Living Timefully

So many people claim to be time poor these days, asking for an extra hour a day or another day a week. I suspect some people use the lack of time for not getting things done. Yet, as you will see, this enslavement from time is one of our own making.

This is rather good news as, if we have created something, we can deconstruct it and build it up again to better serve us.

There was a time when we did not have watches and clocks. Nowadays though we have become somewhat enslaved by the time system of our own making. The first step in escaping from this enslavement is to understand how we started counting time.

The practice of meditation each morning sets us up for a productive day. The real key to generating as much time as we need lies in staying in the meditative state as long as possible during the day.

This short and simple routine can be done any time before embarking on a creative task. When we quieten our internal thoughts, it has the effect of creating an ‘interruption barrier’.

It is worth listening a few times and then practice entering this state under your own steam.

If we fail to plan our days, it is all too easy for our days to control us. The way we start our day sets the scene for the rest of the day. In this lesson, I would like to share a number of strategies that will make your days always deliver.

Listen to this short guidance and then, relax in the ambient soundscape and make a note in your journal of seven ways you will engage with each different day of the week going forward.

After listening to this guidance, find out where you are right now in relation to the Moon Phase.

Then, relax in the ambient soundscape write down in your journal 13 things you would like to get done in year’s time from right now.

Then, find out the dates for the next 13 New Moons, and add the commencement of each task to your diary on the relevant date, in the order you would like to do them.

So in each year, we all travel over 1/2 billion miles together on Spaceship Earth. What differentiates those who don’t stand still, or go backwards, from those who realise their dreams is a plan.

Depending on when you are watching the video below, make a note of the following:

Autumn : what have you just harvested from this year just passed?

Winter : what ingenious plans do you have for the year ahead?

Spring : what actions will you take to leap forward?

Summer : how do you plan to enjoy the fruits of your labour?

As each day morphs into night time and the next day follows, for the most time, we forget we are on a planet rotating once every 24 of what we call hours. We forget too about a Moon that rotates around our planet 13 times every year. We also forget that very year, we come back to approximately the same place in orbit around the Sun.

In one of these years, the Earth has travelled over half a billion miles around the Sun. At the same time, the Sun, with all its planets is moving at 450,000 miles an hour around the centre of our galaxy. While everything is in such constant motion, it is amazing how many people stand still, or go backwards.

This visualisation brings some context to all of this and is best listened to lying down, either on a bed or a sofa. Have your head propped up on a pillow and you might like a cushion, or pillow under your knees.