One exasperating aspect of getting older is that life seems to speed up. Key word here is “seems”…because it’s all due to our “perception”.
Our perception of time is pretty strange… but we are NOT doomed. As with all perceptions, it IS changeable. It IS possible to mold our “sense of time”.
YES, I’m saying that we can slow down time.
I used to feel like I was running out of time. Particularly after the end of my long term marriage almost ten years ago. It seemed like I had to live in a hurry…there was no time to waste…there was only the now. Of course, this was all in my head…I had plenty of time left to live.
I know that time went by very slowly when I was a child. The year seemed eternal. Then suddenly life changed; and it went from 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds…or in this case, in the “blink of an eye”. Coincidentally, I think it all began speeding up precisely when I got my driver’s license.🤔
It was then that I began to “multitask”; and it all went downhill after that.
Do you want to slow down time? It is simple. Engage in what you are doing fully and mindfully. Have you noticed how very slow time goes by when you are waiting for water to boil? Those few minutes can feel like hours! It’s the same concept.
However, the reason why time goes by so slowly for children is that everything is new. If you truly want to decrease the speed in this train called life, then you will seek to learn something new…meet new people…dive into a new love…visit new places…experience adventure. However, you must do it with full engagement.
What I’m attempting to say is that when you expand your brain you will slow down time.
At the end of the year 2022, I sat to recall and write the best moments that had transpired that year. I realized, with some surprise, that there had been so many new experiences in my life that year, that I had trouble accepting that it had all happened in just one year… it FELT that it was way longer than that.
Essentially, and in effect, TIME had slowed down for me.
Powerful realization.
