What a waste of time
Have you wasted time recently? Have you wasted any in the past or are you planning to waste any in the future? Curious about what I mean or just annoyed? The stuff of life, the stuff that takes most of our time becomes super important when we constantly reprocess past events or feel we have to keep planning the future. But what about now, right here and now. This precious fleeting moment where you really exist because, it may be a surprise for you to consider that you really don't exist in the past or the future, you only have now. You can fill now with thoughts but they'll be about the past or the future! To be here, right now, it's best to drop the thoughts and become aware instead. If that's puzzling try to focus on something that doesn't need thinking about such as how warm you feel or your breath and feel your awareness drop out of your head and then into your body. You become conscious and connected for just a moment and bingo you're wasting time. It's only for a moment and you can waste a moment, surely. Enjoy this part of you. It's always been there but it often gets shut out or shutdown. It's as much a part of you as your busy thinking mind which holds your ego's story. Yes, that’s right, I’m saying that who you think is you is really a story about you. Your ego needs a past and and a future to exist that's why we spend so much energy occupied with the past and the future, instead of 'wasting' time and finding the you that has been there all along. You might want to join us ‘wasting time’ here at Washbrook Meadows Retreat. We set things up so you can rediscover wasting time, we like to think of it as part of a spiritual practice but it can simply be about your well-being. So here, you might find yourself creating art that's just for you or walking on what we call a pilgrimage, a pilgrimage back to you where you might learn some practices that will help you reclaim your now. But remember you already have now and you are already you. So start the process now and waste a little time on yourself.
