There are hours that fly by and others are like years…
Minutes and hours are not natural units of measurement, and how we feel them is determined by ourselves.
When something hurts us, we want time to pass quickly, but it doesn’t.
It is a paradoxical effect, precisely because we want time to pass more quickly we are very attentive to time and the effect is that our brain processes more about that information, so we deduce that time is passing more slowly.
It’s punchy, the brain.
But when you’re having fun time flies because you’re totally distracted and you don’t process the information of the passage of time and the brain understands that it hasn’t happened.
how much time is there
At least three: clock time, biological time, and internal time. In fundamental physics there is no universal time that governs the rhythm of the universe.
Is clock time a convention?
Yes, that we invented to be able to structure our lives socially. Biological time is governed by genetic action and regulates all living beings.
And how does it regulate us?
It makes us tired and wakes us up, regulates blood pressure, hormones and gastric juices. We all have an innate mechanism, we differ individually because some people’s biological clocks run faster than others.
For some the day lasts more than 24 hours?
Yes, for about five more minutes and for others an hour. Having a fast or slow periodicity affects your biorhythm, turning you into a lark or an owl.
Early bird or night owl.
Journalists are usually owls, and they do not know why they have chosen their profession, but this fact is important, since it is difficult to live against one’s own natural biorhythm.
And does this body clock work if we spend days in the dark?
Yes, but natural light readjusts it and makes it work precisely. One of the effects of not getting enough daylight is depression, dejection and decreased performance. From a biological point of view, office workers live in the dark.
What research surprises you?
There are a lot of great ones out there, but what amazes me is that we don’t put them into practice: why do teenagers have to be in class at 8am when we know that for hormonal reasons it’s like being in middle of the night
Through movement can we manipulate the sense of time?
Yes, the slow movements of tai chi for example slow down the sense of time, like breathing: if you breathe slowly the perception of time goes slower.
Does it have to do with internal weather?
Yes. Internal time is the conscious perception of the passage of time and is independent of the course of mechanical clocks and also of the biological clock. With internal time we measure everything we perceive, think and feel.
How can we give more life to our time?
The key is awareness and perception; pay attention to the present. According to research, this more attentive perception of the passing of time causes us joy. When we move away from the present most of the time it is to worry, we have a natural inclination towards negativity.
Why does life move faster and faster as we get older?
When you are a child, Christmas is wonderful because everything is new and exciting, and from December 1st to the 24th it becomes eternal; but I’ve already seen this process 57 times, so I pay less attention to it and generate fewer memories and my brain infers that it can’t have been that long, and I feel short.
The rush has settled in our life.
We have good reason to love the damn pace we live in, overstimulation makes us feel alive, but we pay a price: the more arousal we get, the harder it is to focus.
We are required to do more in less time.
In a world full of stimuli, it is very difficult to live according to internal time. We know that employees change their focus of attention about five times a minute, this leads us to work longer hours and perform less.
Teach me to be master of my time.
Live at your own pace and explore your biorhythm: what time of day is best for you to do certain things. Train your perception to be more in the present, and limit stimuli when they are not necessary.
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Let’s be aware that the time we are living in is not something that is out there. You are building this sense of time. You are the master of your own time because it is something that is within you.
