Slowing Time.

Around my birthday each year I like to reflect on what's changed for me over the last 12 months. Things that have gone well, areas of growth, places of challenge, or new viewpoints or ways of living.

 One viewpoint that I wanted to share with you is about time. we often hear about time being precious, time being scarce, if only we had more hours in the day…yet I've always found it difficult to actually make changes in the realm of time that feel substantial. 

 Though the last few months of this year have felt different. And I'd like to share with you how.

I have started to look at time differently. Less powerless, more an actor in my time-story. Have you heard of Einstein time versus Newtonian time? The essence (in over-simplified terms) distills down to this: Newtonian-time is absolute. Time is always the same for everyone, everywhere. It’s how our world as a whole operates. However, Einstein time is relative. It can be faster or slower. It’s dependent on YOU. Have you had those luscious moments when time slows, and you are ever observant, deep into the flow? Of creating, of being in a wild space, or holding a loved-one. Einstein time challenges us to question the status-quo of how we hold time. 

 I’ve noticed the more that I’ve tried to live in Einstein time, creating expansiveness, slowness, space, surrender into flow—how much more time I’ve had in the day. And how much more easeful the days have felt. Less frenetic. More creative, luscious, and beautiful. Filled with more love. More gratitude. 

And no, life hasn’t felt like a walking-dream, void of chaos and conflict. There’s still breakfast-squabbles and smushed raspberries on the sofa. And the inevitable uncertainties that nudge into the nooks and crannies in my mind. But then I remember “Einstein, Paige, Einstein!” and the drive to school becomes softer and the sun beaming across the valley is luminescent. I remember it again, as I bend over the bench in my studio and suddenly 10am is 2pm and I truly have been lost in a reverie of metal and stones.

 So one shift that I want to bring forward into this next year is to remember that I am the source of time, that I am empowered to view time as expansive, rather than rushed. That I am a very active participant in this one wild and precious life I’ve been given.