letting go of time slowly
"Now that I think about it, have I ever experienced time slowing down or speeding up?"
I've recognized that we are the time keepers. Though many of us rule our lives by the clock, the watch, the alarm clock, observing grandeur ways of keeping time has been my key to getting everything done, and managing my time and stress level. (it seems time and stress have an inverse relationship.) It's nice to know this valve is something we hold, and whether we rely on timing our minutes by the seconds on a clock for convenience or by recognizing the breaths in an hour, I've found seasons, constellations and sunset help me.
When focusing on a single task such as meditation, it seems time is slowed, or magnified. Thus, the uses of time are often benchmark measurements as well.
An example of time speeding up? A work day spent about a week ago---it was 3pm before I knew it! Also when grieving. It seems a lot of time can be "lost" when one is coping or recovering from a traumatic experience. Another thing that comes to mind, is a recent experience. I was supposed to meet a group at 630 to star gaze. I called the coordinator and said, 630? what will we do until the sun goes down? She assured me sun was setting shortly after...and I thought...wow! Where have I been? Luckily, I arrived right on time...sunset about 7:20? I'm tapped into astronomy and the cosmos. I'm also into living with this energetic calendarhttp://www.stargazerli.com/calendars
An example of time slowing down? Sitting in the grass on a mountain top at a summer festival. In dreamlife, i've also experience time warping itself quite a bit. A watched tea pot?
one of my favorite books about time is: Praising the art of slowness. This book amazingly enough helped me wear a watch again. Luckily though, it's one with tides and moon phases.
http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Slowness-Challenging-Cult-Speed/dp/0060750510/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
I've recognized that we are the time keepers. Though many of us rule our lives by the clock, the watch, the alarm clock, observing grandeur ways of keeping time has been my key to getting everything done, and managing my time and stress level. (it seems time and stress have an inverse relationship.) It's nice to know this valve is something we hold, and whether we rely on timing our minutes by the seconds on a clock for convenience or by recognizing the breaths in an hour, I've found seasons, constellations and sunset help me.
When focusing on a single task such as meditation, it seems time is slowed, or magnified. Thus, the uses of time are often benchmark measurements as well.
An example of time speeding up? A work day spent about a week ago---it was 3pm before I knew it! Also when grieving. It seems a lot of time can be "lost" when one is coping or recovering from a traumatic experience. Another thing that comes to mind, is a recent experience. I was supposed to meet a group at 630 to star gaze. I called the coordinator and said, 630? what will we do until the sun goes down? She assured me sun was setting shortly after...and I thought...wow! Where have I been? Luckily, I arrived right on time...sunset about 7:20? I'm tapped into astronomy and the cosmos. I'm also into living with this energetic calendarhttp://www.stargazerli.com/calendars
An example of time slowing down? Sitting in the grass on a mountain top at a summer festival. In dreamlife, i've also experience time warping itself quite a bit. A watched tea pot?
one of my favorite books about time is: Praising the art of slowness. This book amazingly enough helped me wear a watch again. Luckily though, it's one with tides and moon phases.
http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Slowness-Challenging-Cult-Speed/dp/0060750510/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
I couldn't agree more that the tools we use to measure time affects how we experience it. For example, in Vedic Astrology we use a concept called 'planetary periods' as a tool for prediction. By looking at past patterns of experience under certain planetary influences, we look to the future to understand what might unfold, based on the past. Because of the concepts of karma and reincarnation, Vedic time feels much more cyclical in this way, and less linear. And though the mechanism is different with the Mayan calendar, there again the metaphor is that we have cycles of time and meaning ever unfolding.
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