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How Does the Illusion of Time Impact Your Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing?
You can alter the Illusion of time via mindfulness.
Where does the time go when it’s not around here? Ever feel like you’re always chasing time? Like no matter what you do, there is seldom enough, or it runs out, or expires, or what-have-you?
Of course, it doesn’t help that time is completely and totally subjective. Einstein said,
“Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
Humorously, Douglas Adams said in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Ergo, time is how we perceive it. If we think we have enough time, not enough time, or too much time, that is exactly what we will get.
Everyone lives, here in now, within the artificial — but necessary — constraints of time. Time is how you divide your waking hours into activities that are necessary, automated, unnecessary, and everything in between.
For example, let’s look at a “normal” typical day for most people.
