Time Time is an illusion. This topic was touched before but I wanted to further explain. Time is a construct we devised to help us keep track of things here in these lives on this plane. It serves to help us mark events in some order that we can grasp. It is a way to discuss our experiences in the physical world. We see the movement of the Sun in the sky. We experience the change of seasons and growth patterns. So, we draw on these outside observances to make a basis for segmenting our experience. We mark hours, days, weeks, years, centuries and millenia, but it's still measurement we are imposing from our physical perspective in this location. In this way, Time is something we all agreed to create. Yes, create. We did not discover Time. We collectively agreed to invent it, to name it, to quantify and qualify it. Together we decided that dawn to dawn was a day. It was easiest to stand side by side and know that each of us could see the sunrise and we could, together, know that it was the marker. Of course we've made it more complex over the centuries, as we spread out over the planet and learned more about the movement of the Earth and planets and how dawn is perceived on a delay as the Earth spins. But still, we've worked out our collective decisions about time and dates and marking the years, with only a few variations on the same theme. We even built mechanisms to keep track of our creation for us. Some day we may build contraptions to defy or alter our own definition and let us jaunt about in Time as we wish. Time is not a law of the universe. It's not even something that we always recognize, despite our agreements. Consider how Time feels. A clock on the wall, a device used to measure the passing of regulated minutes into hours, may tell you that an hour has passed. But, you know that Time fluctuates greatly, depending on what you were experiencing in that hour. Some activities seem to fly by. They're over too soon. Maybe you were having so much fun that you had no concept of the passage of time. Maybe you felt so overwhelmed that you didn't feel you had enough time to accomplish what you wished. Maybe the minutes were dragging as you waited for the next event. And yet, the clock ticks off the seconds in the very same way it always does. The Sun moves across the sky about the same distance as always because the Earth rotates at the same speed as during any other hour. Time, being something we created and continue to support, is also under our control. In fact, each individual has absolute total control over all Time. You think I'm kidding? If how you feel directly affects the perceived passage of time AND you can control how you feel, then, you control time. Still with me? Now I'm not saying that we have to concentrate on every second in order to manipulate it, but we can use some general guidelines to master Time. Take a good look at your past experiences with Time. I've been away on weekend trips that were relaxing and enjoyable and made me feel as though I was away for a week. Why is that? Perhaps it's because I put aside all the requirements that made me feel so busy otherwise. Perhaps I set my head right to just enjoy whatever happened or did not happen and made a point of being relaxed, no matter what. Realize this: We can adopt this attitude during every minute of every day. You don't have to sell off all your worldly goods and move to an island to have a relaxed life. You can live each day, each moment, in a relaxed way. It's merely perception. Yes, it's much easier to change our perspective and mindset when we change our regular activities or location. We are so bound by our five senses and learned responses that we impose them on everything we do and we allow them to force judgements on Time. However, it's not what's going on around you that counts. It's the inner self that is the Master of Time. You can do the things you need to do, you can fullfill your responsibilities as you must, BUT it's how you feel about them and how you percieve these tasks that will control the Time involved. Example: If time really drags when you're doing something you hate, then the more you concentrate on that feeling, the slower it will drag, etc. You don't have to change activities, although that would be easier and is usually the route people take. All you have to do is change your own attitude. You own it. Use it. Your feelings are your own. Your perception is something you developed or allowed to develop. If it's making you unhappy, change it. It won't help to bury it or deny it. You have to change it from the core. Either learn to enjoy what you're doing or do something else. Even if you are absolutely sure that you have no options to do anything else, then make the best of what you're doing by finding a way to enjoy it. Ask yourself what you really hate about a loathsome task and find a way to change it to suit you better. This is not easy. I am very aware of that. But the reason it's not easy may surprise you. Changing your attitudes and perceptions is a battle with yourself and the accumulation of rules, guidelines and truths that you've allowed to pile up on you throughout this lifetime and possibly leftovers from other lifetimes. Work has become a dirty word for a lot of people, yet there are some who live to work. So work is not inherently bad. Tedious tasks are not inherently bad. Sometimes they teach patience. At other times, tedium is just a good time to do something mindless and let your brain rest. Seeming rewards aren't always good. Suppose you have a week of vacation and no money, no place to go, nothing at all planned. It might not seem like a fun time, at least, not what you always thought vacations should be. Who set the arbitrary standard for 'vacation'? Consciously or by blindly accepting outside training, you did. So, change your attitude about Time by taking a different look at how you're spending it. Don't evaluate WHAT you're doing. Take a look at HOW you're doing it and how you feel about it. You know very well that you can throw your whole self into a task if you want to, even to the point of getting smothered in it. You also know that you can back off and get minimal done with minimal effort. The difference is whether you're killing time or controlling it. Master it. Enjoy little things or resize tasks to suit you. That is, make tasks larger or smaller by changing how you approach them. Engage your sense of humor or creative juices. Make a big superhero gesture before jumping in to tackle something dauntingly serious... or for changing a lightbulb. Turn everyday dumb little annoyances into special events. Make breakfast but do it as if you were a master chef, even if you're only pouring milk on cereal. Use a little food coloring to make purple scrambled eggs to be served with blue milk. Take the garbage out but pretend it's fighting to get back in. Let your fingers do a dance on top of the copy machine or hum a little tune with the fax tone. Play an imaginary piano concerto on the edge of your desk while you wait for a file to download. These things may not only lighten your spirit, but any who happen to catch you at them. Notice that steering wheel drummers are usually unruffled by traffic. Now maybe you're thinking you can't do any of that stuff. Someone will think you're nuts. So what if they did? A lot of them would be jealous too because they would see you having fun and want to play but they're afraid or can't think of how to start. If that still doesn't work for you, then just do these things in your head. You can perform most of your daily tasks while using very little of your attention. Use the rest for fun! After a while, the little oddities will occur to you without having to work hard to think them up. After a while, you may even get brave enough to start doing them so other people can experience them too. How can it possibly hurt to have more fun in the world? Without changing a single activity in your mundane life, you can reorder Time and discover that not only is there more of it than you imagined but it's so much more enjoyable to spend it as You. One thing you will want to do is add more time for nothing. Take a few moments to clear out all the noise, all the requirements, all the Do's and Dont's, all the voices of experience in your life. Clear it all away and listen to the peace within yourself. It has been there for all Time, but you may not have been taking the Time to enjoy it. (Time)

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