Redhill, Reigate and Online

Telephone: 07887 484738
Email: charles@cggtherapy.co.uk
 


Time in our life

17 August 2017

Time is one of my great interests, and in fact my psychotherapy and counselling MA dissertation is about our relationship with time.

Time has been pondered over for millennia, by philosophers, scientists, religious aspirants, artists and maybe many of us, yet it remains a mystery. You can't see, hear or smell time, yet it is there in everything and we cannot avoid having some kind of relationship with it.

Time - what is it? What is our relationship with it?

Do you constantly find yourself feeling under time pressure? Your boss wants some task done by 5 pm today when there's no chance of completing it this week? You have a hundred and one things to do and only this morning to do them? Then do you find yourself suddenly wondering where all the time has 'gone'? We talk about time flying, and it seems to fly faster as we get older.

Do you find that you think more about the past, either nostalgically looking back at the wonderful past, or alternatively haunted by past memories that you just don't seem able to shake off? Or do you focus more on the future? Are you preoccupied with fears of an uncertain future, or are you always thinking ahead to your next plan, your next project? Or do you prefer to focus on right now, the present?

There is the saying that time is money. Do you see time as a commodity in that way? Do you see it more like space? Or as a prison or a galloping horse? Is time an illusion? Is time the very essence of our existence in this world? According to Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh (in his book The Art of Living, p. ), "Time is not money. Time is life, and time is love." What do you think?

These are all big questions and I think that they somehow link into potentially anything that comes up in counselling and psychotherapy.

Our relationship is also one of my workshop themes...
 

 

Redhill, Reigate and Online

Telephone: 07887 484738
Email: charles@cggtherapy.co.uk