Managing Time Mindfully: A Mindful Approach to Time Management

by Tom Evans

This book explores the use of mindfulness meditation as a practical tool for improved time management. When we take control of our Personal Time Machine, namely our mind, we can take the passage of time under our control.. The practice of daily mindfulness meditation slows down the perceived passage of time so we get more done with less of it. At the same time, we become less prone to interruptions and calmer and more focused. Our productivity and creativity soars at the same time we become more vibrant and healthy. The world around us seems to alter too. Serendipity visits our door, just in time. Life becomes a breeze when we stop pushing water uphill and go with the temporal flow. Time-as-we-know-it is man-made. While it allows us to run our sophisticated society, we have become enslaved by it. From breakfast time through lunch time and back to bed time, our lives are run to the clock. Slowing down is the new speeding up. Like a clock face, and the seasons, the book is naturally divided into quarters. The first quarter, entitled First Tickings, explores how we have become so time poor in our modern day society. It takes a trip back to the dawn of time to give perspective on how time itself began. This first quarter concludes with the story of how the very invention of accurate time measurement led to our current obsession and entrapment in temporal chains of our own making. In the second quarter, Perceptions of Time, the subjective nature of time is explained and explored. Our left and right brains ’see’ time’s passage differently. Not all areas of our body are in sync, and some even operate ahead of time. It turns out that our amazing ability to think and talk to ourselves gives rise to the illusion of the passage of time. This is why mindfulness meditation, which quietens our inner chatter, is the key to stretching and elongating time. In the third quarter, the book introduces the concept of Extended Me Time (or EMT) and how every minute we spend meditating pays back many times over. We become luckier, smarter, more creative and healthier. We can then indulge in the luxury of jumping back into Natural Time and freeing ourselves from the constrictions of our man-made calendar. We discover a more relaxed way-to-be where our heart’s desired turns up Just in Time. The fourth quarter explores the esoteric theme of temporal alchemy. When we see time as a dimension our minds can interact with and manipulate, we can ’save’ much more time. We can free ourselves from the bonds of the past and entangle with the most perfect version of ourselves in the future. The author comes to the twelfth hour with some tales our how time has not just bent for him but reversed, jumped, and even stopped. All in all, this book is ahead of its time and there are not many books on time management that take the reader on a journey through time, right back to when it all began. When you read this book, your relationship with time will be changed forever. What readers are saying ... "A temporal tour de force. I will never think of time in the same way again." "It's about time someone really wrote a book about time."

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 11, 2015

About the author

I am an author, meditation guide and temporal alchemist. After publishing 15 books non-fiction books, I've just published my 1st novel, Soulwaves which is a potential future history of planet Earth and humanity. I have now written the prequel/sequel to this novel in the form of 12 short stories and tall tales.

I love exploring how the mind works (or doesn't) and reading the esoteric with the aim of making it exoteric.

Currently exploring how to bend time and space, how to tune into future memories and how authors can channel their future self who knows the words they have yet to write (or something like that !!)