Mastering Time: How Perception, Alignment, and Energy Shape Your Experience
Introduction: The Illusion of Time
Time is not a fixed, external force—it’s a perceptual experience shaped by our thoughts, emotions, and focus. Many of us feel trapped by the scarcity of time, rushing through life without truly experiencing its depth. Yet, some people seem to effortlessly expand their time, accomplishing more while feeling less pressure. The difference lies not in the clock but in our alignment with energy.
This blog explores how time is not something we lack but something we perceive, and how shifting our focus from action to alignment can transform our experience of it.
1. The Paradox of Free Time: Why More Time Feels Like Less
You might expect that taking time off would make days feel longer and more spacious. Yet, for many, the opposite happens—time seems to slip away faster. Why?
The Action Trap
When we measure time by how much we do, we reinforce the belief that time is limited. The more tasks we cram in, the faster time seems to pass because our focus is on output rather than presence.
The Downstream vs. Upstream Mindset
- Downstream Thought: “I have all the time I need.” (Expansive, relaxed)
- Upstream Thought: “Time is running out!” (Resistant, anxious)
The key is not to accumulate more hours but to shift into a downstream mindset where time feels fluid and abundant.
2. Time vs. Energy: Where Real Leverage Lies
Most people try to manage time through schedules and productivity hacks. But true power comes from managing energy alignment.
The Physics of Time
At a quantum level, time doesn’t “pass”—it’s our movement through experiences that creates the illusion of time. This means:
- Time is subjective (e.g., an hour in joy vs. an hour in stress feels vastly different).
- The more aligned we are with our desires, the more efficiently reality unfolds.
The Power of Vibrational Alignment
Just as money flows when we stop obsessing over scarcity, time expands when we stop fearing its lack. Esther Hicks’ example of washing the bus vs. writing a book illustrates this:
- Washing the bus = action without alignment (feels like wasted time).
- Writing the book = action in flow (time feels purposeful and fulfilling).
Takeaway: Focus on what feels right, not just what looks productive.
3. How to Slow Down Time (Without Changing the Clock)
If time perception is malleable, how can we consciously shape it?
A. Remove “Time Scarcity” From Your Vocabulary
- Replace “I don’t have time” with “I prioritize what matters.”
- Affirm: “Time supports me effortlessly.”
B. Follow Exhilaration, Not Obligation
- Do more of what energizes you (even if it’s “unproductive”).
- Let go of tasks that feel heavy (delegate or eliminate them).
C. Practice Time Appreciation
- Acknowledge moments when time felt expansive (e.g., vacations, creative flow).
- Gratitude shifts time from adversary to ally.
D. Live in the “Now” More Often
- Anxiety speeds up time; presence slows it.
- Meditation, deep breathing, and sensory awareness anchor you in the moment.
4. The Genius of Aligned Focus: Beyond the 10% Brain Myth
A common myth suggests we only use 10% of our brains. While neurologically false, the metaphor holds wisdom: most people operate at a fraction of their potential because they’re out of alignment.
Genius = Focus Without Resistance
- When you’re fully aligned (downstream), ideas flow, solutions appear, and effort feels minimal.
- Resistance (upstream) creates mental “traffic jams,” wasting time and energy.
How to Activate More of Your “Brain” (Potential)
- Stop forcing action. Instead, pause and ask: “What feels light and inspiring right now?”
- Trust-inspired ideas. The universe responds to clarity, not hustle.
Conclusion: Time as Your Ally
Time isn’t the enemy—it’s a mirror of your inner state. When you:
- Release scarcity thinking,
- Align with joy, and
- Trust the unfolding process,
…time transforms from a tyrant into a collaborator. You won’t just “manage” time—you’ll transcend it, living with a sense of abundance that defies the clock.
Final Affirmation:
“I am timeless. Every moment expands to meet my presence.”
Key Takeaways:
- Time is perception, not just minutes.
- Alignment (not action) is the real leverage.
- To slow time, focus on joy, gratitude, and presence.
- Genius arises when resistance drops.
- You don’t find time—you create it through energy.
I have a question for you about time. I recently created a situation whereby I got a bunch of time off work simply because there were things I wanted to tend to, and I also wanted to feel the expansiveness and spaciousness of having a lot of time to myself. However, what’s happened is time now seems to be passing faster. Rather than having a day that seems longer, I now have a day that seems shorter. So the question is: Do we have the ability to control our experience of time?
You have the ability to control your perception of time because time is really a perceptual thing, as you’ve just described. Here’s the easiest way for you to hear this, or for us to explain it from our point of view: If you think about time in terms of action, time feels shorter because you can only do so much action in a given amount of time—how many people can move how many wheelbarrows how far in an hour, sort of thing. When you address the subject of time from a vibrational standpoint, you begin to understand the powerful leverage that you have.
In the same way that we were talking earlier about the expansiveness of dollars—how you all have the same 24 hours, and some earn tremendously while some earn very scantily, yet it’s the same amount of time and effort actually offered—the leverage of time comes from the alignment of energy.
Let’s say, even in the way you were approaching this, you said, “I set some time aside because I wanted to feel the luxury of an expanse of time,” which sounds a little bit like, “I’ve been having a time shortage.” Most people have a very strong vibration about a shortage of time.
We’ve been talking to people for a long time about the subject of dollars, and we’ve been saying, “If you can take dollars out of the equation, more dollars will come to you.” In other words, if you can focus upon how you feel rather than counting how many dollars you have or how many are coming today, then your vibration is more in alignment with what you want, and more dollars will come.
Do that with dollars—it’s the same thing with time. You have to take time out of the equation. For example, you have to stop saying, “I don’t have time.” But the way to do that is to think in terms of alignment rather than action—to think in terms of how you’re feeling rather than in terms of what you’re doing.
Esther noticed something the other day—it was a big light bulb lit up in her mind—when she came across this. She said to Jerry, “I have always enjoyed just about every activity I have ever applied myself to. She likes to cook, she likes to sew, she likes to clean, she likes to put things in order, she likes to write books, she likes to edit tapes, she likes to be a mouthpiece for Abraham, she likes to play with the grandkids, she likes to shop, she likes to drive the bus.” In other words, she likes to wash the bus. There just isn’t anything that, when Esther applies herself to it, she doesn’t take pleasure in doing.
However, as her energy stream is moving faster and the picture of what she’s put over there is shaping up, there are some activities that she has formerly enjoyed doing that don’t match up as well. For example, Esther hasn’t been able to talk Jerry into washing the bus with her in a long time. There are people who drive around every park who are happy to wash the bus, and so it would just be ridiculous for them to go out and wash their bus—it’s big.
As Esther applies herself in that sort of behavior, she can feel that it’s off because the call Source is calling her in other directions. In other words, she’s much happier writing a book than washing the bus, even though it’s the same amount of action being offered because writing the book is a better match to the things that are in her vibrational escrow now than washing the bus. You get a sense of it, okay?
Washing the bus is not wrong, and writing the book is not right—it’s that writing the book is more of a vibrational match to what’s in her vibrational escrow. So when she thinks about doing the things that are most in keeping with who she has become, the exhilaration is high. And that’s the way we want you to take time—or money, and everything else—out of the equation.
We want you to do things because of the exhilaration that you feel in doing them. Or, let’s be fair about this—you might not feel exhilaration in the beginning. Do the thing that feels the best. That’s how you get yourself lined up, and that’s how you find the leverage in time.
One who’s connected to the stream is more powerful than millions who are not. I understand that. So if you take the time to do the big thing of aligning, it’s like a big wheel—here’s this hub in the center of the wheel, and you’re just turning it a little bit, but it’s turning the wheel really far out there on the edges. So as you’re dealing with the energy alignment, you are facilitating yourself in terms of action in a very powerful way. It’s huge—huge leverage.
But when you don’t take the time to line up your energy, then you’re out there on the raw and ragged edge, and now you’re depending on the paltry benefit that action can give you. And we want you to understand—the benefit that action only can give you is paltry. You never intended to create your world through action. You intended to enjoy through action what you had created through thought. That was big. Did you get it? So big.
So you don’t align with time—you align with a feeling. Well, let’s talk about it.
Here I am—I’ve been living life, and I have all kinds of things that I want, and they’re over there in vibrational escrow. And I’ve taken some time off from my obligations because I wanted to feel the luxury of time. And when I was thinking about that, that felt very downstream: “Oh, I have all of this wonderful time that’s unscheduled out there before me.” So it’s a downstream thought.
But today, I’ve noticed that time is really going by, and I haven’t really gotten to do so many of the things that I wanted to do. That’s an upstream thought. So you just went contrary to your intention relative to time.
So then you say, “But there’s still plenty of time left, and I’m happy that I’ve taken this hiatus, and it feels good to sort of get a handle on things, and it feels good to be unscheduled because—oh, how I hate to be scheduled.” And now you’re back downstream again.
Then you say, “But I don’t really mind being scheduled because there’s something about being scheduled that does help me to be productive. And I do like being productive, but I don’t like to have to crack the whip all the time. I don’t like people cracking the whip. I don’t want to be motivated by the shortness of time. I want to be called by the flexibility of time.”
Well, just in that statement, you can feel—some of it’s upstream, some of it’s downstream. “I don’t want someone cracking the whip, and I don’t even want to crack my own whip. I want to feel the power of the universe assisting me.”
So then, look into your experience. Esther said to Jerry during the segment of lunch, they were feeling such appreciation for this group—these wonderful videographers who do so much more than take these pictures, and the wonderful girls that set up the room and get everything ready. It’s a very small team that are so well connected and so knowing what they’re doing that Jerry and Esther are bowled over by what these four people achieve.
And Esther acknowledged that and felt the appreciation for them, and in her appreciation of them, she lined up with this energy stream that just brings more clarity, more productivity, more people to assist. In other words, Jerry and Esther can feel that things are swelling all around them, and more dynamic people are necessary to facilitate in the unfolding of all of this. And in her awareness of what is working, more that is working comes into alignment.
In other words, you can feel the downstream thought of that. You see? So that’s what we’re suggesting. Just acknowledge what is working in terms of time. Compliment yourself about your time efficiency as often as you can, and begin noticing how many things are happening that benefit you that take none of your time. Everything is working for you now.
In terms of the physics of time—just at a quantum level—my understanding is that time doesn’t move; it’s our motion that produces a measurement that we call time.
We think that’s an interesting way of putting it. And when you think about it, no one’s ever found that big clock out there anywhere. In other words… there isn’t one.
And so, when we talk about time, we think a more productive way to view it is—rather than thinking of time in terms of minutes or days moving by—think in terms of: There is me now, having this experience, and there is me as I am now, and then there is me having an expanded experience.
In other words, this conversation that we’ve had with you has been unique and leading-edge. We’ve talked about some of this before, but some of what we are chewing over here together has not been chewed over by us or anybody before. In other words, this was some leading-edge conversation.
So the universe has expanded in terms of knowledge and understanding as a result of this interaction, which means the universe is more now than it was when you sat down. So since it is more now than it was, there is an awareness that something happened. But we want you to think in terms of the expansion rather than in terms of the time passing.
When you begin to think in terms of the expansion, then you’re willing to mix it up in order to give birth to the new thought. And then, the only reason that we—if we were standing in your physical shoes—would ever factor time in is: How much time will it take me to find a better-feeling thought? In other words, you can do that at the moment.
Time is so delicious when you are focused on your now and utilizing the time and focus. We want to put time focus and alignment all in the same sort of mental framework for you. Time is irrelevant because of the passage of time—Esther looks at Kate, who is turning five in a day or so, and it feels like just yesterday she was not here. And yet, she’s five. She is this whole little person with all of her own intentions. Esther can feel the power of her being.
And Esther’s perception of those five years was that long, and Kate’s perception of those five years is quite different. That five years was a long time in unfolding in Kate’s perception, but in Esther’s perception, it was seconds.
So rather than thinking about time, think about alignment. It will serve you so well. And then, whenever you use the label time, use it only to your advantage—never use it to your disadvantage.
“There’s plenty of time. I love time. I love time because it helps me focus. I have time to do everything that matters. I love this business of time because it gives us all an opportunity to rendezvous. It helps us to focus our energies. We will meet at a certain time; we will stay for a certain amount of hours. It helps us so much in our cooperative co-creating with one another. It is a mutual focusing spot.”
But beyond that, it does not serve us in any particular way. We are powerful creators, and the universe is responding to our thoughts. And I can spend the same amount of time thinking about what I do want or the same amount of time thinking about what I don’t want. But when I spend time thinking about what I do want, I line up with my vibrational escrow, and the universal forces come into play, and things begin to happen quickly because—oh, here it is.
The time that we want you to feel—feel the power and speed of this stream that is calling you toward everything that you want. And when you get into the flow of that, time is irrelevant because everything is unfolding perfectly for you.
When you get crossways of that, time becomes relevant because you’re not making progress. You say, “Really good.” Yeah, that’s—I think when you’re not in the flow, then time becomes an issue. It’s like the demands of time and schedules and all those things start to come into your state.
So we’re really talking about alignment, not time, aren’t we? Yeah. Yeah.
So shortage of anything—shortage of money, shortage of love, shortage of a lover in your bed, shortage of time, shortage of anything—is upstream every single time. So we’re not talking about time here; we’re talking about shortage or abundance, aren’t we? We’re talking about upstream, and downstream. Mhm. Mhm. Time, and money—don’t make any difference. Upstream, downstream.
Okay, I have more questions.
It’s often said—sorry, there isn’t time. Yes, there is. We can make it.
It’s said that we, as humans, only use 10% of our brains. Well, that’s the question—is that true? And what do we need to do to wake up or ignite the other 90%? Is that something that’s doable, and achievable?
Yes. Whoever was saying that may or may not have been talking about the actual rockets firing in the physiology of the brain. In other words, they might have strapped some contraption to someone to see what was firing and what wasn’t firing.
But if we were to make that statement—and we don’t disagree with it—we would say it’s because when you are not in alignment with who you are, you are a fraction of the being that you are. And when you take the time to get into alignment with who you are now, you’re operating from this full level.
Anybody who focuses on anything without resistance will find the genius of the thought. That’s what genius is—it’s focusing upon a subject without resistance and allowing the Law of Attraction to bring you all of the information that you are asking for.
Focus without resistance and find out how brilliant you are.
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