How Focus Moves Through Time
I had a realisation recently about reincarnation and the nature of time, not as something abstract, but as something deeply felt.
In spiritual understanding, time isn’t truly linear. All lives, probabilities, experiences, and lessons exist at once beyond the limits of the physical world. And yet here on Earth, time feels unmistakably sequential. Past becomes memory. The future remains unseen. The present is all we ever touch.
I began to wonder if this isn’t a contradiction but a translation.
Time Beyond the Human Perspective
From a soul perspective, life doesn’t appear as a straight line. It feels more like a complete field, layered, simultaneous, and whole. Like a book of stories. They all exist at once waiting to be read.
All incarnations exist within this field, not ordered by before and after, but held together in a broader structure that doesn’t rely on sequence.
It’s not until consciousness chooses to observe one of these incarnations that it actually becomes a reality.
But when consciousness enters a body, it cannot experience the entire field at once. It experiences a path much like how you would read the story. From begining to end.
That path, the movement of awareness through a dense and structured reality is what we experience as time.
Observation as Participation, Not Creation
This is where the idea of the observer effect gently intersects.
In physics, observation doesn’t create reality from nothing. It determines how potential becomes expression. Possibility narrows into form.
In the same way, the soul doesn’t create a lifetime by observing it, it inhabits one.
Physical reality already holds coherence, memory, and continuity. Consciousness moves through it, moment by moment, giving experience direction.
From within the body, that movement feels linear. From beyond it, it is simply focus shifting position.
Why the Past Feels Fixed
This understanding helped something settle for me. If everything exists at once, why does the past feel so solid? Why are there ancient remains such as cities, bones, artefacts, stories, and land that remembers? Doesn’t this prove that time is linear?
Well, yes.. on earth, in this physical reality, it does appear linear and part of that is because matter carries memory.
Once observed, reality isn’t fragile or easily rearranged. The physical world holds a record of the lives previously observed so that each moment doesn’t collapse in on itself. The past isn’t gone, it’s embedded, stabilising what exists now as we perceive it from a linear perspective, like echoes of those lives resonating in the present from a higher vantage.
The present moment is not thin. It’s dense with everything that had to exist for it to make sense. Time as Direction of Awareness. So instead of seeing time as something that forces us forward, I’ve begun to see it differently.
Linear time is the direction awareness takes when it becomes embodied. Not a trap, not an illusion meant to be escaped, but a structure that allows experience to unfold meaningfully in order to learn and expand our consciousness.
The soul doesn’t rush through time. It rests where it is focused and where focus rests, life unfolds.
A Personal Shift
Once I saw time this way, I couldn’t unsee it. The pressure eased, the feeling of being behind softened. I’m not late, I’m not early, I’m simply here at the point where consciousness meets matter to observe and learn along this particular story line and that feels intentional.
This outlook has deeply softened the way I live. The hustle, the rat race, the constant list-ticking, competitiveness, and comparison I breathed in my 20s now feel trivial and empty. What once consumed so much of my energy, I can now see, was a quiet seeking of external validation. The moment I realised this isn’t how life operates from a higher perspective, those pressures simply fell away. Now that I’m not consumed by those external distractions and trying to force the present moment to look a certain way, life is flowing so much more freely, effortlessly, and peacefully.
Closing Reflection
Maybe time isn’t something to overcome or transcend. Maybe it’s the gentle architecture that allows the soul to experience itself, one life, one moment, one breath at a time.
This reflection reminds me how important it is to be present in our daily lives and to hold gratitude for all that we have and all that we’ve learnt. Often, we spend so much time dwelling on the past or dreaming of the future. I’m not saying we must never do this, but we need to spend most of our time focused on the present moment in order to truly experience this life and receive the fullness of it.
Life isn’t always easy, but it invites reflection in every situation. Reflection on what we could have done better, how we made others feel, what we learnt from that really hard challenge, and what we can implement next time to get more out of life, not only for ourselves, but for those we love. As Yeshua taught:
“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” — Matthew 6:34
In other words, focus on today, be present in the now.
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Love & Light
J♡
