Its all about the timing...

The clocks are about to change.  I am not a fan of the seasonal time change.  I remember being in college and crossing the international dateline on a boat.  At 2pm, the day changed from one day to a different day.  I remember thinking how “made up” time is.  And to a certain extent humans have created time, or more so, the tracking of time.  

And wow!  Do we humans think about time… spend some time thinking about… how much time you spend thinking about time.  How much time do I have?  How long will that take?  Timers to make sure we don’t spend too much time doing one thing or another.  Checking the traffic.  Wondering how long we have to wait until our dreams come true.  Saying no there isn’t enough time for that.  Or yes, we can make time for that.  We can’t make time, can we?

There are spiritual scholars who call this time of our lives the “quickening”, which I find fascinating because time sure seems to be quickening.  I swear time is moving faster.  I’m sure science would tell you a second is still a second, but… seriously how did all of these years go by?  

And in our culture, it seems like the purpose of life is to move faster, to do more, to do more more efficiently.  It is as if we must move faster to keep up, to use less time for each thing so we can get to more things.  I know this feeling well.  It makes me try to multitask.  And then I am out of present time - not fully present in any of the tasks I am doing.  I can’t make a to-do list in my head of all the things I need to do and listen to my child’s story about her day.  I can’t listen fully and think at the same time.  What if we tried to do one thing at a time, instead of all the things all the time?

There is only one place that time is more still for me.  Time is slower in meditation and I like that feeling.  It is the opposite of rushing through time to get to the next thing, it is fully being.
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I want to give myself permission to slow down time. I don’t have to use it all so quickly, or with so many things packed into one moment.  This might mean meditating more, or simply resting more.  In slowed down time, I could rest more.  Rest daily.  A full rest.  Not the kind of rest where you are doing something else too.  Not like folding the laundry while listening to a podcast, that isn’t really rest.  I guess that would mean some time off.  I encourage you to take some time off, afterall you are about to lose an hour.