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Originally Posted by Erki  How does it look to other people around me whose time isn't slowed down? Would I have an amazing reaction time then? |
Yes you will have an amazing reaction time. To me it's essentially nothing more than choosing to make the speed of your brain a running, walking or sitting one. Most people on this planet, in my experience, are gently walking around and sitting most of the time. I used the technique for quite a while but I used it in such a way that it eventually gave me a sort of burnout. Looking back, those three months did seem to last longer than several years of my life though.
Don't think this has any use though if you only do it using meditation. That'd be like practicing running and still walking everywhere very very slowly.
In response to how to practice this, I've never really been interested in the slowing down part (to make an airplane ride seem like it lasts a few minutes), I've only been speeding things up.
I view it not as some meditation thing. For me it's a whole body experience. I still have the same concept of time, I just do more in the same amount of time. I just start typing faster, I start reading faster, when talking I come up with 5 different sentences to say and choose between them instead of justing thinking of one and saying that. When being creative I try to come up with 30 ideas in the same time that I would usually come up with 5. When walking I don't just control the muscles I need to move but I control a lot of extra muscles as well.
All in all I believe it's a really important skill for being truly in the moment. In my view the present moment is only as rich as the processing power we use to perceive it, so my hypothesis is:
speeding up time = being in the moment
(Another benefit is that you're far less afraid of making mistakes, since you can correct them before other people even pick up on them. Think of slowly writing an essay in one go in 30 minutes compared to writing the exact same essay in 5 minutes, then reviewing it 10 times and still having the time to check references.)