Take Time To Love, Be, Enjoy, Think, Feel …
The present is the best time of your life. Yesterday is over. There is no future. Hawk fresh air, breathe, open. Give yourself time to love others, but also time to love yourself the way you deserve.
Take the time to think and feel the warm touches of your present. Once it’s over, it will never come back.
Psychologist and philosopher William James, who specialized in mental health, wrote about the concept of time. He explains that as we grow older, we experience a clear sense of the speed of time. Time turns into something fleeting, special, even scary.
According to James, the phenomenon is due to the fact that as we age, we no longer feel memorable moments as we did in our youth. In the years when everything was fresh, exciting and new (first love, that journey, that work, new house, new baby…). Like it or not, life becomes a routine. Our daily lives turn into a slow and intermittent experience. We do, see and face the same events and situations over and over again.
Gradually, the brains, short of new stimuli, enter a destructive spiral where their neurochemistry changes. With it, the memory starts to snippets and the perception of time becomes inconsistent. This could be avoided if we were constantly exposing ourselves to new experiences.
It’s about changing routines. Everything that is found after we leave our existential fog. Living in the moment and nourishing meaningful events. It’s easier than you might think.
We encourage you to consider this.
Your brain has a strange notion of time
We have heard of mindfullness, of conscious presence. It is used to control attention and accept the present moment. Mindfullness reinforces an individual’s way of acting creatively, in harmony with their own values.
However, its implementation is not as easy as one might think. Even beyond the clinical dimension. Many people start practicing mindfulness and soon realize that it is not right for them. Practical methods cannot be harmonized or maximized.
The reason for this is that our brains have a very strange concept of time, or what we think of the present. In The Power of Fifty Bits, author, researcher, and engineer Bob Nease explains our brain’s tendency to change its focus and not focus on one particular perspective or interest. Our instincts and senses do not understand the concept of the present, the future, or the past, only survival.
The human mind lives in continuous autopilot mode. It focuses on several stimuli at once, with one goal: to process risks. Keeps us safe. It’s good to educate the mind and reassure “everything is fine” so that “everything is peaceful”.
If we can squeeze the branches of our spiritual forest, we can find our roots.
Learn to work with the present
“Stop the clocks, step out of your routines and dare to live in the here and now ”: this classic phrase in self-help books has several features. We cannot escape our routines completely because we are still obligated to meet schedules and accomplish tasks that are part of the engine that drives and shapes our lives.
Learn to work genuinely with yourself in the present moment. Psychologist Zygmund Baumant describes today’s society as a fluid whole where nothing lasts and where everything is either abandoned or changed.
Doing many things at the same time and pleasing the mentality has made us unpredictable individuals out of balance: the present, here and now.
Learning to deal with our needs and moral obligations. This is how we can shape a happy life. Free from fears, remorse of the past, and anxiety of the future. Let’s give our loved ones something we can’t buy or sell: TIME.
