Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition 3123: Making Time by Emma Scheib with NoSidebar on How to Improve Mindfulness
Sep 18, 2025
Emma Scheib explores how changing our perception of time can lead to a calmer and more mindful life. She shares practical techniques like single-tasking and overestimating task durations to stretch our sense of time. By practicing mindful noticing, we can transform our daily chaos into tranquility. Dr. Neal Malik adds commentary, discussing the benefits of mindfulness over bundling distractions. Together, they delve into the fascinating science of how our attention can alter our experience of time.
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Parenthood Changed Her Time View
- Emma Scheib describes how becoming a parent changed her relationship with time and made it feel more precious.
- She realized she couldn't add minutes but could slow her perception of time by changing habits.
Practice Single-Tasking
- Do single-task: focus on one task at a time and finish it before starting the next to reduce chaos.
- Single-tasking produced calm and the subjective feeling of having extra minutes.
Overestimate Task Durations
- Try overestimating how long tasks will take to naturally reduce your daily schedule and avoid rushing.
- Overestimating creates a sense of luxury and protects your time from overload.
