Monday, Sept. 20, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Time can shift according to how we choose to experience it. Do we sense time differently when we are waiting for someone who is late than when we are the one who is late? Time also often seems to slow down when things are harder in winter or with the experience of pain.
Time has very little to do with clocks and everything to do with thought and perception. Yet most people are in a 24/7 competition against the timepiece, obeying the orders of their calendars, their completely charted days, or their clock-crazy, appointment-driven, dizzying timetable of overscheduled duties. The weight of overwhelming demands, commitments, and options and the endless list of responsibilities can easily pull us off balance.
Our collective obsession with clock time creates a magnetic pull toward overcommitment and speed. In our mad dash to get things done, we often bow down to the tyranny of the urgent, forgetting that multitasking is not a normal human state, even if our idea of it is holding a remote control and eating chips simultaneously.
Our inner artist allows us to break out of this hourglass prison and enter a world where each moment is unfolding just so — no matter whether the vehicle for such unfolding is song, dance, painting, sculpting, or writing.
With recovery, I need not be afraid that boredom will lead me to destructive choices. I enjoy the timelessness found in practicing my art form.
Hazelden Foundation
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