Can You Slow Down Time?

Remembering the slow and endless afternoons of summer creates positive feelings of all kinds! Do you often find yourself wishing that you could slow down town? 

You aren’t the only one! And the urge to do this becomes even greater as we age. Sense of time is dictated by how much information we need to process. When we have a lot of information to process, that is when it feels like time moves more slowly. Take, for example, the years of our youth. Didn’t time feel like it passed much slower than it does now? That’s because we had a lot more to process!

With this understanding, there are ways that we could actually slow down time for a bit – or at least make it feel like each day is a little longer. Here are some tips that experts say could help!

• Learn something new
• Visit new places (local and afar)
• Meet new people
• Work from a new location (a café, a park bench, etc.)
• Try new activities (make a recipe from scratch, paint a picture, etc.)
• Start new hobbies
• Switch your routines
• Re-arrange the furniture at home
• Drive a different way to work
• Go on an action-packed vacation

In your later years as an adult, you’ve pretty much been there and done that. You’ve discovered the patterns of life, and your day-to-day doings are likely much more routine and predictable. Your brain doesn’t have any reason to expend energy on capturing your repetitious and predictable morning commute, ceremonial eating of a ham sandwich at your desk at work, and nightly watching of television.

The best thing about time research is that it clearly shows us that it can be manipulated. When you look back at the course of your life and review a rich footage of many adventures, you want to feel as though you have fit several lifetimes into a single one. These tips could help by giving you something new and beyond the ordinary to do every single day, making your days not only feel longer, but more fulfilled!

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You aren't the only one! And the urge to do this becomes even greater as we age. Sense of time is dictated by how much information we need to process. When we have a lot of information to process, that is when it feels like time moves more slowly. Take, for example, the years of our youth. Didn't time feel like it passed much slower than it does now? That's because we had a lot more to process!



With this understanding, there are ways that we could actually slow down time for a bit - or at least make it feel like each day is a little longer. Here are some tips that experts say could help!

• Learn something new
• Visit new places (local and afar)
• Meet new people
• Work from a new location (a café, a park bench, etc.)
• Try new activities (make a recipe from scratch, paint a picture, etc.)
• Start new hobbies
• Switch your routines
• Re-arrange the furniture at home
• Drive a different way to work
• Go on an action-packed vacation

In your later years as an adult, you’ve pretty much been there and done that. You’ve discovered the patterns of life, and your day-to-day doings are likely much more routine and predictable. Your brain doesn’t have any reason to expend energy on capturing your repetitious and predictable morning commute, ceremonial eating of a ham sandwich at your desk at work, and nightly watching of television.

The best thing about time research is that it clearly shows us that it can be manipulated. When you look back at the course of your life and review a rich footage of many adventures, you want to feel as though you have fit several lifetimes into a single one. These tips could help by giving you something new and beyond the ordinary to do every single day, making your days not only feel longer, but more fulfilled!
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