Time.

What if Time is made up?

What if?

Not sure about you, but I'm extremely aware of Time. I use the capital "T" because that's how important Time seems to be to me. I mean... I plan like crazy, strategize, keep lists and calendars, organize my day in advance, and try to organize others' lives (not always a good idea!). 

Much of my Time is spent thinking about how to make the best use of Time. 

When I teach though, it's different. I naturally have to keep track of the hour so that participants get to leave on time feeling happy about what they experienced. But while I'm in front of the group, I'm in the flow. I'm my most present self and I let go of time, at least intermittently, especially when I ring my centering bell.

When I ring the bell, I'm fully present. There is no Time. There is only Now. For me it's a physical experience of not needing to do anything, be anywhere, or think anything. I'm at peace for those seconds (Ah!! There's Time again!!).

A Greater Oneness

Yes, life being what it is, we do have to accomplish things, do our work, connect with people, and that takes Time. And..... in those beautiful moments of listening to the bell as it reverberates, I am in a different reality where Time doesn't apply. Some would say I become one with the greater Oneness, a place beyond Time. 

Maybe this is the dimension we all come from, are born from, and slip back to when our Time in this linear, Time-oriented dimension is finished.

I think to myself, what if time were just a construct to help me get through this dimension, this physical life, more easily?

(It is, of course--made up.)

And what if I could play with this idea more often--that this moment is the only one?

All the planning and strategizing about the future helps me in some ways, but it also keeps me embedded in the place where Time is real, where stress and anxiety live as well.

What if I could see/feel/experience this “Now” more often and more deeply? Become one with All That Is.

Is that what Presence is?

Enlightenment?

Sacred moments?

Those moments when I'm....

• not knowing
• not thinking
• not anywhere

but here.