Photo: Full Moon Moondog, Feb 16, 2022, Roma, Texas, USA
Wisdom in Summary:
How do you perceive time? As I progressed through my morning, I had the opportunity to reflect on the concept of TIME. And I came to understand that we can change the perspective of time from a crunch through each minute to a harmonizing with every moment.
Deeper Dive:
My morning routine: have a cup of coffee while I journal, meditate, contemplate. Then start my day in a content, peaceful state of mind.
This morning I felt a time crunch for some reason (probably so I could write this blog 🙂 Rather than journal with coffee, I grabbed computer with coffee. Before I knew it, my coffee was gone, and I did not even remember drinking it much less appreciate it. An hour had passed, and I felt like I accomplished very little. And, the time crunch sensation just felt stronger. Plus, I was disappointed because I had not gotten my morning contemplation time. My day was feeling upside down, inside out, and askew.
Stop
I took a deep breath, grounded, and stepped outside myself to observe from a third-person perspective. What did I need to do in order to regain my sense of Peaceful Coalescence?
I felt my Spirit Team holding space for me. Then I knew: I needed to distance myself from that pulling perception of time being a dwindling resource.
Yes, I needed to STOP. And start again.
Contemplation
I made a second cup of coffee which is a very rare occurrence, but necessary in this situation 🙂
I took journal and began with “why did I grab my computer this morning instead of my journal?”
I paused to contemplate what I had felt which led me to grab computer rather than journal.
As I sipped and enjoyed my coffee, I pondered. I had felt a time crunch…. I cannot even call it an urgency.
Urgency is a feeling that spawns from deep within my core. It is a deep desire that needs immediate attention. Thus, I sense ‘Urgency’ comes from my Inner Divinity signifying the next step upon my most optimal Divine Path.
This is NOT what I felt this morning.
This morning, I felt a passing of time, a time crunch, a closing window of opportunity, a hurrying, a rushing, a necessity to act immediately before this timeframe encloses upon me, entraps me, crushes me. It felt dominating, and I felt a defenseless victim of circumstance.
Reactionary versus proactive.
A struggle to accomplish in time versus an opportunity to create with ease and grace.
Does the above description sound dramatic? Perhaps, but this exaggeration during contemplation allows me to look very closely and see what might be otherwise overlooked. It gives me opportunity to see the obvious in order to make the all-important shifts necessary to awaken to a new perspective.
Perception of Time
Time has been portrayed in Western culture (and perhaps in all humanity?) as a rolling boulder that a person cannot stop, cannot control, and is (victim to) prisoner of. You know the saying “Time marches on”.
Tick, tick, ticking of the clock creates false senses of urgency and despair simultaneously. Ultimately, it creates a false sense of losing something that we never truly had.
We never truly have ‘time’ because we cannot literally grasp on to the moment. It slips through our proverbial hands like grains of sand.
Truly Free
To be truly free, TRULY FREE, we shift our perspective of TIME.
We look at it as the Ancient Ones did:
- Mother Earth’s medicine wheel
- Cycles
- An honoring of the natural flow
- A knowing that when we stop to respect the cycle of the day, that cycle slows to harmonize with our own rhythm.
We become one with the cycles; we flow along with Sun crossing the big sky and Madam Moon changing phases.
The sensation of time crunching each minute becomes a deep desire to be present in every moment.
The feeling of losing something one never really had subsides.
And then, then one begins to see the true expanse, the unlimited opportunity, and the ability to truly be FREE.
Conclusion:
It is TIME for us to change our perception of TIME. From a crunch that one cannot control to a free flow desire that one harmonizes within.
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With loving intentions,
Lila