What is time?
Close your eyes.
Set your intention to be fully present for this practice.
Say aloud inside of your mind,
I am here now.
I set my intention to be here as fully as possible.
Surrender your mind down to the base of your spine.
With the flashlight of your awareness,
Be with this space at the base of your body.
Breathe in and out here as you hold your attention as best you can in this area.
Relax everywhere,
Releasing the effort to hold your attention at the base of your spine.
Allow your mind to wander all across your entire body.
Notice areas that are at ease.
Notice areas that feel relatively neutral.
Notice areas that are challenging to sense with your mind.
Notice areas of tension.
Work to release where you can,
But do not cling to the outcome.
Let what happens happen.
Release the effort to relax and let yourself be.
Notice what it feels like to be you in this moment.
Be with your breath as it moves in and out of your body,
Experiencing yourself however that feels for you.
Let what happens happen.
Take a moment now to bring to mind the concept of time.
You may repeat in your mind the word time or however it feels right for you to think about it.
Allow any internal reactions to occur and surface and let all be okay.
As I prompt you to contemplate time,
Be present with any experiences that arise.
Pay particular attention to any imagery that you may see inside of your mind's eye.
I invite you now to think about a long time.
I invite you now to think about a long time.
I invite you now to think about a long time.
Now think about a very long time.
Now think about a very long time.
Now think about a very long time.
Now think about an even longer time than that.
Now think about a very long time.
Think longer and longer still.
Now think about an even longer time than that.
Now think about a very long time.
Push yourself now to think even longer.
Now think about an even longer time.
Spend some time now imagining eternity.
Continue to sit with this contemplation of time.
As you do this practice,
Observe whether your vision of time stretches into the future or the past.
Do you begin to think in minutes,
Days,
Weeks,
Years,
Or lifetimes?
Where did you go in your mind?
Your inner experiences are not bound by space and time.
Although time and space do not affect inner experiences,
The way you conceive of time can affect your ability to use inner experiences to inform external reality.
If you see time as only linear,
Believing that you can know the past,
But that the future remains hidden,
You are limiting yourself based on what you have been taught is true about time.
When you challenge your concept of time,
You open yourself up to viewing inner experiences as portals into the future.
Knowing and experiencing the future before it happens is a perfectly normal capacity of the human being potential.
Discard your linear concept of time.
Push yourself to see beyond time.
Return to this practice again and again as an aid in developing your ability to see beyond normal,
Scientifically observable human experience.
Use this practice to open the doorway to the fruits of intuition.
Conceptualizing time in any specific way is not the point of this practice.
Instead,
Identify your own way of relating to time.
Recognize it as only one of many possibilities.
Do not concern yourself with changing your thinking.
Rather,
Acknowledge that all thinking is limited.
Use the next few moments of silence.
Use the next few moments of silence to let go.
Let go of my words.
Let go of the concept of time.
You are here now.
Be here now in whatever way that means something to you.
Let go of your thoughts.
Take five clearing breaths.
In through the nose and out through the mouth.
Let go of your thoughts.
Let go of your thoughts.
Return your breath to normal.
Spend as much time as you need here before opening your eyes and going about your day.
Namaskar.
