Candice Wu 0:00

This is an experiential that supports you in having time on your side. We’re going to play with time in our imaginations to trick our bodies into feeling like we either have more time or something happens for less time so that we can feel more complete and balanced right now.

Candice Wu 0:21

Hello, and welcome. You’re listening to the Embody Podcast, a show about remembering and embodying your true nature, inner wisdom, embodied healing, and self-love.

Candice Wu 0:35

My name is Candice Wu, and I’m a holistic healing facilitator, intuitive coach, and artist, sharing my personal journey of vulnerability, offering meditations and guided healing support and having co-creative conversations with healers and wellness practitioners from all over the world.

Candice Wu 0:56

Welcome back to the Embody Podcast, it’s wonderful to have you here. I wanted to offer this brief episode to share with you this trick that I like to use with my clients, with myself with anyone that needs a little bit of support in using time to their advantage. If you like the experiential on traveling into the past and the future, to strengthen your present-day self in Episode 105, then you might like this one. You can find that episode at CandiceWu.com/ep105. And of course, if you’re just tuning in, and you want to skip right to the experiential, feel free to click to the chapter of this episode where the experiential begins, and that’s noted in the time markers in the show notes and in this episode.

Candice Wu 1:49

So often, I find myself fighting against time and it’s really just created more suffering in the present. So, I don’t have enough time. I am too busy for x, y&z. When I have time, I’ll rest or I will do this or that. And when it comes to things that our body needs — our heart, soul and body and energy — it needs rest. It needs integration. It needs to be able to move through our emotions. I have felt like I could just sleep for days or months or I really wish I could sleep for like a year. I’ve also heard words come up from myself and others, like, I feel like I would cry forever if I started or that I would need to cry for days, months, will this ever stop?

Candice Wu 2:54

So, when you wish for more or less time around your experience in your emotional and spiritual being, as well as your physical being, this experiential might be for you. When our mind can focus on an idea and even picture it or sense into it, then our body doesn’t really know the difference between it happening or not. On one hand, our awareness knows that it’s not real, it’s our imagination, but we can use our imagination as an ally, and that can support us with having time on our side. So, as you jump into the experience and try it out, feel free to apply it to any sort of time aspect that you’re struggling with or that you would like more benefit from and play with how you use it.

Candice Wu 3:46

So, let’s begin really, basically and simply by just beginning where you are, feeling a couple of breaths, in and out. We just begin to open the witnessing parts of ourselves, observing our breath going in and out. Notice whatever your mind is thinking about. Notice your emotions. Notice any body sensation that you’re aware of, and just how it has to be in your body right now.

Candice Wu 4:38

Now, connect with any sense of struggle with time that you have. Some of my own examples include wishing I had more time to rest, needing to sleep for decades, fearing I would cry forever or feel angry forever, whatever uncomfortable emotion that you might be experiencing that feels like it would just stay for a long time. So, whatever the words are or the sense is, notice that as we begin.

Candice Wu 5:31

Notice what happens in your body as you feel the words that you don’t have time or you wish you could sleep for months, that you need an hour to rest and you only have five minutes. However, this comes to you now.

Candice Wu 6:01

Now, this is where we play with time. Whatever it is that you wish could happen with time. Imagine that happening. Whether that’s visualizing it if you can picture this experience or thinking about it, putting your attention on it, and sensing into time going by, for as long as you need, let’s begin doing that.

Candice Wu 6:31

So, for example, if you wish for more time to rest, imagine yourself resting right now just the way you would need to rest or sleeping just the way you need to sleep or instead, you might imagine an activity, an activity that you really want or need to do for a length of time, for example, I love being with horses and I just feel like I cannot get enough, enough time and enough experience with them. And that’s something you can imagine here, an activity that you just really love or need more time with, and to notice how that feels in this experience or if it’s that you’re crying or sad or angry or some emotion that feels like it could last to infinity or for days, imagine that kind of emotion expressing itself and how it would be if it just expressed itself in the right way for you.

Candice Wu 7:52

So, whether it is your resting or sleeping or bawling or raging with anger, however, those feelings and emotions want to express, imagine that happening for this whole day or however long it needs to. And then another day if it needs that, feel free to imagine the days turning into weeks or months. The timing all depends on just how long your body and your soul senses it needs in terms of whatever you need to experience.

Candice Wu 8:47

Imagine the fullest expression or the deepest sleep or rest in the perfect way for you, and if it’s only a short amount of time, like an hour, a day, feel free to just slow that down so that your body can really integrate it in this couple of minutes that we’re working with this. And if it’s longer, if it goes into years, decades, centuries, even infinity, let that happen at the pace that feels right for you mentally as you picture or sense or touch into that experience that needs to happen for that long.

Candice Wu 9:52

And as you sense, it’s beginning to move towards completion or that you’re ready to transition from inside of your mind’s eye with whatever you’re experiencing. Sense the quality of your rest or sleep or your activity coming to a close and the feeling that you have as you know that it’s enough, and then feel all the way through the experience of it ending, whether that’s an activity or an emotion or whether that’s your sleep and you’re waking up, and notice what it would give you if you had that whole amount of time to experience this. What does it feel like on that end of things? And as you feel this, feel this in your body right now, noticing what happens in your body in this present moment.

Candice Wu 11:32

Notice if there’s any difference and any changes inside. If you need a few more minutes or a little more real-time in order to let time pass in an accelerated way, feel free to continue on here or pause this recording so that you can take your own time, but whenever you’re ready to transition, feel free to alongside with me.

Candice Wu 12:12

And as you’re ready, you can to slowly move your body or stretch or give the body some sort of contact to support you in transitioning, to opening your eyes and sensing that you’re here in present time right in this moment, and as you look around your space and begin to orient yourself to present time, sense what’s happening inside.

Candice Wu 12:49

So, as we close today, acknowledge that this just took a couple of minutes, to be exact in our experience because of me explaining it, it took about eight minutes, but if you even have two minutes of your own time or five, even better, just spending a couple of minutes on your phone, as a timer or something, just to give a frame of time, and you can use that two minutes to play with this at your own pace. Whenever you feel, like, “Oh, it would just feel so much better if I had an hour more of rest,” well, imagine that deep rest. Sometimes, we can even feel more replenished after doing this than had we actually slept. So, feel free to play with this how it works for you, if it works for you, and thank yourself for practicing today.

Candice Wu 13:56

Thanks so much for joining me today, and if you’re interested in another experiential, playing with time and allying and with time, you can tune into Episode 105 at CandiceWu.com/ep105, which is traveling on a prism and journeying through time to connect with past moments and future selves for resource and strength, and supplying you with more strength in the present.

Candice Wu 14:30

It’s been great having you here. See you next time on the Embody Podcast.