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 happen.
It is a paradoxical effect, precisely because we want time to pass faster, we are very attentive to time and the effect is that our brain processes more of that information, with which we deduce that time is passing more slowly.
Damn, the brain.
But when you have fun, time flies because you are totally distracted and you do not process the information about the passage of time and the brain understands that no time has passed.
How many times are 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, we invented it 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 in that some people's biological clocks go faster than others.
For some, does the day last 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 riser or late nighter.
Journalists are usually owls, and do not know why they have chosen their profession, but this fact is important, since it is difficult to live against one's natural biorhythm.
And does that 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 receiving enough daylight is depression, depression, and decreased performance. From a biological point of view, office workers live in the dark.
What research surprises you?
There are many fantastic ones, but what surprises me is that we don't put them into practice; Why do teenagers have to be in class at 8 in the morning if we know that for hormonal reasons for them it is as if it were the middle of the night?
Through movement can we manipulate the sensation 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 slows down.
Does it have to do with internal time?
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 to 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 time that passes makes us happy. 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?
Christmas as a child is wonderful because everything is new and exciting, and from December 1st to the 24th it seems eternal, but I have already seen that 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 it seems short.
Hurry has settled into our lives.
We have good reason to love the cursed rhythm in which we live, overstimulation makes us feel alive, but we pay a price: the more the excitement increases, the harder it is for us to concentrate.
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, which 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: find out what time of day is best 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 us be aware that the time we are living is not something that exists out there. You are building that feeling of time. You are the owner of your own time because it is something that is within you.
