Time Shifting

[songbird]

Interesting little article.  Sorcerers have been doing this, privy to this little secret for aeons.  Good too see 'others' talk about it too though.



Time Shifting vs Time Management,

Stephan Rechtschaffen


"I've observed over the years that many people in our culture experience not having enough time in daily life. The feelings: frustration, anxiety, panic, pressure, stress. It's as if somebody yelled "Fire!"-and although we could get out of the room, we don't. This is the way we live in relationship to time, all day long responding to the subtle message, "fire, fire, fire, fire ..."

Many cultures, however, have a completely different experience of time. What is a moment in New Guinea, for example, where there are no words for hours or minutes? Maybe a moment lasts all morning. But for those of us who live in nanosecond time, a moment becomes very, very short, and in each moment we ask how much we have gotten done. How much did I cram into it? Was I successful in multitasking? As one woman in a class I was working with said to me, "I have finally figured out how to relax. When I go from my job teaching to my consulting job and I'm driving in my car, I listen to a self-help tape, I eat lunch on the way, I talk on my cellular phone, and I relax at the same time."

This approach to time management simply turns up the speed on the treadmill of our lives. I propose we evolve beyond time management to "timeshifting"-which is different from merely "downshifting." The practice of timeshifting recognizes that every single moment has a particular rhythm to it, and that we have the capacity to expand or contract an individual moment as appropriate.

One way to shift what's going on in our world is not to try to rush to do more, but to allow ourselves to go deeper into that moment of being present. Our ability to shift gears, to shift our rhythm to meet that moment and be present in it, is what allows us to experience the fullness of life - to create our life in the way we want it to be."

--Stephan Rechtschaffen

[Nai]

First a piece of uncommon common wisdom: There is more happening in a single moment than anyone every notices.
Notice it says more than anyone ever notices. This is worded this way to give the statement a greater power to effect the person thinking about its meaning. We might not no for certain how much is going on in a single moment, we might not no for certain that their isn't someone who knows all that is happening in single moment, but for the sake of deepening our understanding and awareness we leave it open with the word 'anyone'. Maybe a single moment is so vast that no one can no all that is happening in it, so thus there is always more happening in a single moment than anyone ever notices. This way everyone will keep trying to experience more and more of each moment even if they 'believe' their awareness is deep enough. This also allows you to ponder the possibilities like what all might be possible to experience in a single moment; let me listen more closely this time.

This time shifting as they are calling it also relates to the warriors mood. To pay close enough attention you may have to slow down from time to time, and yet at some times you have to speed up to keep up with deadlines and such, at least until you master this time shifting. This relates to the concepts of being calmly attentive and aware, and being wide awake and alert and ready for action. As we take the two stances, as we go back and forth between moving slow and fast, our mood begins to match the new balance we are acquiring for our selves. One moment I slow down my movement to watch the ball and the next I speed up to intercept it. One moment I am calm but mindful as I am waiting and the next I am wide eyed and alert jumping toward my target. It seems that everything balances on this back and forth principle....but just the right rhythm becomes an established foundation only when the third balancing principle is mastered; this is why Michael M. says that centering is the key to the right mood. I would say....would guess, that the balance occurs when our centering becomes deep enough that the time inside our being becomes...somehow detached from the time outside our self. In this way we are able to see what emotional reaction is about to happen before it happens and even choose to let go of it before it occurs. This because our inner world is maybe moving at the pace of our Essential self at least partly in the world of energy, while the world around us moves at the pace of the world of form.....

just guessing.......