Time to Still Time?

Question

“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.” ...Joseph Campbell.

Isn't it weird how time goes by, sometimes faster and sometimes slower? Have you time to still time? Do you take time for yourself every single day?

Thanks for your comments!

Answer 1

"Still Time" is a subjective mental focus..
(A calmness) .... It has nothing to do with what`s going on in the world around you. People assume that in order to feel "Still Time" they have stop doing what their engaged in to make Space for "Still Time" This is false.
Still Time is nothing more than relaxing you mind, body, and spirit, so that you no longer feel like your being Pushed by time. Its when you are riding the wave of time peacefully.
It does not require a deep mental focus, rather one must put their body and thoughts in autopilot so that they may completly relax their body and soul. One need not cease physical actions to feel still time.
Example - Runners who are at the height of their pace before their body is fatigue often feel still time. When their headphones are blazing and their thoughts are silenced - while their (body/heart) is (moving/pumping) at a steady pace - their aura is at ease. Hence, they feel Still Time.

Answer 2

All the time. Time is a saucer. Externalities slosh around in it, and we can slosh with them or not. When we refuse to be pushed around by them, we can largely potter at our own pace. Then, when we respond to a deadline or some "outer value" we can recognise that it is our own -- and the time is ours to spend on it. So all of it is ours to be truly alive in. As the Buddhists say "When you're sweeping, know you're sweeping". That makes everything part of the rapture.

Answer 3

Literally, there's no such thing as stilling time. When we enjoy and are content with what we're doing, time moves fast. When we're bored and discontented, time moves slow. It's just a matter of doing the right things at the right time.

Answer 4

only when all is settled do we see what tiem trulyl is. a journey. our memories, the still time, a journey into the past we know. and our ambitions and drams a journey into our future. when that is realized. then all of time that we use if for we and we alone. so that we can find contentment in ourselves. and if it be that our contentment is found in others. then the time we spnd with them is our tme. so to your question i say this. everday i smy own.

Answer 5

This is such a great question that a whole book can be written with much to be said still being left out.

In my view, the question is about time management.... and we must realize that time management is less about scheduling and more about self management to decide what we need to do when.

When time passes off too quickly, it means we are not in control of our time, for whatever reason... it is being spent without our appropriate intent and knowledge. That is waste of time.

When time appears to move slowly, it means we are letting it pass without knowing what to intend and do to utilize it fruitfully. That too is waste of time.

The right way to utilize time is to happily feel the time pass... without being worried that it is being consumed too much leaving too little or that it is being wasted for no purpose. As and when this balance is achieved, there would be time to still time as well, as you have rightly talked about taking time out for oneself.

The balance referred above is in fact the ability to deal with the urgent with poise and the important with vigour... because time runs away when dealing with the urgent and slows down when dealing with the important.

Looked at it another way, it is also about a balance between thoughts and actions. More of actions would make us machines and more of thinking would make us dreamers.

The ability to balance the urgent with the important or to balance thoughts and activity, is indeed derived from self management...... addressing the important in time makes sure those getting urgent would remain manageable...... reasonable thinking inputs before action would ensure efficacy of actions leaving enough time for thinking as well.

Self management is possible only if we can take time to still time, as you point out, to enable allocation of time for self, such allocation being meaningfully substantive as well as frequent.

Answer 6

As far as I am concerned when I am with those I love, time always goes way to fast and when I am doing something I dislike, time always goes to slow unless I am doing something I dislike with those I love and then it kinda equals out.

Answer 7

Yes it is strange how time slows down and speeds up again but it's not time that's doing that - it's us and how we use the time...........Notice how when we're enjoying ourselves time flies by but when we're unhappy time crawls.......As to taking time for myself every single day my answer is no I don't.........CAT

Answer 8

time is subjective i think... that is why some days "take forever" & others "fly by." there are moments from my life i will never forget, that have been "frozen in time" -- my memory really, but even then, i knew those moments were precious.

Answer 9

Yes, I take out some time from my everyday life for myself & we all should take out some time for ourselves, it helps us to know more about ourselves- our mistakes, bad and good behaviour & about our inside story.

Answer 10

Breathe in, breathe out, long deep slow breathes. There I just did it.