We have no time to stand and stare? Leisure, W.H. Davies
I believe in the human experience, there are five areas that people often complain they have little of: time, space, love, money and power (TSLMP). Most people believe if they had enough of TSLMP they would be happy or free to do whatever they wish. I am now going to focus on one of them - time.
A while back, a friend invited me to join "MySpace." I ended up deleting the account because I didn't have the time to devote to it. From a practical perspective, I don't have Internet at home so I have to be very careful how I use my time when I'm on the Internet. Another friend I haven't seen for a while who lives out of London invited me to join"Facebook" so we could keep in touch. I opened an account. I found I had little time for it and stopped using it. I have opened other accounts I have made little use of because of the lack of time. The way I see it, I'm already occupied with my blogs, which take up a lot of my time anyway.
I received an email notification recently from Powerful Intentions, another network website I registered with a while back that I have hardly used. The email stated that "Powerful Intentions" was moving to another "platform" with new features and invited members to check it out. As I've been thinking of branching out and connecting with like-minds, I decided to re-register. While I was browsing, I had that feeling again that I wouldn't have time to make use of it. Then I had another thought: "I have all the time in the world."
When I say "I have all the time in the world" I don't mean that I have time to focus on a particular project for as long as that lasts or keeps my interest, I mean that literally - I have ALL the time in the world at my command to do with as I choose.
When I accept "I have ALL the time in the world" as my truth, I feel myself slowing down. I am one with the one moment of NOW and in the flow of the Universe. When I'm in the flow, magic happens. In other words, everything is going my way. On the other hand, when I'm caught up in the hustle and bustle of life, I appear to have little or "no time to stand and stare."
On my way home yesterday evening during rush-hour, I reminded myself that I had ALL the time in the world. I felt my body slowing down and I felt peaceful. As my bus was approaching the stop, instead of trying to gauge where the bus was going to stop, I remained where I was. The bus driver stopped right in front of me and I was the first passenger to get on. After I got off that bus and waited for my final bus, I stayed put where I was standing and, again, the bus driver stopped right in front of me.
Incidentally, my mother was expecting an engineer in this morning, around 8.30 am, to change the boiler. Before I got up, I reminded myself that "I have ALL the time in the world." I went to the bathroom around 7.50 am so I could be out before the engineer arrived. The engineer turned up 5 minutes later. While I was in the bathroom, I heard the engineer saying he would need to work in the bathroom. My mother called out and told me to hurry up. The engineer told my mother there was no rush as he needed to go somewhere to get some tools anyway and would be back later. So I took my time getting ready as I had ALL the time in the world.
As I see it, I can't be in a hurry and expect to be in perfect health. The constant rush has to have an impact somehow on my system. When my focus is on rushing about, my body takes on that reality and it appears to be wearing away/experiencing the passage of time aka aging. However, when I know that I have all the time in the world, I slow down considerably and life is effortless. That doesn't mean I do everything in slow motion. In this state of mind, I can still type very fast but I feel very relaxed while doing so. That's one way I stay in eternal youth because in reality I am burning up no energy.
Back to the notion of TSLMP (Time, Space, Love, Money, Power). I believe that instead of believing I have little of TSLMP, all I have to do is believe that I have all the TSLMP in the world and the Universe mirrors my belief back to me. During my bus journey this morning, I visualised TSLMP as a ball of light in my hand which I gobbled up. Delicious!
Now I am ALL the TSLMP in the entire universe.
I've always loved the song "We Have all the Time in the World" by Louis Armstrong, which I believe is a perfect reminder.
We have all, the time in the world
Time enough for life to unfold
All the precious things love has in store
We have all the love in the world
If that's all we have, you will find
We need nothing more
Every step of the way will find us
With the cares of the world far behind us
We have all the time in the world
Just for love
Nothing more, nothing less
Only love Lyrics
Louis Armstong on YouTube
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