We have recently stepped into another year, which often brings the collective energy towards reviewing where we are on all fronts.
It raises our awareness about what we would like to bring with us or let go of as we move forward into another chapter of our lives.
Although entering another year on planet Earth assists us in this process, we don’t actually need a new year to initiate it.
Any time is a good time to do this. You could also do it on your birthday, the start of a season, a month, a week, a day or even a moment.
It is healthy to regularly take stock of where you are at and to check in with yourself to see if it aligns with where you wish to be.
Whenever you come across this, I invite you to ask yourself:
What are your current priorities?
Do they align with what you wish for yourself?
What do you consider to be your most precious resource?
Let’s delve in deeper together.
Time Is Our Most Precious Resource
As a society, we tend to be so driven to make money that we often put material wealth as our top priority and list it as our most valuable asset.
Whilst money may come and go and come and go again and again, ashes to ashes, dust to dust comes to mind…
Unlike money and other material assets, which are all likely to outlive us, each one of us is here for a specific period. This is a fact we can all agree on.
We can’t get yesterday back. We can’t even get our last breath back.
This should put things into perspective and ground us back into what truly matters.
Every minute we are alive is a gift.
Who knows when our last breath will be? It could be tomorrow or a year or a decade from now. We won’t know until it happens, and then, poof, into another dimension we go.
So this begs the question: How can we best honour the gift of life we have been given for whatever timeframe that may be?
How Are You Choosing To Spend Your Time?
As time is your most valuable commodity, being fully conscious of who and what you spend your time on is essential.
Ensuring that the people and activities in your life are aligned with your highest desires and ways of being will keep you in integrity with yourself and allow your best life to unfold.
Making Higher Self choices of how you spend your time will lead to living your highest quality life.
How can you adjust your choices if they are not currently aligned with where you wish to be, or ensure you stay with them if you are already happy with where you are?
The truth ‘where your attention goes, your energy flows’ can also be taken into the context of your everyday choices. Do what you want to experience more of, and that energy will increase in your life.
If you want more peace, then spend more time in silence. If you wish to experience a more joyous connection, actively plan dates with those bringing that energy. If you want something of importance to grow, spend time nurturing it.
You always have a choice. And if you don’t actively choose what you wish to experience, that is also a choice.
Every second of our day, we honour either fear or love. We are either moving closer towards our dreams or being held back by our doubts.
What are you choosing?
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” - Albert Einstein
Breaking Free From Unhealthy Time Conditioning
When we go to school, we are trained from a very early age to work hard for long periods and then have shorter break periods.
This conditioning affects our perception of time, and even as adults, we tend to strive to get as much done as possible to allow ourselves to relax afterwards.
We are chained into this thinking up to retirement: work very hard for a certain number of decades so that you can relax when you retire.
But is this all-or-nothing way of living a healthy approach? It means we are either entirely on or off, allowing no room for balance.
Is that a sensible use of our time and the most fruitful way to live our lives?
What if we relax and enjoy ourselves while learning, creating projects, or whatever task we must accomplish? We could balance the two extremes instead of having all-or-nothing energy and vastly ameliorate this perception of time.
What if life wasn’t such a race to maximise as much as we could to accomplish things to earn a break, and instead, our accomplishment was enjoying the learning and creating process of the task at hand because we are intrinsically worthy of a break whenever we want one?
What if the best way to honour time was to enjoy ourselves in whatever we do at any given time?
How we have been wired to exert ourselves to maximise time to be allowed a period of relaxation is an enormously flawed concept.
This way, we’re either pushing through time and losing out on so much beauty or else we are supposedly relaxed with a lurking layer of underlying anxiety for the next task or the next school year that awaits us.
Honouring Time Often Means Slowing Down
Today, the hustle and grind culture has made it trendy to always be on. It praises doing as much as one can as fast as one can to accomplish as much as possible whilst honouring those who push themselves to the limit and never have a break.
It’s so unhealthy to live that way, and I can testify that it only leads to unfulfillment down the road.
If we are rushing around like raving lunatics trying to get this, that, and the other done, then it is unlikely that we are honouring the moment at hand.
I am all for realising dreams, and I also understand that it takes commitment and consistent nurturing to achieve them. But if we are not enjoying the process, then what is the point?
As we reeducate ourselves into savouring the preciousness of each day we are given on this magnificent planet, we begin to slow ourselves down into nurturance and presence.
Slowing down is actually the secret to speeding up.
When we slow down and become present, we are able to tune into the Universal flow. Consequently, instead of forcing and pushing, we allow ourselves to be carried by Divine grace, which allows for everything to be accomplished with much greater ease, joy and expertise.
It’s a win-win.
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” - H. G. Wells
Presence Is The Key To Timelessness
While we are only given a limited time in this life, we have all the tools we need to make the most of it. But we must apply them.
Being present allows us to transcend time. It is the key to mastering the time that we have been allotted for this lifetime.
In last month’s ponder, we delved into presence. We uncovered that operating from the heart instead of the mind is the key to embodying every moment to the max.
If you missed it, you can read or listen to it here: Your Presence Is Your Greatest Gift.
Pulling ourselves out of the flurry of the mind and into full awareness of the present moment is the key to both timelessness and enriching our lives in the highest way possible.
In doing so, we automatically enrich the lives of those around us as the power of making Higher Self choices with our time and being fully present ripples out far further than we could ever imagine.
Pause. Take a breath. And step into timelessness
Maximise Your Time In the Best Way Possible
Do more of what you love to maximise your time, whatever that is for you.
Personally, my favourite time warp is travelling. When I travel, it feels like time takes on a different dimension. For the time I spend out of my regular environment, I feel as though I live more life in that period.
It's as though the unfamiliarity and change of routine expand how time is experienced with the effect of heightened creativity and general aliveness, and I love it!
Spending quality time with loved ones has a similar time-warping effect. As well as extended time in solitude and being in Nature. Perhaps it's the elevated sense of peace and joy that activates it.
How about you? What are your favourites?
How are you spending your most precious resource?
Are you happy with your current life choices?
Take some cherished time to ponder upon these essential questions.
It could be life-changing!
Infinite Love,
Ponder Woman
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.” - Jeremy Irons
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