My Dear Shadow Friend, ‘Time’.
It’s time we break you down, dear Time. I’m now reporting on your true nature!
By the time you finish reading this section, you may see Time from an entirely new perspective. We’ll begin with a few mind-stretching exercises to slowly introduce you to Psychological Time, also known as Internal Time. Not that Time truly exists physically—mind you, the best we can do is divide Earth’s rotation around the sun into intervals (seconds, minutes, days, etc.) or track the moon’s orbit to mark the months. Beyond that, Time is a purely abstract concept, with no actual physical form.
Perhaps the simplest way to put it is that Time doesn’t only exist the way we’ve been led to believe. Its true nature is complex, wearing many faces. In the pages that follow, I’ll unveil Time’s secret identity and explore its numerous mysteries. Let’s start at the top and work our way through the different Time systems that shape our reality.
- Psychological Time
- Discover the internal Time-Type known as Psychological Time, which governs our inner reality separate from external, physical reality.
- Free-flowing & Distressed Senses of Time
- The two faces of Time—learn how Psychological Time can be either free-flowing or distressed, depending on the positive or negative charge of our mindset.
- Calendar Time 101
- Conventional vs abstract—review the nature of physical, or Calendar Time, and see how it stacks up against its Psychological Time counterpart.
- Overthinking: Consumed in Time
- Mind over minutes—discover the impact of thoughts on Psychological Time, and learn how overthinking can inflate our internal sense of time exponentially.
- Time Compression Field
- Escaping ‘hard time’—explore how anxiety and frustration compress Psychological Time, and learn how to free yourself from the confines of the Time Compression Field.
- Tomorrow: Always Formulating
- Creating the world of tomorrow—learn how fragments of the past and present combine to shape our visions of Tomorrow, sparking either hope or anxiety.
- Yesterday: Constant Reminding
- Revisionist history—uncover the nature of Yesterday and see how what we label as “factual records” may be elaborate reconstructions rooted in fantasy.
- Calendar Time: Our Collective Measure
- Time flies—observe why Calendar Time is crucial for synchronizing people and events, and see how a person’s mood can warp their perception of it.
- Escaping Time
- Escaping ‘hard time’—explore how anxiety and frustration compress Psychological Time, and discover how to break free from the confines of the Time Compression Field.
- Godlike Timeless vs Mortal Time
- Cutting down on psychological sugar—discover how reducing my quest for psychological highs enabled me to save the energy necessary to avoid the bitter crash that always followed.
- The Timeless Trap
- Like describing silence—uncover the nature of the Timeless Trap, and see how any attempt to capture or define Timelessness only serves to push you deeper into Time.
- The Timeless
- Surrendering to win—unravel the mystery of the Timeless, and see why letting go of Time is the only way to become truly present in the Now.
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