Comments on: What If You Treated Your Travels As An Experiment? http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/04/15/what-if-you-treated-your-travels-an-experiment/ Online travel magazine dedicated to exploring travel in the 21st century. Offering travel news, compelling interviews, online travel tools, and more. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:14:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christine Garvin http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/04/15/what-if-you-treated-your-travels-an-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-89566 Christine Garvin Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:30:46 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=949#comment-89566 Ah yes, the Power of Now...I try to pick it back up every couple of months and re-read a just a section, because as you guys have already noted, we just continue to move faster and faster everyday (how many websites can I look at in one day?). So we need a constant reminder to slow down, be present, and understand that to a certain extent, all that goes on out there is illusion--what is important is what is inside of you, and staying stable within that as the craziness flies around outside of us. Sounds like "Astonish Yourself" can be helpful in this by forcing you to focus on the present by doing what we think of as typically mundane things in a different way. Ah yes, the Power of Now…I try to pick it back up every couple of months and re-read a just a section, because as you guys have already noted, we just continue to move faster and faster everyday (how many websites can I look at in one day?).

So we need a constant reminder to slow down, be present, and understand that to a certain extent, all that goes on out there is illusion–what is important is what is inside of you, and staying stable within that as the craziness flies around outside of us. Sounds like “Astonish Yourself” can be helpful in this by forcing you to focus on the present by doing what we think of as typically mundane things in a different way.

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]]> By: Travel-Writers-Exchange.com http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/04/15/what-if-you-treated-your-travels-an-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-89556 Travel-Writers-Exchange.com Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:18:41 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=949#comment-89556 I totally agree that it's time to slow down. Sometimes I feel that I'm on Super Warped Speed. It's no wonder that I've made some major mistakes. I working on patience; it's not a virtue for me (right now). I'm definitely going to do my best to slow down and be in the present moment or the now as Eckhart Tolle says in his book A New Earth. Perhaps I'll read his other book The Power of Now since I have a tendency to be and plan for the future. This is not a bad thing, but sometimes I feel as if life is passing me by and that I'm living it to my fullest. Time to change that. I'll do what I have to do to accomplish this feat. I totally agree that it’s time to slow down. Sometimes I feel that I’m on Super Warped Speed. It’s no wonder that I’ve made some major mistakes. I working on patience; it’s not a virtue for me (right now). I’m definitely going to do my best to slow down and be in the present moment or the now as Eckhart Tolle says in his book A New Earth. Perhaps I’ll read his other book The Power of Now since I have a tendency to be and plan for the future. This is not a bad thing, but sometimes I feel as if life is passing me by and that I’m living it to my fullest. Time to change that. I’ll do what I have to do to accomplish this feat.

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]]> By: Ian MacKenzie http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/04/15/what-if-you-treated-your-travels-an-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-89554 Ian MacKenzie Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:06:16 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=949#comment-89554 @Carlo - definitely the pace feels sped up. But I suppose that's not the only issue. When the pace is too quick, people tend to make judgements without questioning or considering the impact of their decisions on themselves and others. @Carlo – definitely the pace feels sped up. But I suppose that’s not the only issue. When the pace is too quick, people tend to make judgements without questioning or considering the impact of their decisions on themselves and others.

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]]> By: Carlo Alcos http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/04/15/what-if-you-treated-your-travels-an-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-89519 Carlo Alcos Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:00:38 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/?p=949#comment-89519 Good stuff Ian. I will be on the lookout for that book, sounds very interesting! I have been thinking a lot about this lately too - about the pace of our minds at this time and age. We've been switched to hyper-drive and it seems impossible to slow down, take a breather, notice things. And I don't think that people realise this; it's just normal. It's faster, faster, faster, more, more, more - all the time. Good stuff Ian. I will be on the lookout for that book, sounds very interesting! I have been thinking a lot about this lately too – about the pace of our minds at this time and age. We’ve been switched to hyper-drive and it seems impossible to slow down, take a breather, notice things. And I don’t think that people realise this; it’s just normal. It’s faster, faster, faster, more, more, more – all the time.

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