Website design By BotEap.comMy partner and I just returned from 5 days in the interior of British Columbia at a cabin on the north end of Okanagan Lake, a 150 mile stretch of lake. At home our days go by too fast; There never seems to be enough time to complete our tasks and they always take longer than we think they should. But at the lake, time passed very, very slowly. Every day seemed like 2 days, and the entire 3 days we spent there felt like a week! It was wonderful and gave us the refreshment away from our routines that we longed for.

Website design By BotEap.comTime is a man-made concept and that is why it sometimes seems to lengthen and shorten in a different way than the actual hours we see on the clock. Kronos, or chronological time, is the time we spend when we wear our watches and schedule our days accurately. Kyros time is the most natural flow of the body, more organic if you will. It is sometimes called sacred time.

Website design By BotEap.comOther definitions of Kyros time:

Website design By BotEap.comKairos time is God’s time and is the “appointed time” according to the Christian Forums website

Website design By BotEap.comKyros’s time is to evaluate moments of experience. It’s our brain’s way of remembering things… by putting one event next to another, says Matt Cassidy.

Website design By BotEap.comOfer Zur, PhD has written an excellent article called Reflections on Speed ​​in which he mentions kyros timing. Starts:

Website design By BotEap.com“I was rushing the other morning to get to my laptop and complete this essay. While driving my car, I was also talking to my wife on my cell phone, eating lunch and listening to (was?) a classical music radio station. In In the midst of all this, my pilot palm rang, which meant I was protesting being ignored. The irony of rushing to write an article about the impact of speed on daily life was not lost on me. Multitasking on my way. describe the importance of “staying still” seemed really ridiculous. Read more…

Website design By BotEap.comI felt this sense of slowness and timelessness during our recent mini-vacation, and have occasionally noticed it before. For example, sitting in a house with a newborn baby, where things follow the baby’s internal clock much more than the clock on the wall. Another example would be during deep meditation when we completely lose track of how much time has passed.

Website design By BotEap.comHave you noticed time examples of kyros? I would love to hear more examples of it. The more we can get into this natural flow, the more relaxed we will feel.