Finding time requires taking time for what matters most to you. This "Finding Time for Your Ideal Day" visualization is an excellent method for bringing more pleasure and meaning into your life. Furthermore, it takes only fifteen minutes and offers instant rewards. So let's get started:
One: For a month, set aside 15 minutes a day. Select time when you will be uninterrupted. If needed, divide this exercise into 3 five-minute segments.
Two: Sit back. Relax for your first five minutes. Imagine your ideal day. In 5 minutes, you can imagine a lot! Picture yourself awakening, stretching luxuriantly, and starting your ideal day. What are you doing? How are you feeling? The more vivid your imagination, the better! Sense the sounds, the tastes, the smells, and the sights as the day unfolds before you. Most important, experience the pleasure!
Three: In the next 5 minutes, pick out portions of this ideal day when you are alone or enjoying your animal companion. You are selecting this set of images because they are completely within your power to bring about, without others' participation.
Four: Identify a five-minute time slice that you can duplicate today. Pick an activity you don't generally engage in, or one you don't allow yourself to fully enjoy.
Five: Use your third 5-minute segment to engage in the activity you enjoy. Let yourself be totally in the moment. Pick the time of day when it will be easiest for you, and when this activity (or lack of activity) will mean the most to you.
Does this seem simple? It is! Yet engaging in this exercise provides you with 5 profound benefits:
Benefit One: You develop your powers of visualization. You can draw upon this skill any time to relax, boost your creativity and even encourage healing. And it doesn't take much time.
Benefit Two: You clarify your values about how you want to use your time. The more often you visualize, the more you learn about what time choices fulfill you. Learn what truly makes you happy, which will be different than anyone else's 'pleasure profile".
Benefit Three: In just fifteen minutes a day for a month, you create a pattern that's easy to maintain. A month of continuous daily practice establishes a new life pattern. What an easy way to add daily pleasure to your life!
Benefit Four: You demonstrate your power over your life through simple time choices. Nothing helps foster self-reference like experiencing simple pleasures you provide yourself.
Benefit Five: You cultivate the gift of being in the moment. You'll experience firsthand how this focus stretches time and multiplies your capacity for enjoyment.
It works if you work.
What is your next step to find more time?
About the Author:Paula Eder, Ph.D., The Time Finder, has, for 35+ years, coached individuals and organizations to align values with productive time choices. For free weekly time tips & an award-winning monthly Ezine, visit
http://www.findingtime.net/ezine.html
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