In recent days, sitting on the upper terrace of the lighthouse, next to the lantern, I happened to read these interesting lines ...
Time is not but a measure of quality.
When we look back, we're not doing a film, but remembering the gift of our passage on earth. The time is not measured by how you measure a road, because we are giant leaps backward (remember) and forward (projects).
Managing is not living.
"time is money" is nonsense. We must be conscious of every minute, learn to enjoy what we are doing (with love) or only in the contemplation of life. The day consists of 24 hours and countless moments. If we slow down, everything lasts much longer. Sure, it can last longer washing dishes, but why not use that time to think about pleasant things, sing, relax, rejoice in the fact of being alive?
tune with life.
Arthur Rubinstein (one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century) was approached once by an ardent admirer who asked: "How do you use the notes with such mastery?" The pianist said, "I use the known as the others, but the pauses ... ha! That's where the art resides. " Or know how to deal with the pain, instead of hiding behind the many tasks.
Addressing the experience with greater depth.
A study of visitors to the National Zoo in Washington has revealed that the average time people spend watching some exposure to animals shall not exceed ten seconds. So why go to the zoo? Better than flipping through a picture book, no? A guide explained to me that people complain that the hippos are always submerged in reality, the average dive is from ninety seconds to a maximum of five minutes - and yet, haste does not continue to allow the visitor to enjoy the reason the visit.
Knowing when to act or think.
One of my patients with obesity, said it was willing to do anything to heal. I told her that whenever she felt like eating, should have noted that his feelings and not act. "But I feel hungry," he said. "Exactly," was my comment. "If he can cope with his feeling, to observe hunger, to accept it in all its intensity, perhaps to suffer - but not to act - will soon be able to alleviate the anxiety and he will be mistress of her freedom and not slave of his impulses. "
Acting in front of the negative emotions.
When we sit on a couch, turn on the television (which, in truth, is a way to "detach" the world). Or become terribly anxious, we think we're wasting time, we must call someone, do gymnastics, tidying the house. Why? Because if we stay still, the whole wave of emotions repressed attack us, depress us, make us sad or guilty. But the more we "keep busy", especially as these emotions accumulate, until one day we run the risk of seeing them explode out of control.
quality time and nonlinear time ... we must reflect on these words.
Andrea.
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