Time out!!!!

[brummyben]

Around a year ago I went out for a drive on an evening. I was driving down a country lane when I became aware that the view out of the windowscreen just like a photo or postcard. A few seconds later I saw a different but similar 'windowscreen photo' but started to remember the previous one in my memory. At this point I realised that the photo in my memory was similar to a dream, in respect that it was not real and at best my head and senses will have interpreted it to suit my feeling at that moment. My thoughts went onto past life experiences, good and bad, and I began to think if they actually happened or was it just a dream. I concluded that if they did happen then the events in question were definately not exactly the same as I remember them, but a manipulated idea of what had happened.

Time went onto play a major part in my awakening. I began to realise what a slave to time I actually was, yet also how much time I actually wasted. At this point. I was out walking one evening, and less than a couple of minutes after I started I was pressuring myself into getting home to watch one of the soap-opera's. Yet at the same time I realised that I had everything I wanted right at this moment. Right there and then. I was surrounded by green grass, I was standing smelling the sweetest roses, and the sun was shining. Yet I wanted to numb myself in front of the television.
At this point, I moved out of time. I no longer felt the pressure to get back to the television. I no longer felt pressure at all actually. The only thing I needed was what was right here and was right now. I observed everything with a feeling as well as sight. I saw the beautiful in a lot of previous mundane things yet I was also able to see a lot of ugliness. Not ugliness in the conventional sense however. I noticed a lot of people in the park walking there dogs, but observed that they were doing it with a sense of urgency, a need to be somewhere apart from here and could see the pressure they were
under. I on the otherhand was floating on a cushion of air.
My walk took four times longer than what I had thought it would.

And the reason for my post is this. I lead what I would describe an averagely stressful human life. I have a family which I try to support, I work full time and have numerous other comittments. Yet I have found that no matter how much pressure time places on me it is an ultimate fiction. It is possible to escape the pressures of time by stopping in the moment of what you are doing, and accepting that is how it. I just wish more people were able to take time out!

[sparklekaz]

Dear Ben,

What a lovely post, I can really relate to what you are saying.

All too often we get caught up in the daily pressures of life and stuck in routine. We are such creatures of habit, even in doing things that are really not good for us.

In that moment when you were on your walk, you were able to step outside yourself and observe YOU. In a dispassionate way, you were able to break free of self imposed habit and really look hard at yourself, your thoughts and what you were doing. I think in that moment, your true self or higher self as some call it, communicated itself to you. It was saying, look at what you have here and now, why rush back, whats the point, what will you gain from it.

I really love those rare moments of clarity, and wish I had them more often. Probably the beauty and peacefulness of that moment, already seeping into your consciousness, triggered it off. Taking time out implies that you are taking time out of life, doesn't it? I see it more as taking 'time in' and truly being present in the moment.

Thank you for sharing this Ben.

Love and light
Kaz

[clara927]

Hello Ben,

I often feel the pressure that being time-centered can bring. It can express itself in different ways, there might be one person who plans everything (including friendships and family) according to time and that can make them very efficient in this world, but it can also cause them to neglect important things if they don't fit into a particular time frame. Some other people may rebel by disregarding punctuality, but even in this they are attached to the idea that time is master over them. They see it as a force so powerful that they have no control. It is my personal opinion that time has as much power as we give it. People say that the past and future are illusions, and all that's now is the present. The quote that I really liked on this subject was by Albert Einstein: "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." I feel that time is a tool to help us if we don't allow it to dominate our lives.