The moment is ‘NOW’.
Practice- Time Out & Time In
by meditative - October 22nd, 2010.Filed under: Insight Meditation Exercises.
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In the here and now, take a couple of moments in your frenetic day to awaken your mind and expand your “subjective time”. Take “pause” and just sit quietly for a minute or so- just noticing what arises in your awareness, the breath and any sensations in your body. Simply notice the sounds filling the air around you. Much of what you may sense now was there before, but pausing, becoming aware and receptive, changes time and one’s whole sense of what lies in and around their being.
Daily, informal reflections open our senses- all six of them including “awareness”. As we move forward we can embrace both the silence and stillness- the “spaces” between our activities- either in our minds and/or our bodies. With mindful intention, we slow down the time that steals both our free attention and our open awareness to be present with the fullness of our direct, sensory experiences, moment-to-moment. Without intentional effort to “awaken”, life tends to speed up and pass us by.
Time out will bring time back into your subjective experience…