Bending Time
Rushing, rushing, rushing...boredom...so many things to get done - so little time, running late, feeling exhausted...a window of unexpected extra time. What to do? Fill it up to keep the busy feeling going? Allow the peacefulness of quiet? Or just wait for the next onslaught of "must do" to claim your attention. Do you know this one?
From the end of July through mid-September, every activity I had planned for myself evaporated. This included social dinners, client sessions, meetings with associates - you name it - it either got cancelled or rescheduled. And as a result, I had all of this...well, time! But it was always last minute, not the sort of thing you could make plans with.
I knew the universe was trying to tell me something (several things actually), but I was a little slow on the uptake. The night seven of eight women of WOW (Women on Wednesdays support/coaching group) were down for the count, I remembered - "Einstein Time!"
In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks succinctly conveys a concept that brilliant minds from Einstein to Hawking have been proposing for years: time is relative - it is bendable - it is an illusion that we try to solidify with clocks and schedules, as though it is something outside of us. We use it as a reference point to ensure our safe existence, and yet it is not steady or static. If we allow our perceptions to shift, and integrate the Einstein Time theory, Hendricks explains we must embrace "one profoundly simple truth: You're where time comes from."
It reminds me a bit of the internal compass. Each of us has a navigating force within us, and it includes the malleability of time. The power to always have the time we need comes from inside, not from a clock or a schedule.
To fully take ownership of this concept means never being bored again, no more rushing, or watching the clock and feeling the pressure of time closing in. Instead, we create all the time we need to accomplish the things that are important to us, and rather than exhausted, we feel energized as a result.
Think I'm making it up? I'm not. I've done it, and it's amazing! I'll admit, it's harder to live in Einstein Time than to understand the principle. But when I allow myself to bend time to suit my internal clock, life shifts and I feel a wealth of abundance and possibility.
I could tell you that "I don't have enough time" to amply explain Einstein Time in this short piece, but time is not the issue! And if you think about it, I bet you've already experienced this phenomenon. Remember what it feels like to fall in love, or work on a project that consumes you, or simply talking with a best friend over coffee. Where does the time go? Three hours feels like a single moment! Now imagine your list of things you don't really want to do, or an endless day at the office, or the occasion you told your son you couldn't play catch, because you just didn't have the time. These are all examples of time bending, sometimes to a molasses pace and at others approaching the speed of light.
What if you created exactly the time you desire to do all the things you want to do? How liberating would that feel? I know I have not yet completely taken ownership of time. But I'm getting glimpses of it.
Making good time (it takes on a whole new meaning, doesn't it?),
Joanne Lutz