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I am in a men's prayer group and the subject for the week was "Patience". But it got me thinking about Edmond Husserl's "Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness. Time flows past us. The present flows into the past but we can still have it in retention. We can even recollect it into the present. We can also anticipate ethe future with pretention. But the flow of time itself is God's will. (Husserl doesn't say that. I do.) While it may be relative and while we can rearranged our schedules to make things happen faster. Time flow is beyond our control. If we are impatient, it is because we are not in synch with God's will.
And there are at least two types of time as found in the New Testament: Chronos (chronological or sequential time) and Kairos (opportune or seasonal time.
We can use the past to reflect and perhaps learn. But we can also obsess with it and grieve. With the future we can predict and plan but we can also worry. In the field of meditation and brain science there is a concept called the default mode network (DMN)—a set of brain regions active when the mind is wandering, daydreaming, or ruminating about the past and future. Practicing presence, the only place where we find God, is actually healthy for us.
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I often hear people say that they cannot meditate. They cannot "shut off" their minds. What a wring notion. It is not about shutting anything off but rather being patient.
And there are at least two types of time as found in the New Testament: Chronos (chronological or sequential time) and Kairos (opportune or seasonal time.
We can use the past to reflect and perhaps learn. But we can also obsess with it and grieve. With the future we can predict and plan but we can also worry. In the field of meditation and brain science there is a concept called the default mode network (DMN)—a set of brain regions active when the mind is wandering, daydreaming, or ruminating about the past and future. Practicing presence, the only place where we find God, is actually healthy for us.
Meditation and Mindfulness: How They Transform the Brain
For thousands of years, human beings have turned inward in search of peace, clarity, and wisdom. Monks meditating in Himalayan caves, Zen practitioners ...
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I often hear people say that they cannot meditate. They cannot "shut off" their minds. What a wring notion. It is not about shutting anything off but rather being patient.
