Dear All,
This month, there are a few changes: first the name of the Newsletter. In fact it is not a news letter but a thoughts letter or simply a letter.
Instead of my face, I asked a friend to use one of his great paintings for my letter and he kindly accepted.
After A wonderful September, I thought that it was probably time to speak about October.
I’m kidding. We have better to do than talking about weather…

Enjoy your reading.
All the very best.

Denis

TAKE YOUR TIME!

Life is short, so short.
Getting older, it seams that time accelerates more and more every year. In a way, it’s good to celebrate my birthday so often, but still…
I guess that it happens because we loose track of time, lost in our day to day life, just a day after another.

As a Therapist, I’m accustomed to tell my clients, especially to end a session in hypnosis:
“During the next 2 minutes, you can take all the time of the world”.
It just gives a feeling of long comfortable time in a 2 minutes frame. The best is that it’s working.
Just try that at least twice a day during work hours.
Give yourself a 2 minutes break during your day at work. Just take all the time of the world: do nothing, close your eyes and just listen, feel and take your time: you are alive!
I believe that it is more our perception of time than time itself that maters. You know how certain moments seam to last for ever when others are escaping like send in your hands.

We can keep going, acting as if we’re eternal, running every day as if it will last for ever, or remembering that our days are counted, we can think seriously about our life.
The fantasy of the eternal young time is so powerful today that it is an amazing market to make money on fears, hopes and believes.
What have we done to our old wise characters? Where are Yoda, Merlin, Christmas Father and all the others?
Now it seams more fashionable to have Kate Moss, Jude Law and even virtual characters like Lara Croft as models.
Can we become wise in the body of a young person, or in an old body looking young?
I have no answers, and I am just asking questions on subjects that are essential to me.

Aging every day a little bit more, everything is pushing us to find ways to stay fit, look younger and be healthy.
The pressure is very high and it is a very efficient brain wash from society.
Because this journey is very short, can we reasonably waste so much time on a day to day base.
I have the feeling that this pressure, race against time, is a good way to keep us busy, docile, good tax payers.
If we’re starting questioning, the system could be in great danger. It’s better to keep us in the dark, in front of TV.
Time is precious because limited.
How long would be the right life?
How many years do we need?
How ever long it is, will it be enough when it will be time to go?
Is it a question of time or just to put away the inevitable issue?

It is potentially my last day on earth. I have no idea of the moment when all of this will end.
If I don’t take my time now, tomorrow will perhaps be too late.
If I keep running, I’ll be running faster and faster, trying to catch the moment that I missed because I was running after it.

Slow down and enjoy!
Did you ever think about the words “to take time”?
What does it mean? Isn’t it strange?
You can take your time as you can take a train or a break or a lesson or what ever you can hold.

Take your time, grab it, and embrace it.
If you don’t, nobody will and it will be lost for ever.

Enjoy your life, TAKE YOUR TIME!

DEAR THOMAS

Thomas has been made Saint a long time ago and all what we know about him is: “I believe in what I see”.
What a tuff start, isn’t it?
And still there’s so many people going to psychics for predictions, including presidents…
Following Thomas idea is probably the best way to escape the disappointment of having believed in something, in Father Christmas and having been abused, lied to, and having been stupid to believe without proof.
The problem is that human beings are build on believes.
Even to believe that something is not true is a belief.
What is the risk in believing? What is the worse that could happen?
Disappointment probably, or it’s just out of our world map.
The map is not the territory and we all have a different one, which is our representation of the world.
Sometimes, we can pass something or someone we know and not even see him.
Pay attention to what’s going on around you. There is perhaps some information out there that we’re missing because we don’t pay attention.
The way that we look at things is giving us a certain idea of what we look at, but are we seeing what we’re looking at the way it is?
We will never know.

What if we have to believe our dreams to see it happen?
What if we have to believe in Human Nature to see it improve?

Watching TV every evening is a sure way to believe that Human Nature is deeply depressing.
It is true, Dear Thomas, that you we don’t see thousands of amazing things that happen every day, all around the globe, and for real.
So, does it exist if we don’t believe that it exists?

If you are a Thomas on earth, pay attention, things are perhaps not the way you think they are.

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