Stop looking at the clock, time is too precious for that

How do you feel time?

Not clock time but physical time.

“Clock time imposes order on what is actually a very subjective experience. “Natural” time is felt, not measured. It’s experienced, rather than constructed.” ~Tara McMullin

Here are 5 ways we view time have an impact on how we experience it:

#1 We don’t have time

We don’t have time. We are in time. We are not outside of time.

As we move through our days, time compresses or expands in the interplay with consciousness and how you perceive your experiences.

#2 There are no minutes or hours

With our reliance on clock time we measure time, well, all the time.

While days can be felt, hours and minutes chop days up in ways that aren’t part of our natural experience.

#3 Time is not a resource

We talk about using, spending and wasting time but the language is that of resources. And it’s not how time works.

We can no more wheel and deal our time than a fish can portion out water.

#4 Time is not money

So if follows that time is not money. Money is a resource.

Time is so much more valuable than money ever can be. We say we can use money to buy time but that’s an exchange we make based on what kind of lives we have.

#5 Your time is precious

Your experience as a conscious being in this form does have an end date.

It’s worth sitting with the preciousness of it. Recognize that measuring doesn’t ultimately allow you to control it.

So let’s take time to notice

I’m going to try to notice how much I measure time in these next few days.

To be more intentional about it and think of ways I might rely on the clock less.