Human Time

Human Time

Clocks measure other clocks, they don’t measure Time…

I heard this in a movie and it totally makes sense. Let’s discuss how….

Let’s look at an example. Consider a rose garden which has a giant wheel next to it. If someone was to keep a track and calculate no. of roses grown, flourished and died (completed cycle) when the giant wheel completed 100 rounds, the report would show highly varied rose cycles per 100 giant wheel cycles, wouldn’t it?

Near the rose garden there is also a hotel. If someone was to keep a track of no. of giant wheel cycles completed per 100 customers served (came to hotel, ate and left); i.e. giant wheel cycle per 100 customers served cycle, the report would again show varied no. of giant wheel cycles, wouldn’t it?

A river flows by the hotel and that same person also tried keeping a track of no. of customers served per 100 litres of water flowing… Well again the ratio wouldn’t be consistent, isn’t it?

All of these cycles don’t match with each other because a rose cycle, giant wheel cycle, customer serviced cycle and river water flowing cycle have their own ways of happening, their own constraints and their own parameters affecting them. If someone tries to increase any of the three ratios mentioned above, they need to understand how exactly each cycle works and what effects the cycle. If someone has to increase the no. of customers served per 100 litres of river water flowing, that person must understand how exactly does customer served cycle work & what impacts it. For example, if a section of that hotel is closed due to maintenance or reserved for someone, no of tables available to serve will be less, hence less customers served. Similarly, giant wheel usually moves when it has enough no. of people sitting in it, for very few no. of people it may not start; hence, no. of giant wheel cycles completed per 100 customers served would vary also.

Now broadening our view, let us compare all these three cycles with no. of cycles a minute hand completes on a watch. No. of rose cycles per minute hand cycle; no. of giant wheel cycles per minute hand cycle, no. of customers served per minute hand cycle and river water flowing per minute hand cycle. Will they be consistent?

Everything has its own way of happening, own pattern, own cycle of occurrence. We can count the no. of cycles and try to compare a cycle with another, but constantly trying to match two cycles EVEERYTIME…. Hmmm….. May not be best thing to do….

What if we try to define Time and understand what it is / can be…

‘Time is state of Being’. A completed cycle can be defined as metric for a unit of Time of that cycle. What Clocks do when they complete a cycle can be termed as Clock Time. Clock Time is not absolute. It is just a reference system. Everything has its own time…. Rose Time, Giant wheel Time, Customer serviced Time, River water flowing Time or say Human Time…

Humans usually are referred to as physical body and Mind, so does Human Time…. It refers to ‘Body Time’ and ‘Mind Time’.

There is different cycle for the body to be awake and to sleep; Awake Time and Sleep Time. Body tells you when it wants to sleep and it tells you when it wants to wake up, trying to synchronise those cycles with Minute hand cycle is where everything goes for a toss. Even is body is not done with sleep cycle or say not completed Sleep Time, we force our body to entire in Awake Time only because we want it to match with Clock Time; that is forcibly killing a Rose just so we have Rose Cycle matching Minute hand cycle…

Take a moment here to read the above para again…. Move ahead ONLY if it makes sense… Only if you think Body Time is different from Clock Time… Trying to match bodily activities like when to eat, when to wake up, etc. is actually forcing to break the cycle just because we want it to be in sync with Minute hand cycle… In reality, our body is equipped to give us alerting signals when one cycle is complete and other must be started…

Human Time is different from Clock Time… Trying to synchronise them both may be required when some important tasks are to be completed; like maybe hitting a target by Army, but How Much Is Too Much? Have we taken it too far trying to synchronise every physical and mental activity with minute hand cycle? Nothing in the universe, in its natural form, follows Clock Time, even Sun has its own cycle of rising and setting… Attempting to synchronise is an unnatural phenomenon that we are forcing, shouldn’t it be limited to cases where we ABSOLUTELY cannot do away without it???...

Moving ahead a little, we know about concept of Time being relative and the famous example of Time passing fast when we are sitting with a loved one compared to Time passing very slowly when we are sitting on a hot pan…

We need to understand what is Mind Time… It may be easy to identify Body Time considering body cycles for various activities, but may need a little thought to understand Mind Time…

It is indeed a little complex subject to understand nature of Mind & Consciousness, but simplifying things only to understand Human Time, we know that Mind is where we have Thoughts… Thoughts begin, we think to complete a thought and thoughts may at times end with actions; for example when I see a Blueberry cheesecake, a thought may begin of having it, I would think about how can I have it and my action of, let’s say, buying it and eating would complete the thought… We can consider the ONLY task that Mind does is completing the Thoughts, so a completed Thought is when we can consider a unit of Mind Time passed…

Take a pause here to read the above para again… See if it makes sense… Complete the Thought of understanding it… :-)

Times when we are thinking about something; i.e. trying to complete a Thought, Mind Time has not elapsed… While compared with Minute hand cycle, Clock Time might’ve elapsed, but Mind Time elapses only when the Thought is complete… A rough analogy can be figured when someone meditates and by the time someone is done completing a Thought in meditation, the no. of Minute hand cycles elapsed will have ABSOLUTELY no relevance…. Two people reading a book will need EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF HUMAN TIME… Same no. of Thoughts pass through Mind, but the Clock Time may vary because it is irrelevant… Let’s understand ahead why this happens…

I know I’m going too fast in throwing a lot of new information in every line… Do let yourself complete your Thoughts by reading and re-reading as many times you like before moving ahead…

Mind completes Thoughts, but how many thoughts it can accommodate and complete simultaneously? Let us compare Mind with Hotel mentioned in above example and no. of Thoughts completed as no. of customers served… No. of customers served highly depend upon 2 major parameters; what kind of orders they place and what are the no. of tables available to serve them (excluding the Reserved tables)… Continuing the analogy; Mind can complete Thoughts depending on how complex the Thought is and how much Space of Mind is free… The reserved tables are those Thoughts which are going on in background as mandatory ones to be completed; like if you’re thinking while driving, driving is a reserved table, a mandatory thought which has to go on in background and the remaining available Space of Mind is used for thinking and completing other Thoughts… Doing activities where one has minimal mandatory things in background (minimal reserved tables), one can have more Thoughts completed simultaneously, so you might feel Mind Time passing faster as compared to Clock Time…

We know of many stories and methods like; fill the jar with big stones first followed by small ones, set priority of tasks by urgent and important bifurcation, keep unnecessary load away to live lightly and run freely (mentally), etc.… They all indicate keeping less reserved tables, so more Thoughts can be completed simultaneously…

Clock Time has no relevance to Human Time and is not the dictator of what a Human being can achieve, when… Body activities are different patterns compared to Mind activities. To achieve something, we need a combination of body activities and mind activities. Body activities (life and death) may have certain patter to be followed, but it is COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT of mind activities. We can achieve unimaginable things using immense Mind capacity with-in one body cycle…

Wishing you a Peaceful Life!

Deep Mody

A Change Leader

Helping Humans do what they do the best – Be Human