Putting Time on Your Side with Stephan Rechtschaffen

Program Description

“Not enough time” is the mantra of an entire generation of Americans. Often we operate in a state of “hurry sickness,” running headlong from one barely-experienced moment to the next. But there is a cure, says Rechtschaffen–we can learn to “expand the present moment” to hold all the awareness and fullness that we need to avoid stress and “time poverty.” You may grimace as you recognize yourself in his descriptions, but you will discover tested techniques for getting out of the rush of mental time and into the reality of living. Become free of the tyranny of the clock and “create the time of your life.”

Rechtschaffen is the founder of the Omega Institute in New York and the author of Timeshifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life (Doubleday 1996).

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• How pop music entrains you to the pace of our time
• Why not to take pictures on your next vacation
• A better idea than “time management”
• How to “expand the present moment”
• The difference between mental and emotional time
• Why hurrying doesn’t give you more time
• The television vs. radio interview experience
• The gift of being forced to wait
• Welcoming play, flow and wonder into life
• How Michael Jordan and Joe Montana do it

Program Number: 2570                Host: Michael Toms                Interview Date: 5/30/1996