Take Time To Love, Be, Enjoy, Think, Feel …
The best time of your life is now. Yesterday is over. The future does not even exist. Get some fresh air, breathe, open up. Take time to love others, but also time to love yourself as you deserve.
Take time to think and feel the warm touch from the current day. When it’s all over, it’s never going to come back.
William James, a psychologist and philosopher who specializes in mental health, wrote about time perception. He explains that we experience a clear feeling that time passes faster as we get older. Time becomes something fleeting, strange and even scary.
According to James, this phenomenon occurs because as we get older we no longer experience memorable moments as we did in our younger years. Years where everything was fresh, exciting and new (the first love, that trip, that job, the new house, the child…). Whether you like it or not, life becomes a routine. Our daily life becomes a slow and cyclical experience. We experience, see and meet the same events and situations over and over again.
Slowly but surely , due to lack of stimulus, the brain ends up in a vicious circle where its neurochemistry changes, and with it the memory begins to fail and the perception of time becomes inconsistent. This can be avoided by continuously exposing oneself to new experiences.
It’s all about changing routines; about stepping out of the existential fog. Take the time to live in the present and reach it with significant events. It’s easier than you think.
We encourage you to reflect on this.
We have all probably heard of the concept of conscious presence, or mindfulness. It is used to help manage attention and accept the present. It gives the individual strength to act in creative ways, in harmony with his or her own values.
It is not as easy to exercise as it sounds, even outside the clinical sphere. Many individuals begin to exercise conscious presence, but soon realize that it is not for them. This is because the methods of exercise can neither be integrated nor maximized by them.
The reason behind this is that our brain has a very strange concept of time, or what we call the present. In the book “The Power of Fifty Bits” , its author – the scientist and engineer Bob Nease, who is fascinated by the mysteries of the brain – explains the predisposition of the brain to shift its attention and not concentrate on a specific aspect or point of interest. Our instincts and senses do not understand the concepts of the present, the future and the past, only survival.
The human mind lives in a constant state of autopilot. It focuses on several stimuli simultaneously, with a single goal: to process risks. Everything to keep us safe. It is good to train the mind and convince it that “everything is okay”, that “everything is calm”.
If we groom the branches of our mental forest, we will be able to find our roots.
We often hear the phrase “stop the clock, step out of the routine and dare to live here and now”. This classic phrase from self-help books has many undertones. We cannot escape our routines completely because we are bound by certain schedules and tasks that are part of the engine that drives and shapes our lives.
Learn to synchronize yourself to be in the present in an authentic way. Psychologist Zygmund Baumant describes today’s society as a fluid being where nothing is lasting, where everything is either thrown away or changed.
Multitasking, the art of doing more than one thing at a time, and the mentality of being second to none have made us irregular individuals without true balance: the present, the here and now.
Let us learn to synchronize our needs with our moral obligations, leave with chores. In this way we will shape a happy life. Free from fears, one now free from past remorse and from the anxiety of the future. Let us begin to give those we love our most valuable possession, the one we can neither sell nor buy: TIME.
