Making Time Work For You

Long ago I decided that time would work for me, and not the other way around. It did not make sense to me to "fill time" for the sake of filling a block of time. Quality over quantity OR, kairos over chronos. Chronos is akin to measuring quantitative time. Kairos is akin to a different measure of time that can speed up or slow down time; it can expand time or contract it. I learned these terms in a book that I read a few years ago that spoke about time and physics, and the nature of our perception and experience. 

The best way I can explain making time work for you vs being a slave to time, is going back to the concept of squeezing all of the juice in any given moment. Being fully present to the moment you are experiencing; being fully absorbed and encapsulated to the degree that it changes something inside of you. The change is inside of you in that moment is real. It's your body chemistry shifting and even changing. I'll share examples. 

Think about if you have ever been to a seminar or workshop that has been a "weekend intensive". You are definitely not the same person as when you went into that 8 or 12 hour day, or 3-day weekend that has programmed you differently because of the quality time you spent fully absorbed in whatever the topic is. Think about how long it would take you to cause that same change in yourself if you were reading a book on the topic. The experience is intense and heightened, and so it changes you more rapidly. 

Let's move onto a few daily examples, since those are what we experience more regularly. Think about being grateful for your cozy sheets, bedding and pillows. How good does it feel when you crawl into bed at night? Are you grateful you have this safe space enveloping you to slumber? Or are you simply hopping into bed and turning out the lights?

Think about literally stopping to smell the roses and how your matcha, coffee or scrumptious tea tastes. Are you tasting the notes of your beverage and experiencing them with your olfactory senses, or are you gulping your drink down without even tasting it? More on this re: food at some point, because pausing to eat in this way (which does not take long) vs eating on the go (unconsciously) has a serious bearing on your neurological response to your food intake, as well as your digestion. 

I could go on with the examples, but I'll give just one more and then move on...okay, maybe two more examples because they are relevant. Think about looking at your spouse, partner, husband, wife, whoever have you. When you really stop to "see" them, it's much easier for you to be compassionate towards them when they are annoying you and conversely, it's much easier to see the little things that attracted you to them in the first place when you slow down to "see" them. This is why the use the word quality in "quality time". It really is quality over quantity. A 10 minute conversation where you are both completely present with one another is much more powerful than an hour spent in the same room but where nothing material gets spoken of (or felt). 

This really isn't about quality over quantity of time, but more leading to a point that you are not bound by the constructs of linear time! 

Another example: fitness. Quality over quantity. Is 30 minutes of focused time spent present in your body going to be more impactful than 90 minutes of fitness where you are less focused and present? I would tend to think yes, at least for me. I prefer a short dose with higher concentration to long stretched time spent, however. 

Let's move back into the topic of time: collapsing time or expanding time. What do you want to speed up in your life? What do you want to happen faster? What do you wish you had more time around? Write these things out, and start thinking about them differently. Nothing is the time sentence that you think it is. And whatever you think about time around any situation, you can change your thinking in any given moment - and change the outcome.

Time is an incredibly valuable resource and hence why I wanted to share on this topic, if even a small insight. 

Back to squeezing all of the juice out of any given moment. Something that I do that has changed my life - is romancing the details of my life. What this boils down to is noticing the details (seeing who and what), acknowledgement, appreciation and gratitude. These feelings - do change your body chemistry, they change you and they will change your life. 

Since much of the world is programmed into chronological time you may need to practise holding your ground around changing the concept of time. Think about how much better you have felt at a point in your life, most likely when you were younger at a new job when you were told "do your best and get the job done. If you get your work done early, you can leave early". The basis: you poured quality into the time and bought back time for yourself as a result. This is no different than anything in your life right now. Sometimes we just forget that we can get back time if we want to - and we can also quantum jump or leap into a different reality and time line. It just takes practise to think differently, and experience differently - which starts with being differently. The fitness, mindfulness and the rest of the resources in the studio will support you doing this at first consciously - by having you get clear, think and choose differently (what you actually want) until this becomes more unconscious over time, like breathing, because you starting knowing instead of having to practise believing. 

I'll share more on quantum time as we go and quantum time and healing, and quantum time and creating. The yoga nidra practises lend themselves to you experiencing yourself in different timelines which will help you access that which might be locked away (in your subconscious) that will help heal you once whatever it is acknowledged, reconciled or shapeshifted (re-written). I'm saying this very simply for what it is, although it can be simple, easeful and powerful. This form of healing is one of the most powerful ones I experienced, except for mine was in the form of lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming and yoga nidra (yoga nidra) are not the same, but the depth to which you dive into the subconscious and experience, is similar. 

What is wonderful about fine tuning the body mind with fitness and all other modalities we dive into in the studio, is that we work all muscle memory in body and mind. We must tend to our physical vessel and love and care for it as best we can, and it's our soul we must dive into to heal from the inside out.

As always, I hope this made a difference and I can't wait to share more. Ask me anything. Submit questions for the weekly conversation and Q&A here or email me: [email protected].