Is There
Enough Time?
by Gail Carr Feldman, PhD
All of us sometimes
feel that there is "not enough time" in our lives to focus
on work, family, community, and personal creativity. We fret about
time management, time pressure, running out of time, finding time,
time crunch, and quality time. The common denominator in this concern
with time is a desire for and a fantasy about having greater control
over our busy lives. I've often voiced a wish for more time in the
day. "If I had more time, I could accomplish so much more,
couldn't I?"
I believe that
we all have enough time to accomplish exactly what we need to for
our soul's learning in each lifetime. Physician, Brian Weiss, author
of Many Lives, Many Masters, tells how the death of his baby son
changed his life course by directing him to become a psychiatrist.
Later on, his patient, Catherine, under hypnosis channeled information
from his son. He told Brian that his life purpose had been to guide
his father to his new work. The soul's learning through service
was achieved in that very short time. And an autistic girl explains
in A Child of Eternity that she chose to have autism in this lifetime
to gain certain important experiences for her soul's growth.
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"For
everything its season, and for every activity under
heaven its time."
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Michelangelo
lived to be nearly ninety and worked up to the time of his death.
He wanted most of all to sculpt, but was continually given assignments
by the Papacy to paint. He was required to paint twelve figures
on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He made the time to paint
over three hundred. All of us have enough time to express our
signature creativity.
As the
curtains close on this millennium, the time is right to make peace
with this concept of time. King David's son wrote in Ecclesiastes
that the futility of constant striving is like "chasing the
wind." In some of the most beautiful passages ever written
about time, he suggests that wisdom is in knowing that "every
activity and every purpose has its proper time. For everything its
season, and for every activity under heaven its time." In our
hearts we know that truth. One of my businesswomen clients showed
up one day looking more calm than usual, then explained: "I've
decided to concentrate on being in time rather than worry about
being on time."
When
we are in time we live with emotional trust and spiritual faith
that every area of our life is unfolding in just the right way.
We immediately move from crisis and inner tension to creativity
and inner peace when we allow a shift in consciousness from being
time bound to time less. You can relax into timelessness with one
deep breath. Then send a message to your inner Self to proceed easily
with your plans. When we are in the place of creative flow, whether
it's total absorption in office work, cooking, childcare, writing,
exercising, gardening, or any activity that captures our concentration,
time disappears altogether and perceived limitation becomes fulfillment.
Dr.
Gail Feldman is a clinical psychologist, award-winning author,
and enthusiastic public speaker. Her most recent book, Releasing
the Goddess Within, coauthored with Katherine Gleason,
is now available Her classic, From Crisis to Creativity:
Taking Advantage of Adversity, has been published
in an updated edition in London by TimeWarner. She is also trained
in hypnotherapy, regression therapy, and eye movement desensitization
and reporcessing (EDMR).
