SLOW TIME DOWN TO MAKE MORE TIME FOR YOURSELF

SLOW TIME DOWN TO MAKE MORE TIME FOR YOURSELF

This could just as easily have been called, ‘How to Master Time’, but I’m wary (and weary) of the use of the word ‘Master’ or any of its derivatives.

It is possible to slow time down, and for most people that’s as much mastery of the stuff as they need. For those of us who want more, it’s a good place to begin getting a grip on mastery of time.

Before we begin this journey, we have to agree on the starting point. The starting point contains one premise. The premise is that the experience of the passing of time is both subjective and relative. Put another way time flies when you’re having fun and really drags when you’re not.

If we can agree on that premise because you’ve had the experience of it, we can continue.

Here’s the quick, easy and simple way of doing it:

Look at the time and decide that you will slow down the next block of 10 or 15 minutes, so that you experience them as being twice as long. Thus ten minutes will feel as long as twenty, fifteen as long as thirty.

Then simply continue doing whatever it was that you were doing, or going to do. This is important because it will give you a reference for how fast or slow time is moving. Don’t stare at the clock, obviously.

Once you’ve experienced this happen a few times, make the decision that you’ll slow down your block of ten or fifteen minutes so that it feels like three times as long.

This is especially good to use if you wake up 10 or 15 minutes before the alarm goes off. In fact that’s how I stumbled across it – I hate getting up in the morning. It’s a great way to increase the amount of time you have for leisure or work.

Start with small increments and build up. After a while you’ll be able to slow an entire day down so you get more value from it. I often use it when I’m going to be hanging out with a friend I haven’t seen in a long while. Then, instead of time flying when I’m having fun and thinking, ‘damn, is it that the time already?’, when I check the time, my reaction is, ‘is that all the time is?’.

The only time this doesn’t work for me is if I have music playing in the background, so I recommend you practice this without music.

That’s it; have fun!

Ps: I do have a progressive system of developing this skill, but it’s longer and I wanted to keep this post short. Leave a comment if you’d like it and I’ll post it up here another time.