There is plenty of time
Jennifer Aaker, Stanford University, studies "awe" and finds out that those who experience more awe have widening of perception of time...and also have less of impatience.
If you’re feeling pressed for time, you’re not alone. Surveys show most working Americans feel that way. But what if there were a way to expand those precious minutes and hours? New research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business suggests there may be one: elicit a sense of awe. Experiencing something awe-inspiring — whether it’s the Grand Canyon, a soaring cathedral, or a Puccini aria — can expand perceptions of time, enhancing quality of life. The key, says Jennifer Aaker, Stanford GSB’s General Atlantic Professor of Marketing and an author of a new paper on the subject, is that awe makes us feel small, not larger than life, the way happiness can. “When you feel small, there’s a reapportioning of what’s out there,” she says. “Time is reapportioned also.”
Daily Tiny Act: "Twinkle Twinkle. How I wonder what you are?" 1/Per Hour.
This coincides with Swami Sukhobodananda's
teachings in which he urges us to experience "adbhuta rasa" (sanskrit
for the emotion of wonderment). He mentions that most of the time, we
wait for the externalities to deliver surprise or wonderment. However in
Vedic traditions, there is a mention of deliberately looking for
wonderment. The following are the various ways of looking for
wonderment:
1. Ascharyavat Paschyati: Wonderment in seeing. Example:
Isn't it awe that almost a quadrillion photons are, right at this
moment, entering your eye. However, your eye radar is chosing to only
process the following of these lines of the email.
2. Ascharyavat Srunoti: Wonderment in listening. Example:
Simply close your eyes and listen to the sounds around. Try and pick
separate sounds at this moment. Simply doing this exercise is an
attention training exercise too. Wondering that the same elements when
hitting different surfaces and traveling different distances before
reaching ears, produce so many different sounds. Its the nature's
engineering marvel.
3. Ascharyavat Vadati: Wonderment in speech. Example:
When we speak, there are small air explosions that happen in our vocal
chords & mouth apparatus...these minute air explosions are what we
direct as speech.
Simplest mechanism is to pick up one stimuli
(across Visual/Smell/Sound/Taste/ Touch) every hour and delving deep
much on lines of process audit we do in corporate. This is deeply
meditative and also awe-inspiring to see how nature's process has so
many concurrent parts in the process, working in tandem, and having the
process character of "repeatability" and "reproducibility". In addition,
this exercise helps develop creativity and intuition which is very
important in corporate performance.
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