| Homeostasis is a relatively new and obscure science. | | | | the reasons why this is true. |
| It is the study of the effect of time on man and on | | | | The feeling that time is short comes to me daily |
| other living creatures. It is also the study of our | | | | now, and I question whether I have time left to |
| perception and response to time. Some of the latest | | | | accomplish something worthwhile in my life. The Bible |
| discoveries in this realm of science may not win a | | | | tells me that the days of our years are three score |
| Nobel prize but they guarantee to fascinate even the | | | | years and ten. It says that, should we make it over |
| dullest curiosity. | | | | the seventy year mark that it will still be filled with |
| In one experiment people were placed deep in | | | | labor and sorrow. Psalm 90:10 I'm too old and well |
| underground facilities where they had no way of | | | | experienced to argue with the Bible at this point. I |
| knowing sunrise or sunset and they had no clocks or | | | | have plenty of proof to corroborate this scripture |
| any other means of telling time. After a brief period | | | | passage. Yet I see this fact as a very good thing, it |
| of disorientation they all began develop a routine of | | | | is what gives me the ability to concentrate on what |
| sleep, productivity and recreation time that fell into a | | | | is good and differentiate more accurately about what |
| perfect twenty four hour period. Where did that | | | | is dross. Here is a key! |
| come from? It seems that providence has placed a | | | | Perhaps the very best advice I have heard in my |
| twenty four hour clock in the human psyche apart | | | | entire life about how to better handle time is this. |
| from external stimuli. | | | | Always make a distinction between the urgent, and |
| Another interesting fact has been uncovered through | | | | the important. The phone ringing, the knock on the |
| the science of homeostasis about our adaptations to | | | | door, three children all calling to you at the same |
| time and climate. Put quite simply. man adapts to time | | | | time, this is urgent, but is it important? |
| first and always before any other natural influences. | | | | This is not just another tip or piece of easy advice. If |
| For example, man can live in extremes like cold or | | | | taken seriously you will see a positive effect |
| heat as long as the twenty four hour internal clock is | | | | immediately in your life. Whether you make mental |
| working. Other species cannot do that. Some bears | | | | notes about what you need to do daily or if you're a |
| hibernate until winter has passed conversely there is | | | | corporate executive with a secretary to tell you |
| a badger like creature in the Northeast US that can't | | | | what's next, you need to take a hard look at your |
| stand the summer heat so it hibernates until cooler | | | | "to do" list. With complete honesty sit down and |
| weather returns. | | | | remove every item that is only "urgent" and leave |
| When I was performing Celtic and American style | | | | only those things that come under the heading of |
| folk music I loved a particular song called, "You Won't | | | | "important" and you will feel a weight lifting as you |
| Make Old Bones" In it was one of the most intriguing | | | | do. The functional word here is "honestly." |
| lines I have ever heard. "The young man sits and | | | | We are traveling through something we all recognize |
| curses the time upon his hands...The old man sits and | | | | as time and space. In youth we are mostly involved |
| curses time's slipping sands" Every time I sang this | | | | with the space aspect of life. Later in life we all |
| song I could hear echoes of my mother warning me | | | | realize that our travels through time are far more |
| about how time only seemed slow because I was | | | | important than we had ever thought. It is our |
| young. She would always add that when I grew older | | | | consciousness of this traveling through time that |
| time would fly so swiftly that I would be asking | | | | raises some of life's most important questions. |
| myself where it had gone. The line in the song is | | | | Questions that have to do with quality of life, |
| right, ma was right and I'm still seeking answers to | | | | relationships, love and true productivity. |