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The clock is ticking

Guest post by: Charlie Badenhop

Article Overview: Time management can be stressful and have a negative effect on productivity.Techniques are available to put time on your side.

The clock is ticking

How do you react to deadlines? How would you feel if someone said "Hurry up, the clock is ticking and we've got to get this completed!"? How well do you cope with stress?

I had a client who was constantly striving to meet deadlines and felt like he was being driven crazy by the clock on the wall. On a good day he said he could sometimes go ten to fifteen minutes without hearing the clock ticking away. On a bad day he reported the clock felt like it was inside his head, and getting ever louder.

He really got worked up in telling me his story.

"Sometimes" he said, "I have this dream. The phone is ringing off the hook and the clock is ticking away, TICK, TOCK, TICK, TOCK as if it was a bomb counting down towards detonation. I am a member of the bomb squad called in to dismantle it, before half the city is blown apart. Every day is the same. Just prior to getting to where I either successfully dismantle the bomb, or get blown up in the process, the bell goes off signifying the end of the work day, and I have no choice but to start out again from scratch tomorrow."

Upon hearing this story, I knew full well that my client was experiencing time distortion brought on from stress. I wound up offering him his symptom as the remedy.

First I took his pulse. 90 beats per minute! This means that he had three heartbeats every two seconds. Using a sound software program, I created a two track tape. One track ticked away at one beat per second, just like the clock on his wall. The other track put forth three beats every two seconds, just like his pulse. I let him listen to the tape so he could get used to the ratio of three heartbeats for every two ticks of clock time.

I told my client that next session I would help him slow down time with the help of hypnosis. I took my software program and I distorted time just like my client usually did at work, but in the opposite direction. Instead of compressing time, I lengthened it. I took the two tracks of 90 heartbeats occurring over sixty ticks of the clock, and spread these two sounds out over 75 seconds. My client was left with the impression that time had magically slowed down in his favor.

As I led my client into a mild hypnotic state I told him that we were entering into a special time zone. A realm in which he could slow down time with his breath and his mind. I asked him to count off the sixty seconds as he heard them tick off on the tape, and he did so. He counted backwards from sixty to one, and I told him that one magical minute had just gone by. Next I asked him to pay attention to the thumping sound track that represented his heartbeat, so that he could notice that there was still three beats every two seconds, just like before. Finally, I had him breathe deeply and slowly, while he did nothing else but listen to the interplay of his magical pulse and clock. At the end of twenty minutes he reported feeling wonderfully relaxed. He took his sound file to work and played it in the background, just loud enough to distract him from the clock on the wall. He called me quite happily that evening, to tell me he had the most pleasing and productive day at work that he could ever remember. "Time was on my side" he said!

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