Persistence of time
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 6:10 pm
There was a post about meditation and taijiquan on Facebook that got me thinking about something I've been meaning to talk about. Time dilation.
Meditation, for me, has been a way to achieve a certain stillness and clarity with a particular purpose, to move my perception and understanding closer to the moment things actually happen, as opposed to being formed from memories of what happened a few microseconds prior.
The practical effect is a reduced reaction time, not due to faster physical reflexes or faster muscles but by perceiving and understanding sooner than I would if I did not practice what I practice.
Examples are, because I'm still clumsy, knocking a fast food cup off of a table but in the same motion catching it before it hits the floor without squeezing it hard enough to pop the lid off, or feeling/hearing a partners energy gathering in preparation for an attack and moving to swallow or stuff it.
I once, for fun, grabbed a foil and fooled around with a fencing teacher. Neither of us could touch each other even though I'd never fenced and his comment afterwards was, "wow, you're pretty fast". It didn't feel to me like I was moving quickly, but just leisurely getting out of the way of his attacks.
I call it getting closer to now.
Anybody else notice this sort of stuff or is it just my acid flashbacks?
Meditation, for me, has been a way to achieve a certain stillness and clarity with a particular purpose, to move my perception and understanding closer to the moment things actually happen, as opposed to being formed from memories of what happened a few microseconds prior.
The practical effect is a reduced reaction time, not due to faster physical reflexes or faster muscles but by perceiving and understanding sooner than I would if I did not practice what I practice.
Examples are, because I'm still clumsy, knocking a fast food cup off of a table but in the same motion catching it before it hits the floor without squeezing it hard enough to pop the lid off, or feeling/hearing a partners energy gathering in preparation for an attack and moving to swallow or stuff it.
I once, for fun, grabbed a foil and fooled around with a fencing teacher. Neither of us could touch each other even though I'd never fenced and his comment afterwards was, "wow, you're pretty fast". It didn't feel to me like I was moving quickly, but just leisurely getting out of the way of his attacks.
I call it getting closer to now.
Anybody else notice this sort of stuff or is it just my acid flashbacks?