Knowing how to stop time to live one's own time

It is practically commonplace to say that today we live in a hurry, even when we are not actually in a hurry. We race, we accelerate, we have no time to lose. I'm running, I'm running, I'm out of time, time is money ! Along with the haste, things became more and more ephemeral, fleeting. We are in a hurry, we don't want to lose anything, not even a minute. Use time, enjoy time because it is short!

We have "x" hours to do a, b, c, d, e... Time is counted! We are then placed in a state of constant urgency. I even wonder if, panting, we are running in search of something that is there, ahead, in the future or if we are running away from something...

The fact is that commonly We are run over by time, with the feeling that it is always scarce, little. But sometimes we want to stop. Or, if we don't want to, consciously, our body signals that we need to stop. Then comes the conflict, because life outside continues to happen, pushing us, asking us to accelerate. Time is pressing! Run! Everything goes by fast!

Accelerating when we want and/or need to stop, working all the time at the fast pace that life imposes has a high cost. We are constantly subjected to the demand of the other, to the time of the other, very little connected to our own time, to our rhythm, to the rhythm of our body and our mind.

Time needs time to operate, there are things that can only happen precisely in the break, in the break. For example, the analyst's willingness to listen, the writer's willingness to write, the artist's possibility of creating, can only be realized, can only happen, if there is time to nourish oneself, to feed oneself outside, both the banality and the extraordinary. The instant of the Insight , the snap, the "bingo!", does not happen without time, elaboration. There is something that happens internally to achieve these precious moments.

Hence, for example, analysis is a process that requires time. We don't know how long it will take, we know the starting point, without knowing where we will arrive or how long it will take us to get to this mysterious place. Some would say it is time spent, which precisely does not have time to spend on a process that they do not know how long it will last. I think it is time invested, or rather, time well "lost". Do An analysis is a way of suspending time, of leaving the logic of this hurried time, of productivity and entering another temporality, that of the unconscious. To leave external time to look at oneself and be able to know oneself.

And beyond an analysis, what other ways of living can we forge to stop the passage of time, so as not to be held hostage to time and the demand of the other, contrary to today? What is your way of slowing down time? When, where, with whom do you suspend time? What Breaks Do you do it in your daily life?