{"id":55102,"date":"2023-08-14T21:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemagicworks.com\/biological-time-chronological-time-and-psychological-time-how-do-we-live-them\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T04:35:26","slug":"biological-time-chronological-time-and-psychological-time-how-do-we-live-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemagicworks.com\/biological-time-chronological-time-and-psychological-time-how-do-we-live-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological time, chronological time and psychological time: how do we live them?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our experience of the temporal <\/strong>involves three levels of appreciation: the chronological time <\/strong>marked by clock and calendar; he biological time <\/strong>largely conditioned by genetics; and the psychological time<\/strong>that is, how we feel that temporary becoming.<\/p>\n The external physical time, determined by the course of the stars, we cannot modify it <\/strong>in the sense that the clock will continue to show hours of sixty minutes. Unless, as the relativistic Physics, <\/strong>we approached the speed of light and then time would be slower compared to beings that went at a lower speed.<\/p>\n With respect to biological time<\/strong>that marks our life expectancy as a species and individuals<\/strong>we can influence with our will to a certain extent, although limited.<\/p>\n It has been claimed that the The maximum life that a human being could aspire to is 120 years.<\/strong>. If this is not the case, it is because our way of life limits such expectations. Therefore, everything that involves better physical or mental hygiene can positively influence longevity.<\/p>\n For his part, psychic or interior time<\/strong>which is ultimately the one we appreciate most directly, yes it is modifiable to a large extent<\/strong>. Indeed, the experience of what time lasts is eminently subjective<\/strong>: five minutes in the dentist’s chair is not the same as five minutes peacefully lying in a hammock.<\/p>\n Each of the days that we are given to live has a value in itself, something free and unrelated to what others think. For this reason, being aware of the day and its phases is a way of living more fully, regardless of what may happen.<\/p>\n The meaning of what happens in time depends on our subjective assessment. <\/strong>The meaning we give to lived experiences depends on us, on our beliefs or way of interpreting the world. And we often underestimate them, believing that they are not up to the standards of fashion or social norms.<\/p>\n getting old, time seems to go faster, the days are shorter<\/strong>. This is so, mainly, because a certain mental and emotional rigidity is produced, tinged with bitterness in believing that there is hardly any future. While our childhood days seemed to never end<\/strong>as full as we were with curiosity about everything and joy.<\/p>\n If each of the days is lived as if it were an entire life<\/strong>as if that was really the first and last day we have, the simplest things <\/strong>(see, breathe, laugh, eat, love… ) acquire an unusual brightness; In fact take on the importance they have always had<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And that experience, more qualitative than quantitative, It can also give the feeling that the days are longer or that life is made up of many days.<\/strong>. As if we were children playing again and time barely existed.<\/p>\n We know what time it is, how long it takes to complete a certain journey or if we arrive on time for an appointment. But in reality we are ignorant of what time is.<\/strong>The watch<\/strong> is a human invention It simulates ordering and taming that passing of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n As the philosopher Augustine of Hippo (4th century) wrote in his confessions<\/em>:”Ultimately, what is time?<\/strong> If no one asks me, I know. But if I wanted to explain it to the one who asks me, I don’t know.”<\/p>\n From the primitive sundials or sand clocks that benevolently marked the hours in an approximate way, to the implacable precision of the current chronometers, Human beings have sharpened their ingenuity to measure temporality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The call sidereal time, as the earth rotates around its axis <\/strong>with constant angular velocity, it gives rise to days and nights. He nyctameral symbolism<\/strong>as represented by the alternating between yang (lightness) and yin (darkness)<\/strong> of Taoism, is one of the most primordial.<\/p>\n But besides the alternation of days and nights<\/strong>When contemplating the horizon, the intersection of heaven and earth, humans saw that the Sun crossed the celestial ocean with its boat from left to right. They found the so-called solstitial axis <\/strong>(of sun will star<\/em>, indicating the apparent stoppage of the Sun) marked by the longest night (winter solstice) and the shortest (summer solstice); just like him equinoctial axis <\/strong>(equinox<\/em>: nights equal to days) of spring and autumn.<\/p>\n This cross thus marks the four seasons of the year <\/strong>with all its symbolism and correspondences related to the universal quaternary<\/strong>: four elements, four cardinal points, four seasons of life, four parts of the day, etc.<\/p>\nWhy time seems to go faster in old age<\/h2>\n
The human need to control time<\/h2>\n