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Break Psychological Time
Time swallows our life. We’re consumed by it. It creates anxiety, frustration, and constant pressure.
It feels like baby birds quietly peck at the back of our heads, day in and day out.
The main culprit isn’t clock time, but rather psychological time.
Psychological Time is the identification of the past and obsessive attention given to the future.
It’s the unconscious thought plaguing our daily existence.
As Eckhart Tolle says in his book The Power of Now,
“Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to ‘make it.’ You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now.”
The past perpetuates itself through a lack of presence. You cling to past events, whether they’re good or bad as if they impact this very moment.
The attachment of living in the past and future is the denial to want to live Now.
Clock time serves a purpose in modern living, but the issue occurs when clock time turns into psychological time. “It becomes reduced to a mere stepping-stone to the future.”
