What Inhibits Timelessness?

Having felt the anxious and pressured experience of linear time, and having occasionally known the freeing timelessness of peak experiences, we might very well ask, "What is it that keeps us from having more peak time experiences?" This question can be answered in numerous ways, the following among them:

Western cultures implicitly teach that linear time is 'normal'

Our cultures in the West confuse event time, measured time, and felt time, providing only one word for 'time'. And they implicitly teach that we should always feel time flowing constantly (or we're 'losing track' of time). (For more information, see "What We Teach About Time.") This makes it difficult to facilitate peak experience of any kind, which has a timeless quality, or a sense of passing without friction.

Techniques to change 'felt time' aren't commonly known

Very few people are teaching direct methods to optimize our felt time. Numerous meditation techniques evoke a level of timelessness, though they often simply try to ignore time's passing rather than examine exactly what time is. However, numerous direct practices are offered by Results in No Time to understand experientially what time is and transform it.

We avoid 'negative' feelings and sensations

Western cultures implicitly teach that turning away from, or even suppressing any kind of 'negative' experience is normal and natural. However, when we turn away from 'negative' experiences, the experience of time passing arises and is strengthened. (For examples of how this occurs--including procrastination and avoidance of pain and negative emotion--see "How Our Sense of Time Flow is Created.") Repressing or suppressing the energy of 'negative' feeling transforms it into a stronger sense of time flowing, whether it seems to flow more slowly or more quickly. Relating to experiences as 'negative' or 'positive' (where 'positive' is understood as the opposite of 'negative') is only one of numerous possibilities.

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