How understanding Time helped me Relax.

Many philosophers and physicists agree that time is an illusion.

We take the concept of time as the norm. We wake up, we have our morning routine, we get on with our day, we come home, evening routine and sleep (some of us do this on autopilot). Others have no routine and tend to find themselves rushing, trying to be on time for work or appointments, always on the move.

Sometimes we find ourselves rushing without even knowing why we are. If you live in a busy city, like me, you probably find yourself doing this a lot, then having to stop and tell yourself to calm the f*ck down (if your actually always late then, I don’t know what to tell you but your time management sucks).

Why are we in such a rush all the time? I find myself thinking I need to do it now and I don’t have time later, in the end, this makes me a very impatient and irritable person, especially when people come to me whilst I’m in the middle of a task, I feel so tense wanting them to leave me alone so i can get this done...on time.

Why can’t I just ride the wave? Why can’t I just give someone the same attention I give my task then get back to it after?

When I am consumed by time this way I don’t feel good, I feel stressed, I feel pressured, I feel like I can’t move on until I get this done. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by the things I have to do I end up procrastinating, hellooo Netflix.

Time as a concept is interesting. It is made by man to make sense of day and night and the seasons. We made sense of it by breaking to down to years, then months, then weeks, then days, then hours and so on.

We wanted to make sense of growing up and growing old.

This is human nature, always trying to make sense of things on this planet. (This is another thing, time is relative, as our dear Einstein said, time on the ground moves differently than time high up in the mountains, space is a whole different story. So to me this begs how important time really is).

Animals don’t know time, they live in the present moment, they know when it is day and they know when it is night (thank you biology and circadian rhythm), much like our ancestors, who lived by intuition.

I don’t see my dog feeling stressed because he wasn’t fed ‘on time’. When he is hungry he tells someone (through taps, scratches and sitting like a good boy) and we feed him. He hungry, he eat, he tired, he sleep. Oh to be a dog.

Eckhart Tolle once said that the key to life, is to end the delusion of time. Delusion meaning a false belief in our mind, false belief of time.

The stress I mentioned I feel when I don’t ride the wave of life when unexpected things occur. Is the same stress we feel when we find ourselves moving through time in our minds.

We get stuck in psychological time.

We all find ourselves thinking about the past or worrying about the future. Our mind ends up being pre-occupied, this results in us missing out on the reality of time, we miss the Now Moment.

I know it is easier said than done, to prevent our minds from going down memory lane or using memory lane to try to predict the future, it is not easy. This comes through practice, through grounding.

Realising that the Now Moment is the only thing that really Is, there have been many Now Moments that have passed, that we access through our memories (the past), and there will be many more Now Moments that we do not know yet, until it comes (the future).

To be at peace, we need to remind ourselves that time is relative, time has gone, time will come but the only real time is the time now in our Mind and in Reality.

As long as the Earth keeps spinning, there will always be time.

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