Time
We perceive time as this limited resource that will run out. That if we don’t make the most out of the time we got, we are wasting it and all is lost. Feeling like time is a ticking bomb that will explode but we don’t know when. What we actually fear is our mortality.
Time is not really time as we understand it. It is something way more abstract and interconnected beyond what we are able to comprehend.
Time is a concept. A concept that humans created to make sense out of an abstract aspect of life. Humans framed it from our own perspective — of death and the limited time-frame of our physical bodies. Because our bodies will eventually die, we assume that that is the end and time continues moving onward in a linear, forward-moving manner. And so therefor, time was framed as limited and finite.
In wise ancient civilizations, they knew that time was not linear, it was cyclical. They saw it in the cycles of nature, the cycles of constellations and planetary orbits, in the cycles of agriculture, and, in the cycles of ancestors and people. They understood that life was not linear or finite, they understood that life was cyclical and infinite. And so time was like a thread that wove all through our perceived “past, present and future”, connecting it all as one continuous circle. An infinite circle that cycles again and again forever.
Our physical bodies, just like all natural beings, will die. But like all natural beings, they are also re-born. The continuous cycles of nature governs all natural beings—from plants to humans, in which death and re-birth loop again and again. While our physical bodies have a short-term expiration date, the energy that powers our physical form does not. Energy never dies. Energy is simply recycled over and over to create new but same forms. The same energy from one human body will simply be converted to another new body.
If we consider the laws of nature and physics, we can understand that time is not limited and finite, it is cyclical and infinite. Energy never dies.
Re-framing our perspective of time helps us embody patience. We can then feel that time is not running out; there is no need or point to rushing, pushing, forcing or controlling. Everything in nature operates according to its own internal clock and intelligence. Plants naturally know when its time to bloom and die. And we do too. We are constantly undergoing the same cycles of death and re-birth if we accept it. It is how we can grow. Any attempt to force or push ourselves to do something or create a certain outcome faster will only lead to suffering. Instead, we can embrace our natural cyclical nature and infinite perspective of time to exercise patience, compassion and kindness to ourselves and to the process of growth and life.
As energy, our souls never die. They cycle through many many lifetimes. It is in its energetic nature to recreate what it is programmed to do. And if you understand reincarnation, you may feel that you have lived previous lives and have amassed certain programming and energies that are perhaps not just because of the experiences in this particular lifetime. There is some continuity in our soul’s energetic code. And the purpose of every lifetime is energetic evolution.
The cyclical nature of time gives us space to do this and to move through the required process necessary and unique to all of us. Ultimately we have no control, we are governed by the laws of nature and the Universe. We may attempt to push or force, but it will only cause us suffering and blindness to the lessons we are here to learn and evolve. While our energy is eternal, our physical form in one lifetime has an expiration date. That expiration date is what gives our lives meaning. Balancing both within us is the spiritual and physical work of being and growing as a human.