Don’t you hate the feeling that time passes too quickly and you just want to change that?

Here is what science say about how you can feel that time is not flying – no magic involved

INSIGHT

Don’t you hate the feeling that time passes too quickly and you just want to change that?

“I was just 27 hours in Berlin visiting my friend and it felt like a whole week!”, says my friend who is visiting her hometown of Hamburg and taking a quick trip over to Berlin (4 hours by train or 1 hour by plane from Hamburg) to see one of her best friends.

Isn’t that what we all want, that time feels like we have a LOT of it?

Sometimes a day feels wonderfully long, filled with so many different things and memories. As a kid, a day never ended. These days, when I start working in the morning and I look half an hour later (so it feels) at my watch - it’s 6 pm. Suddenly we celebrate a new year, but – wait, wasn't the summer break just over last week?

What did just happen? Where did the time go? The measurable ‘clock time’ is not the same as the time perceived by the human mind. Time is a mental construct.

We give form and shape to time through images, symbols, and constructions like the clock. As a society on this planet, we all agree on a common system so we can operate.

Individually, each of us creates our own feeling and sense for time – when we express how we manage, save, win, lose, or waste time. Time becomes a subjective feeling. So it seems.

How do you feel about your time?

I was wondering if a mental shift can help us to change our sense of time. And give us a feeling of abundance instead of scarcity.

It turns out, as science has found out, there is a way….

Let’s first start with some familiar stuff.

Time In Numbers

How can the way how we perceive, feel and sense “time” be so different from one person to the next? Everyone feels differently about it, about a number, about 24 hours a day. About 365 days a year. And most of us can agree that we feel that time flies as we get older.

The numbers are the same. We decided a long time ago on a time system, breaking a day down into hours, minutes, and seconds and no matter who you are, you have 24 hours.

That is the math. What about our perception?

If we were slowing down does the perceived time slow down as well? That could be one way but there are other options as well.

Your Sense Of Time

When you are little, you get lost in time. The older we get the faster time seems to pass. Is our brain playing a trick?

The perception of time, which changes with increasing age, is not only a subjective feeling, it actually has a scientific background.

Science tells us that there are 3 interlocking reasons for what is happening in our mind in regard to our sense of time: Memory, habituation, and emotion regulation.

If you like to discover how you can feel that time is your friend and not your enemy and how to get rid of the constant nagging feeling of fleeting time…. Where has the time gone? – then read on.

Keep reading if you want to learn how you can shift your mindset so you have the feeling time is not passing so fast….based on science.

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IMPULSE

Our concepts of time are based on our understanding of physical space, with some surprising cultural variations 
Humans, like creatures ranging from amoebas and bees to mockingbirds and elephants, come with built-in equipment for perceiving some aspects of time, such as the rhythms of night and day, the waxing and waning of the moon, and the turning of the seasons. What separates humans from other animals is that we do not stop at merely sensing time's passage. We tackle time head-on—or at least we try.

Read more here on Scientific American »»

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INDEPTH

What your time-management gurus forgot to tell you
And How Tony Robbins tackles this time-stealing issue

How many times a day do you get angry and upset about something? How often does something unexpected happen that just annoys you and you feel like this is just taking up your time again? 

These things just steal your time without you noticing it. Be aware of the time you could "save" if you developed a different attitude!

Unexpected or annoying things happen and we can't change that. Accept it.

Here is what you CAN do: you can change how much time you "waste" on thinking negative thoughts about a situation. 

If you've been upset about something for five minutes, you could have started investing that energy in finding a solution or changing the situation four minutes ago.