Adventures in Time

      Have you noticed that time can seem to stand still? Have you noticed that it can also fly by and drag or stretch out endlessly? Yet it is the same time, or the same measure of time. If there were no clocks or timepieces of any type, we would lose our awareness of seconds and minutes and shift to day and night time and seasonal time. What is important about time? It regulates our lives. We know when we have to get up and we know when we should go to bed, we learn to allow for the time it takes to get somewhere and time for things to grow. The most often heard expression is "there isn't enough time" which comes from very busy people. Could we depend on an unregulated time schedule? Would we get the same amount of work done or would it go up and down by the day? Many people have an inner time sense that would become a fairly good indicator, but others seem to have none, so that would create a problem. Why is it even necessary to be aware of time in the general sense?

      Time makes us aware of change. Time makes us aware of progressive action. Time gives us a sense of boundaries, of structure. On the negative side, we can become very annoyed when we set goals for ourselves and we do not accomplish them in the time we think they should be done. We complain when we have to wait because of delays and time does not fit our sense of what the time should be or what we have been told. We watch the clock minute by minute if an important person or phone call does not come through as expected. Time can be so very positive, or very negative.

      What if we can slip in and out of time? What if there is no time? What if it is all an illusion? We can count the years and the seasons of our lives. We know when we have passed the child, young adult stage and we become aware of the other stages of our life and time seems to be short. We judge life's time by our physical bodies, how they look, at what stage they have grown to, and what season of life we are in. Yet, if death is birth, and it is, then how do you judge time? How do you put a structure on that which has no ending, but simply a continuing? So what do we do with our concept of time? Perhaps a change of attitude toward time. This is not to discount the business world and the needs that must be met daily in each life, whether it is a job that has long hours or one that has shorter hours. We can begin to look at time as a movable flow, and though the earth constricts us and binds us to a constructed time frame, we can try to unlock our minds to see the wider picture. Allow the pressure of time to soften, be easier on yourself if you do not accomplish your goals within a time limit. Allow yourself to stretch time by seeing that it is not a locked in frame that one must stay within. Try to change your time schedules in some way, experience it in a different way. If you choose to meditate and let go of earth time, you will find that within you is a place where there is no time. Experience it and find the way to peace.