Satima, or SAcred TIme MAnagement, is the art of cultivating more connection to spirit in each moment. When we live our life as art we make room for creativity, flow, connection, synchronicity, and magic. We learn to slow down internally and make choices not from our fear, but from our stillness. We put the yum back into work!
In the Western world we are trained to use our brains and our will to power through whatever needs to be done. As we become a more technological society and the speed of our communication increases, so does our own frantic pace to keep up. So many of us spend our time overwhelmed, feeling behind, frustrated, and never getting to the projects that lie in our heart. We cram meals and spirit in between work and getting the kids to school on time and paying bills. Our jobs become filled with drama or exhaustion or rote behavior. Our spirit begins to diminish from lack of nourishment.
We go into our work sometimes because we must, and sometimes because it is our joy. Yet how often do we end up swamped, not fulfilled, or burnt out? This problem is an epidemic in all types of work, from corporations to massage therapists, retail stores to spiritual teachers. No matter how exciting and service oriented your work may be if you do not clear out old habits they will compromise all that you do. This principle also applies to all of your relationships.
If you do not enjoy your work, clearing out your old belief systems will bring you a sense of ease and fulfillment, no matter what you are doing.
If you are planning to leave your boring corporate job to pursue your dreams you will re-create similar dynamics and issues if you do not also focus on cleaning up your own old agreements.
Satima is not about better tools to make you a faster, more efficient business machine. It is a complete rewiring of your system, a foundational shift. Satima cuts through old programming, fear, and survival strategies and invites you to start making choices from your essence rather than your head. It invites you to use the workplace (and the rest of your life!) to explore and unweave tangled energetics in your being. It asks you to take responsibility for your creation. It asks you to be more intimate with yourself, to live from your depth instead of your crust.
When we live from our crust we follow unconscious habits and patterns, or simply model ourselves after what everyone else is doing. In Sacred Time Management we start with bringing awareness to these behaviors as a means to more conscious choice and depth. The behaviors include:
Taking responsibility for other people’s actions and feelings
Not being clear in your agreements with yourself and others
Needing other people’s approval
Believing you have to do everything perfectly
Not attending to financial realities
Procrastinating and avoidance
Trying to control situations and people
Keeping busy and productive to prove you are a good person
Using punishment /guilt/shame to keep yourself or others in line
Needing to be right
Distracting yourself from the true work
And so we start with the foundational question of Satima: What is your true work?
Did you really incarnate to spend much of your time playing out the agreements in the list above? Or to be stressed out in your wonderful life? Or to feel impotent and that you are not living your fullest potential?
We do a funny mind twist around this question of “What is your true work?” “Well, when I finish this project/job/phone call/career then I’ll do what I really want/figure out what I want to do with my life/do my spiritual practice. Or it will get better, even though it has changed little over the years…”
We have bought into the cultural dream that if we only work hard for 40 years or so, then we will have a nice break and we can relax. We have bought into the cultural dream that if we only stay productive, everything will work out (we will get to go to heaven.) We have bought the cultural dream that we have to be perfect in order to be loved, and this causes us STRESS!
Your head may say, “Oh I don’t believe those things.” But look deeper into your actions. If you are living your true work, are you doing so with ease and joy? If you are searching for your true work, how are you using your situation against yourself?
What would it be like to feel centered, deeply present, and intimate with yourself in all aspects of your life? This is true Sacred Time Management. Each moment is precious, a gift. Sacred Time Management teaches us to unweave the gunk that creates heaviness and stress in our days, so that the purity of each moment may shine through.
Satima is about the willingness to go deeper, to expose our old agreements, and to clear them that we may live from our Center, no matter what we are doing.
The funny thing is that once we do the work to untangle we discover more space, more joy, and more productivity! It is a win/win situation!
But oooh your belief systems are not going to let you go easily. Satima is not a one-time quick fix, but a lifetime commitment to yourself.
Ask yourself what would Sacred Time Management feel like in your day? What would need to change? This article is like a magic spell, a new seed… let it infuse your life with more awareness and clarity around your true work.
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