Marc Wittman, Felt Time

“Consciousness is tied to corporeality and temporality: I experience myself as existing with a body over time.”

"Presence means becoming aware of a physical and psychic self that is temporally extended. To be self-conscious is to recognize oneself as something that persists through time and is embodied."

"Through mindfulness and emotional control, the tempo of life that we experience can be reduced, and we can regain time for ourselves and others."

"On the phenomenal level, consciousness — and the self-consciousness deriving from it — is distinguished by spatial and temporal presence. Consciousness is tied to corporeality and temporality: I experience myself as existing with a body over time."

and of course, of course:

"Thus, impulsive people display greater temporal myopia."

and citing Henry Miller:

"On how one orients himself to the moment, depends the failure or fruitfulness of it.”

out of "Felt Time:The Psychology of how we perceive Time" by Marc Wittman.

link: Felt Time  (brainpickings.org)

This article reminds me very much of Israel Rosenfield: 

"The Stránge , Familiar and Forgotten; An Anatomy of Consciousness".

link: Israel Rosenfield (brainpickimgs.org)
i read the book several times...
quote:
"My memory emerges from the relation between my body (more specifically, my bodily sensation at a given moment) and my brain’s “image” of my body (an unconscious activity in which the brain creates a constantly changing generalized idea of the body by relating the changes in bodily sensations from moment to moment.) It is this relation that creates a sense of self; over time, my body’s relation to its surroundings becomes even more complex, and, with it, the nature of myself and of my memories of it deepen and widen, too. "

And the article on Felt Time shows me that i just am no good at any emotional intelligence.

i am more impulsive than patient. Though i THOUGHT i had never been 

so patient for so long. i loathe waiting, i hate being in a state like  a bird which 

gets disorientated in a room flying against windows and getting stuck in curtains.

It is painful to hit one's head and not see it coming...

Rose O' Neill, 'Consciousness' illustration from 'The Master-Mistress' poem collection, c.1922

taken from the facebook page of Abraxas Journal

interesting way of seeing essence, personality and the role of consciousness

quote:

"Extracting one kind of information, it turns out, lessens our ability to extract other kinds. This is a fact; or, if you will, a law.

It occurred to me, when reading the paper this morning, that Being and consciousness, as a manifested portion of reality, must be subject to this law.

 This leads us to some interesting thoughts about the question. One can conceive of essence as being a particle; this is the "I am" of the quantum world, the point at which one knows one's location, one knows who one is. Following the law, the more one knows who one is, the less one would know where one is in terms of movement, motion, trajectory. These three qualities correspond, more or less, to one's outward nature, or personality.

When we are deeply invested in personality, as we all are, the information of our essence, who we are, remains encrypted to us, and the further we move into personality, the more we learn about it, the less we know about essence.

The paradox arises when we attempt to learn about essence; at which point, we may master our inner being, but as we do so, consistently sacrifice information about our personality, which then also becomes encrypted to us.

Gurdjieff, we may note, taught his pupils to master both entities; that is, to balance essence and personality, and inhabit the two of them simultaneously. This is necessary, in order for the Reality of Being to manifest; one must be invested in both of the wave of one's life, one's living, and the particle of one's "I", one's Being.

Yet the one apparently excludes the other; and apparently, there is a fundamental law that creates the tension between the two, which must be resolved through a unique and inexplicable mechanism — that mechanism we refer to as consciousness."

from:

http://zenyogagurdjieff.blogspot.de