How to Slow Down the passing of TIME
I’ve discovered the fountain of YOUTH!! I’ve discovered the secret to slowing down the passing of time.
Have you ever noticed how, as adults, it seems that time flies by? Days turn into weeks, months and finally years. One day we wake up tired and aged, death looming, and wondering what happened? How did we get here? What have we accomplished? And feeling the quiet desperation of leaving a legacy. Some of us are fortunate enough to have experienced some profound awakening, usually in the form of an immense challenge, a near death experience, the death of a loved one, the birth of a child, our own rebirth….
Our children, on the other hand, cannot wait to grow up, to hit teenage and adult years. ** For children, time seems to painstakingly drag on, but only for fleeting moments, when they are not immersed and thoroughly enjoying the present moment!**
Have you ever wondered WHY that is?? Why does time seem to whiz by for adults, the older you get the faster it goes, whereas our children experience quite the opposite. We tell them to slow down, to enjoy life, and to stop being in a hurry to “grow up”. Hmmm….perhaps we need to take our own advice. But how to we do that? Is there a way to slow down the passing of time?
You’ll be happy to know that there is a way. The secret is presence. The older we get, the more experiences we have, the more memories we build. Unfortunately that also comes with regrets, and more experiences and memories to dwell upon. We tend to spend a whole lot of our time, our PRESENT, DWELLING on the past. This probably isn’t the best way to spend the precious moments we’ve been given.
The closer we get to the end of our lives, the older we get, the more we tend to worry. We worry about our future, and our retirement. Will we have enough money? Will we have accomplished our dreams? Will our children grow up to be happy and successful? As if we didn’t have enough of our own stuff to worry about, we actually take on our children’s problems and worries, and that of our friends, our community, even our world. Of course worry for brief periods of time can be quite functional when it propels you to take action to aide in the prevention of that which you are worried about actually coming to pass, but that’s another article.
We wonder why time seems to go by so quickly. Perhaps it’s because we are not existing within time. We are literally sleep walking through life. We are not even LIVING - being alive requires giving our energy to the NOW, to the present. BE and live in the PRESENT. We are literally MISSING our lives - spending our PRESENT dwelling and worrying. How sad!
So what can you do to slow down the passing of time??
1. You can have children.
Children are great beings to learn from–they are fully present. They live every moment. They FEEL everything and are completely centered in their hearts; their emotional core.
2. You can have a near death experience, or get seriously ill.
Illness can be a very effective awakening. We come to realize our own mortality and are less likely to waste the precious time we have left.
3. You can participate in a loved one’s near death experience or death.
When a loved one becomes gravely ill or when we lose someone close to us, this also can help us to appreciate all that we have and use our time more wisely. Unfortunately, this one is often short lived. It’s very easy to slip back into our sleep state, or some people will use this experience as an excuse to dwell even more….living in the past…when that person was alive, or well. Or much worse, some people get STUCK in the past when their loved one was ill and or when he/she died and re-live it over and over, usually in an unconscious effort to punish themselves, for being the one still living. In essence they are more dead than the deceased one.
4. Finally, and thankfully - there is another way. Simply PRACTICE being HERE, NOW.
Catch yourself when your mind takes over and bring yourself back to reality - the present is all that exists. Use your 5 senses to See, Hear, Smell, Taste and Feel all the glorious sensations and wonder that the PRESENT we’ve been gifted has to offer! :)
All you want or need is here and now. Now is all you have. Now is all there is.
Accept the PRESENT God gave you. Do not insult God any longer with worry - all that shows is that you do not trust God. Forgive and remember your past - but only for brief moments of learning. Accept and love what IS!!
LOVE only exists in the PRESENT. In fact, if you think about it, GOD only exists in the PRESENT. The past is gone - it does not exist but as a memory. The future is an illusion. If you wish to find and experience God - you must be present - that is where he resides - in your heart, right NOW.
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