We created the concept of time to measure our experience of the space between events. Time passes only because we experience change. What is change? Change is only a series of events.
So, time is our experience of the speed of events. This explains why time seems to be moving faster today, because both the speed and the number of events are increasing.
And it seems even faster if we participate in those events. If the speed and number of events were less, we would experience time to be moving slowly, as it used to be a little earlier in the history of mankind.
Today, sitting in our living rooms and offices, electronic, print and other media allows us to observe hundreds of events from all over the world, every day.
To observe them actively is to participate in them. If you want to slow time down, learn to be a detached observer of the thousands of events around you – participate or observe actively only when necessary.
If you want to stop time, meditate and be in your original, timeless, eternal consciousness. Meditation is, after all, an art of shutting down the activity of your senses and slowing them down.
Today, we fear time, and, as a result, we hear ourselves saying many a times, “Hurry up, time is running out! or I hope to have more time tomorrow! or I need to save time!”
Ultimately, time is our life: it cannot be saved or lost, but must be lived now.
This is where our will-power is important - we can choose exactly how to spend our time at any moment.
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