We imprison ourselves through our assumption of time’s control. Yes, control. Our perception power is such that life must conform to the parameters of our perception of something. Be it our perception imposed on an idea, our health, aging, finances, relationships and yes, time. Life itself is unlimited and unconstrained, but our perceptions impose conditions and parameters through, and by which, Life must operate and function. 

Understand this: EVERYTHING is a program. And that includes Time. The only actual aliveness of being is NOW. Your very breathing attest to this reality; the reason you breath in each moment of aliveness is that moment is the only moment that IS –  (or else the last breath would be sufficient for this NOW moment too! Ponder that for a while and you’ll get it. 😉

‘We’ invented this measurement we ascribe to the revolution of the planet as a contrivance of convenience – and this contrivance has worked out fairly good for us in terms of structuring society and social living. Except for the extremely detrimental downside to the hypnotic programming of Time – it has convinced us that we are subject to it rather than it being subject to us.

What does this mean? From the hypnotic trance that Time is ‘real’ (and not simply a convenient measurement) we’ve created the perception (oh, there’s the “P”-word) that time is ‘passing by’ and all of the mental, physiological, and psychological alignments to that very notion that our bodies and experiences must conform to (remember, Life is unconditioned and becomes conditioned by our perceptions imposed on it). 

The consequence of this imposed perception is that we age, we regret, we create the anxiety of ‘running out of time’, and we succumb to our judgmental decrees of our ability to management this thing called time – or not.  All while each moment-by-moment breath is constantly and continuously reminding us that the only moment that is alive (and relevant) is NOW.

Imagine the ramifications if our perception did not impose the perceived constraints of our misinterpretations of time. The body would cease to prematurely and precipitously ‘age’ (the very idea of ‘aging’ is the relevance given to the ‘passage’ – in our perception – of this measurement thing ‘passing’).

The ‘time’ we, essentially, arbitrarily ascribe to our assumption of ‘how long’ something must take most likely prolongs what would otherwise be an organic efficiency requiring less of ‘it.’ The time it ‘takes’ for something to heal, the time it takes for a business to flourish, the time it takes for hair to grow (in the case where that is desirable)… get it?

These and countless other time-bounded experiences are largely imposed sentences of our imagination. The remedy to all these superficial time-bound impositions? It is simple. Release assumption. To release the mental assumptions of how ‘long’ something must take is not to be impatient or an attempt to ‘rush’ something (even the idea of ‘rushing’ something is a relative imposition of our interpretation of time).

To release the assumptions of how long something might/must take based on conventional assumption (I no longer use the term “conventional ‘wisdom’“ as there is nothing necessarily wise about convention; just because something has been normalized by the masses does not make it wise) is to free the arbitrary imposition of a certain length of measurement on quite possibly something left to its own organic devices, could happen instantaneously. 

This is not so much ‘miracle-thinking’ so much as it is allowing miracle permission. (A ‘miracle’ by the way is merely an occurrence permitted outside of our programmed assumptions). The most practical and pragmatic thing you can exert is your release of the time-assumption with serious due diligence to releasing an assumptive imposition on/about a matter.

How long before you find love? Release the delay-infused time assumption to the idea! Not as a fantastical delusion – which just relegates it to such, but with due respect to your awakened perspective that time is largely arbitrary.

How long before something heals? Release the time assumption about it! How long before your career takes off? Release the time assumption about it!  How long before a fledging business is in the black? Release the assumption about it! “It’s been ‘too long’ for ‘this’ to happen” (whatever ‘this’ is for you) – release that “too late” assumption! How long…

You get the picture.

Again, it is important to stress this is not delusionary thoughts about something happening magically, but rather, allowing things to happen organically – in their own ‘nowness of being’ rather than an arbitrarily imposition of an imposed measurement of ‘time.’

Be your own salvation. Stop ‘timing’ everything. Release the assumption and release the constraint.