subject: Time Management Tips - How To Energize Your Spirituality By Evolving Your Relationship With Time [print this page] Time management can introduce you to completely new and life-transforming truths! That is because exercising your power of choice over your time enables you to step off the daily treadmill and open to the timeless. As you become still, like a moonlit lake, you can reflect, in brilliance. Taking time to reflect is an active component of self-care. Because reflection develops your self-reference, it creates a foundation of wisdom. The more you reflect, the more motivated you become to set time boundaries that keep you in charge of your time.
Each pause provides you with a fresh opportunity to ground and energize yourself. Over and over, you re-connect with the moment, and with the energy that flows from that fundamental still-point. A further aspect of reflection points is summed up in the following quotation:
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
This passage is from Wallace Steven's book, Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. In this, he explores imagination and the creative process.
Steven's use of the word "truth" is notable. There is something different here that you can cultivate in your daily life.
When you pause, in the course of a morning, an afternoon, or a day, and make space to reflect, you can go beyond simply finding or refreshing your energy. Stepping away from your desk to reflect and find a creative solution to a problem is always positive, of course. But you can do still more. Whenever you pause to look within, you affirm that your time and thus your life belong to you. You are autonomous -- you think for yourself! Embracing this level of responsibility gives you dignity and purpose. You can maintain your focus in the face of distractions. And this sense of purpose sets you on your own search for truth.
Not truth with a capital T - but the evolving element of depth that each of us can access in our lives. What you discover may be surprising, disconcerting, or comforting. Opening to your daily and evolving truth is a risk... and an adventure. Ultimately, the quiet whisper of inner truth depends on this walk. If you don't make the space for it in your life, you are missing something basic, yet rare and precious.
Consider how you might create space to build new meaning in your life:
When can you take 5 minutes to free your mind of daily distractions?
Envision a tranquil scene you can visit, in reality or in your imagination.
Relax and feel how you can allow inner truths to emerge during this time.
1.Where does your inner wisdom reside?
2.How does it emerge?
3.Name one lesson you learn.
Each day, ask yourself in a loving way: Have you taken a walk around the lake? And what is your first step today to a life of deeper meaning and more intentional time?
