How to change your relationship with time

Many of us struggle with feelings of stress and anxiety when it comes to meeting future goals. Life races by, the list of ‘to do’s’ gets longer and we quickly start to feel our needs are being pushed further down to the bottom of the pile while we struggle to drag ourselves towards the goals we set ourselves to achieve.

It doesn’t HAVE to be this way, by changing our relationship with time we can completely change the way we view the future.

We commonly see time as a fixed entity and we as humans as moving through it - The future is stretched out in front of us - the past lays out behind, and we as individuals move away from the past and towards the future.

When seeing time this way it is no wonder we feel stressed and anxious! We feel WE are reaching out and pulling ourselves towards a goal or event and away from the present moment it feels far more stressful than we need it to feel!

We have it all wrong!

Instead of seeing time this way, we need to see time as something that moves through us. We are always in the present moment, by definition we can never actually be in anything but the present moment!…. In fact, we are fixed…time is not a thing we move through, times moves through us!

When we stop viewing ourselves as moving through time, it removes the stress and anxiety of us feeling we have to do something in order to arrive at the future moment. When time is seen as moving towards us we can ground ourselves to the present moment, allowing us to focus all attention into this moment here and now.

Here and now is life itself!

We can allow ourselves to do what we need to do, to ensure the future event in mind makes its way towards us smoothly, meanwhile we remain fixed to the present time we are in.

Try it yourself! Look ahead to the future goal you have set for yourself and see it coming towards you, know it will arrive and remind yourself that you remain still in this moment - does it change the way you feel?