So our time is characteristically too short and too pressing. We always have to move on. The Clock Watching exercise can show the difference between clock time and our sense of time passing. Lightening Thoughts is a relaxing, slow head rotation exercise that can slow down compulsive thinking and anxiety about time. To break up and slow down the momentum of linear time, try Turn Time Around , or Mental Event Counting .
Little kids have no feeling of time passing.
We learn the habit of experiencing time a certain way, depending on which culture we grow up in. Most of us in the West are so addicted to linear time that we don't know it. This suggests that our perspectives of time are at least somewhat flexible. Michael leaned back and adjusted his napkin. My wife Becky and I were at the end of a wonderful weekend at a lake in Wisconsin.