things to share from what you’ve seen from that work?

There are. When we first started out, we put peace officers on fleets of police vehicles, both police and sheriffs, and one officer said, she was outside her vehicle and she looked at the peace officer and said, “I used to think of myself as enforcing the law. Now, I think of myself as keeping the peace or as being a guardian.” We think to ourselves, “Isn’t that what we all want? Don’t we want peaceful coexistence?” In some sense, we’re not well-behaved enough to not have policing, laws and rules. With that said, there’s a way to do it that’s in unity with the community and that’s what peace officers and Police2Peace are seeking to do.

When you shift your frame a little bit and you look at something from a different angle, it can change your relationship with it and how you approach what you do.

That goes back to the book on time, because when we shift our perspective of time, we realize we do have all the time in the world.

Thinking Differently About Time

Let’s get into that because I am very sure that people are on the edge of their seats going, “Explain this to me.” We all are in this. We’re like, “I have so much to do but I don’t have enough time to do it,” and then you go to a time management course and they’re like, “We all have exactly the same amount of time.” It becomes very linear, specific and you carve it up. Please save us. Tell us. How do we broaden our frame and think differently about time?

This book was written before and during the pandemic. I’m a New Yorker. I consider myself the child of New Yorkers. Being busy was a badge of honor. Every minute in the day was $100 and we weren’t going to waste even $1 like you were talking about scheduled time management. Then, the pandemic hits. People lose their relationship to time.

Many people are washed out, broken, hopeless, overwhelmed, depressed, sad and disconnected. Why? The one thing is we’ve lost our identity, if our identity was that and there is an overwhelm that’s like, “I’ll never be able to do all the things I want to do.” It highlights the question. This book is an antidote to that. Before we get back to business as usual, master time. When you master time, you master yourself, and that’s the message I wanted to deliver. It turned out to be in perfect timing.

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Indeed, it was perfect timing. I think what you said will resonate with so many people because this entire experience, which is still ongoing, has challenged us in so many ways. I would even assess that business as usual never existed because there is no necessary usual or normal. There are so many different ways we’re living and doing, but now we’re being asked to evaluate that on an even deeper level and how we are going to co-create something new and different moving forward. I know quantum mechanics is a big part of the book and not something that is often water cooler conversation, so how can you ground our audience on how does quantum theory builds into this and how can we think about time?

Maybe we’ll start with the experiences of time that so many of us have had where time doesn’t pass as usual. You’re focused on a project, you look up and three hours have passed. You had your newborn for the first time, you had your first kiss, you had this amazing experience, or as I chronicle in the book, many experiences of grave danger which happened in slow motion. My mother recalled seeing me fly through the air through the window in slow motion, so that was interesting.

There’s something about our ability to focus which changes our perception of time, and that is the premise of the book. What we focus on and how intently we focus changes our perception of time for the better, but it can also change our perception of time for the worst. If we’re focusing on, “I’m late,” you will be late and it will be terrible, but to change your perspective of your focus. What did I want to know as a scientist was how does this relates to science? How could we replicate this? How could we measure this? The basic premise of science is that something that can be measured is real.

I looked to quantum mechanics in the quantum field. With all of the formulas, we learn a lot about that. Number one, observation changes reality. It’s a basic tenet of quantum physics. Number two, there’s another one, quantum entanglement, which states that there is an activity in the universe which defies the universe’s speed limit, which is the speed of light. Then, you have Einstein who is saying that when you’re with a pretty girl, an hour seems like a minute and when your hands on a hot stove, a minute seems like an hour. It’s the basics of relativity.

How does this all fit in? My answer was we know these things exist. We know quantum mechanics and these weird experiences of time exist. We know we can’t control them or explain them, but the only question is how do we do that and what science can we use? For the very clinically minded or the skeptics, there’s science which backs up all of the premises. Slowed down time, experiencing time, changing time, all of the things we would want to do, and then it takes people into practices about how to change the time for themselves. We could do a practice if we have enough time.

Meditative Practice

We have all the time in the world. I would love to do a practice. Should we do it now or do you want to do it later?

Let’s do it now. I will say since I do also work in public safety, do not do this while driving. I know we listen to podcasts while driving, so be safe. You can do this later. Also, this is a very similar exercise to this on my website, LisaBroderick.com, which you can download. Do not do this while driving, but for the rest of us, let’s relax and we can get into a meditative state.

Then, I’ll explain some of what’s happening in terms of body relaxation and brainwave states as we do this. First, if you’re sitting in a chair, you can sit up straight with your back straight, which is very common for a relaxation pose, and feet on the floor and your hands on your thighs is the King’s pose. That’s a good way to sit if you’re seated at a desk. If you want to be in Lotus position, that’s fine too.

By the way, I’ve been in brain institutes with electrodes on my head to wonder which one was more effective. They’re both equally effective, so however you are, that’s good to know. We’re sitting comfortably. Now, let’s slowly close our eyes. With that, we’re triggering a brainwave state and chemicals in our brain from serotonin to melatonin to relax. Now, we’re going to focus on our breath, which is also a very common part of meditation, but a special way of breathing where let’s inhale through our nose, a regular inhalation, but exhale through your mouth a long, slow exhalation.

Again, inhale through your nose, or regular inhalation, and exhale through your mouth, a long and slow exhalation or twice as long. What we’re doing is we’re triggering the parasympathetic nervous system to relax, so in through our nose and out through your mouth. Now, imagine in your mind’s eye you see the number three appear in front of you in whatever way is perfect for you. Everyone can visualize and dream. In through your nose and out through your mouth, and the number three dissolves into number two. We’re counting down. In through your nose and out through your mouth, and the number two dissolves into the number one.

In through your nose and out through your mouth, and the number one dissolves into the number zero. We’re now in the time of no time, as it was told by my spiritual teacher in New York, Dr. Jerry Epstein. We’re completely present. This is like into hypnosis in some way. They use a phrase called focused awareness, where we focus on something to the exclusion of all other things, but we’re going to have some fun in our focused awareness. I call it focused perception. In this state, sitting quietly for a moment, bring to mind something that you would like to create for yourself. Something wonderful, satisfying or fulfilling. It’s an experience you’d like to have.

It might be that the check comes, the telephone rings and you have a promotion, there’s a new job, the house you wanted is available, your son gets into the soccer team, which causes you to not have to commute so far, or world peace. I think about world peace and peace in the United States often. Experience it. Don’t just think about it. Live it as a movie where you’re feeling it viscerally, so seeing, hearing, feeling, sensing and knowing this is happening. This wonderful thing, it’s a movie you’re experiencing.

With this thought in mind, we’re going to do one more thing. Think about how it benefits everyone involved. It’s not just about you, but all the other people who would benefit from this event, this experience and this thing happening. I’m asked about why I suggest that, and the reason is it removes the fear that what we want to happen, won’t happen.

It’s removed. We want it for someone else. We want this wonderful thing for all these other people involved and we’re wishing this and we’re experiencing it. It’s so wonderful. We’re holding that in our minds, experiencing and now, it happened. It’s done. It’s the moment after. There’s nothing more to do. It’s complete or accomplished.

The check came, the house is here, the soccer team, there’s world peace, there’s peace in the US or the sales come through. Whatever we want, it has happened. You’re now reveling the visceral experience that it’s done. Now, what will happen is our brains are fabulous computers that will start to take over, but don’t ponder the details. Don’t question how, who, what, when, where, why and how does not matter. That is not your department. You are living the moment after it already happened. The experience of it, sense it and feel it.

Now, let’s take it into our bodies. Imagine that every cell of your body is vibrating with the excitement, the completion, and the accomplishment that there’s nothing more to do. All of these cells, they travel down your body, out your feet, and into the earth and fill up every centimeter of the earth. The giant earth is now filled with all of these feelings that there’s nothing more to do.

The entire earth is vibrating with that. Now, it comes back up through you, right up your spine, out the top of your head and through every direction. It is traveling upward through the building you’re in, the galaxy and the universe. Higher and higher, this feeling that there’s nothing more to do, and then let it go. Relax in the feeling that there is nothing more to do. When you’re ready, you can slowly open your eyes.

 

I’m so relaxed.

That seems like a manifestation guidance. With that said, let’s talk about time and this thing you want to happen. It’s the now, but this is happening in the future, so time is already there. Let’s talk about how much time we might spend wondering, worrying, planning or doing for what might happen in the future. There’s one more thing, and this is the essence of the book. It poses this question.

Does how we show up in our minds to the next moment affect reality. The reason it poses this question is the answer in quantum physics. It’s yes, because that’s the observer effect. Now, how are you going to show up in the moment for that thing that you want to happen? Are you going to be a little different because you’ve lived it already complete? Could it be less tense?

Being The Task Master

Absolutely, because you mentioned taking the fear out, it already exists for you, so you’re just walking into something that you have greater sharedness of. When I was listening to your voice and you kept talking about there’s nothing more to be done, what’s so powerful about that is we are so caught up in the doing versus the being. The forcing the lists that we’re like, “I have to.” Not that our lives are passive because we are in motion, but I think this focus perception is how we are in motion and how we do what we do versus being the task master, which is what so many of us are stuck in.

The task master is all about time, isn’t it? It’s not all happening at once. Although, in many spiritual traditions, time is happening all at one moment, and there is only the now moment. We are caught up on this treadmill that we are creating. In some sense, and this is a spiritual and scientific statement, time is a linear construct for this plane of existence. Think about that. I was once asked, “How would you explain time to an alien if they came to earth?” If the alien came to earth, then they must experience time because they traveled. Time is everywhere.

We have a particular construct and our construct on earth is that it’s rooted in movement. If there’s no movement, there’s no time. We know time because the earth is rotating. It’s revolving around the sun. It’s moving. All of these things are happening. Clocks move, so we’re moving and we sense time. Number one, what about if we just sit in the stillness of nothing more to do?

Number two, the quantum mechanics back to that we may not know how it works, we know that it is, and one day we will know how it works for our daily existence of reality. Until then, we could have some fun practicing. Those are the exercises in the book weaving in quantum mechanics and principles into our daily life to, as I think, live a life of fulfillment and promise and meeting our best possible lives. That’s what I want for everyone.

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That is a beautiful intention for all of us. I can tell everyone from reading the book that there are many exercises. I think when you read that we talk about quantum physics and the observer effect and all these things, if it’s not something you’ve immersed yourself into, it can be very mind-bending and very crazy. I think about quantum entanglement and the fact that particles can be relational even if they’re on the other two sides of the planet, and your mind says, “How is this possible?”

Brainwaves

It can be very overwhelming to try to get your head wrapped around it, but what you do in the book is give us exercises that can put us in place like you did a moment ago to experience what this might be like and to give us evidence ourselves of how we might work with this, which is amazing. When you talk about focused perception, there’s a lot of conversation whether it’s the business or even the secular space of talking about mindfulness and paying attention to the more spiritual sides of being in the now moment, there seems to be a huge unlock in that no matter where you look. Can we talk more about whether it’s the brainwaves, but what is it about being present that makes such a difference for us?

There’s a lot of research around that. The one thing I talk about in the book are the states which athletes report and which has been reported as the flow state or the zone. My bowling example was clearly an example of being in the zone. I didn’t know it at the time and it hadn’t been coined at the time. With that said, there’s something that happens in our brains, so I do study and I do go into brainwave activity in the book to try to explain it.

Back to when I mentioned I had electrodes on my head when I was doing the various postures, I had electrodes on my head when I developed some of these exercises, so I know they trigger these brainwave states. I was at a brain Institute in Sedona called Biocybernaut Institute, where with electrodes on your head, you generate different types of brainwave states for a week in a dark room, so I had a lot of practice.

I’m trying to decide if that sounds fun.

It was a lot, but in any event, it allowed me to know these brainwave states so intimately to explain them to people that they could use them. In our daily life, we’re in an alpha brainwave state. It’s not stressed out. Although you could be, that would be a different state, but it’s an everyday flow of ease. It’s not meditative. When you’re making lists upon lists and you’re frenetic, freaked out and out of time, that’s the beta brainwave state, which is generally not very pleasant.

It’s effective for getting away from saber tooth tigers which is probably why it exists in an ancient state, but for now, it’s a very busy brainwave state, and then there’s theta which is more meditative, and then these other brainwave states. What I suppose is when flow happens for focused perception like what we did, you bring together a coalescence of brainwave states which is rooted in theta, a meditative state, but you’re waking, and then to do it with these other experiences when you introduce the imagery or the movie of being somewhere else when you’re reversing time and doing these other things, you can go into other brainwave states which are even more powerful.

That is where one day, I suppose, we will know quantum mechanics connects with us. Our brains or neurochemical processes, but consciousness is greater than the sum of all those parts. We don’t know what that is and I think it has to do with quantum mechanics. In fact, the winner of the Nobel prize for physics, Roger Penrose, issued a book on quantum consciousness about how consciousness can emanate or can be achieved in the brain in quantum processes. That may be how it works, we don’t know, but until then, let’s have a little fun and live lives of meaning and purpose. Let’s do some practicing. Let’s not waste time on fear, which you removed that from the equation, and start to live a life that we create for ourselves.

Pandemic, Fear, And Uncertainty

What if we all did that? What type of world could we create? We’ve talked about the pandemic and there’s a lot of fear and uncertainty for whatever reason. We, as humans, we are not really good with uncertainty. We tend to like routines. We’ve never had control. It has always been an illusion, but it felt a little bit more real before the pandemic, and now, there are so many narratives and questions out there. This is a practice. How can we stay out of fear? It’s natural. I think there was some research around the negativity bias. Our brains first go to a protective space and we have to train ourselves to not be a negativity bias. How would you guide people to stay out of fear and into possibility?

 

In the book, there’s a daily practice. Before I get into that, I’ll address negativity, and that is again, back to the saber tooth tiger. There may be a lot of ways that we behave and think, which are remnants from a prior existence where we don’t have that danger. I didn’t do it because it’s a bit of a downer in a sense, but imagine the exercise we did, and instead of living that wonderful thing that you want to happen, you’re living your greatest fear.

The check doesn’t come, I can’t pay my rent, I didn’t get the job or my car is wrecked. You get to the moment and bring yourself through all the way to the end and then you say to yourself, “That’s not what happened.” You simply reverse it. You live the other experience. You reverse the experience in your mind.

The effect of that is it completely neutralizes fear. Might the fear come back again? Sure. Do the exercise again. I do that exercise that we did with reversing fear every evening before I meditate. I pick something out of my day. I pick the thing I’m afraid of. There’s always got to be something. It could be something mundane or something profound.

Pick your thing and then do the experience. By the way, all of these exercises are in the audio version of the book. You could download the reverse fear exercise and put it on a device where you could listen to it. Live your greatest fear and then you reverse it, and then you’ve neutralized that fear. Again, might it come back? Sure. Then you do it again.

A daily practice for all of this would be in the morning before you wake up. Something that I do is I live my entire day in advance as a movie. I’m lying there and I have not turned on the light. I have a talisman in bed with me. I call it a totem. It is like a crystal. It’s something that’s not going to hurt you but when you roll over on and you touch it, it reminds you to do something, so I have a little crystal in my bed. Maybe some rose quartz. Before I wake up in the morning from really awake, I live my entire day in advance like we did. You’re in a very dreamy state. It’s a good state for dreaming and manifesting, if you will, with your mind.

You’re not afraid of all the things you need to do yet and you haven’t been jolted into daily existence. No lights are on, so your brainwave chemistry is probably conducive to meditation. I live my entire day in advance as a ballet. I’d be like, “We’re having this wonderful conversation and Kathy’s there. It’s so lovely and wonderful, and then I go to the chiropractor. That’s great too. The check comes, there’s world peace, and I live my whole day all the way to the end of the day and then I close my eyes and go to sleep.” That’s before I even get out of bed.

During the day, I would live through my day, and if I encountered something that was scary or I needed to do, then I would use the reversing exercise. If I needed to do something that was powerful and I needed to do something that I didn’t have enough time, I would use the focus perception exercise to speed up time by, as we’ve said, focusing on what you want to happen. This happened to me. I was in New York City. I was visiting friends and I left from the east side to the west side in way too little time.

All I did was focus on a clock face. Not on how late I was, but a clock face that happened to be on the dashboard of the taxi or something else. Focus on what you want to the exclusion of all of the things, like holding your newborn. You’d be surprised how often you do have all the time in the world. Then when I get to the end of the day, I do my reversing of a negative thing if I can, but I do one more thing that’s special. This is a special exercise for people who are super intrepid and want to try this out.

In the middle of the night, I do the exercise we did, and I have it on a recorder, so I listen to it. It’s a recorder that doesn’t ring. It’s an MP3 player. It’s not a phone or something else, but it’s nearby. When you touch the talisman or the rose quartz, you might remember to do it. I pick things that I want to happen, and they could be mundane like a presentation, or they could be profound like world peace. I live that entire exercise and then I live the experience that is already done. Then, I fall asleep, I wake up, and I start all over again.

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I have to imagine that there are people that are reading this and thinking, “My day is so full. I wake up to an alarm clock and I’ve got to jump out of bed and then I’ve got to be here. There are the kids and my job, and then I’ve got to commute and have to take care of this.” They might be reading and going, “There’s no way that I could do this,” as we continue to talk about time. This is certainly something a lot of people know, like the Stephen Covey work and how there was a grid of important, but not urgent, and how do we invest the time that we have.

It seems to me that the more these practices, whatever works for people, whether it’s in meditation or in a dream state and doing an actual visualization, or whether it’s advancing and reversing, that the more we do this, the more our time can expand or the quality of how we show up is going to evolve. I’m sure there are folks out there with maybe questions on whether they can take this on, and the encouragement that yes, you can.

In some quips and wives’ tales, there is always time to do it twice and never time to do it right. Number one, if you’re so stressed out about getting there on time, you take a wrong turn and you’ve distorted yourself, but if you’ve lived in an experience where it’s ease and grace, those are words I use often, then it usually doesn’t happen. Try the middle of the night exercise maybe at the end of the day where you’re doing the exercise that we did.

Again, there’s a guided version of it on the website if you want to download it for free and use it. Do that and then see if it happens and see how you feel. Wonder about the amount of time that you might’ve devoted to being afraid of that or done things that would have had no effect on it and would have simply been a waste of time when it happened anyway. It might not happen exactly the way you imagined, because again, you’re not imagining how it happens. You just wanted it to happen, and then you move to the next moment that it did happen. There are no details. That takes out and removes fear, as we talked about, and fear is a huge time-waster.

We talked about this reptilian brain and our saber tooth tiger or fight or flight mechanism, and we’ve been built this way based on maybe our origins and our histories that now we’re having to override old operating systems that we carry with us. The reason we talk about these things as a practice is how difficult it can be and why we have to keep returning to it with compassion.

For those of you reading this conversation that go, “I’m going to click into this tomorrow and it’s all going to shift,” it’s taking those baby steps into this. We worry about the past and have anxiety about the future. We create stories about the future and of them that never occur. We make assumptions. Our mind is so busy trying to figure everything out. Why is that? How can we become maybe steadier in our thinking and our being?

Let’s talk about the endgame or a perspective because I think perspective is a great timesaver. In some sense, all personal transformation is rooted in time. You’re either stuck in the past, can’t be in the now, or afraid of the future. That’s for starters. This is about personal transformation. As you mentioned, personal transformation doesn’t happen immediately, but it does happen. It happens because we make a decision, and a decision could be, “I’m going to do this one practice and I’m going to see how it goes. I’m going to imagine that I have all the time in the world. I’m going to imagine that before I begin this huge project that I think I can’t finish on time that I see it already done.”

Try one thing and then give yourself feedback. That’s why as a scientist looking at this, and people who are driven by data, there’s so much science in the book that we tend to pull things apart in a pretty scientific manner. Do one little experiment for yourself. Relieve the anxiety and the fear about something once and then see how you feel and make a note of it. The exercise we did was seven minutes long at the most, and you could do it even more quickly. Imagine you have five minutes and you set aside five minutes for yourself to save hours.

It is the return on investment. I’ve been using a term ROE, which is Return On Energy. What are you creating by investing your energy and intention into an activity? I do think these exercises that you share can really make powerful shifts. We were talking about the peace officers, and a lot of these are not giant leaps. It’s just shifting ever so slightly into a new perception of what’s happening. It is a different state of mind or a different state of brainwave that all of a sudden produces a different outcome. Would you agree?

I would. It’s the central question which the book explores. Does how we show up in our minds at the moment affect reality? Here’s an example. You show up to a party where everyone is neutral and you are extremely sad or extremely angry. Do you think without saying a word that they would sense that? Everybody would say yes. You showed up at the moment, so how they’re going to behave towards you is now different because of how you showed up. The one thing we can control is how we each show up. Why don’t we take control of that master time by showing up in the moments the way we want to show up?

Quantum Ballet

I call it the quantum ballet. You’re showing up, I’m showing up, and maybe you do bump my car and then there’s a dent on it. The fireman shows up and I’m like, “It’s the love of my life.” We’re all doing these things around the whole world. Everybody’s doing the quantum ballet. Can you positively control every moment? No. Can you choose how you show up? Absolutely. Does that make a difference in your life for real world experience? There’s no question that it does. It may be supported by the latest science, which we can’t explain yet, but I believe one day we will. With all of that, there’s no reason not to do it.

I love that you say the quantum ballet. It makes it seem so beautiful. It’s all of us interacting and different things happening. We’re going to show up differently because sometimes we all have tough days. This doesn’t mean we’re always going to be in our highest and best state, but it does mean that the more awareness we bring to it, the more we have the potential to shift it. Sometimes, you feel what you feel, and it might be a bad day and maybe a day to stay home, and another day, you’re able to shift.

I was speaking with a friend of mine who finished a leadership coaching training, and one of the things they talked about was that presence is an intervention. Meaning, when you’re with someone who really is there, they’re showing up and just being there and not being in another frame of time of what happened yesterday or tomorrow. People feel that. They feel when you’re there.

More powerfully. We can always choose to do that. What I wanted to do was have simple exercises that don’t take a lot of quote time. They do take a decision. A decision made with feeling governs our lives. We make a decision with feeling, “I’m doing this.” When we do that, then we can change our lives. Here’s a very simple decision to make. Do this exercise, the one we did of living in experience in advance, and decide to reverse a negative thought. I was accused of having a bad hair day. It was a business day where the quantum ballet looked more like a big traffic jam or a mess.

Someone said that to me, so what I did is I reversed it before I lost all perspective and all control. I didn’t descend into fear. It could happen to anyone, but I did remember to sit myself down. I’ve done these in ladies’ rooms, in parked cars, in closets, and at the airport where someone poked me to wonder if I was alive or a statue. You can do it anywhere that you need to do it to get a hold of yourself and not descend into fear. Decide how you want to show up in the next moment and know that it changes many things. If nothing else, it changes you and it may change actual physical reality.

It is so crazy when you read the book and you get into the science. For anyone who’s looked into quantum science, it’s fascinating and amazing because we’re so used to this linear tangible world, but it’s really not that way. Things can shift pretty dramatically. You’ve said many times that one day, we’re going to know so much more. We’re just beginning to understand this. Also, have fun. I think you saying fun is important too because sometimes, there’s an intensity around like, “I need to be better and improve myself,” and all these things we’re trying to do. Play with it and see what you create.

 

If you create your day as we did where you go into focus perception in the morning, do a little bit of breathing before you get out of bed, and live your day as though you’re sweeping through a ballet and everything is wonderful, you will be joyful. Something could happen like someone bumps your car, you have a leak, or the house has a problem or the cat to set you back. With that said, you’ve started off showing up in a way that was pure joy and going through your life.

You may experience that your day is exactly like that, and that’s the type of reinforcement that we need as critical thinkers in order to say to ourselves, “I’m going to do that again. That was awesome. My day unfolded exactly like I wanted it to and everything was perfect.” I went to sleep, I woke up, and I did it again. I’ve been doing these exercises for decades, so for the things that I’ve been able to do in my life, I will tell you unequivocally, it works.

People, I’m sure, can get this from hearing your voice and your confidence. You have this very peaceful and grounded presence, so I think all the practices, that’s what it yields, and as we talk about having more joy and less fear, who doesn’t want to sign up for that?

It doesn’t take too much to get there. That’s the thing.

Sometimes, we overcomplicate it. Make some choices to invest in something that’s going to be the seeds of something quite beautiful in the future. The book is All the Time in the World and you’ve mentioned your website, but for people who are like, “I really want to understand more,” how can they find you and work with you? I want to make sure that you share all of that.

LisaBroderick.com is where we can go. Also, the book is available in all major booksellers. If you Google All the Time in the World, you’ll get a lot of information. On my website, I do a couple of things. I’m often interviewed by national media who want to know the best time stories, and we’re having a bit of a contest until the end of 2021.

If people on the website want to submit their most unusual life-changing time stories, then I may be able to share that on national media in November and December 2021. That’s one thing. Also, I’ve been so encouraged by people wanting to do this that I do personal time coaching, and that is on the website. If someone wanted to work with me where it would be a very concerted effort to reframe time focus, do these exercises, etc., that’s available on the website as well.

I would encourage everyone to engage in whatever way that makes sense for them. I’m so grateful for the work that you’re putting into the world. I have to close with one question, and this question is broad. We’ve been talking a lot about time, quantum physics and shifting our frame, but in your amazing journey, is there a piece of wisdom or something that you’ve received from a teacher or someone else that you would share that’s been most meaningful to you?

There are many, but there is one that relates to time in particular, and this is the real sticking to the subject matter. Considering the amazing complexity of the universe, there’s the existence of matter, energy, time or multiple dimensions, as we’ve talked about. Our existence goes beyond Galileo, Newton and even Einstein. It suggests an awareness which many people call spiritual, it may be quantum or it may be quantum spiritual, but life is way beyond what we can see and what we know that we can experience now, so let’s explore it with joy. There’s so much to explore. That’s how we can lead a life that is without limitations.

I think that’s beautifully said. What I think about the fact that this wisdom you shared is about saying know that you’re so much more and that there’s so much potential, we can stay in curiosity and in discovery and know that nothing is ever fixed. We have the potential to be creating all the time, which is a beautiful thing. The more that we do that through joy, the better the outcome. I want to thank you for this amazing conversation and everything that you’re doing to help us understand our time and how to make life more beautiful.

Thank you so much for having me. It has been fun.

Thank you.

Important Links:

• All the Time in the World
• Police2Peace
• The Tao of Physics
• LisaBroderick.com
• Audio – All the Time in the World

 

About Lisa Broderick

Lisa Broderick is an accomplished senior executive whose career has been defined by understanding how technology impacts society and changes behavior.  She is also someone who experiences and studies the world in terms of data, best practices and quantum science. Lisa teaches that life is about constant change, in which energy and matter are the basis of transformation. Now, her groundbreaking new book, All the Time in the World, reveals how new scientific literature is revolutionizing our understanding of what time is and, more importantly, how we can affect it.

With her aptitude for making science understandable, relevant, and captivating, Lisa has helped countless others shift their understanding and make profound changes in their lives. For over four decades, she has worked with entrepreneurs and established companies to create lives of presence and purpose. Her approach of integrating science with metaphysics and her own personal experiences has changed the lives of regular people as they reimagine how they see themselves, their businesses and how the world sees them.

Lisa earned a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke. She is a Transcendental Meditation Sidha, attended the Monroe Institute for the exploration of expanded states of consciousness, and studied imagery and dream reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery for 15 years with noted author and teacher of Western spirituality Dr. Gerald Epstein.

Today, Lisa’s passion is helping others with little or no scientific or spiritual training master their innate abilities with practices designed to improve their lives, their relationships, and the world.  She also uses her teaching and skills to guide the nonprofit she founded, Police2Peace which reimagines how the police see themselves and how the community sees them using the term “peace officer.” Police2Peace unites communities and police departments around programs that uplift and heal them.  Lisa has been featured in broadcast media, numerous podcasts and online events, regularly appearing on ABC Network News in New York as a business correspondent.

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