DON'T LET LIFE PASS YOU BY. MY PLAN TO SLOW DOWN MY PERCEPTION OF TIME.
This time of year I always find myself thinking how fast time flies. It never seems like a year since we last put up our Christmas tree and decorations. It also makes me a little sad that our boys have grown into men in the blink of an eye.
Being the deep thinker that I am, my curious mind had me researching why time seems to speed up as we get older. This is the most logical answer that I found:
"When you’re young, everything is new – you’re constantly figuring out how the world works and learning the rules that govern nature and society. And you’re regularly engaging in “firsts”: first day of school, first time driving, first real job, and so on. With all this novelty, your brain is regularly laying down the kind of rich, dense memories that stretch out your perception of time.
In contrast, when you’re an adult, you’ve pretty much been there and done that. You’ve discovered the patterns of life, and your day-to-day doings are likely much more routine and predictable. Your brain doesn’t have any reason to expend energy on capturing your repetitious and predictable morning commute, ceremonial eating of a ham sandwich at your desk at work, and nightly watching of Game of Thrones. “Nothing to see here,” your brain says, and its camera clicks off. Thus, when you look back on each week, month, and year, there’s very little footage to read out, and your life seems to have passed in a fleeting blur." *
In other words we are going through life on autopilot. Not creating many memories as we go. So even though 'time flies when you're having fun' your brain is capturing more and when you reflect back you have all those memories instead of life being a blur.
This same website suggests even small changes like:
Switching the wrist you put your watch on
Changing the arrangement of your furniture at home
Driving a different way to work
to recapture your youthful curiosity.
This made me realise that I live a very repetitious life. Don't get me wrong, I have a wonderful life with the most amazing family that I am so grateful for and I always try to think positively, but somehow I became stuck in a routine and my life is very predictable. Of course, the years are going to fly by in a blur because every day is practically the same as the one before.
I have decided that I am not going to wait until 2018 to change things. I'm starting tomorrow with the above suggestions and a few of my own:
Read a new book at least every month
Date night with hubby to a different venue every month
Learn to play the piano
Hold a family dinner and invite our boys and their partners every fortnight with a new, never-before-tried meal
Play more games. This Christmas we played games like Speak Out, Heads Up and Bean Boozled, which we haven't done for years and we had so much fun. We laughed for hours.
Last but certainly not least, there is an oil for everything so I got out my trusty Emotions & Essential Oils book to see which oils could help me along on my new journey to live a fuller life and slow down my perception of time. These are the two oils that I have chosen to use more often:
Roman Chamomile - to help
Litsea - to help me get out of my own way and follow through with inspiration. It will help me to take a leap of faith.
Don't let life get so busy that you forget to live. Have fun and slow down your perception of time.
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Thanks for reading
Karen xx
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*Sourced from https://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/08/11/be-a-time-wizard-how-to-slow-down-and-speed-up-time/
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