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Warrior Work
Week 42
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The Tao of Time Part 1
By Peter Hill
Scientists tell us that our planet is around 4.6 billion years old and that our Sun has enough nuclear fuel to live another 5 billion years.
That puts our Earth at middle age. On the other hand, Christian fundamentalists tell us that science is wrong and the Earth is only 6,000
years old. You can argue your whole day or life about time but it still keeps ticking away as you breathe and move or sit and think.
We do know that stress makes you age much faster, (“I aged 5 years in the past month” is something you might have heard in one
variation or another) and that eating well, exercising, getting enough rest and even positive thoughts (being happy) slows the aging
process down.
Interestingly, Einstein proved that the faster something travels the less time it uses and in a black hole, time ceases to exist. When
asked about putting his theory of relativity into layman’s language he said, “If you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour but
if you look at a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute”.
Time, time, time………….there are even lots of ways to look at it, measure it and keep track of it (see www.itsabouttime.com) but
one of the key questions is, “Are you happy with what you are creating and doing with YOUR time?”
The character for chi/ji in taichi is a person standing between heaven and earth, carving out their world (symbolized by a tree) with
their mouth (words) and hands (actions). In English that character translates into “energy”. The more energy we have, the more energy we
free up and the more energy we cultivate, the more we can do. In fact, everything we do is based on our level of energy at any given time
and even what we do or don’t do with our time in linked to our level of energy.
On tombstones, it is common to have the date the person was born and the date they died or passed. In between those dates is a
dash – short and simple, and yet that dash symbolizes everything that went between the two times of their coming and going. Another key
question is, “What will your dash carry within it?”
As a hospice volunteer, people confide that they seldom regret what they did but regret what they didn’t do. The things they
experienced helped them grow in wisdom but what they didn’t do was often because of fear or a lack of energy.
What do you want to do with your time? Where do you want to go? Who do you want to be? What do you value? What harmonizes
and resonates with your soul? Do you like who you are?
You have the freedom to spend your time as you will but you have no time to not be doing what your heart whispers or shouts to you.
As the character for chi says, “you are here standing between heaven and earth, carving out your world with your actions and your words”.
You will be here for a brief time so make it what you will with conscious intentional choices! Good time management, prioritizing what is
important to you and acting on what you decide is a good place to start!
By Peter Hill, Copyright 2004
www.getittogether.net
www.worldtaichi.com
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Week 42
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The Tao of Time Part 1
By Peter Hill
Scientists tell us that our planet is around 4.6 billion years old and that our Sun has enough nuclear fuel to live another 5 billion years.
That puts our Earth at middle age. On the other hand, Christian fundamentalists tell us that science is wrong and the Earth is only 6,000
years old. You can argue your whole day or life about time but it still keeps ticking away as you breathe and move or sit and think.
We do know that stress makes you age much faster, (“I aged 5 years in the past month” is something you might have heard in one
variation or another) and that eating well, exercising, getting enough rest and even positive thoughts (being happy) slows the aging
process down.
Interestingly, Einstein proved that the faster something travels the less time it uses and in a black hole, time ceases to exist. When
asked about putting his theory of relativity into layman’s language he said, “If you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour but
if you look at a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute”.
Time, time, time………….there are even lots of ways to look at it, measure it and keep track of it (see www.itsabouttime.com) but
one of the key questions is, “Are you happy with what you are creating and doing with YOUR time?”
The character for chi/ji in taichi is a person standing between heaven and earth, carving out their world (symbolized by a tree) with
their mouth (words) and hands (actions). In English that character translates into “energy”. The more energy we have, the more energy we
free up and the more energy we cultivate, the more we can do. In fact, everything we do is based on our level of energy at any given time
and even what we do or don’t do with our time in linked to our level of energy.
On tombstones, it is common to have the date the person was born and the date they died or passed. In between those dates is a
dash – short and simple, and yet that dash symbolizes everything that went between the two times of their coming and going. Another key
question is, “What will your dash carry within it?”
As a hospice volunteer, people confide that they seldom regret what they did but regret what they didn’t do. The things they
experienced helped them grow in wisdom but what they didn’t do was often because of fear or a lack of energy.
What do you want to do with your time? Where do you want to go? Who do you want to be? What do you value? What harmonizes
and resonates with your soul? Do you like who you are?
You have the freedom to spend your time as you will but you have no time to not be doing what your heart whispers or shouts to you.
As the character for chi says, “you are here standing between heaven and earth, carving out your world with your actions and your words”.
You will be here for a brief time so make it what you will with conscious intentional choices! Good time management, prioritizing what is
important to you and acting on what you decide is a good place to start!
By Peter Hill, Copyright 2004
www.getittogether.net
www.worldtaichi.com
Warrior Week Home >>