This is your life: a lot of thing to do, many places to be and almost no time to do it all. Day after day you notice that time is a very limited resource and how important free time is.
Doesn’t matter if it’s at the church, at the college, on your job or at home, you’re always in a hurry rushing from one place to another. Remember, you don’t have a minute to spare!
And what happens when we use time in our favor by doing something for ourselves? We usually feel guilty. Answer honestly, do you think this is how life is supposed to be? When you were a kid, this is how you imagined your life should be?
The fact is that your life will speed away from you, with titanic costs and consequences to your health and well being and to those around you until you change your relationship to time.
If you make an effort to learn to shift time, your life will be more rewarding with better relationships, have more productivity on your time spent alone, and you’ll be less stressed.
But how could you effectively learn how to shift time? There’s no magical recipe, but that are some things you can do. You can try to live the present moment more effectively with no bad memories from the past or worries about the future. If you schedule what you’ll do on your free time, toss your schedule away and surprise yourself.
Use some seconds to pause in silence: before answering the phone, before your meals, before turning your car’s ignition on and on everything you can. By pausing you’ll recover yourself before moving onto the next task and will perform it more peacefully and effectively.
When you were a kid, you role played you were an adult. Now you should invert it and play. Doesn’t matter if you dance, skate, paint, sing, write, but be actively in touch with the child inside of you.
Watch the nature, interact with the nature and be in the nature. Contemplate amazing sunsets, squirrels on trees, bumblebees hovering around flowers and whatever pleases you. You’ll probably feel a lot rewarded by doing it.
With the right effort, you can experience time in a better way than most people do: purposefully and meaningfully. Time will stop robbing the joy of your life and you’ll be able to experience amazing gifts from your own time.
Remember what Jacob Needleman said in his book Time and the Soul: “The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life”.
