Bury your Time Sense and Relax.....

' Time Sense ', the Root Cause of Hyper Tension :

We hear 'Busy Bodies' often saying ' Sorry, I am busy, I have no Time'. So much so, one wonders how these people spent ten long months during their gestation period without doing anything, or, how they 'wasted' their childhood days chasing little things in life. Should we make our life so busy that we do not have any time left to relax and enjoy small things in our life and become victims of Hyper Tension and Diabetes the two evil hall marks of the modern society ? After all what is the purpose of this life?

A peep into the Historical need for Time :

In the prehistoric days people used to live a Nomadic life wandering from place to place in search of food and used to stay in caves. There was no concept of time and the life was basically a struggle for existence. Then came the River Valley Civilizations when people got settled on the banks of rivers and mostly made their livings by engaging themselves in Agriculture. Agriculture gave them security of food and more leisure. People started using their brains to develop better tools useful in their daily life. Somewhere down the line, they felt the need to sequence their day to day activity and the the concept of Time came into existence. Sand Clocks and Shadow Clocks were developed to measure Time. From those early days, we have come a long way to the present Industrialised World. But in the process, we became more greedy and in our quest to conquer the world, we keep racing against time keeping ourselves busy all the time. Are we not attaching undue importance to our Time Sense?

What is Time after all ?, Does it really exist ?

We live in a dynamic world where Change is the only thing that does not change. Everything around us keeps on changing, the planets spin on their axes and also rotate around the star, seasons change in rotation, days and nights keep cycling, temperature, pressure, living organisms, all keep changing. Some of the changes like rotation of planets, seasonal changes and day/night cycling are all repetitive in nature. Also there are Periodic Oscillations of Pendulums, Electromagnetic Waves and particles of matter like Atoms and Molecules. So much so, that the French Scientist Louis de Broglie has proposed the theory of Duality of Matter. According to his theory, all matter in the universe can exist in two states as particles and waves. According to him, even a football in motion has its own wave nature , but its oscillating amplitude is so small that it is negligible compared to its physical size. It is as if the Greek God Atlas is still having fun by rocking the whole universe to his own rhythms.

In order to quantise the rate of change of variables, we have introduced the concept of Time. 'It is an abstract entity based on the elapsed duration it takes for some of the stable periodic oscillations in nature to complete a fixed number of oscillations'.

What happens if the Time stops?

If we remove the sense of time from our mind, we will still see the whole world around us changing as usual, but Time, ... no way, it does not change, at least I can not see it, unless I look at my clock, which is again an oscillating product made by us to give us a time reference. Time is 'Only important when we want to measure the rate of change of a variable or if we need to schedule our activity during our awakened state of mind'. Our mind has got a sticky nature. It binds itself to objects which it thinks is important. So, it is fully within our control to keep our perception of time the right way and avoid giving too much importance to it.

Switch off your Time Sense and Relax your Body and Mind :

For perfect relaxation of our Body and Mind, one should learn to switch off the Time Sense and give Time only due importance it deserves. Daily take some time out of the busy schedule, switch off the Time Sense and either fully relax doing nothing, or engage oneself in a nonroutine, enjoyable activity. By slowly and steadily convincing the Mind, over a period, one can learn oneself the process of enjoying a wholesome life of peace and tranquility and bid good bye to Hyper Tension and Diabetes which are triggered due to lack of relaxation in our daily life.